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2023-08-17

Yixin Guo received two awards for his presentation

Yixin Guo (iTHEMS JRA/Univ. Tokyo) received two awards for his presentation on Aug. 10 at the A3F Summer School 2023. 1. Outstanding presentation award at Young Scientists Session at the A3F Summer School 2023, with the title "Cooper quartet correlations in infinite symmetric nuclear matter". 2. Asian Nuclear Physics Association & AAPPS-DNP Award for Young Scientist (1st place) for his outstanding presentation "Cooper quartet correlations in infinite symmetric nuclear matter". Congratulations, Yixin!

2023-08-10

Nagisa Hiroshima received "Toyama Daiichi Bank Scholarship Foundation Award"

Nagisa Hiroshima (Toyama Univ. and iTHEMS Visiting Scientist) received "Toyama Daiichi Bank Scholarship Foundation Award (Incentive Award)". The citation for the award is "Theoretical research on dark matter using astrophysical approach". The award ceremony was held on July 7, 2023 at Toyama Daiichi Bank Head Office. The certificate and catalog of research grants were handed over to Nagisa by the Vice Governor of Toyama Prefecture. Congratulations, Nagisa!

2023-05-30

Dr. Tomoki Ozawa selected to receive an Asian Young Scientist Fellowship

Dr. Tomoki Ozawa (Visiting Scientist, iTHEMS / Associate Professor, Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University) has been selected to receive an Asian Young Scientist Fellowship 2023. This fellowship aims to encourage and support young Asian scientists in three fields: 1) Life Science, 2) Physical Science, and 3) Mathematics and Computer Science. Dr. Ozawa has been selected in his contribution to the topological states in photonics crystals with synthetic dimensions and his exploration in the direction of many-body physics in synthetic and tunable AMO platforms. For more information, please see the related links.

2023-03-31

Dr. Thomas Hitchcock received the "Best English Presentation Award" of Ecological Society of Japan

Thomas Hitchcock (SPDR, iTHEMS) received the "Best English Presentation Award" at the 70th Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ) held on March 2023 for his presentation on "Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations". Congratulations, Thomas!

2023-03-31

Dr. José Said Gutiérrez-Ortega received the "Excellent English Presentation Award" of Ecological Society of Japan

José Said Gutiérrez-Ortega (SPDR, iTHEMS) received the "Excellent English Presentation Award" at the 70th Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ) held on March 2023 for his presentation on "Disparate patterns of niche evolution in the diversification of the Neotropical cycad genus Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae)". Congratulations, José !

2023-03-29

The paper co-authored by Dr. Ryosuke Iritani has been selected as "Editors' Choice" of OIKOS

The paper entitled "Species interactions and diversity: a unified framework using Hill numbers" co-authored by Dr. Ryosuke Iritani (Research Scientist, iTHEMS) has been selected as the Editors' Choice in OIKOS. Congratulations!

2023-03-22

Dr. Yalong Cao received FY2022 RIKEN Excellent Achievement Award

Yalong Cao (Research Scientist, iTHEMS) received the FY2022 RIKEN BAIHO Award (梅峰賞) (RIKEN Excellent Achievement Award" for his excellent achievement on "Study of Donaldson-Thomas Invariants on Calabi-Yau 4-folds". Congratulations!

2022-09-27

Dr. Naritaka Oshita received the "17th Seitaro Nakamura Prize"

Our colleague Dr. Naritaka Oshita (Special Postdoctoral Researcher, iTHEMS) has received the "17th Seitaro Nakamura Prize." This prize recognizes the achievements of young researchers in the field of particle physics in a broad sense. The winning paper is entitled "Ease of excitation of black hole ringing: Quantifying the importance of overtones by the excitation factors." The award ceremony will be held in March 2023 at the Spring Meeting of the Japanese Physical Society. Congratulations, Naritaka!

2022-09-06

Dr. Tomoya Naito received 2022 RIBF Users Group Thesis Award

It is our greatest pleasure to inform you that our iTHEMS colleague, Tomoya Naito, received the "2022 RIBF Users Group Thesis Award". The awards honor the achievement of young scholars who earned the doctoral degree based on an RIBF experiment (using BigRIPS, GARIS, CRIB, RIPS, etc.), or a theoretical study related to physics at RIBF. The prize ceremony will be held on Sept. 20, 2022 at the annual RIBF Users Meeting.

