Category: Miscellaneous

Program (updated on July 17)

 

Dear GEDES Master’s students expecting graduation in Sep 2024, This is an announcement by mail regarding the schedule of your thesis submission.
1. Eligible students: students graduating in Sep 2024
2. Submission:
– Required documents: main text of thesis and the extended abstract (4 pages) in English or Japanese
– Deadline: 17:00, 26th July (Fri) 2024 for both documents
– Format of extended abstract: follow the instruction given in the format file attached (English or Japanese).
– File type: one PDF file for each document
– Submission method: upload your documents to BOX accessible from the link below (to upload only)

https://tokyotech.app.box.com/f/e83962a5f8a1451aa748bf2372df9b14

File name of your main text: StudentnumberFamilynameMT.pdf (e.g.22M12345AbeMT.pdf)
File name of your extended abstract: StudentnumberFamilynameAB.pdf (e.g.22M12345AbeAB.pdf)

・You can upload basically only once. If you need to resubmit for some reason, you must upload the new file with a different file name by adding the revision number at the end (e.g. 22M12345AbeAB-R1.pdf).
・DO NOT use Chinese characters for your name (write in Roman Alphabet only).

Best wishes,
Naoya Abe, Chair of GEDES

Program

 

Date and Venue

Date & Time: 10:00〜, July 31 (Wed), 2024
Venue: Online (Zoom meeting)
Program:  Click here
Eligibility: Activities that were conducted within 1 year. Doctoral course students cannot register for the activities done during the master’s course, except for the application for the “Doctoral Recurrent Program”.

Presentation Instructions

• Format: Oral presentation using PowerPoint/PDF slides via Zoom meeting
• Language: English
• Presentation time
  • Course with 1 credit: 6 minutes (2min. presentation and 4 min. Q&A)
  • Course with 2 credits: 7 minutes (3 min. presentation and 4 min. Q&A)
  • Course with 3 credits: 8 minutes (4 min. presentation and 4 min. Q&A)
  • Course with 4 credits: 9 minutes (5 min. presentation and 4 min. Q&A)
• Presentation contents (the following items should be clearly presented)
  • The contents should summarize your activity and/or experience including background, objectives, and achievement/conclusion. The following questions will guide you in developing your content.
    • What did you learn or what training did you obtain?
    • What challenges/learning/training do you still need based on your activity/experience?
  • Be short and concise as if you are speaking in an international conference.
  • Regarding participation in conferences, students must consult with their supervisors about their suitability to claim credits. The supervisor judges their suitability in terms of their size, quality, and open accessibility. If somewhat irregular or unclearness of the suitability of the conference is inevitable, both the student and his/her supervisor must justify its eligibility to obtain credits for the said conference participation.
  • For more details, please check the course syllabus in the OCW.

Registration

• Registration form: https://forms.gle/pPV6NH5dv96g9GSU7
• Registration deadline: 5 pm, July 15 (Mon), 2024 (if you fail to register by the due date, you cannot present)
• Note:
  • If you want to register for multiple courses, please register separately. However, you cannot register for multiple courses with the same activity (for example, you cannot get credit for both Global Engineering Off-Campus Project and ALP Overseas Training for the same overseas activity. Also, you cannot register for two Global Engineering International Workshop even if you make two presentations in a single conference).
  • In principle, the presentation at this workshop must be made at the most recent workshop, either in February or July/August, after the completion of the activity.
  • In principle, if a year has passed after activity, the presentation at this workshop is not eligible.

Report

• Submit a report after the presentation.
• Contents should include replies to the questions for your presentation, as well as the contents of questions you asked for other presentations.
• The report should be written in English or Japanese in A4-size word document.
• The minimum page limits depending on the number of credits to be obtained are as follows:
  • 1 credit : 2 pages or more
  • 2 credits : 4 pages or more
  • 3 credits : 6 pages or more
  • 4 credits : 8 pages or more
• Deadline: 5 pm, August 7 (Wed), 2024 (submit to your supervisor via e-mail)

Inquiry

Xinru Zhu (zhu.x.ac@m.titech.ac.jp) and GEDES office (ge-office@tse.ens.titech.ac.jp)

The following students won the best presentation awards in the recently held GEDES Master’s Interim Presentation on March 29, 2024.

Akiko Watanabe (Takashi Nakamura @ Ookayama) “The root growth model of Rhizophora stylosa in Fukido, Ishigaki island”

Woratat Leelaworaset (Shinya Hanaoka) “Prescriptive analysis for flight delays in Japan’s domestic air transport network”

Yuichi Kawakami (Takashi Nakamura @ Ookayama) “Elucidation of water absorption mechanism from seagrass roots and limiting factor of vegetation distribution”

Jinhui Yao (Shinya Hanaoka) “Tourist movement patterns in Tokyo: A network analysis of TripAdvisor reviews”

Yusuke Tsutsumi (Kayoko Nohara) “Development of an AI-Powered Journaling Tool for Enhancing Emotional Intelligence”

Shuran Qi (Tsuyoshi Kinouchi) “Dam inflow forecasting in Diverse Regions of Japan using Long Short-Term Memory”

 

Keep up the good work!

