Events > Prelude: Access Program [Science/Physics] Humitaka Sato “Making the Time”
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MAR 8, 2014 SAT 15:00–16:30

Prelude: Access Program [Science/Physics]

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Prelude: Access Program [Science/Physics] Humitaka Sato “Making the Time”

Humitaka Sato

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The following Access Program will be presented in connection with Prelude [Exhibition] William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time and as part of Parasophia’s Public Program.

Humitaka Sato (佐藤文隆)
Also known as Fumitaka Sato. Visiting Professor, Konan University; Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University. Born 1938. Sato was a Professor at Kyoto University from 1972 to 2001, and the Director of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics from 1976 to 1980 and Dean of Faculty of Science from 1993 to 1995 at Kyoto University from 1976 to 1980. He is a prolific writer on the sciences, especially theoretical physics, general relativity, and astrophysics. Publications include Ainshutain ga kangaeta koto [What Einstein thought] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1981), Kodoku ni natta Ainshutain [Isolated Einstein] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2004), Ainshutain no hanran to ryōshi kompyūtā [Einstein’s rebellion and the quantum computer] (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2009), and Ryōshi rikigaku wa sekai wo kijutsu dekiruka [Can quantum mechanics describe the world?] (Tokyo: Seidosha, 2011). Currently running a blog on the Scientific Education Exchange: EINSTEIN’s website: jein.jp/blog-sato.html (in Japanese only).

  • Prelude: Access Program [Science/Physics] Humitaka Sato “Making the Time”

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  • Prelude: Access Program [Science/Physics] Humitaka Sato “Making the Time”
  • Prelude: Access Program [Science/Physics] Humitaka Sato “Making the Time”
  • Prelude: Access Program [Science/Physics] Humitaka Sato “Making the Time”
  • Prelude: Access Program [Science/Physics] Humitaka Sato “Making the Time”
Title
Prelude: Access Program [Science/Physics] Humitaka Sato “Making the Time”
Lecturer
Humitaka Sato (Visiting Professor, Konan University; Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Date
Saturday, March 8, 2014 3:00–4:30 PM
Place
Study Room (Woodshop classroom, 1F), former Rissei Elementary School
310-2 Bizenjima-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8023 (south of Kiyamachi and Takoyakushi)
* Hankyu Kyoto Line: 3 min. walk north from Exit 1a, Kawaramachi Station
* Keihan Main Line: 5 min. walk northwest from Exits 4 or 5, Gion-Shijō Station
* No parking available. (Paid parking lot for bicycles located near venue.)
Language
Japanese
Seats available
40 seats
Admission
Free
Reservations
Required
Presented by
Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture Organizing Committee, Kyoto Association of Corporate Executives (Kyoto Keizai Doyukai), Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City
Related exhibition
Prelude [Exhibition] William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time
Auditorium, former Rissei Elementary School
Saturday, February 8 – Sunday, March 16, 2014