Opinions
- Scheduling the Welcome Event: Since the DoS students belong to various institutions, it is difficult to comprehensively grasp their schedules. This time, we checked with the staff in advance, but it overlapped with the UTokyo Earth and Planetary Science schedule.Next time, it is probably better to directly confirm with the incoming students via email beforehand.
- In the 2024 academic year, student talks were discontinued in the colloquium. In the 2023 academic year, we first selected the invited speakers and then successfully filled the remaining slots with student talks. However, this year, it has been difficult to fill the entire schedule with invited speakers alone, resulting in a few open slots. I think it would be a good idea to make use of any open slots by recruiting speakers through the internal mailing list, and using them as an opportunity to promote internal research exchange.
- Starting in the latter half of the 2024 academic year, we decided to have each person submit their own title and abstract (based on suggestions from Kusakabe-san and Nagai-san). I feel that the process has become smoother as a result. I don’t believe there have been any particular issues.