A Specially Appointed Professor of Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Property, Meiji University, Kokichi SUGIHARA appears on the TV program “Burari Tochu Gesha no Tabi (ぶらり途中下車の旅)” of Nippon Television Network.
Date: Saturday, 27th June 2009
Time: 9:30-10:30
Program Name: “Burari Tochu Gesha no Tabi (ぶらり途中下車の旅)”
Program Content: In the TV program, a “traveler” who has graduated from Meiji University travels on the Inogashira Line and visits the IZUMI Campus of Meiji University. On the campus, he encounters some solids of impossible pictures, which are created by Professor SUGIHARA.
Profile of Kokichi SUGIHARA:
Doctor of Engineering in Mathematical Engineering, the University of Tokyo.
Experienced as a researcher in Electrotechnical Laboratory (Tsukuba), an associate professor in Nagoya University, etc.
Since 2009, he has been Specially Appointed Professor of Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Property, and Deputy Director of Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences (MIMS), Meiji University.
His main research theme is geometric and mathematical engineering.
He found the possibility to form solid objects from “Impossible Pictures” while inventing computer systems to comprehend the pictures and drawings. Since then, he has been involved with such three-dimensional objects.