- Program:
CiRfSE Workshop
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77 participants
Plenaries:
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Research Core for the History of the Universe:
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Research Core for Developing Energy and Environment-friendly Materials:
Plenary talks are presented on March 12th from 13:00 to 15:00 and on March 13th from 9:30 to 11:30 at Sogo-B building room 110 with 77 participants:
The PIs of our 5 reserch divisions have presented their the research strategies.
We also have invited Dr. L. Han (NIMS) to present a plenary lecture on perovskite solar cells.
Dr. Han is one of the leading researchers on solar cells and has revised twice the world record of the power conversion efficiency. He is increasing the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cell with use of the knowhow in the dye synthesized solar cell, on which we have recently started a collaboratory study.
On March 12th from 15:00 and on March 13th from 11:50 to 13:00, parallel sessions for the two research cores are held at Sogo-B building room 110 and 112.
In the session of the Research Core for the History of the Universe,
reports on the status and future plans of big research projects in particle physics, nuclear physics and astronomy were presented by the invited speakers from RIKEN, Hiroshima University, NAOJ, Tohoku University and the University of Tsukuba.
In the session of the Research Core of Developing Energy and Environment-friendly Materials,
presentations on the basic and applied studies of organic-type solar cells and catalysts were widely given.
Active discussions on the experimental results as well as the detector R&D were made to advance the studies on the history of the universe and to accelerate developments in the energy and environmental technology.
Succeeding to the CiRfSE workshop, the following four mini-workshops were held in the afternoon of Mar. 13.
Workshop on CO2 reduction catalysts
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Mar. 13, 2015, 13:30- @ Sogo-B 112
Sponsored by Surface Science Society of Japan.
Hosted by TIMS.
Supported by Catalysis Society of Japan, Chemical Society of Japan, and CiRfSE.
37 participants
- Y. Himeda (AIST) "Formic acid synthesis using homogeneous CO2 catalysts"
- J. Nakamura (U. Tsukuba) "Methanol synthesis using heterogeneous CO2 catalysts"
- O. Ishitani (TITECH) "CO2 reduction using photo-catalysts"
Mini-workshop on "Astronomy from Antarctic"
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Mar. 13, 2015, 14:00- @ Sogo-B 108
10 participants
- N. Nakai (U. Tsukuba) "Antarctic Observatory of Astoronomy"
- T. Nitta (U. Tsukuba) "Development of MKID camera"
- K. Ishizawa (NIPR) "Requirements for carrying out observations on the Antarctica"
- K. Kim (NIPR) "Issues in constructing a base for the Antarctic Observatory of Astoronomy"
Mini-workshop for cosmic neutrino background explosion
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Mar. 13, 2015, 14:00- @ Sogo-B 107
13 participants
- Y. Takeuchi (U. Tsukuba) "Rocket experiment -- design and development --"
- T. Okudaira (U. Tsukuba) "Development of Nb/Al-STJ"
- R. Senzaki (U. Tsukuba) "Development of SOI-STJ"
- K. Takemasa (U. Tsukuba) "Development of Hf-STJ"
- R. Hirose (U. Fukui) "Development of far IR molecular laser"
- Y. Kato (Kinki U.) "Data communucation in rocket experiments"
Mini-workshop on high-temperature and high-density quark nuclear matter at J-parc, RHIC and LHC energies
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Mar. 13, 2015, 14:00- @ Sogo-B302
15 participants
- K. Ozawa (KEK) "Low-mass di-lepton in J-parc E16」
- S. Mizuno (U. Tsukuba) "Direct photon in PHENIX"
- H. Yamamoto (U. Tsukuba) "dAu and pPb flow analysis"
- J. Bhom (Univ.Tsukuba) "pp correlations in ALICE"
- D. Watanabe (U. Tsukuba) "pi0-jet analysis in ALICE"
- N. Tanaka (Univ.Tsukuba) "HBT with Jet analysis in ALICE"
- J. Lee (Univ.Tsukuba) "Correlation measurements at RHIC/LHC"
- T. Sugiura (Univ.Tsukuba) "Fluctuation measurements in STAR"
Workshop on CO2 reduction catalysts sponsored by the Surface Science Society of Japan was held on March 13th from 13:30 to 16:30 at Sogo-B building room 112 with 37 participants (10 students, 13 industrial researchers, 3 researchers from national institutes, 11 university faculties) . Significant attentions were paied to the topics of CO2 reduction catalysts widely. In three lectures on hot topics of formic acid synthesis using homogeneous catalysts, methanol synthesis using heterogeneous catalysts, and CO2 reduction using photo -catalysts, discussions were active and fruitful.
