2025 (Current Year) Special graduate degree programs Specially Offered Degree Programs for Graduate Students Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics

Advanced Course of Social Service Creation

Academic unit or major: Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics
Instructor(s): Nobuaki Yasuo / Kazuaki Kuwahata / Ryo Maezono / Taichi Abe / Yu-Ichiro Matsushita / Isamu Shigemoto / Shinobu Takizawa / Tomomi Shimazaki / Yuki Oba
Class Format: Lecture (Livestream)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): Intensive
Class: -
Course Code: TCM.C601
Number of credits: 100
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 4Q
Syllabus updated: Sep 18, 2025
Language: Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

This course focuses on the development of novel social services based on the convergence of materials and informatics. Lectures are given in omnibus format by instructors from companies, universities, and research institutes who are active at the front lines of materials/information science and technologies.

Course description and aims

At the end of this course, students will be able to acquire the planning ability to link materials/information science and social services for creation of new industries.

Keywords

Materials and informatics, Social service, New industries

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Specified in the lecture.

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	1/9 Fri. 13:30–15:10 Taichi Abe, Group Leader, Microstructure Thermodynamics Group, Structural Materials Research Center, National Institute for Materials Science, What Are the Uses of Phase Diagrams and Computational Thermodynamics?	Specified in the lecture.
Class 2	1/9 Fri. 15:25–17:05 Yuichiro Matsushita, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo / Project Chief, Quantum Materials Theory Project, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology / Specially Appointed Associate Professor, formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology / President & CEO, Quemix Inc. Our Work in Quantum Computers: Striving from Research to Business	Specified in the lecture.
Class 3	1/16 Fri. 13:30–15:10 Isamu Shigemoto, Chief Engineer, Technology and Innovation Center, Daikin Industries, Ltd., Polymer Materials Development in the Era of Generative AI	Specified in the lecture.
Class 4	1/16 Fri. 15:25–17:05 Shinobu Takizawa, Professor, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University Lecture Title, Rapid Optimization of Precision Organic Synthesis Conditions Using Machine Learning	Specified in the lecture.
Class 5	1/23 Fri. 13:30–15:10 Masaki Takaishi, President & CEO, Aixtal Corporation, Recent Cases and Social Significance of Process Informatics Technologies for Optimizing Manufacturing Conditions	Specified in the lecture.
Class 6	1/30 Fri. 13:30–15:10 Tomomi Shimazaki, Professor, Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Fundamentals of Informatics Chemistry for Material and Molecular Development	Specified in the lecture.
Class 7	1/30 Fri. 15:25–17:05 Yuki Oba, Chief Staff, Digital Business Development Group, AI Innovation Department, ENEOS Holdings, Inc., Unraveling the Frontier of Quantum Chemistry × Machine Learning with Matlantis	Specified in the lecture.

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

None required.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Specified in the lecture.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Specified in the lecture.

Related courses

TCM.B601 ： Practice School in Materials Informatics I
TCM.B602 ： Practice School in Materials Informatics II
TCM.B603 ： Off-campus Project in Materials Informatics
TCM.B604 ： Short-term Off-campus Project in Materials Informatics I
TCM.B605 ： Short-term Off-campus Project in Materials Informatics II

Prerequisites

No prerequisites.

Other

There are restrictions on the number of students who can take this course, and TAC-MI students have priority registration. A lottery will be held, if there are many applicants.