Programs

There are three types of programs run by Tohoku Forum for Creativity (TFC). They are the Thematic Program (TP), Junior Research Program (JRP) and Future Society Design Program (FSDP). For the aims and features of these programs, please consult the page [To Propose a Program]. The following programs have been carried out.

FY2025

• Thematic Programs

  
  2025UCW

  Uncovering Causality in Our Complex World

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2025MMM

  Molecular Machines for Multiscale Applications

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2025GTF

  The Theory of Periodic Tangles and Their Interdisciplinary Applications

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2025REX

  Supersulfides Biology for Life and Social Innovation

FY2024

• Thematic Programs

  
  2024DFF

  Designing Foods for the Future

• Thematic Programs

  
  2024FOC

  Spinning the Future of Communication

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2024UQS

  Universality of Strongly Correlated Few–body and Many–body Quantum Systems

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2024URF

  Urban Transition with Wood for Enhanced Resilience of Cities and Forests

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2024TTF

  Tohoku Transition to Future

FY2023

• Thematic Programs

  
  2023MRN

  Integrated Understanding of Marine Environment and Marine Ecosystems

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2023NET

  Tohoku Initiative for Neuro Tech Innovations

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2023SSI

  Sustainable Structural Integrity for Energy Infrastructure

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2023NRF

  Environmental Stress Response and Survival Strategy of Human Being

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2023FDJ

  How can the Digitalization of Japan's Democracy be Promoted? : The Environmental Improvement for Digital Democracy from the Perspective of Institutions, Awareness, and Technology

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2023NES

  Positioning of Nuclear Energy in Sustainable Energy Strategies – Redefining from a Risk Management Perspective

FY2022

• Thematic Programs

  
  2022REX

  Evolving and Emerging Redox Biology and Bioenergetics for Medicine and Human Health

• Thematic Programs

  
  2022ESA

  Insights Into Human History in the Eurasian Stone Age: Recent Developments in Archaeology, Palaeoanthropology, and Genetics

• Thematic Programs

  
  2022EID

  Frontier of Understanding Earth's Interior and Dynamics

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2022HUS

  Human Sociality: Comparative Studies of Social Evolution and Historical Dynamics

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2022DIT

  Creating Diversified and Inclusive Cities through the Boccia at the Public Space

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2022CMD

  Establishment of Lightning Resistant Metal Coating Technology on CFRP Assisted by Kinetic, Physical and Chemical Energies

• Future Society Design Programs

  
  2022XRE

  Contributions of XR Technology to Education and Society: The Metaverse and International Collaborative Creation

FY2021

• Thematic Programs

  
  2021EFR

  Environmental and Financial Risks in Market–oriented Societies

• Thematic Programs

  
  2021DIS

  POST 2011 Tohoku triple disaster: Lessons and their global application on multi–hazards and cascading disasters

• Thematic Programs

  
  2021QCA

  Quantum–Annealing–Based High–Performance Computing – Optimizing real–world systems

• Thematic Programs

  
  2021MBK

  Constructing a healthy society: the road from an integrated biobank to the real world

FY2020

• Thematic Programs

  
  2020TEL

  Designing the Human–Centric IoT Society–Cooperative Industry–Academic Strategies for Creative Future Connection–

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2020GRV

  Dawn of Gravitational–wave Cosmology and Theory of Gravity

FY2019

• Thematic Programs

  
  2019STM

  Plant Stem Cells: Source of Plant Vitality

• Thematic Programs

  
  2019QSC

  Creating a New Frontier through the Synergy of Quasicrystals and Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

• Thematic Programs

  
  2019CBA

  Cancer – from Biology to Acceptance

• Thematic Programs

  
  2019TEL

  【Pre–program】Designing the Human–Centric IoT Society –Cooperative Industry–Academic Strategies for Creative Future Connection–

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2019FME

  The Future of Materials Engineering – Dramatic Innovation to the next 100 years

FY2018

• Thematic Programs

  
  2018NEA

  Geologic Stabilization and Human Adaptations in Northeast Asia

• Thematic Programs

  
  2018SRM

  String–Math 2018

• Thematic Programs

  
  2018UAC

  Tohoku Universal Acoustical Communication Month 2018

• Thematic Programs

  
  2018FCL

  Frontier of Chemical Communication

FY2017

• Thematic Programs

  
  2017PDE

  Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Future Applications

• Thematic Programs

  
  2017AGR

  New Horizons in Food Science via Agricultural Immunology

• Thematic Programs

  
  2017ASC

  Aging Science: from Molecules to Society

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2017NMM

  Nanostructured Magnetic Materials: Challenges for Next–Generation Materials

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2017DCI

  Political and Social Dynamics of Crisis and Innovation in Japan, Asia and the World

FY2016

• Thematic Programs

  
  2016IDT

  Comprehensive Research on Materials, Systems and Energy for a Sustainable Future of the Earth

• Thematic Programs

  
  2016JPN

  The 21st Century Hasekura Project: Japanese Studies as the Interface of a New Knowledge

• Thematic Programs

  
  2016EPD

  Earth and Planetary Dynamics

• Thematic Programs

  
  2016AGP

  Modern Interactions between Algebra, Geometry and Physics

• Junior Research Programs

  
  2016JRP

  Interdisciplinary Approach to the Protection of Human Rights: Building Integrated Networks between Academic, State and Societal Actors

FY2015

• Thematic Programs

  
  2015INE

  The Effects of Technological Changes on Social Mobility and Income Distribution

• Thematic Programs

  
  2015SPN

  Spintronics: from Mathematics to Devices

• Thematic Programs

  
  2015FBS

  Frontiers of Brain Science

• Thematic Programs

  
  2015TPH

  Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics: Strings, Black Holes and Quantum Information

FY2014

• Thematic Programs

  
  2014INE

  【Pre–program】Theoretical and Empirical Studies of the Effects of Technological Changes on Social Mobility and Income Distribution: Focusing on Inequalities of Social Mobility and Income in East Asia

• Thematic Programs

  
  2014DIS

  Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Future Strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction

• Thematic Programs

  
  2014TMM

  A Health Informatics Infrastructure for a New Era

• Thematic Programs

  
  2014BIG

  Challenges for Big Data in our Society: Statistical Analysis of Large Scale, High Dimensional Data for Socio–Economic Problems

FY2013

• Thematic Programs

  
  2013HIG

  Particle Physics and Cosmology after the discovery of the Higgs boson

Emerging Perspectives Programs (EPP)

Emerging Perspectives Programs will provide new opportunities to discuss and develop ambitious research ideas. As cutting edge research programs, they will provide seeds for future Thematic and Junior Research Programs, and as such will have long lasting outcomes beyond their completion.
Each Emerging Perspectives Program will consist of a workshop (lasting up to one week) and special lectures given by distinguished invited researchers. These programs will be organized by the TFC program coordinators in collaboration with other academics.