Program Activities
Implementation Plan
Taoyaka Program Seminar
Taoyaka Program Seminars provide opportunities for students to exchange information on multicultural-coexistence and to develop educational materials.
- 2021
No Date Title 178 2021/11/26 Deep Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Transportation Systems
Dr. Thommen George Karimpanal (Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University)177 2021/9/29 University – Council of Scientific & Industrial Research Joint International Workshop 176 2021/7/30 From Gifts to Cryptocurrencies; An Introduction to Anthropological Theories of Money, Dr. Hirokazu MIYAZAKI, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA. Professor (Special Appointment), Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University 175 2021/7/5 Integrated, data-driven urban design and agent-based mobility simulation
Dr. Pieter J. Fourie (ex-researcher at National Institute for Environmental Studies)
- 2020
No Date Title 174 2021/3/10 Higashi-Hiroshima Autono-MaaS Consortium Symposium Smart Campus Initiatives in Hiroshimar
Dr. Edwin Olson, CEO and Co-Founder, May Mobility, Inc./Professor, University of Michigan173 2021/3/6 HINDAS 6th Regular Seminar
Dr. Binu Sundas, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi
Dr. Niraj Prakash Joshi, Associate professor, Hiroshima University172 2021/1/28 NERPS webinar: Protected Area Management & Natural Resource Governance: Exploring Pathways for Environmental Peacebuilding
Joshua Fishre, PhD, Specially Appointed Professor at NERPS, Hiroshima University and Research Scientist and Director of AC4 at Columbia University’s Earth Institute
Sophia Rhee, MSc, AC4 at Columbia University’s Earth Institute171 2021/2/17 Collective Impact in Transportation Systems (Seminar Series 3)
Prof. Anders Karlström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Dr. Yuki Oyama, Shibaura Institute of Technology
Diana Safitri, Hiroshima University170 2021/2/16 Collective Impact in Transportation Systems (Seminar Series 2)
Dr. Abdul Rawoof Pinjari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Dr. Varun Varghese, Hiroshima University
Dr. Hajime Watanabe, Kumamoto University169 2021/2/2 Collective Impact in Transportation Systems (Seminar Series 1)
Dr. Xilei Zhao, University of Florida
Dr. Keiichiro Hayakawa, Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.
Dr. Varun Varghese, Hiroshima University168 2021/2/11 Forest Governance and Community Participation in India: Role of the Individual and the Collective Forest Rights
Dr. Sailaja Nandigama, Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani167 2020/12/16 PeaceTech and the Prospects for Critically Engaging Technology to Advance Peace and Sustainability, Prof. Paul Heidebrecht, Director, Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement, University of Waterloo 166 2020/7/31 Compensation: Hope at the Intersections of the Moral and the Economic, Dr. Hirokazu MIYAZAKI, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA. Professor (Special Appointment), Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University 165 2020/7/3 Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis, Dr. Toshihiro Higuchi, Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University 164 2020/6/24 Mobility As a Service, Higashi-Hiroshima City Hall and MONET Technologies Inc.
International Symposium
Symposiums are held inviting experts active on the front line of their fields, to learn about consider a society of coexistence. The aim is to guide society in a positive direction, where there is close contact with regions facing issues, such as developing nations and under- populated areas in Japan.
| No | Date | Theme | Lecturers |
| 6 | December 1st, 2018 | The 2nd Hiroshima University Symposium on SDGs (The 3rd Peace Lecture Marathon) | H. Murat Mercan, Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Turkey Tahl Kestin, Research Program Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Derrick M. Anderson, Advisor to the President, Office of the President, Arizona State University |
| 5 | January 17th, 2018 | Globalization of Education, Science and Research | Dr. Girish Sahni, Director General of CSIR |
| 4 | November 28th, 2016 | Onsite Education for Global Understanding: Graduate School Programs and IYGU2016 | Prof. Dr. Benno Werlen, Exective Director, The International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) Prof. Dr. Tetsukazu Yahara, Program Coordinator, Graduate Education and Research Training Program in DECISION SCIENCE for a sustainable society, Kyushu University Prof. Dr. Kohei Okamoto, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University |
| 3 | December 19th, 2015 | Sustainable Development Goals and Peace: Clearance of long-term damages of the past war and conflict in Cambodia and Lao PDR | Prof. Kenneth R. Rutherford, Director of the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery,James Madison University
Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Program, Cambodian Mine Action Center, JICA, Japan Mine Action Service |
| 2 | November 4th,2015 | Collaboration between Future Earth and the Leading Graduate Education Program of Hiroshima University in interdisciplinary research and human resource development | Dr. Paul Shrivastava, Future Earth, UNITAR, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature |
| 1 | November 2nd,2014 | Toward a Multicultural-Coexistence Society | Mr. Shinya Ominami (Director, NPO Green Valley Inc.) Ms. Hiromi Tengeji (Representative, Kopernik Japan) |
International Workshop
International Workshops after October 2017 are held as Onsite Team Project final presentations.
| Date | |
| Monday, August 7th, 2017 9：00-12：45 Flyer (PDF) |
Lecture 1: Dr. Rolf Teschke, Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Klinikum Hanau, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Medical Faculty of the Goethe Univ., Germany |
| Sunday, August 7th, 2016 9：00-14：30 Flyer (PDF) |
Lecture 1: Dr. Masayuki Moriyama, President, Vital LEAD Co.LTD |