Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
	Visit [News and Announcements] for recent news and announcements. News and Announcements in FY 2015 25 Mar. 2016   The pamphlet of CiRfSE was updated for FY 2016. 15 Mar. 2016   The list of the members and associates was updated for FY 2016 at [Organization and Members]. 2 Mar. 2016   Workshop on Photon and Particle Detectors Co-hosted by the Light/Quantum Instrumentation Research Group in the Platform for Innovation, Tsukuba Innovation Arena (TIA). 22 participants Date:   2 Mar. 2016 (Wed) Venue:   Room 0110 of Sogo-B Building Web page of the workshop (in Japanese): Program: 13:00 - 13:05   S. Kim (CiRfSE)   opening 13:05 - 13:35   Y. Takeuchi (CiRfSE)   "Superconducting detector and ultra-low temperature SOI amplifier" 13:35 - 14:05   S. Tomita (CiRfSE)   "Application of superconducting detectors to biomolecule research" 14:05 - 14:35   T. Kondo (CiRfSE)   "Surface Physics and Chemistry by spectrum analysis" 14:35 - 15:05   Y. Arai (KEK)   "SOI pixel detector and its application" 15:05 - 15:35   E. Nishibori (CiRfSE)   "Synchrotron X-ray diffraction" 15:35 - 16:00   break 16:00 - 16:30   K. Hyodo (KEK)   "Development and application of X-ray imaging with Monochrome synchrotron X-ray, cERL and others" 16:30 - 17:00   K. Yasuoka (U. Tsukuba)   "Detectors and BNCT therapy" 17:00 - 17:30   W. Tsuruta (U. Tsukuba)   "Neurosurgery therapy and Detectors/Imaging" 17:30 - 17:50   S. Esumi (CiRfSE)   "Silicon EM calorymeter and others" 17:50 - 18:10   F. Takasaki (KEK)   "Use of cosmic ray for large-scale structure imaging" Presentation files are avialable at the web page of the workshop.

• 18-19 Jan. 2016   2nd CiRfSE Workshop and 2nd Steering Committee Meeting

  

  Date:   18(Mon)--19(Tue) January 2016

  Venue:

  Workshop room of the Center for Computational Science etc.,
  Univ. Tsukuba

  Web page of the workshop (in Japanese)

  Program:

  18 January 2016 (Mon)
  13:00-15:20   CiRfSE Workshop and Steering Committee Meeting

    [CCS Workshop room]
    About 50 participants
  • 13:00-13:45   K. Kanaya   Activity report of CiRfSE in FY 2015
  • 13:45-14:20   S. Kim   Report of the Research Core for the History of the Universe
  • 14:20-14:55   T. Nabeshima   Report of the Research Core for Developing Energy and Environment-friendly Materials
  • 14:55-15:20   H. Isozaki   Report of the Laboratorie for Inverse Problems

  
  16:00-17:30   Steering Committee Meeting (closed)

  [Sogo-B B204]

  
  18:00-   Get-together   [Soup Factory in the Univ. Tsukuba]

    22 participants

  
  19 January 2016 (Tue)   CiRfSE Workshop

  8:30-12:15   [CCS Workshop room]
    About 50 participants
  • 08:45-09:15   N. Kuno   Activity report of the Division of Antarctic Astronomy
  • 09:15-09:45   F. Ukegawa   Activity report of the Division of Elementary Particles
  • 09:45-10:15   S. Esumi   Activity report of the Division of Quark Nuclear Matters
  • 10:15-10:45   Y. Moritomo   Activity report of the Division of Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
  • 10:45-11:15   J. Nakamura   Activity report of the Division of Materials for Chemical Conversion
  • 11:15-11:45   Lab. for Inverse Problems   Activity report of the Laboratory for Inverse Problems
  • 11:45-12:15   S. Kim   Report of the Laboratory for Development of Photon and Particle Detectors

  
  13:30-18:00
  Parallel sessions for Divisions/Laboratories. Details are given in the program (in Japanese).

  • Session 1: Division of Elementary Particles   [CCS Workshop]
  • Session 2: Division of Quark Nuclear Matters   [CCS Room A]
  • Session 3: Research Core for Developing Energy and Environment-friendly Materials   [Sogo-B  B112]
  • Session 4: Laboratory for Inverse Problems   [Sogo-B  B107]
      --New frontiers in mathematical physics--

  More details of the workshop including links for some presentation files are given in the Japanese page.


