IEICE Mobile Communications Workshop (Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo）

The Communications Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) holds a mobile communications workshop every March. This workshop is a joint study group held by multiple study groups related to mobile radio communications. Previously, the event was held at Yokosuka Research Park (Kanagawa Prefecture), where mobile communications-related research institutes are located, but in recent years, it has increasingly been held at universities in the Kanto area. This year’s mobile communications workshop was held at the University of Tokyo’s Hongo Campus.

The University of Tokyo Hongo campus is very large and has several nearby train and subway stations, but I headed here from Ueno Station.

There is a “frog fountain” at Ueno Station, which matches the cherry blossoms.

Beyond Ueno Park is Shinobazu Pond, and beyond that is the University of Tokyo.

The venue for this workshop was the Faculty of Engineering Building 2. In addition to the workshop I attended, another academic conference was also held here. The entrance to Building 2 is an old-fashioned building, but there is a new building right behind it.

The nameplate was old-fashioned.

When I went inside, a poster session for another academic conference was being held. The inside is open and spacious.

Actually, at first I got lost in the building and had a hard time getting to the venue. That’s how big the University of Tokyo is. The lecture room where the workshop was held was clean and comfortable.

There were old nameplates outside the classrooms that read Department of Mechanical Engineering,'' Department of Aeronautics,’’ and ``Department of Ordnance Engineering.''

I took the opportunity to take a walk around the campus outside of workshop hours. This is the “Akamon” which symbolizes the University of Tokyo.

This is “Yasuda Auditorium”. This is also a building that symbolizes the University of Tokyo.

There was also a statue of the famous “loyal dog Hachiko” on campus. Next to the statue is the Museum of the Faculty of Agriculture, which shows that the dog Hachiko died of cancer.

I also visited the University of Tokyo Museum on campus.

The museum displayed minerals and stuffed animals.

There were also many animal bones on display. These are used in academic research.

Also, in the back of the museum, there was equipment for dating fossils and other materials. Carbon (atomic number 12), which is produced when wood is burned, also contains the isotope carbon-14. This device uses the fact that over 500 years half of carbon-14 becomes carbon-12, and measures the mass of carbon-14 to estimate the age of the object.

This mobile communications workshop will present the latest research results on mobile wireless communications. In an academic atmosphere, I learned about the latest research trends in the mobile communications field.