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RIKEN Foundation Day
Today, October 28th is set to be
RIKEN Foundation Day and RIKEN is closed for the day. The date is set just for the convenience each year, as the official foundation of RIKEN actually occured on March 20, 1917. You can read about the history of RIKEN here . In the meantime, just enjoy the day off.
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Event Report
International workshop on Super Yang-Mills, solvable systems and related subjects were held at Hongo campus of University of Tokyo on October 23rd and 24th. About 50 researchers gathered to discuss the recent development of the subject. The speakers included renouned Prof. Vladimir Kazakov from École Normale Supérieure, Dr. Ivan Kazakov and Didina Serban from CEA, Saclay. From RIKEN, Masato Taki (Mathematical Physics Lab.) and Tsukasa Tada (Quantum Hadron Physics Lab.) delivered talks.
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Person of the Week
Robert Johansson
Self-introduction
My name is Robert Johansson. I obtained my Ph.D. in theoretical physics
from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden in 2009, through a
collaboration between Chalmers and RIKEN in which I carried out my
doctoral research in Dr. Franco Nori’s group at RIKEN. After this I was
a postdoc and JSPS fellow in the same group, and in September I joined
the condensed matter team in the iTHES research group. My main fields of
research so far has been condensed matter physics and computational
physics, and I have focused on quantum mechanical phenomena in man-made
quantum devices, such as superconducting and semiconducting electrical
circuits, and nanomechanical systems. I think that this kind of devices
are very interesting because they make it possible to experimentally
realize engineered and controllable quantum system. In naturally
occurring quantum systems, many of the system parameters and time-scales
are fixed and determined by nature, but in engineered quantum systems
many such aspects can be designed. This in turn makes quantum
nanodevices a good platform for implementing analogues and simulations,
and perhaps explore practical applications of quantum phenomena from
different fields of physics. In my own research in this respect I have
focused on circuit implementations of quantum optics effects, such as
so-called circuit-QED systems and nonadiabatic quantum field theory
effects such as the dynamical Casimir effect. I think that quantum
mechanical nanodevices can be used to explore a lot of interesting
interdisciplinary quantum physics, chemistry and perhaps even biology,
and I am looking forward to many discussions and collaborations with
iTHES members on these and other topics in the future!
どうぞよろしくお願いします。
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Visitors
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 Abraham Pais(left), Toichiro Kinoshita (right) Photograph taken by Yoichiro Nambu
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Prof. Toichiro Kinoshita
(Cornell Univ.)
High precision test of quantum electrodynamics and the Standard Model
More about Prof. Kinoshita
Aug. 20th - Nov. 12th, 2013
room 431 (4th floor, main building)
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