The president of the University of Tokyo mentioned the UTOPS project and faculty members in his address at the 2018 Autumn Semester Diploma Presentation/Commencement Ceremony.
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/about/president/b_message30_07.html
(2018.9.14)
Dr. Ming-Chang Liu, SIMS Lab/Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, UCLA, visited UTOPS and gave a lecture “The formation environment of the Solar System: A perspective from short-lived radionuclides”.
(2018.6.14)
Press release on paper published in the journal Nature led by Satoshi Kasahara (associate professor):
Pulsating aurora from electron scattering by chorus waves ( http://www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/info/5769/ )
Heather Enos, OSIRIS-REx Deputy Principal Investigator, visited UTOPS to discuss about the operation of sample return missions with UTOPS faculties. She encouraged graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in space missions, and gave an invited lecture “OSIRIS-REx Science Operations Planning and Implementation”.
(2017.12.5)
Ice analogs mimicking interstellar ice behave like liquids at temperatures between -210°C and -120°C according to Hokkaido University researchers. This liquid-like ice may enhance the formation of organic compounds including prebiotic molecules and the accretion of dust to form planets.
This research results appear in Science Advances in its September 29, 2017 issue (Tachibana S., et al., Science Advances, September 29, 2017)
See the website of Hokkaido University for more details.
Professor Tachibana came to a new post in UTOPS.
NASA Associate Administrator, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, and JPL deputy director, Dr. Lamy James, visited UTOPS at the Graduate School of Science.
They gave a lectures to students at the university of Tokyo with a title “Making Big Ideas Reality: Lessons about Innovation from NASA.”
More than 150 students attended the special lecture.
They also had discussion with faculty members studying space science/engineering at the university of Tokyo.