• 12 Jan. 2016   The center pamphlet was updated.


• 12 Jan. 2016   The member list was updated.
  Drs. W. Kobayashi and H. Niwa joined the Division of Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion. Prof. M. Aoshima joined the Laboratory for Inverse Problems.


• 7 Dec. 2015   The member list was updated.
  Dr. G. Ishiki joined the Division of Elementary Particles.


• 7 Dec. 2015   The web page of the Laboratory for Inverse Problems was renovated.


• 7 Dec. 2015   Workshop on Bioenergy   (Research Team for Bioenergy, Research Core for Developing Energy and Environment-friendly Materials)

  Date:   7 Dec. (Monday)   14:30--16:40

  Venue:   Room 0609-2 of Sogo-B Building

  Co-hosted by TIMS

  Program:

  • 14:30-14:35   T. Nabeshima   Opening
  • 14:35-15:10   M. Kita   "Looking forward a sharp molecule in nature"
  • 15:10-15:45   H. Kano   "Observing living cells -- Label-free imaging by non-linear Raman spectroscopy"
  • 15:45-16:20   S. Tsujimura   "Electrochemical energy-conversion systems with enzyme and microorganism"
  • 16:20-16:40   Open discussions



• 2 Dec. 2015   4th CiRfSE interdisciplinary mini-workshop "Renkei Salon" The 4th Renkei Salon was held on the theme "Observation and deduction". With many participants from Physics, lively discussions were made.
     

  Date:   2 Dec. (Wednesday)   15:15--17:15

  Venue:   Room D509 at Institute of Natural Science

  Announcement

  Talks (in Japanese):

  • Prof. M. Aoshima   (Univ. Tsukuba)
    "Mathematical statistics of high dimensional data"
  • Prof. N. Nakai   (Univ. Tsukuba)
    "Statistics in radio astronomy"
  • Asso. Prof. S. Kawano   (Univ. Electro-Commun.)
    "High dimensional data analyses in sparce learning"

    32 participants

  See also the web page of the Renkei Salon (in Japanese).



• 30 Nov. 2015   Kick-off meeting of the Laboratory for Development of Photon and Particle Detectors

  The kick-off meeting of Laboratory for Development of Photon and Particle Detectors(LDPPD) was held at workshop room of Center for Computational Sciences at University of Tsukuba with 15 participants, including three researchers from KEK and two from AIST, on Novemver 30, 2015.

     

  Date:   30 Nov. (Monday)   15:00--17:50

  Venue:   Workshop Room at Center for Computational Science

  Program (presentations in Japanese):

  • 15:00-15:10   S. Kim   "Introduction to LDPPD"
  • 15:10-15:30   Y. Takeuchi   "Superconducting detector"
  • 15:30-15:50   K. Hara   "SOI pixel detector"
  • 15:50-16:10   S. Tomita   "Studies of biomolecule with superconducting detector"
  • 16:30-16:50   E. Nishibori   "Synchrotoron X-ray diffraction study"
  • 16:50-17:10   T. Kondo   "Surface Physics and Chemistry by spectrum analysis"
  • 17:10-17:25   K. Hara   "Large-scale structure imaging using cosmic ray"
  • 17:25-17:40   S. Esumi   "Silicon electromagnetic calorimeter and others"

  Visit Lab's web page for presentation files (in Japanese) and pictures.



• 20 Nov. 2015   List of Associates updated.


• 30 Oct. 2015   List of Memers and Associates updated.
  Prof. S. Okada and Asso. Prof. T. Kondo were added to the Member of the Division of Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion and the Division of Materials for Chemical Conversion at Research Core for Developing Energy and Environment-friendly Materials, respectively. Asso. Prof. S. Tomita was added to the Member of the Laboratory for Development of Photon and Particle Detectors.
  We are updating the list of associates according to the progress of the research projects. We make it public on this web page every time it occurs.


• 19 Oct. 2015   Laboratory for Development of Photon and Particle Detectors founded as the second laboratory of CiRfSE.
  This laboratory works as a base of development of the photon and particle detectors in the Center for Integrated Research in Fundamental Science and Engineering, to study and develop the photon and particle detectors commonly employed for studies in the two Research Cores.


• 19 Oct. 2015   Research Team for Bioenergy called in the Research Core for Developing Energy and Environment-friendly Materials.
  This research team contributes to development of the studies on sustainable energy materials based on natural products chemistry and bifunctional materials science including bio-related non-linear photonics and bio-electrochemistry.


