The Henry Dyer Symposium 2025
The Henry Dyer Symposium is a one-day research symposium that will be held to mark the visit by our colleagues from University of Tokyo to the James Watt School of Engineering on Friday 30th May 2025, and to celebrate the historic, 150-year relationship in engineering between UofG and UTokyo. The symposium will be held across three sessions containing 15 min conference-style research talks by presenters from both UofG and UTokyo, as well as a number of presentations on the cultural and historical links between the two Institutions. Lunch and morning & afternoon coffee breaks will be provided.
Date: Friday 30 May 2025
Time: 10:00 - 16:30
Venue: The Fergusson Room, One A the Square, Gilbert Scott Building
Category: Academic events
Document: Henry Dyer Symposium Schedule 2025
The Henry Dyer Symposium is a one-day research symposium that will be held to mark the visit by our colleagues from University of Tokyo to the James Watt School of Engineering on Friday 30th May 2025, and to celebrate the historic, 150-year relationship in engineering between UofG and UTokyo.
The symposium is named for UofG alumnus Professor Henry Dyer, who was the founding Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering (forerunner to the UTokyo School of Engineering) in 1873, and was a vital player in the modernisation and industrialisation of Japan in the early years of the Meiji period. Informed by his experience of education in Scotland (he himself having studied under Rankine and Kelvin during his time at UofG), Dyer and his colleagues at ICE revolutionised the system of technical education in Japan (a system that persists to this day), helping to transform the country into one of the leading research and technological superpowers of the 20th & 21st centuries.
The symposium will be held across three sessions containing 15 min conference-style research talks by presenters from both UofG and UTokyo, as well as a number of presentations on the cultural and historical links between the two Institutions. Lunch and morning & afternoon coffee breaks will be provided.
If you wish to attend, please complete the following sign-up form by end of day on Thursday 15th May:
(Please note that registration will close before then should we reach the approx. 75 attendee limit.)