Graduate students, Ayumu Kuwahara (left) and Hiroki Shozaki (right) with their certificates.

 

 

Ayumu Kuwahara, a third-year doctoral course student at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science (EPS), Tokyo Tech received the ‘JSPS Best Presentation Award’ for the lecture titled ‘Gas flow around protoplanets and the radial drift of dust in disks: Influences on the dust surface density and planet formation.’ Kuwahara is co-supervised by ELSI Professor Shigeru Ida and Specially Appointed Associate Professor Hiroyuki Kurokawa.

 

Hiroki Shozaki, a graduate student at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science (EPS), Tokyo Tech received the ‘JSPS Excellent Presentation Award’ for the lecture titled ‘Recognition and classification of Martian chaos terrains using imagery machine learning: Implications for martian subsurface cryosphere distributions and evolution.’ Shozaki is supervised by ELSI Director, Yasuhito Sekine.

 

The awards were newly established by the Japanese Society for Planetary Science (JSPS) and given at the 58th Annual General Meeting of the Japan Society for Planetary Science on September 21.

 

More information:
https://www.wakusei.jp/news/prize/bestpr-2022/review-presen.html