2022-09-06

Dr. Michiya Mori received 2022 Takebe Katahiro Prize for Encouragement of Young Researchers

It is our greatest pleasure to inform you that our iTHEMS colleague, Michiya Mori, received 2022 Takebe Katahiro Prize for Encouragement of Young Researchers from The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ) for his contribution to the "Studies on preserver problems on operator algebras”. This prize was established by MSJ in honor of the renowned Japanese Mathematician in Edo period, Katahiro Takeba (1664 –1739).

2022-09-06

Dr. Shou Yoshikawa received 2022 Takebe Katahiro Prize for Encouragement of Young Researchers

It is our greatest pleasure to inform you that our iTHEMS colleague, Shou Yoshikawa, received 2022 Takebe Katahiro Prize for Encouragement of Young Researchers from The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ) for his contribution to the "Studies on algebraic varieties admitting a polarized endomorphism and the minimal model theory in mixed characteristic”. This prize was established by MSJ in honor of the renowned Japanese Mathematician in Edo period, Katahiro Takeba (1664 –1739).

2022-09-05

Dr. Taketo Sano received the "academist Prize 2022"

On Aug.31, 2022, Taketo Sano (iTHEMS) received the "academist Prize 2022" at the event "academist Prize 2022 FINAL" where young researchers gather to discuss the future 30 years from now. Congratulations, Taketo!

2022-08-18

The paper by Dr. T. Hayata, Dr. Y. Hidaka and others has been selected as "Editors' Choice" of Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

The Physical Society of Japan has announced that the paper entitled "Lattice Lindblad simulation" by Dr. Tomoya Hayata Itou (iTHEMS Visiting Scientist/Keio Univ.), Dr. Yoshimasa Hidaka (iTHEMS Visiting Scientist/KEK) and their collaborator has been selected as the Editors' Choice in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics.

2022-06-08

Dr. Yuki Yokokura received The 13th RIKEN Research Incentive Award (Ohbu Award)

Yuki Yokokura (Senior Research Scientist, iTHEMS) received "The 13th RIKEN Research Incentive Award (Ohbu Award)" on March 23, 2022 for his outstanding achievement in the "Study of Quantum Black Holes". Congratulations!

2022-04-28

Takemasa Miyoshi and Yuji Sugita received 2022 MEXT Commendation for Science and Technology

Takemasa Miyoshi (R-CCS Team Leader/ iTHEMS Deputy Director) received "2022 MEXT Commendation for Science and Technology" for "Study on Big Data Assimilation to Innovate Numerical Weather Forecasting". Congratulations! Yuji Sugita (CPR Chief Scientist/ iTHEMS Senior Research Scientist) received "2022 MEXT Commendation for Science and Technology" for "Theoretical Study on Dynamic Structure of Biomolecules in the Intracellular Environment". Congratulations!

2022-03-31

Dr. Miyazaki receives FY2021 RIKEN Excellent Achievement Award

Hiroyasu Miyazaki (Visiting Scientist, iTHEMS) received "FY2021 RIKEN Excellent Achievement Award (RIKEN BAIHO Award)" on March 23, 2022 for his achievement on "Development of generalized theory of motives". Congratulations !

2022-03-09

The paper by Dr. Etsuko Itou and others has been selected as "Editors' Choice" of Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

The Physical Society of Japan has announced that the paper entitled "Negative string tension of a higher-charge Schwinger model via digital quantum simulation" by Dr. Etsuko Itou (Postdoctoral Researcher, iTHEMS) and her collaborators has been selected as the Editors' Choice in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics.

2021-10-13

Nagisa Hiroshima received the Award for Female Researchers of the University of Toyama

University of Toyama has announced that Nagisa Hiroshima (Visiting Scientist, iTHEMS) received "The Award for Female Researchers of the University of Toyama". Congratulations!

2021-04-08

Tomoki Ozawa and Hidetoshi Nishimori received the FY2021 MEXT Commendation for Science and Technology

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) announced the recipients of the FY2021 Commendation for Science and Technology. Our colleague Tomoki Ozawa (Associate Prof. at AIMR in Tohoku Univ. and iTHEMS Visiting Scientist) received "Commendation for Science and Technology: the Young Scientists' Award" in recognition of his outstanding research achievements in the theoretical studies of topological physics in atomic and photonic systems. Our colleague Hidetoshi Nishimori (Specially Appointed Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and iTHEMS senior visiting scientist) received "Commendation for Science and Technology: Prize for Science and Technology" in recognition of his outstanding research achievements in developing the fundamental theory of quantum annealing.

