磁石の存在は約５千年から知られてきたとされるが、その微視的な理解には量子力学と統計力学の登場を待たねばならなかった。本講義では、これらの基礎を習得した学生を対象に、磁性に関する基礎的内容を紹介する。孤立磁性イオンのスピンについて説明した後、スピン間相互作用を導入し、スピンの集合体である磁性体が示す秩序状態への相転移などについて紹介する。スピン系を記述する表式の理解を通じて、巨視的スケールで現れる量子多体系の物理について学ぶ予定である。 　Although permanent magnets have been known for about 5,000 years, a microscopic understanding of them had to wait for the advent of quantum and statistical mechanics. In this lecture, we will introduce basic subjects on magnetism to students who have learned these mechanics. After explaining the spins of isolated magnetic ions, we will introduce inter-spin interactions and the phase transitions to ordered states exhibited in many-body systems. Through the formulation describing spin systems, we will learn the physics of quantum many-body systems that appear on macroscopic scales.

Statistics and biometrics have emerged as crucial disciplines not only in agricultural sciences but also in various other fields. This significance is primarily attributed to three factors: Firstly, advancements in data measurement techniques have facilitated the collection of extensive and diverse biological and agronomic data that were previously unattainable. Secondly, the evolution of data science methodologies has enabled the integration and modeling of such collected data. Thirdly, the enhancement of computational capabilities has empowered the utilization of these methodologies. These advancements have rendered statistical and biometric methods indispensable for extracting insights from the vast and varied biological and agronomic datasets. Throughout this lecture series, a diverse array of biological and agronomic datasets will serve as illustrative examples to demonstrate various analytical methods. Delivered in a hands-on format, utilizing R, Python, and Matlab, the aim is to equip students with practical analysis skills. The initial portion of the course, spanning the first one-third, will focus primarily on techniques for summarizing, visualizing, and modeling relationships within multivariate datasets. In the subsequent one-third, students will delve into linear models, linear mixed models, local regression, and nonlinear models. Finally, in the last segment, students will explore image analysis, machine learning, and deep learning methods. While the course will cover a broad spectrum of methods, ranging from introductory to advanced levels, the emphasis will be on developing the capability to independently conduct analyses rather than on elaborating on the theoretical underpinnings of the methods.

広く産学官にわたってグローバルに活躍するために必要な「俯瞰力」を養成することを目指す。物質科学の各分野について最先端の知識を修得し、自分の専門分野と周辺分野がどのように関連するか、あるいはし得るか、について深く考察するために、第一線で活躍する講師の方々にその分野の最前線を概観していただく。さらに、それらの講義を通して異分野間のコミュニケーションを円滑に進めるための具体的方法論を学ぶ。 This survey course is designed to enable students to develop the broad perspective that is required of global leaders working in and across industry, academia, and government. Students will gain knowledge and insight on advancements in each field of materials science research, given by leading researchers working on the frontline in those fields. This will allow students to consider how peripheral fields are related to their own area of expertise, and to consider the potential for forging bridges between related fields in the future. In addition, students will learn specific methodologies designed to facilitate smooth communication among different disciplines.

In production and consumption of materials, structural materials are dominant. Technological development in materials industry affects significant positive impacts in broad end uses. A newly developed high-performance materials fulfill higher design requirement, which makes more advanced product design possible. The first half of this class introduces production process of major materials and life cycle perspective on materials, especially structural materials. We discuss interactions amongst materials, finished products, economy, and environment in order to understand roles of materials in industrial metabolism. Global material flows and resource strategy are also introduced to give you a global vision on resources and materials. The latter half of this class introduces high-temperature materials for jet engine or gas turbine in the power plant. The processing and the necessary properties of high-temperature materials will be introduced to understand how they are designed.

This course will focus on the dynamics of museum collections in contemporary society. Particular attention will be paid to the meaning and politics of provenance--where the items on display come from and the socio-political-economic background behind that origin. The instructor's specialty is US cultural studies but the class will spend a considerable amount of time talking about museums in Japan. The class combines readings with exploring visits to actual sites.

This course will focus on the dynamics of museum collections in contemporary society. Particular attention will be paid to the meaning and politics of provenance--where the items on display come from and the socio-political-economic background behind that origin. The instructor's specialty is US cultural studies but the class will spend a considerable amount of time talking about museums in Japan. The class combines readings with exploring visits to actual sites.

4学期に開講された電磁気学の内容を受け、それをもとに物質中の電磁現象について学ぶ。第一の目標を静的な電場、磁場の下での物質の誘電性や磁性の理解とし、第二の目標を電磁波（動的な電磁場）下での物質の応答の理解とする。これらを通して日常的に体験できる電磁気現象や電子機器の仕組みなどを理解するための基礎を身につける。

This course focuses upon Australia’s historical relationships between settlers and Indigenous people in comparative perspective. In the first part of the course, students will consider how key terms like ‘settler colonialism’, ‘race’, ‘the civilising process’, and ‘treaty’ can be conceptualised in historical context. We will trace how colonial ideas about settlement, land tenure and law sat within a pre-existing European tradition of thought, and how these ideas might be rethought through an Indigenous worldview. We will investigate different practices of cross-cultural brokerage and co-existence on frontiers of British colonial settlement, and consider some of the triggers that gave rise to colonial violence. Through the latter part of the course, we will turn to twentieth-century policies of assimilation and consider how they were shared or divergent in different geographical settings of the British Commonwealth. Finally, students will engage with some of the ongoing legacies of the colonial past in the present, and investigate how debates about truth telling have evolved in Australia, as well as in connected settler nations of the former British Empire.

This course focuses upon Australia’s historical relationships between settlers and Indigenous people in comparative perspective. In the first part of the course, students will consider how key terms like ‘settler colonialism’, ‘race’, ‘the civilising process’, and ‘treaty’ can be conceptualised in historical context. We will trace how colonial ideas about settlement, land tenure and law sat within a pre-existing European tradition of thought, and how these ideas might be rethought through an Indigenous worldview. We will investigate different practices of cross-cultural brokerage and co-existence on frontiers of British colonial settlement, and consider some of the triggers that gave rise to colonial violence. Through the latter part of the course, we will turn to twentieth-century policies of assimilation and consider how they were shared or divergent in different geographical settings of the British Commonwealth. Finally, students will engage with some of the ongoing legacies of the colonial past in the present, and investigate how debates about truth telling have evolved in Australia, as well as in connected settler nations of the former British Empire.