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We study condensed matter theory and statistical physics.
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Masaki Oshikawa, jointly with Hal Tasaki, will be awarded 2025 Nishina Memorial Prize , "the oldest and most prestigious physics award in Japan" (according to Wikipedia) , for their work on "Theoretical and mathematical studies of quantum spin systems". (Nov 2025)
Citation by Nishina Memorial Foundation
Professor Masaki Oshikawa wins the 2025 (71st) Nishina Memorial Prize (ISSP News)
The award ceremony will be held on 5 December 2025. - Shuma Nakashiba (graduated University of Tokyo) and Asato Nakamura (graduated University of Tsukuba) joined the group as M.Sc. students. Welcome! (April 2025)
- Ching-Yu Yao joined the group as a M.Sc. student, after graduating National Taiwan University and finishing Master of Advanced Study in Theoretical Physics at University of Cambridge.
Kansei Inamura left the group to become a Leverhulme-Peierls Fellow at University of Oxford (Oct 2024) - Atsushi Ueda started his post-doctoral position at Ghent University, Belgium. Kansei Inamura is appointed to a post-doctoral position in our group for 6 months, until he starts a Leverhulme-Peierls Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Oxford University (Apr 2024)
- Kansei Inamura and Atsushi Ueda defended their Ph. D. thesis successfully. Both of them are awarded School of Science Encouragement Award! (March 2024)
- Han Yan joined our group as the Research Associate (Oct 2023)
- Linhao Li defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully, and left the group. He is taking a post-doctoral position at Ghent University, Belgium (Sep 2023)
- Yunqin Zheng has moved to a new post-doctoral position at Stony Brook University, after 3 fruitful years at Kavli IPMU and ISSP. (Aug 2023)
- Talks page is added to this website (May 2023)
- Research page of this website is slightly updated (April 2023)
- Haruki Shimizu (a graduate of University of Tokyo) and Takumi Fukushima (a graduate of Okayama University) joined as M. Sc. course students. (April 2023)
- Yuichiro Hidaka defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully, and left the group (March 2023)
- Yifan Liu, a graduate of Nankai University in China, joined as a M. Sc. course student (October 2022)
- Chenhua Geng defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully, and left the group. (June 2022)
- The opening of the Research Associate position was closed. (June 2022) The new Research Associate arrived in October 2023.
- Prof. Masaki Oshikawa received an Award for Science and Technology (Research Category), the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (April 2022)
- Naoki Yamada defended his Master's degree successfully, and left the group. (March 2022)
- Myles Scollon, a graduate of Simon Fraser University in Canada, joined as a M. Sc. course student. (October 2021)
- Ryohei Kobayashi finished Ph.D. early, and moved to University of Maryland as a post-doctoral fellow. (September 2021)
- Dr. Yasuhiro Tada, who had been the Research Associate in our group, moved to Hiroshima University as an Associate Professor. (April 2021)
- Dr. Yuan Yao moved to RIKEN as a Special Post-Doctoral Researcher (April 2021)
- Dr. Yasuhiro Tada (Research Associate) received Young Scientist Award of Japanese Physical Society (Division 6) for "Theoretical investigation on the edge current and orbital angular momentum in chiral superfluids" (March 2021)
- Dr. Chang-Tse Hsieh (joint postdoc with Kavli IPMU until September 2020, currently at RIKEN) received Young Scientist Award of Japanese Physical Society (Theoretical Elementary Physics Division) for "Anomaly of the Electromagnetic Duality of Maxwell Theory"
- Dr. Sayak Dasgupta is appointed as a joint postdoc between University of British Columbia and our group (December 2020)
- Dr. Yunqin Zheng joined the group as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (concurrent with Kavli IPMU). (November 2020)
- Dr. Yuan Yao finished the graduate study. (September 2020)
- Naoki Yamada joined the group as a M. Sc. student. (April 2020)
- Dr. Masahiko Yamada finished the graduate study. (March 2020)
- Old news (2012-2019) is here. Old news (until 2012) is here.