Talk:Kurisu Makise/@comment-101.165.177.28-20140918011832/@comment-7888499-20150118125149

Actually, they had asked her to lecture on time travel theories probably not because she is a neuroscientist but because she is "Dr. Nakabachi"'s daughter.

-Spoiler alert-

This gets delved into in the drama CD Steins;Gate Audio Series ☆ Labmem Number 004 ☆ Makise Kurisu (『STEINS;GATE』オーディオシリーズ☆ラボメンナンバー004 ☆ 牧瀬紅莉栖), which is mostly a monologue of Kurisu's thoughts right after the news announces the crashing of a satellite/Suzuha's time machine into the Radio Building in the Alpha Attractor Field. I'm still learning Japanese, so there are still a few parts I need to go and give a closer listen to, but from what I could understand:

Earlier that year she had gotten a letter from her father that he was going to hold his conference at the Radio Building and she should come see it. All excited at being contacted by him for the first time in seven years, she had started her research for that time travel thesis she wrote -the one that her father steals when he murders her in the Beta Attractor Field and that SERN stole in the Alpha Attractor Field (see the manga Steins;Gate - Shijou Saikyou no Slight Fever)-. She convinced her mother to let her come to Japan by arranging a temporary enrollment with a girls school, so that she could experience high school life. -She skipped high school and went straight to college.-  That didn't go too well, however, due to media attention, etc.

She got the request from the ATF (Akihabara Techno Forum) Special Seminar to hold a lecture on time travel theory on the same day as her father's conference. She got an unpleasant feeling from the request, like they might know of the whole history of her father's research and fall from grace in the academic world and of their estrangement, but said okay to lecturing anyway, thinking that co-publishing the time travel thesis she wrote with her and her father's names on it might help open doors in the academic world for her father again.

However, after the the crash, several things come into play, including her father one-sidedly ranting at her over the cancellation of his conference, that make her feel uncomfortable with taking the huge risk of lecturing positively for the possibilty of time travel when she's still not fully convinced herself as a scientist, and she decides to shelve her research for now, hoping that her father will calm down enough for them to talk soon.

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And, as we know from the main story, from there she goes to the UPX building where she encounters Okabe and holds her lecture against various time travel theories. Okabe interrupts and she changes from lecture style to debate.

The Audio Series ☆ Labmem Number drama CD's are all quite interesting, showing backgrounds of the various characters before the main story starts and depicting the Okabe of the Alpha world line 0.571024% before the main story's Okabe arrives upon sending the first D-mail. I don't think anyone has translated them yet. I might get around to making the wiki pages for them with in-depth plot descriptions towards the end of this year, though.