Announcement: The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2023 to be held at Tokyo Tech
Published: August 9, 2023
We are pleased to inform you that the renowned Royal Institution Christmas Lectures will be held at Tokyo Tech in September. The Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ri) Christmas Lectures have a remarkable history. First held in 1825 by Michael Faraday, a brilliant experimental scientist and pioneer in the field of electromagnetism, the lectures were intended by Faraday as gifts to children over the Christmas holidays. These experiment-based performances have continued for nearly two centuries and are still held by Ri for reasons not unlike Faraday's — to stir interest in science discovery in both the old and young.
Summer versions of the lectures first came to Japan in 1990, and Tokyo Tech has had the honor of hosting them since 2015. This year’s event is the 30th of its kind in Japan, and will be held for the first time in four years. Details are as follows:
| Theme: | Viruses and Human Wisdom |
| Speaker: | Ravindra Gupta, Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases |
| Date and time: | 10:30–12:00 and 14:00–15:30 on Saturday, September 2 and Sunday, September 3, 2023 (two sessions per day, the same content will be provided) |
| Venue: | 70th Anniversary Auditorium, Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Main sponsor: | The Yomiuri Shimbun |
| Co-sponsor: | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Endorsers: | British Embassy Tokyo, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) |
| Supporters: | British Council, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Science Museum |
| Corporate supporters: | Toyota Motor Corporation, Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd., NGK Insulators, Ltd. |
Tickets must be purchased for each session, but Tokyo Tech faculty, staff, and students are allowed to watch a dress rehearsal (a final, full-scale practice in which everything is done as if it were a real performance) for free, to be held at the same venue from 14:00 to 15:30 on Friday, September 1. If you are interested in watching the rehearsal, please book your place from the following Google Form.
https://forms.gle/qeSykSRBER6Bc6T6A
Contact
Tokyo Tech Office for 2023 Christmas Lectures
2023xmaslecture@jim.titech.ac.jp