2021-03-25

Dr. Takumi Doi receives 12th annual RIKEN Research Incentive Award

Takumi Doi (Senior Research Scientist, iTHEMS) received "FY2020 Researcher Incentive Award" on March 17, 2021 for his recent paper; Possible lightest Ξ Hypernucleus with Modern ΞN Interactions, published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 092501(1-5) (2020), and related works. Congratulations !

2021-03-25

Dr. Masaomi Ono receives 12th annual RIKEN Research Incentive Award

Masaomi Ono (Research Scientist, iTHEMS) received "FY2020 Researcher Incentive Award" on March 17, 2021 for his recent paper; Matter Mixing in Aspherical Core-collapse Supernovae: Three-dimensional Simulations with Single-Star and Binary Merger Progenitor Models for SN 1987A, published in The Astrophysical Journal, 888, 111 (2020), and related works. Congratulations !

2021-03-16

Dr. Jeffery Fawcett received 12th annual RIKEN Research Incentive Award (Ohbu Award)

Jeffery Fawcett received "FY2020 Researcher Incentive Award (桜舞賞)" on March 17, 2021 for his achievements in the "Study of genome evolution using large-scale genomic data". Congratulations!

2020-11-26

Dr. Euki Yazaki received "2020 The Encouragement Award for Young Protistologists"

It is our great pleasure to inform you that our iTHEMS colleague, Euki Yazaki received "2020 The Encouragement Award for Young Protistologists" (日本原生生物学会奨励賞) from "Japan Society of Protistology (日本原生生物学会) for "Revealing of the evolution and diversity of eukaryotes through large-scale sequence data analyses" (大規模配列データ解析による真核生物の進化・多様性の解明). The award ceremony was held at Japan Society of Protistology Meeting on Nov.22-23, 2020. Many congratulations, Euki !

2020-11-11

Ceremony for RIKEN President's Certificates of Appreciation via online

Dr. Y. Kubota, Dr. R. Iritani and Dr. T. Okada received RIKEN President's certificates of appreciation from Dr. Shigeo Koyasu (RIKEN Executive Director) via online on October 22. These certificates are for 2020 Takebe Katahiro Prize for Encouragement of Young Researchers from The Mathematical Society of Japan (Dr. Kubota) and for 15th Young Scientist Award from Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology (Dr. Iritani and Dr. Okada). Many congratulations!

2020-10-01

Dr. Shingo Gibo received the Best Poster Award of the Japanese Society of Chronobiology

Dr. Shingo Gibo received the Best Poster Award of the Japanese Society of Chronobiology. The title of the poster is "Analysis of the circadian period and phase synchronization based on waveform". Congratulations! This is an abstract of the awards: The circadian clocks are based on gene-activity rhythms with approximately 24-hour period, and its temporal waveforms are of various shapes. We theoretically showed that the waveform distortion contributes to the circadian period stability to temperature and entrainment to the environment cycles. Furthermore, by using the renormalization group method, which is developed in theoretical physics, we found that this relation between waveform and period holds not only for the circadian clock but also for many types of nonlinear oscillator models, including van der Pol and Lotka-Volterra model. This study is collaborated with physicists, Drs. Teiji Kunihiro (Kyoto University) and Tetsuo Hatsuda (iTHEMS).

2020-09-29

Dr. Ryosuke Iritani and Dr. Takashi Okada received 15th Young Scientist Award of JSMB

It is our great pleasure to inform you that 15th Young Scientist Award (Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology) was awarded to our iTHEMS colleagues, Ryosuke Iritani for his contribution to the theory of evolutionary ecology and Takashi for his contribution to the theory of chemical reaction networks. Many congratulations to Ryosuke and Takashi !!

2020-09-14

Takemasa Miyoshi received "Commendation by the Prime Minister for Disaster Prevention (2020)"

It is our great pleasure to inform you that our colleague, Takemasa Miyoshi, received "Commendation by the Prime Minister for Disaster Prevention (2020)”. The awards ceremony was held on Sep.4, 2020 at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.

