Japanese Astronomical Society ex-president joins China's Westlake University

Shigeru Ida, formerly the president of the Japanese Astronomical Society, has joined Westlake University in Hangzhou, China. He will lead the university's new astronomy department as a distinguished fellow in the school of science. Ida's career has been significantly influenced by science fiction, including Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Sakyo Komatsu's novel "The End of the Endless Flow." AI

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• Sakyo Komatsu
• Shigeru Ida
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• The End of the Endless Flow
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