国際コロキアム

The "International Colloquium of Evolutionary Studies: Mentors and Students" (Feb. 28-29) at Shonan Village Center. The purpose of this event is to give the Japanese graduate students an opportunity to see and listen to the talks of 7 different pairs of professors and their graduate students from all over the world (3 pairs from the U.S., including S. and my husband, one from the Netherlands, one from the Switzerland, 2 from Japan) and learn about their researches as well as the mentor-student relationship, how students are trained in different places. It is said that, in general, the Japanese sociery has the vertical structure and the American sociery has the horizontal one, I wonder how the Japanese scientific world works these days.

湘南国際村で（大学院生Ｓ君の来日目的である）国際コロキウムが開催されました。日本の大学院生達を対象に、世界から７組（米国から３組、日本から２組、オランダとスイスからそれぞれ１組）の教授ー大学院生ペアが招かれて講演し、それぞれの研究内容とともに研究環境や師弟関係についてお互いに新たな知見を得ることを目的とするものです。一般的には日本はタテ社会、アメリカはヨコ社会だけど、サイエンスの世界ではどうなんでしょう？