Announcement

2022-09-20

Dr. Yuki Yokokura and Dr. Enrico Rinaldi will appear in the NHK TV program Cosmic Front

Our iTHEMS colleague, Dr. Yuki Yokokura and Dr. Enrico Rinaldi, will appear in the NHK TV program Cosmic Front "Relativity vs. quantum theory: the event horizon and the dance of different dimensions" Do not miss it ! First broadcast date: September 22, 2022 at 10:00 p.m.

2022-04-18

Invitation from "Science": "What is Mass? The Fundamental Nature of Matter in the Universe and Its Origin" will be broadcast on Sunday, April 24, on the Open University of Japan (BS 231ch)!

A four-part series focusing on the fundamental physics concept of "mass" and the historical evolution of its understanding will be broadcast on Sunday, April 24, on the Open University of Japan (BS 231ch). Tetsuo Hatsuda (Program Director, iTHEMS), Koichi Yazaki (Research Consultant, iTHEMS), and Gordon Baym (Senior Visiting Scientist, iTHEMS) will appear in "Part 4: Do we now know the origin of mass of matter?." The broadcast will air on Sunday, May 15 at 20:15 and Sunday, June 26 at 8:15 (rebroadcast). For more information, please see the related links.

2021-08-13

Agreement between RIKEN and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University on Cooperative Graduate School

RIKEN and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) signed an agreement on August 1, 2021, for the purpose of promoting mutual research exchange and contributing to the promotion of science and technology. Under the cooperative graduate school system, RIKEN and OIST will deepen their collaboration in human resource development by accepting graduate students from OIST to provide research guidance and other services at RIKEN, and by having RIKEN researchers give lectures at OIST. The collaborative professors to be appointed for this system include Dr. Shigehiro Nagataki (Deputy Program Director, iTHEMS).

2021-03-11

Dr. Tetsuo Hatsuda's new book, "The Future of 'Useless' Research", will be published on April 9, 2021

Dr. Hatsuda's new book, "The Future of 'Useless' Research", will be published on April 9th, 2021. It is now available for pre-order!

2020-10-02

JST/CRDS Seminar "Series of seminars on the collaboration of mathematics, science and ergonomics" Notice of Registration

The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) is pleased to announce that it will hold a seminar titled "Series of Seminars on collaboration between Mathematics, Science and Engineering". There will be 16 sessions in total, covering topics ranging from machine learning to quantum computing, simulation, data science and many more. For more details, please refer to the related link.

2020-08-06

“The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge" was published on July 27, 2020

The Japanese version of "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge" is now available from the University of Tokyo Press, supervised by iTHEMS Program Director Tetsuo Hatsuda. This book is an essay by Flexner who was a founder of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Dijkgraaf who is its current president. It included with rich translations, researcher's commentary, column articles, and other features, so its made accessible to Japanese readers and is expected to help spread awareness of the importance of basic research. To coincide with the publication of this book, an online discussion on the significance of basic research will be held on August 22. In addition, to help high school students understand the significance of basic research, this book will be donated to designated SSH schools across the country.

2020-06-29

Dr. Tetsuo Hatsuda supervised a book “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge" will be released on July 22, 2020

“The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge" supervised by Dr. Tetsuo Hatsuda, will be released on July 22. Please check on the link for more information.

2020-04-07

Dr. Tomoki Ozawa's article, "Study of Topological Lattice Models with Synthetic Dimensions" was published

The article written by Dr. Tomoki Ozawa, "Study of Topological Lattice Models with Synthetic Dimensions" was published in the April 2020 issue of Butsuri, the monthly magazine published by Physical Society of Japan. The cover of the same issue was based on a figure from the article by Dr. Ozawa. For more details, please refer to the article by him in this issue.

2020-03-11

Dr. Masato Taki wrote a Japanese article on the current stats of Deep Learning: "AI being Deceived" in Nikkei Science

Dr. Masato Taki (iTHEMS) wrote a Japanese article on the current stats of Deep Learning: "AI being Deceived" in Nikkei Science (Jan. 2020). This volume is in iTHEMS common room (246-248). Take a look it and enjoy his superb explanation on how AIs are fooled!

2019-11-22

Cooperative agreement formed between Nara Women's Univ. and iTHEMS

iTHEMS has exchanged a cooperative agreement with Faculty of Science and Faculty of Human Life and Environment, Nara Women's Univ. (NWU), to promote gender diversity in Science. The picture shows the signing ceremony held on Nov.11 at NWU: Tetsuo Hatsuda from iTHEMS (left), Prof. T. Watanabe from Dean of Faculty of Science (middle) and Prof. M. Takada from Dean of Faculty of Human Life and Environment (right). NWU is one of the two national women's universities in Japan and was founded 110 years ago on 1908. Currently, 21%(Math.), 10%(Bio.) and 13%(Phys. and Chem.) of women's Master students in Japanese national universities are produced from NWU. As a first joint effort between iTHEMS and NWU, RIKEN researchers will deliver a series of lectures "Frontiers in mathematics, universe, matter, life and information" from the fall of 2020 for the 1st and 2nd year undergraduate students in NWU. The lecturers on 2020 are Tetsuo Hatsuda (iTHEMS, nuclear physics), Yuka Kotorii (AIP/iTHEMS, mathematics), Shigehiro Nagataki (CPR/iTHEMS, astrophysics), Makiko Nio (RNC, particle physics), Ryosuke Iritani (iTHEMS, biology), Ai Niitsu (CPR, chemistry), Shigenori Otsuka (R-CCS/iTHEMS, meteorology) and Emi Yukawa (CEMS, information).