Mini-workshop on "Astronomy from Antarctic" was held on March 13th from 14:00 to 17:30 at Sogo-B building room 108 with 15 participants.
Technical issues of transportation, base constructtion, and the construction of THz telescopes, which are needed to promote Astronomy from Antarctic, were examined.
Mini-workshop for cosmic neutrino background explosion was held on March 13th from 14:00 to 17:30 at Sogo-B building room 107 with 13 participants, including 4 researchers from JAXA/ISAS, University of Fukui, Kindai University and University of Tsukuba reported the status of detector R&D and experimental design for the cosmic background neutrino decay search experiment, made active discussion and advanced the preparation for the experiment.
Mini-workshop on high-temperature and high-density quark nuclear matter at J-parc, RHIC and LHC energies was held on March 13th from 14:00 to 17:30 at Sogo-B building room 307 with about 15 participants.
Recent results on QGP researches at high-temperature and high-density from RHIC and LHC experiments were reported, especially about collective phenomena of QGP as well as partonic energy loss inside QGP with hard probes such as jets and photons. Future experimental plans at LHC and RHIC, the beam energy scan program at RHIC and lower energy nuclear collisions at J-parc and Fair were discussed in order to investigate towards the both directions in the quark-hadron QCD-phase diagram, one at higher-temperature QGP state and another at higher-density QGP state and to search for the critical point. Experimental collaboration efforts and issues among universities and institutions were also discussed.
More details of the workshop and the mini-workshops are given in
the Workshop's home page.
- 10 Feb. 2015 2nd CiRfSE interdisciplinary mini-workshop "Renkei Salon"
(Design Office of Integrated Research)
The "Renkei Salon" organized by the laboratory of inverse problems is to bring together interesting current problems, breaking borders of research fields, and enjoying their basic idea, target and fascination.
Idea: Two or three speakers give presentations in an elementary way to help our mutual understanding. On the occasion of coffee breaks, we are expecting encounters to different fields of research. Even if the subjects are remote from you, please feel free and join us. Lectures may bring you some hints for your own study.
The 2nd Renkei Salon was held on February 10, Tuesday, 2015, at the room D 509 of the building of the natural science in the 1st area of Tsukuba University.
- Date: Feb.10 (Tuesday) 15:15--17:15
- Venue: Room D509 at Institute of Natural Science
- Talks:
Okubo talked about the recent development of measurement devices including the problem of human consciousness. Yamamoto and Akiyama gave expositions of basic idea of quasi crystals and its recent developments from the view point of physics and mathematics. All of the talks were well organized and comprehensive even for non-experts.
The presentation files (in Japanese) are given in the web page of the Renkei Salon.
- 17 Dec. 20147 1st Steering Committee Meeting and a Year-end Party
1st Steering Committee Meeting (14:00-16:30)
- Part 1 at Sogo-B110 (open)
- Part 2 at Sogo-B204 (closed)
The meeting is followed by a Year-end Party of CiRfSE at Soup Factory (18:00-).
