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Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No. 197
Shoichi Sakata Centennial Symposium
Proceedings of the International Symposium SAKATA100
Ed. by Y. Aoki, T. Maskawa, M. Tahabashi and K. Yamawaki
This volume contains 11 papers out of 12 talks presented at
``Shoichi Sakata Centennial Symposium'', Sakata-Hirata Hall,
Nagoya University, October 27 - 28, 2011, hosted by the newly
established institute, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin
of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University.
Dr. Shoichi Sakata, late professor of physics at Nagoya University,
was born in January 18, 1911. He made great achievements in particle
physics, such as the ``two-meson theory'', the Sakata model and the
Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata neutrino mixing, and much more. He was also a
great mentor: He created a particle theory group ``E-ken'') at Nagoya
University back in 1941 and brought up many physicists including
Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. Note that the Sakata model
became a prototype of the quark model and thus paved a way to the
revolution leading to the Standard Model today, while the flavor
physics of leptons (Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata) and of quarks
(Kobayashi-Maskawa) both coming from the Sakata School are the
basic ingredients of the Standard Model.
The purpose of the symposium was to discuss the perspective of
modern particle physics in the light of physics of Dr. Sakata and
the Sakata School. The symposium was organized consecutively after
the KMI Inauguration Conference (KMIIN) held on October 24 - 26, 2011.
About 100 participants including many eminent physicists from all
over the world largely overlapped with those of KMIIN.
The volume will be of value to all those who are interested in the
modern view of the dramatic history of the achievements of Dr. Sakata
and the Sakata School leading to the Standard Model, which may have
some hint to go beyond the Standard Model.
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