2019-11-07

Two Senior Visiting Scientists jointed iTHEMS

It is our great pleasure to announce that two Senior Visiting Scientists have joined iTHEMS from Nov.1, 2019. Prof. Takashi Sakajo (Kyoto Univ.) whose research fields are applied mathematics and mathematical fluid dynamics. He is in charge of the SUURI-COOL Kyoto. Prof. Hidetoshi Nishimori (Tokyo Institute of Technology) whose research fields are statistical mechanics and quantum computation. He is one of the founding members of the iTHEMS QCoIn working group.

2019-06-28

Web page of iTHEMS QCoIn WG has launched.

The web page of iTHEMS QCoIn (Quantum Computation and Information) working group has launched. QCoIn Seminars/workshops, lecture slides and other information are posted there. Feel free to visit the site.

2019-04-26

Lectures on Quantum Computing by Dr. Shunji Matsuura

Dr. Shunji Matsuura will visit iTHEMS to give a series of lectures on Quantum Computing. The lectures will be held from May 13 (Mon.) through May 15 (Wed.) in Wako Campus, RIKEN. The details will be announced later. Shunji received his Ph.D in string theory from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Tokyo. Previously, he was a member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (University of California, Santa Barbara), McGill University, Riken, YITP (Kyoto University), and the Niels Bohr Institute (University of Copenhagen). Shunji's current research focuses on the fundamental aspects of quantum-enhanced optimization, such as error correction and speedup.

2018-07-02

Mathematics activities in iTHEMS were featured in RIKEN Pamphlet 2018

Mathematics activities in iTHEMS were featured in RIKEN Pamphlet 2018 (in Japanese). Take a look at the photo of our colleagues, Takashi Tsuboi, Yuka Kotorii and Yosuke Kubota (from the left), trying to make a breakthrough with modern mathematics in page 19 of RIKEN Pamphlet.

2018-05-21

Graduate-Level Research in Industrial Projects for Students (GRIPS)-Sendai 2018

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA offers several versions of its Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) program, a summer research experience for students of math and related disciplines. Students work in teams on projects sponsored by industry. GRISP-Sendai 2018 on this summer will be held in Tohoku Univ. and iTHEMS cohosts this program. Contact: Hiroshi Suito (iTHEMS Senior Research Scientist and AIMR, Tohoku Univ.) ​hiroshi.suito@tohoku.ac.jp

2018-05-15

Science Frontier Lectures in the University of Tokyo by iTHEMS Reserchers

iTHEMS Researchers started to give a series of lectures "Frontiers in Physics Science: Universe, Matter, Life and Information" to the undergraduate students in Univ. of Tokyo on every Wed. (16:50-18:35) from this semester. April 11, 18, 25: Y. Inoue, "Blackholes and the history of our universe" May 2, 9: Y. Yokokura, "What is spacetime? - exploring from blackhole and information -" May 16, 23: M. Tachikawa, "Cell Biology from mathematical point of view" June 6, 13: J Fawcett, "Genome informatics" June 20, 27: T. Doi, "Looking into supercomputer and looking out from supercomputer" July 4, 11: M. Taki, "How deep leaning becomes smart." Contact: Takashi Tsuboi (iTHEMS Deputy Director) tsuboi@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp

2018-05-11

Jeffrey Fawcett (Senior Research Scientist, iTHEMS) was mentioned in an article on theoretical genetics of racehorses by Prof. Hideki Innan (Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

Jefferey has been working closely on this subject with Hideki. The article is published in a book "Master of Paper Owner Game" (Complete Guide, 2018-2019).

2018-05-09

Call for workshop proposals from AIMaP

2018-04-12

iTHEMS researchers lecture at the University of Tokyo

In this semester (April to July), iTHEMS members give lectures to the students of University of Tokyo for first and second graders.

2018-04-07

iTHEMS on Youtube!

2017-10-18

Former iTHES members’ research sheds light on neutron star mergers

2017-09-06

Academist Journal featured Program Director Tetsuo Hatsuda (part 2)

Academist Journal featured Program Director Tetsuo Hatsuda (in Japanese)

2017-08-30

Academist Journal featured Program Director Tetsuo Hatsuda (part 1)

Academist Journal featured Program Director Tetsuo Hatsuda (in Japanese)

2017-07-31

Academist Journal featured Special Postdoctoral Researcher Masaru Hongo

Academist Journal featured Special Postdoctoral Researcher Masaru Hongo (in Japanese)

2016-11-01

The Inauguration of iTHEMS

A new program at RIKEN, Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) is inaugurated on November 1st, 2016. iTHEMS is an international research program which facilitates close collaborations among researchers from different disciplines in theoretical, mathematical and computational sciences. The ultimate goal of iTHEMS is to unravel the mystery of the Universe, matter, and life, as well as to solve key problems in modern society through interdisciplinary approaches.