An interim presentation for masters and doctoral students of GEDES will be held on March 29, 2024.

1. Program

Please check the program (Masters, Doctoral).

Zoom links:

We will use the following Zoom link, which is common for both masters and doctoral students:
https://zoom.us/j/94118905272?pwd=SmlDM2tQODl1UFk0Uk84TTBRUHllUT09
Meeting ID: 941 1890 5272
Passcode: W4VY5f

< Masters students >

Please join Zoom by 8:55 AM and immediately move to the assigned breakout room.

< Doctoral students >

Please join Zoom by 10:40 AM.

A brief presentation session (2-minute presentation) will be held in the main room. Afterwards, please move to the assigned breakout room for 5-minute presentation.

2. Submission of presentation materials

Deadline: 17:00 March 28th, 2024

< Masters students >

Please upload your 5-min presentation material (consisting of multiple slides), following the instructions below.

• File type: PDF format
• Size: A4 landscape or similar size.
• Submission method: upload to T2BOX (Upload only)

Box name: GEDES Master’s Course Interim Presentation 20240329
URL: https://t2box.gsic.titech.ac.jp/box/b61114fad8fbc5590ac2f4a6d2407ab1
Password: JB5#-1R8,SS3

• File name: StudentnumberName.pdf (e.g. 21M12345Sugishita.pdf) (Please write your name in alphabet)
• You can upload only once. However, if you want to replace the file with a new one, please upload the new file with the different name by adding the revision number at the end (e.g. 21M12345Sugishita-R1.pdf).

< Doctoral students >

Please upload your 5-min presentation material (consisting of multiple slides), following the instructions below.
You don’t need to upload your 2-min presentation slides.

• File type: PDF format
• Size: A4 landscape or similar size.
• Submission method: upload to T2BOX (Upload only)

Box name: GEDES Doctoral Course Interim Presentation 20240329
URL: https://t2box.gsic.titech.ac.jp/box/3b117fcb10b152ee574c296b3f14e451
Password: .bJ8@XL4HJN1

• File name: StudentnumberName.pdf (e.g. 21D12345Sugishita.pdf) (Please write your name in the alphabet)
• You can upload only once. However, if you want to replace the file with a new one, please upload the new file with the different name by adding the revision number at the end (e.g. 21D12345Sugishita-R1.pdf).

Abdek M. ABDI will be delivering a public presentation regarding his doctoral dissertation. The details are as follows.

Presenter: ABDI, Abdek M.
Date and Time: 13:30–15:10, Thursday, March 28, 2024
Place: Suzukakedai G5 building G5-105 (formerly G511), Suzukakedai campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Chair: Prof. Takehiko Murayama
Thesis Title: “Community acceptance of geothermal energy projects in East Africa”
Panelists: Prof. Takehiko Murayama, Prof. Naoya Abe, Assoc. Prof. Shigeo Nishikizawa, Assoc. Prof. Koji Tokimatsu, Assoc. Prof. Tatsuya Wakeyama

The following students won the best presentation awards in the recently held GEDES Master’s Interim Presentation last September 27, 2023.

Group A: Feldy Tanako (Hiroshi Takagi) “Application of Bamboo Breakwaters towards Storm Wave Conditions, A Nature-Based Approach”

Group B: Nuchsara Wattana (Fumitake Takahashi) “Hydrophilic/hydrophobic treatment for municipal solid waste incineration fly ash”

Group C: Kristian Monay (Takashi Nakamura, [Ookayama]) “Development of a Marine Bio-optical Model for Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) and its Implementation in the COAWST Modeling System”

Group D: Emir Mendoza (Alvin C.G. Varquez) “Analyzing Climate Risk in Morphological Slums”

Keep up the good work!

The GEDES program and the Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering congratulate the following students for winning the best presentation awards during the recent interim presentation for Master’s students held last March 31, 2023.

Li Xinrui

Wataru Kawasaki

Zhang Yuxuan

Masataka Muto

Keep up the good work!

The graduation ceremony for GEDES Master’s and Doctoral degree graduates will be held on March 27, 2023. It will be held after the university-wide graduation ceremony. Details are briefly as follows.

– Date: March 27th, 2023
– Time: 16:00
– Venue: Isihikawa-Dai Bldg.4, B02-05

Students will receive their diplomas at this ceremony. For recipients who won’t make it to the event, kindly contact Prof. Kayoko Nohara, GEDES chair, to set another way to receive the diploma.