PARASOPHIA 京都国際現代芸術祭2015

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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).