2020-09-07

Dr. Yosuke Kubota received 2020 Takebe Katahiro Prize for Encouragement of Young Researchers

It is our greatest pleasure to inform you that our iTHEMS colleague, Yosuke Kubota received 2020 Takebe Katahiro Prize for Encouragement of Young Researchers from The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ) for his contribution to the "Applications of operator K theory in geometry”. This prize was established by MSJ in honor of the renowned Japanese Mathematician in Edo period, Katahiro Takeba (1664 –1739).

2020-08-31

Dr. Martin Skrodzki received the best slammer award at GAIN20 Science Slam on Aug. 28, 2020.

The GAIN Science Slam is all about science communication. The objective is to impart current research results to a diverse audience in an understandable and entertaining way. Science Slams started in German university towns in the mid-2000s: Darmstadt, Braunschweig, Hamburg. Today, Science Slams are held all over Germany on a weekly basis. The virtual GAIN20 Science Slam took place in the Auditorium of the virtual GAIN20 conference on August 28, 2020. The annual GAIN conference is the largest German science and research career fair in the US. Early career researchers and representatives from all areas of the German research landscape come together for two days of exchange, learning and networking in a virtual space. Seven international researchers from various fields presented their findings in a five-minute pitch in front of the virtual audience. This virtual GAIN audience was the Science Slam Jury. The best slammer received a cash prize of $3,000, proudly presented by the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH). This year's winner is Dr. Martin Skrodzki from RIKEN iTHEMS. He gave a talk on seeing, recognizing, and self-driving cars. The talk is available on YouTube.

2020-08-20

Prof. Gordon Baym received 2021 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research

Prof. Gordon Baym (iTHEMS Senior Visiting Scientist / UIUC) has received 2021 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research. This is the largest Society prize to recognize the achievement of researchers from across all fields of physics. This prize was established to recognize contributions of the highest level that advance our knowledge and understanding of the physical universe in all its facets. It is intended to celebrate scientific inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge. The citation says "For major discoveries in theoretical condensed matter and many-body physics, neutron star structure and composition, quark matter and quark-gluon plasma physics, and in atomic physics and ultracold quantum gases." Many congratulations, Gordon san!!

2020-08-17

Dr. Chris Bourne received Best Paper Prize 2020, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

It is our great pleasure to inform you that our iTHEMS colleague, Chris Bourne (Tohoku AIMR/ RIKEN iTHEMS), received Best Paper Prize 2020: Journal of Physics A (Mathematical and Theoretical). The Journal of Physics A Best Paper Prize has been awarded annually since 2009. All original research articles from 2018 and 2019 were eligible for consideration this year 2020. The publisher says "Nominations were assessed by the Section Editors and Editor-in Chief using the criteria of novelty, achievement, potential impact and presentation. your article was highly recommended and was considered to have excelled in all of these categories." Many congratulations, Chris!

2020-05-28

Dr. Shigenori Otsuka received 11th annual RIKEN Research Incentive Award (Ohbu Award)

Shigenori Otsuka received "FY2019 Researcher Incentive Award (桜舞賞)" on March 10, 2020 for his achievements in the "Development of a novel three-dimensional precipitation nowcast method and its real-time demonstration". Congratulations!

2020-03-30

Dr. Yosuke Kubota receives 11th annual RIKEN Research Incentive Award

Yosuke Kubota received "RIKEN Excellent Achievement Award (理研梅峰賞)" on March 12, 2020 for his achievements in the "Equivariant KK-theory and the Atiyah-Segal completion". Congratulations!

2020-03-30

Dr. Hirotaka Ito receives 11th annual RIKEN Research Incentive Award

Hirotaka Ito received "RIKEN Excellent Achievement Award (理研梅峰賞)" on March 12, 2020 for his achievements in the "Theoretical study on the origin of the correlation between spectrum and brightness of gamma-ray bursts". Congratulations!

2020-03-24

Dr. Ryosuke Iritani received Suzuki Prize of The Ecological Society of Japan

Ryosuke Iritani received "Suzuki Prize of The Ecological Society of Japan" on March 7, 2020, for his contribution to a wide range of evolutionary ecology as an early career theoretical researcher. Congratulations, Ryosuke!

2020-03-10

Dr. Tomoki Ozawa received 11th annual RIKEN Research Incentive Award (Ohbu Award)

Tomoki Ozawa received "FY2019 Researcher Incentive Award (桜舞賞)" on March 10, 2020 for his achievements in the "Study of Geometric Effects in Synthetic Quantum Systems". Congratulations!