- 12 Dec. 2014 Open Informal Seminar by Dr. Oliver Busch
(Division of Quark Nuclear Matters)
- Date: 12 Dec. 2014, 14:00--15：00
- Venue: 1F201
- Speaker: Dr. Oliver Busch
- Title: Jet Physics at LHC-ALICE experiment
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The highest energy heavy ion collisions is now available at CERN LHC at TeV energy region in order to study the high-temperature and high-density state of matter called Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in early universe. The recent results on jet physics and its properties inside QGP will be presented and discussed from LHC-ALICE experiment.
- 11 Nov. 2014 1st CiRfSE interdisciplinary mini-workshop "Renkei Salon"
(Design Office of Integrated Research)
The Laboratory of Inverse Problems organizes a small interdisciplinary workshop, "Renkei Salon" in Japanese. The purpose is to bring together interesting current problems, without limitation of the research field, and talk about their basic idea, target and fascination.
Everytime, two or three speakers give presentations as elementary as possible to have a fruitful mutual understanding. On the occasion of coffee break, you may have an unexpected encounter to know a new world. Even if the subjects seem to be far from you, careful listening will bring you some hints for your own study. This is in fact a secret aim of this mini-workshop
The 1st Renkei Salon was held on 11 Nov. 2014 with 30-40 participants from the Univ. Tsukuba, KEK, and AIST.
Active communucations and discussions were made during the session and the tea time.
We are planning to continue and enlarge the Salon.
- 15:15-15:45 Prof. Hiroshi Isozaki (Univ. Tsukuba) A mathematical approach to inverse scattering on lattices
- 16:00-16:30 Prof. Eiji Nishibori (Univ. Tsukuba) Inverse problems in X-ray measurements and their solutions
- 16:45-17:15 Prof. Tomoko Endo (Tokyo Denki Univ.) Introduction to wavelet with crystal structure
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The presentation files (in Japanese) are given in the web page of the Renkei Salon.
- 24 Oct. 2014 Innovative application of radio telescope to observe nano-world
(Division of Materials for Chemical Conversion)
New type of atomic-scale spectroscopy named "Heterodyne Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy (HSTS)" has been developed based on application of detectors used in space radio telescopes. HSTS enables us to detect the extremely weak signals with terahertz frequency at the atomic resolution and high energy resolution.
- 30 Sept. 2014 Toward comprehension of organic solar cell and secondary batteries
(Division of Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion)
- 29 Sept. 2014 Session of Universe Evolution and Matter Origin in Tsukuba Global Science Week 2014 (TGSW2014)
(Research Core for the History of the Universe)
The Session of Universe Evolution and Matter Origin was held in the Tsukuba Global Science Week 2014 (TGSW2014) at 13:00-18:00, 29 Sept. 2014, at the Special Conference Room, Auditorium of the Univ. Tsukuba.
We had about 80 participants, including about 20 foreign researchers of which five are invited speakers. Two invited speakers are the representatives of CERN and Seoul National University in the Consortium of the History of the Universe in the Research Core for the History of the Universe at the Center for Integrated Research in Fundamental Science and Engineering (CiRfSE). This sessin was very productive in deepening our understanding of the History of the Universe.
The program, the presentation files and the photos in this session are given in a page of the Session of Universe Evolution and Matter Origin.
- 1 Sept. 2014 Center's Startup Ceremony and Party
The Startup Ceremony has talken place with about 100 participants, including Prof. Kyosuke Nagata (the President of the University of Tsukuba), Prof. Yasuo Miake (Vise President of the University of Tsukuba), and reserchers at AIST, NIMS and KEK.
More details of the Ceremony and the Party as well as the presentation files (in Japanese) and some photos are given in the Japanese page of the Center.
- 18 Aug. 2014 We made our logo.
The angel 
is a variation of "CiR" and represents the cooperation of two research cores and laboratories towards new frontiers of fundamental science and engeneering. (K. Kanaya)
- 6 Aug. 2014 We set our home page at www.pas.tsukuba.ac.jp/~CiRfSE/ .
