Kyoto University Regional Seminar (Okayama Seminar) and Social Gathering with Okayama-Kyodaikai (Kyoto University Okayama Alumni) (September 1, 2012)

Kyoto University Regional Seminar (Okayama Seminar) and Social Gathering with Okayama-Kyodaikai (Kyoto University Okayama Alumni) (September 1, 2012)

Since 1997, Kyoto University has held regional seminars throughout the country to share with the public its accumulated intellectual assets and achievements from current educational and research activities and to benefit society at large.

This time, in Okayama City, Professor Kazunari Shibata (director of Kwasan and Hida Observatories, Graduate School of Science) gave a lecture titled "Outer Space and the Sun Filled with Explosions: Why Were We Born?" The venue was packed to its capacity with 400 local people, including many young people such as junior and senior high school students. The lecture provoked numerous questions and answers and the seminar ended on a successful note.

After the seminar, a social gathering was held with members of the Okayama-Kyodaikai (Kyoto University Okayama Alumni). About a hundred local alumni members attended the gathering together with Executive Vice-President Yuzo Ohnishi, Professor Shibata, and other university staff members. Following speeches by Mr. Muneharu Kurozumi (chairman of Okayama-Kyodaikai and a 1960 graduate from the Faculty of Letters) and Executive Vice-President Yuzo Ohnishi, Mr. Masanao Moriya (1944 graduate from the Faculty of Law) proposed a toast to open a friendly exchange of views. At the end of the gathering, all the attendees sang Shoyo no Uta in unison, closing the event on a joyful note.


Speech by Executive Vice-President Yuzo Ohnishi (lecture session)

Lecture by Professor Shibata (lecture session)

Venue (lecture session)

Speech by Chairman Kurozumi (social gathering)

Mr. Moriya proposing a toast (social gathering)

Participants singing Shoyo no Uta in unison (social gathering)