Online Physics Lectures (for members, affiliate members, general public)
July 2026 45th Online Physics Lecture (Japanese only)
July 2026 45th Online Physics Lecture
Title: Creating a Universe Inside a Supercomputer
Date & Time: Saturday, July 25, 2026 15:00-16:30 (Lecture: 1 hour + Q&A: 20 min.)
Speaker: Michiko Fujii (The University of Tokyo)
Format: Webinar (1,000 people)
Fee: Free for JPS members and affiliate members, 500 yen for non-members (All attendees must register in advance.)
August 2026 46th Online Physics Lecture (Japanese only)
August 2026 46th Online Physics Lecture
Date & Time: Saturday, August 29, 2026 15:00-16:30 (Lecture: 1 hour + Q&A: 20 min.)
Speaker: Hideyuki Oide
Format: Webinar (1,000 people)
Fee: Free for JPS members and affiliate members, 500 yen for non-members (All attendees must register in advance.)
September 2026 47th Online Physics Lecture (Japanese only)
September 2026 47th Online Physics Lecture
Title: Probing the Dark Ages to Cosmic Dawn with the 21cm line
Date & Time: Saturday, September 5, 2026 15:00-16:30 (Lecture: 1 hour + Q&A: 20 min.)
Speaker: Hayato Shimabukuro (Associate Professor, Yunnan University)
Format: Webinar (1,000 people)
Fee: Free for JPS members and affiliate members, 500 yen for non-members (All attendees must register in advance.)
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Title: " Physics of Nonequilibrium Phases of Matter: Challenging the Limits of Matter "
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Title: " Exploring the origin and future of the Universe though a 3D map of large-scale structure "
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Title: " The revolution and legend brought by Newton's optical experiments:Commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of Isaac Newton "
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Title: " Physics for AI, AI for Physics"
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Title: " Physics Inside Neural Systems: From Membrane Potentials to Network
Dynamics"
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Title: "Arrow of time in quantum mechanics:an approach from non-Hermitian quantum mechanics"
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Title: "The Joy of Physics: Insights from My Journey"
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Title: "The Physics of Filaments: From Living to Non‑living Matter"
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Title: "Challenge for new physics with low-energy neutrons"
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Title: "Cancer therapy using alpha-emitting radionuclides - Application of accelerator technology to refractory cancer treatment -"
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Title: "Understanding the Universe through Atomic Processes"
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Title: "From crocodilian roars to primate calls: from the helium voice experiments --"
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Title: "Three-Nucleon Force -- A New View of Nuclear Physics --"
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Title: "Scientists at work -Site of experimental particle physics-"
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Title: " The Advantage of Order in Disorder: Suppressing Fluctuations Transforms Glass and the World!"
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Title: " Universal Biology: The Physics of Magnets: Their fascination and difficulty "
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Title: " Universal Biology: Physicist's Approach to "What is Life" "
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Title: " Explaining Mysterious Phenomena in Outer Space from a Physics Perspective! "
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Title: " Terra-Astronomy": A transdisciplinary study to connect Antarctic Ice to the Universe "
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Title: " How do you resolve naive questions on particle physics?! "
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Title: " Emergence of Holographic Universe from Quantum Entanglement "
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Title: " The Joy of Exploring Physics! My Story as a UCLA Physics Graduate Student "
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Title: " Physics of traffic jam: Various jams and their mitigation "
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Title: " Galaxies and Black Holes in the Early Universe Explored with the James Webb Space Telescope "
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Title: " Mystery of Indistinguishable Particles: Quantum Statistics Verified in Mesoscopic Systems "
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Title: "Opening new era in particle physics with muon cooling and acceleration "
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Title: "Quantum annealing, a new computing technology based on physics concepts "
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Title: "Accelerating expansion of the universe and accelerating observational cosmology "
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Title: "Ten Stories of the Two-Dimensional Material, Graphene "
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" Title: Machine learning physics "
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Title: " From Quarks to Neutron Stars "
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Title: "Quantum spin liquids: exotic quantum states where magnetism and topology meet "
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Title: "display Ten years from Higgs boson discovery: Achievements and Prospects "
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Title: "Phasing Biology: Life in the Solution State of Proteins "
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Title: "Quest for the Universe by Gravitational Waves, the Propagation of Space-Time Distortions "
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" The world of 1000-Tesla ultrahigh magnetic fields "
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" Hideki Yukawa and Osaka University -- The Birth of the Nobel Prize in Japan "
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Public Lectures (for high school and university students, general public)
Public Lectures provide an avenue to introducing cutting-edge research in the field of physics to high school and university students and the general public.
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Special program by the Osaka Branch
Special program by the Osaka Branch
Special program by the Kyushu Branch
Special program by the Kyushu Branch
Special program by the Osaka Branch
Public Science Lectures (for high school and university students, general public)
JPS organizes Public Science Lectures during Annual Meetings and Autumn (Spring) Meetings. For more information, please see Public Science Lectures on the Meetings page.
Symposium on Physics Education (for educators)
At this symposium for people engaged in physics education, participants discuss issues and expectations in the educational field based on lectures and case studies.
- 12th Symposium (Japanese only) "Current Status and Prospects for Education using Information and Communication Technology", Sunday, March 27, 2022 | Online (Zoom Webinar)
- 11th Symposium (Japanese only) "Thinking about Online Teaching", Sunday, March 28, 2021 | Online (Zoom Webinar)
- 10th Symposium (Japanese only) Cancelled
- 9th Symposium (Japanese only) (Japanese only): "New Tests & Physics Education: Expectations & Challenges", Sunday, March 3, 2019 | The University of Tokyo (Koshiba Hall)
- 8th Symposium (Japanese only) "How to Conduct Physics Experiments for Deep Approach to Learning", Sunday, March 4, 2018 | The University of Tokyo (Koshiba Hall)
- 7th Symposium (Japanese only) "Can Deep Approach to Learning be Achieved with Active Learning?", Sunday, March 5, 2017 | The University of Tokyo (Koshiba Hall)
- 6th Symposium (Japanese only) "Making the Most of Active Learning", Sunday, March 27, 2016 | The University of Tokyo (Koshiba Hall)
- 5th Symposium (Japanese only) "Why Study Physics? Development of Reference Standards", Sunday, March 15, 2015 | The University of Tokyo (Koshiba Hall)
- 4th Symposium (Japanese only) "Current Status and Prospects for Human Resources Development in Science and Engineering Faculties", Sunday, March 31, 2013 | The University of Tokyo (Koshiba Hall)
- 3rd Symposium (Japanese only) "Science and Mathematics Education at Universities and Connections with Society", Sunday, April 1, 2012 | The University of Tokyo (Koshiba Hall)
- 2nd Symposium (Japanese only) "Physics at High School and University", Sunday, April 3, 2011 | The University of Tokyo (Koshiba Hall)
- 1st Symposium (Japanese only) "Exploring Physics Education for a New Age", Sunday, April 4, 2010 | The University of Tokyo (Koshiba Hall)
Workshop for Basic Experiments in High-School Physics Classes (for educators)
This workshop is designed for active physics (science) educators and students who want to become physics (science) educators. The workshop is held for two consecutive days in mid-July each year.
For more information, please visit the website of the