Ralph Abraham, Fulbright Trip of 2005 to Japan, Report

Preface

My area, for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program, is Information Technology/Computational Mathematics.

As last year, my understanding was that the purpose of this trip of three weeks was to evaluate and consult on the complex systems programs (content and pedagogy) currently in place in the two universities I visited, the Future University, Hakodate (one week) and Kyoto University (two weeks). Please see last years report for my general comments, most of which still apply.

This year, my four lectures and numerous discussions throughout my three-week Fulbright visit were devoted to new visualization techniques, and a wide breadth of application areas.