2019-06-26

Akinori Tanaka received particle physics medal

Our iTHEMS member, Dr. Akinori Tanaka (AIP/iTHEMS) together with Dr. Akio Tomiya (RIKEN BNL Research Center) have received "14th Particle Physics Medal: Young Scientist Award in Theoretical Particle Physics” from Japan Particle and Nuclear Theory Forum. They were awarded in recognition of their recent paper: Akinori Tanaka, Akio Tomiya “Detection of Phase Transition via Convolutional Neural Networks,” J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 86, 063001 (2017). The citation reads: This paper answers the important question of whether machine learning can capture the existence of phase transition. In this study, in the classical Ising model, spin configurations at various temperatures are generated, and pairs of (configuration, temperature) are used as data. A convolutional neural network is prepared, input data is set, output data is temperature, and machine learning is performed to predict the temperature from the configuration. In the obtained neural network, when the weight of the network connecting the final layer and the layer immediately before it is plotted as a heat map, it can be seen that a large change occurs near the phase transition temperature. This is evidence that machine learning has captured a phase transition. This paper, which shows that machine learning can not only reproduce and use known concepts but also extract the physical concept of phase transition point, is very original and links the subsequent physics and machine learning It made one of the foundations of research. From these facts, we consider this paper to be an award-winning paper. (The above citation was translated from the original in Japanese by use of Google Translation, in order to demonstrate the recent development of Machine Learning) Congratulations, Akinori and Akio!

2019-04-10

Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT

Prof. Hiroshi Suito (AIMR/iTHEMS) has received the Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT : Prizes for Science and Technology. Citation is 数学を用いた大動脈病態メカニズムの解明に関する研究 Research on the elucidation of the aortic pathogenesis mechanism using mathematics Many congratulations, Hiroshi !

2019-03-26

Dr. Iritani receives the Best English Presentation Award

Ryosuke Iritani (iTHEMS, Research Scientist) received "the Best English Presentation Award" on March 16, 2019 for his English presentation, When parasites are selected to kill the young, at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan. Congratulations !

2019-03-20

Dr. Hongo receives FY2018 Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan

Masaru Hongo (iTHEMS, SPDR) received "FY2018 Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan" on March 15, 2019 for his work, Relativistic hydrodynamics from quantum field theory in the local Gibbs ensemble published in Phys. Rev. D92, 065008 (2015). Congratulations !

2019-03-18

Dr. Chang receives 10th annual RIKEN Research Incentive Award

Jason Chang (iTHEMS Research Scientist) received "FY2018 Researcher Incentive Award" on March 12, 2019 for his recent paper; A per-cent-level determination of the nucleon axial coupling from quantum chromodynamics, published in Nature 558 (2018) 91-94. Congratulations !

2018-12-20

Hiroshi Suito to receive MIMS MIMURA AWARD

Hiroshi Suito (iTHEMS senior visiting scientist) will receive "2018 MIMS Mimura Award" for his contributions to the alliance of mathematical science and clinical medicine. The ceremony will be held on Dec.22 (Sat) 2018. Congratulations, Hiroshi !! Note also that the 2017 MIMS Mimura award was given to Atsushi Mochizuki (iTHEMS deputy director).

2018-04-05

Takemasa Miyoshi (Deputy Program Director, iTHEMS) to receive the Gold Medal Prize from Yomiuri Techno Forum

2017-12-02

Atsushi Mochizuki (Deputy Program Director, iTHEMS) to receive MIMS Mimura Award

2017-10-08

Catherine BEAUCHEMIN, a new member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists from the Royal Society of Canada

iTHEMS Senior Visiting Scientist Catherine BEAUCHEMIN from Ryerson University was selected for a new member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists from the Royal Society of Canada. The ceremony will take place in November 2017. The citation reads “Catherine Beauchemin founded the field of virophysics, a branch of biophysics in which the theoretical tools and quantitative rigour of physics are brought to bear on problems in virology. Her creative and innovative use of mathematical and agent-based models to analyse virus infection dynamics, incorporating important virological details, have resulted in significant advances in theoretical virology and the understanding of influenza virus infections, which have earned her international recognition.”

2017-03-22

Program Director Hatsuda awarded Toray Science and Technology Prize

iTHEMS program director, Tetsuo Hatsuda was awarded 57th Toray Science and Technology Prize for his pioneering theoretical studies on the quark structure of nuclei. The awarding ceremony was taken place at the Industry Club of Japan on March 15th, 2017.