• 15-16 Oct 2015   MANA-RSC symposium: Materials for Energy Generation and Storage

  Date:   15-16 Oct 2015

  Venue:   MANA Auditorium (NIMS)　

  URL:

  http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/19042/mana-rsc-symposium-materials-for-energy-generation-and-storage

  Poster:

  



• 30 Sept 2015   Joint Sessions on "Universe EvoluIon and Matter Origin" and "Research FronIer of Developing Energy and Environmental-friendly Materials" at TGSW 2019
  

  Date:   30 Sept 2015, 9:00--17:30

  Venue:   EPOCHAL TSUKUBA / InternaIonal Congress Center

  URL:   http://www.kokuren.tsukuba.ac.jp/TGSW2015/

  Program

  Abstracts

  
  
  Session 4:  Universe Evolution and Matter Origin
  12 talks, about 53 participants.

  The Research Core for the History of the Universe conducts research in the fields of elementary particles, nuclear physics and astrophysics, with the aim of understanding them from a unified view of the history of the universe. In this Session, invited speakers from abroad and internal researchers reviewed recent progress in respective research programs, and the prospects for the near future were discussed, helping to establish future directions of the Center.

  The morning session has held jointly with Session 5, Research Frontier of Developing Energy and Environmental-friendly Materials. Dr. Guillaume Unal (CERN, Switzerland) reviewed the studies of the Higgs boson performed using the LHC accelerator at CERN. Dr. Roy Lacey (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA) described the quark-gluon-plasma studies conducted using the RHIC accelerator at BNL, USA, in particular the critical point searches in QCD phase diagrams.

  In the afternoon, the session was held in parallel with Session 5. Dr. Leonardo Bronfman (University of Chile, Chile) gave a perspective on sub-mm galactic astronomy in Chile, Dr. Soo-Bong Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) reviewed the neutrino experiments using nuclear reactors, and Dr. Yaxian Mao (Central China Normal University, China) described the quark-gluon-plasma studies using jets at the LHC. In addition to those invited talks, five researchers from the University of Tsukuba, including two international tenure-track assistant professors at the Center, gave presentations on their research.

  More information about the session, including presentation materials, can be obtained at the following url: Session 4 home page,

  
  
  Session 5:  Research Frontier of Developing Energy and Environmental-friendly Materials
  10 talks, 41 participants.

  The topics in session 5 (Research Frontier of Developing Energy and Environmental-friendly Materials) are focused on recent progress in various fields of energy-related functional and sustainable materials including fuel cells, photovoltaics, nano-functional systems, etc. The morning symposium was a joint session of no. 4 and our session, but the two sessions were held independently in the afternoon. There were two lectures of session 5 in the morning session and eight in the afternoon.



• July 2015   CiRfSE Annual Report for FY 2014 (in Japanese) released.


• 18 June 2015   3rd CiRfSE interdisciplinary mini-workshop "Renkei Salon"
  (Design Office of Integrated Research)
  
  

  Date:   18 June (Thursday) 15:00--17:30

  Venue:   Room D509 at Institute of Natural Science

  Announcement

  Talks (in Japanese):

  • Prof. Yohei Yamamoto   (Univ. Tsukuba)
    "Microspheres and microresonators from conjugate polymers"
  • Prof. Ryoko Tomiyasu   (KEK)
    "Additional difficulty in inverse problem of power diffraction for single crystals"
  • Prof. Hiroyuki Chihara   (Univ. Tsukuba)
    "Geometric analysis of dispersive partial differential equations"

  Participants:  about 20

  Prof. Yamamoto explained in plain words conjugate polymers and the experiments to prepare microspheres consisting of π-conjugate polymers. Interestingly, the spheres confine the photoemission and act as optical resonators. This is the first examples of fluorescent microresonators from π-cponjugated polymer spheres, and further optoelectronic applications are expected.

  Prof. Tomiyasu explained an additional difficulty in inverse problem of power diffraction than single crystals, not only by lost of phase but also of rotation factor. Classification of quadratic forms in number theory is applied and she could produce an effective inverse analysis software for power diffraction.

  Prof. Chihara explained the structure of partial differential equations arising in vortex filaments or ferromagnetism. He described existence theorems of the initial value problems for some dispersive partial differential equations which are geometric generalization of the model equations.

  The presentation files (in Japanese) are given in the web page of the Renkei Salon.

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