For Graduates | Lectures

Graduate education in astrophysics and astronomy is primarily conducted by faculty members of the Department of Astrophysics and the affiliated observatory. For master’s program students, we offer the following lectures, seminars, and special research opportunities (master’s thesis).

For detailed lecture content (syllabus), please refer to KULASIS.

Lectures for Master’s Program Students

#	Title	Instructor	Semester	Note
4051	Solar Physics	Ayumi Asai	Second	Odd years only
4052	Astronomical Plasma Physics	Takaaki Yokoyama	First	Even years only
4046	Planetary Physics	Takanori Sasaki	First	Odd years only
4006	Galactic Astronomy	Kouji Ohta	Second	Odd years only
4035	Physics of Active Galaxies	Fumihide Iwamuro	Second	Even years only
4036	Instrument Development	Mikio Kurita	First	Odd years only
4047	Stellar Physics	Daisaku Nogami	Second	Odd years only
4045	Cosmic Gas Dynamics	Keiichi Maeda Shiu-Hang Lee	First
4050	Exoplanetary Science	Yui Kawashima	Second	Even years only
4049	Humanity in the Universe	Ayumi Asai Tetsuji Iseda	Second
3092	High Energy Astrophysics II	Takeshi Tsuru Yoshihiro Ueda	Second	Common Course with Department of Physics II
4010-4013	Seminar on Solar Physics A-D	Ayumi Asai Satoru Ueno Shin’ichi Nagata	Year-round	Solar Seminar
4053-4056	Seminar on Astronomical Plasmas Physics A-D	Takaaki Yokoyama	Year-round	Solar & Cosmic Plasmas Seminar
40374040	Seminar on Stellar Astronomy A-D	Yoshihiro Ueda Daisaku Nogami Taichi Kato Keisuke Isogai	Year-round	Wednesday Seminar
4041-4044	Seminar on Galactic Astrophysics A-D	Kouji Ohta Fumihide Iwamuro Yoshihiro Ueda Mikio Kurita Masaru Kino Masaaki Ohtsuka Kodai Yamamoto	Year-round	Monday Seminar
4026-4029	Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics A-D	Keiichi Maeda Shiu-Hang Lee Yui Kawashima Takanori Sasaki	Year-round	Tuesday Seminar
4030-4031	Advanced Studies on Astronomy A-B	Supervisors	Year-round	Required For the master’s thesis
4032	Special Lecture Astronomy 1	Yukio Katsukawa	First	Intensive
4033	Special Lecture Astronomy 2	Shinsuke Takasao	Second	Intensive

Timetable for Reiwa 7 Academic Year（Excel / PDF）

Notes and Guidelines for Course Selection

As part of the shared special lectures for the department, the following courses are offered: Structures of Scientific Communication in English (instructed by James L. De Witt), Advanced Optical and Electronic Device Science, and Practical Physics for Advanced Optical and Electronic Devices (both taught by multiple instructors from fields such as Physics I). Additionally, there is the interdisciplinary MACS (Mathematics and Creative Science) program, part of SACRA, which aims to promote the creation of new research fields grounded in mathematical sciences.

Furthermore, the university offers Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Courses, among which Research Ethics and Integrity (for Science and Engineering) is a mandatory subject in principle.

Students must participate in at least one seminar from their field of study, such as Astrophysical Plasma Physics, Solar Physics, Stellar Physics, Galactic Astronomy, or Theoretical Astrophysics. Note that the instructors and titles of special lectures may vary by academic year.

For the subjects listed above and Research Ethics and Integrity (for Science and Engineering), any additional selection of courses from other fields beyond 2 credits requires submitting a credit approval request to the departmental council through your academic advisor to obtain approval.