takayuki Yamauch1iValley City (CSi)  The Barnes County Historical Society Lecture Series Season 16 Presents: Takayuki Yamauchi, Ph.D (Dept. of Math, VCSU) “Elementary School Education in Japan” 7PM Thursday September 25th at the Barnes County Museum.

In this presentation, using a video, some features of the elementary school system in Japan that are absent in the American elementary school system are shown.  (1) Art, calligraphy, and music are mandatory throughout the entire period of compulsory education. (2) All the school facilities (excluding the swimming pool), i.e., the classrooms, corridors, rest rooms, school yard, and gymnasium are cleaned by students. (3) School lunch is served by students. (4) Students are given assignments in all the subjects during every term break.

Takayuki (Taka) Yamauchi is currently a tenured assistant professor of mathematics at Valley City State University (since 2007). He studied mathematics and physics at Michigan Tech and U.C. Berkeley as an undergraduate, and earned M.A at Western Michigan University, M.S at Michigan Tech, M.A at Johns Hopkins, and Ph.D in Mathematics at Johns Hopkins in 1996. He then was a research associate at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering of Johns Hopkins, a research associate at Ryuka Patent Law Firm, a research associate at the Dept. of Computer Engineering of University of Delaware, a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at SUNY Oswego, an assistant professor of mathematics at DePauw University, and an assistant professor of mathematics at Lincoln University. He has publications in the mathematics of nuclear fusion, Lagrange Multiplier Rule in the context of continuous equi-measurable rearrangements of functions and optimization theory, and the constructability of constant mean curvature surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space. He has also been doing research in innovation-based teaching efficiency maximization methods. He has established a self-contained math teaching method that does not require students to read the text at all.

The public is cordially invited

All Lectures are at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum and held in conjunction with Valley City State University.  They are free and open to the public.

For more information contact Wes Anderson at 701-845-0966