
My name is Taro Urashima (浦島太郎).
My specialization is theoretical physics, and I teach mainly mathematics and physics. After having wandered abroad as a researcher, I settled myself in my home country, teaching at a state university. After my retirement, I still continue my research activity but I also enjoy teaching at CafeTalk.
You can enjoy science and mathematics only by studying them systematically. Studying things in the right order is the only way to understand them. Your view will then be continuously extended, step by step, to the ever developing world. It is the most enjoyable and, at the same time, the most efficient way of studying Math/ Science. I do hope that the youngsters will experience it.
★ Extensive teaching careerThe lessons I offer covers a wide range, ranging from elementary-school math to quantum physics. The lessons will be adjusted to the individual needs. Specialized lessons are also available for those who are attending to schools abroad or to internaional schools in Japan.
★ To prospective students, especially those preparing for universityDuring entrance exams, you will have to solve problems on your own. Trying to memorize how to solve them will not help you acquire this ability.
When you are learning something from somebody (or from some book), you will perhaps focus on confirming carefully that the explanation is logically correct. But a logical confirmation is only a half-way to the real understanding. It is important to know the underlying concepts and the principles of how things work. Many of the lessons I offer are concerned about this point.
★ Good fascilities for online learningI still enjoy collaborating online with young researchers. My private lab is equipped with a set of computing fascilities (PC cluster) connected to a high-vision camera, as well as a sizable blackboard, all of which we share online while I conduct online seminars. This is also an ideal environment for online lessons.
In order to take advantage of this environment, you are kindly asked to use a suitable monitor during the lessons for a sufficient quality of the blackboard view (I recommend having a monitor at least the size of an iPad). I offer lessons via Skype or Zoom, but Skype has a higher resolution which enables you to identify even the smallest subscripts attached to the mathematical symbols written on the blackboard.
★ Further informations about academic career
・Graduated from
Komaba Senior High School, Tsukuba University
・Graduated from
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Faculty of Science
・Research Fellow,
Japan Society for Promotion of Science
・Yukawa-Foundation Research Fellow,
Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University
・Senior Research Fellow,
Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of East Anglia, U.K.
・Visiting Research Fellow,
Department of Physics, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
・Visiting Professor,
Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Canada【 Cafetalk Translation / February 2023 】
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