Award

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.