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From the director
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Wecome to iTHES ! It is our great pleasure to start the weekly Newsletter.
iTHES (Interdisciplinary Theoretical Science) Research Group is a newly founded framework that integrates the research activities in theoretical science at RIKEN. It promotes interdisciplinary collaborations among theorists in fundamental physics, material science and biological science. Also, iTHES aims to intertwine young theorists in various fields and disciplines and to create an ideal environment for developing new ideas.
The organization of the iTHES Research Group can be found in the web page:
http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/rg/inter_theor_sci/
and the full list of current iTHES members can be seen from
http://ithes.riken.jp/roster/roster.jpg
We will have more than ten iTHES Researchers (research scientists and postdoctoral fellows) every year. To enhance the mutual interactions among the scientists in various fields, we organize iTHES Colloquiums and iTHES Seminars. Furthermore, we promote interdisciplinary workshops, conferences and outreach activities. Also we support short term and long term visitors.
Details of the iTHES activities are posted in the web page: http://ithes.riken.jp/ .
The aim of the weekly iTHES Newsletter is to inform the updated information to the iTHES members and the scientists interested in iTHES activities.
We do hope that the iTHES Research Group becomes a seed for interdisciplinary collaborations and for new scientific developments.
Tetsuo Hatsuda
iTHES Group Director
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Visitors
Dr. Sukjin Yoon (APCTP, Korea)
Quantum many-body physics
Sep. 29 - Oct. 3, 2013
room 159 (1st floor, main building)
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Event Report
Theoretical Science Colloquium was taken place on July 9th. The lecturer was Prof. Masahiro Morikawa from Ochanomizu Women's University. The colloquim have attracted interested audience and stimulated lively discussions.
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Person of the Week
Norihiro Iizuka
Self-introduction
As a theoretical physicist, my research interests are literary
everything in nature. Ultimately I would like to understand
everything from very fundamental viewpoint. The developments
of modern physics enable us to understand amazingly many
things in nature between cosmic-scale large distances to
subatomic-scale short distances. However, there are yet several
unsolved problems in modern physics, and I am especially
interested in following two unsolved problems:
• Understanding quantum properties of gravity and space-time
• Understanding strongly coupled quantum field theories
In order to understand these, I am working on string theory,
a candidate for a theory of everything. I am especially working
on the ``gauge/gravity duality'', a new principle which I believe
to be one of the greatest achievement in modern physics.
Understanding these will help us to understand the `Big Bang singularities',
and this should help us to understand fundamental questions such as
“where does our universe come from?”
私は理論物理学を専攻とする研究者です。現代物理学では実験技術の進歩によって、大規模宇宙論的スケールから、加速器実験によってみられる超微視的なクォークの世界に至るまで理解がすすんできています。にもかかわらず、理解できていない未解決問題は多数存在し、それらの中でも、私が特に興味を持っているのはアインシュタインの夢でもあった「量子重力理論」、および、自然界に存在する４つの力のうち重力を含まない力を統一的に記述する強結合下での場の理論の理解です。私はこれらを、弦理論、特に弦理論で発見された、「ゲージ重力対応」という新しい概念を用いてより深く理解しようと研究を行なっています。これらの研究を通じて、やがては「我々の宇宙がどのように生まれたか？」についての理解を得られればと考えています。
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