Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS)

Yasunori Nomura

Ph.D.

Research Fields: Quantum Gravity, Cosmology, Particle Physics
Term and History: 2023/07/01 - 2023/08/15 Senior Research Scientist; 2023/09/01 - Visiting Scientist
Related Website: Yasunori Nomura's personal website

Self-introduction

Yasunori Nomura received his Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 2000, where he held a fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He was a Miller Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley from 2000 to 2002, and an Associate Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 2002 to 2003. Nomura joined University of California, Berkeley as a faculty member in July 2003, and he has been a Full Professor there since 2012 and has served as the Director of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics since 2015. Awards and honors include: DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (2004), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005), Hellman Fellow (2005), Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics (2012), and American Physical Society Fellow (2017).

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From the Black Hole Conundrum to the Structure of Quantum Gravity

July 26 (Tue) at 15:30 - 17:00, 2022 Colloquium iTHEMS Colloquium

Quantum Mechanics of an Evaporating Black Hole

June 6 (Thu) at 15:30 - 17:00, 2019 Seminar