Highlights (April 2017 - March 2018)


Editor's Suggestions, etc.

  1. Editor's Suggestions in Physical Review D:
    Pak Hang Chris Lau and Shigeki Sugimoto,
    Phys. Rev. D95, 126007 (2017).
  2. Cited and highlighted in "News & Views" of Nature Physics:
    K. Fang and K .Murase, Nat. Phys. (2018).
  3. Editor's Suggestions in Physical Review D:
    H. Uchida, M. Shibata, T. Yoshida, Y. Sekiguchi and H. Umeda,
    Phys. Rev. D96, no.8, 083016 (2017).

Invited Talks (International)

  1. Shigeki Sugimoto, "Chern-Simons 5-form and Holographic Baryon",
    Invited talk at "excited QCD 2017", Sintra, Poltugal, May 9, 2017.
  2. Fumihiro Takayama, "Tiny flavor symmetry breaking neutrino masses and dark matter",
    Invited talk in the 13th international workshop on Dark Side of the Universe KAIST Muneji Campus, Daegeon, Korea, July 10-14, 2017.
  3. Seiji Terashima, "On large N limit of SUSY gauge theories",
    Invited talk at Korean Physics Society, Daejeon, South Korea, April 2017.
  4. Seiji Terashima, "Some exact results in SUSY gauge theories",
    Invited lectures at the international school "LACES 2017" Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy, December 2017.
  5. Seiji Terashima, "AdS/CFT Correspondence in Operator Formalism",
    Invited seminar at National Taiwan University, Taipei, March 2018.
  6. Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo, "The Odd story of \alpha'-corrections",
    Invited talk at "New Year (Super)Gravity Workshop", Universidad de Murcia, Spain, Jan. 19, 2018.
  7. Nilay Kundu,​ ​"Second law of black-hole thermodynamics in​ ​higher derivative theories of gravity"​,
    Invited talk at "Saha Theory Workshop: Modern Aspects of String Theory", Theory Division of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India, February 2018.
  8. Tadashi Takayanagi, "Holographic entanglement of purification",
    Invited Plenary talk at "It from Qubit workshop", Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina, Jan. 4-6, 2018.
  9. Tadashi Takayanagi, "Holographic Entanglement of Purification",
    Invited Plenary talk at "20 Years Later: The Many Faces of AdS/CFT", Princeton, USA, Oct.31-Nov.3, 2017.
  10. Tadashi Takayanagi, Invited Plenary talk at "AdS from Optimization of Path-Integrals in CFTs",
    Strings 2017, TelAviv, Israel, June 26-30, 2017.
  11. Masanori Hanada, "Black hole from lattice via holography: Precision test and emergent geometry",
    Invited talk at Lattice for BSM Physics 2017, Boston University, Apr 21, 2017.
  12. Masanori Hanada, "Quantum Gravity from Lattice Gauge Theory via Holography",
    Invited talk at 'Making Quantum Gravity Computable' summer school, Perimeter Institute, June 22, 2017.
  13. Masanori Hanada, "Monte Carlo Approach to Quantum Gravity via Holography",
    Invited talk at ICTP Mini Workshop on String Theory, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Aug. 30, 2017.
  14. Masanori Hanada, "Chaos, Black Hole and Random Matrix",
    Invited talk at Integrability and Chaos in Multicomponent Systems, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia, Oct. 2, 2017.
  15. Masanori Hanada, "A black hole in a lab?",
    Invited talk at kick-off workshop for Bay Area qubitzers, Google X, Mountain View, CA, Nov 16, 2017.
  16. Masanori Hanada, "Real-time aspects of quantum BH and universality in chaos",
    Invited talk at Workshop on Strongly-Interacting Field Theories, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany, Nov. 25, 2017.
  17. Masanori Hanada, "Monte Carlo Approach to Superstring Theory for Dummies",
    Invited talks at The Second Mandelstam Theoretical Physics Workshop, Durban, South Africa, Jan 17 - 23, 2018.
  18. Masanori Hanada, "A numerical Approach to Holography",
    Invited talks at Nonperturbative and Numerical Approaches to Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India, Jan. 27 - 29, 2018.
  19. Masanori Hanada, "Early-time Universality in Chaos?",
    Invited talk at IV Saha Theory Workshop: Modern Aspects of String Theory, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India, Feb. 20.
  20. Masanori Hanada, "From non-gravitational theory to quantum gravity via holography",
    Invited talk at BU/ICAM Workshop on Nonequilibrium Quantum Universality, Boston University, March 13, 2018.
  21. Arpan Battacharyya, "Exploring AdS/CFT via Tensor Network",
    Invited seminar at Department of Physics, Swansea University on Feb. 23, 2018.
  22. Arpan Battacharyya, "Exploring AdS/CFT via Tensor Network",
    Invited seminar at Department of Mathematical Science, Southampton University on Feb. 27, 2018.
  23. Yasuaki Hikida, "Loop effects in higher spin theories Loop effects fro dual CFTs",
    Invited talk in "New ideas on higher spin gravity and holography", Seoul, Korea, July 10-15, 2017.
  24. Sinya Aoki, "HAL QCD method --approach and results --",
    Invited talk at Santa Fe Workshop on ``Lattice QCD", Hilton Hotel, Santa Fe, NM, USA, Aug.27- Sept. 1, 2017.
  25. Sinya Aoki, "Recent results from the HAL QCD potential method in lattice QCD",
    Invited talk at 12th European Research Conference on Electromagnetic Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei, Annabelle Hotel - Paphos, Cyprus, 29 October - 04 November, 2017.
  26. Sinya Aoki, "Hadron interactions in lattice QCD --HAL QCD potential method -- ",
    Invited talk at NCTS Annual Theory Meeting 2017: Particles, Cosmology and Strings", Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 5-8, 2017.
  27. Sinya Aoki, "The fake plateau problem and normality checks in the direct method for two baryon systems",
    Invited talk at INT workshop on "Multi-Hadron Systems from Lattice QCD", University of Washington, Seattle, USA, February 5-9, 2018.
  28. Sinya Aoki, "Hadron interactions in lattice QCD --HAL QCD potential method -- ", Invited talk at Workshop of the Doktoratskolleg "Hadrons in Vacuum, Nuclei and Stars", University of Graz, Graz, Austria, February 26 -28, 2018.
  29. Sinya AOKI, "Hadron interactions from Lattice QCD",
    invited talk at Method of Effective Field Theory & Lattice QCD, A joint FGZ-PH Summer School in Garching, TUM, Germany, 26 June - 7 July, 2017.
  30. Hiroshi Kunitomo, "Toward a complete action for heterotic string field theory",
    Discussion meeting on string field theory and string phenomenology, Harish-Chandra research institute, Allahabad India, February 11-15, 2018.
  31. M. Shibata, "Gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers",
    in "Bridging nuclear and gravitational physics: the dense matter equation of state" Trento, Italy, June 5--9, 2017.
  32. M. Shibata, "Mass ejection from binary neutron-star merger in numerical relativity",
    in "Conference on comact object mergers (in the physics of extreme- gravity stars)" Stockholm, June 19-22, 2017.
  33. M. Shibata, "Gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers",
    in "The era of gravitational-wave astronomy" Paris, June 26--30, 2017.
  34. M. Shibata, "Modeling mass ejection for GW170817 in numerical relativity",
    in "GW170817: The First Double Neutron Star Merger" Santa Barbara, December 5--8, 2017.
  35. M. Shibata, "Merger and mass ejection of binary neutron stars in numerical relativity",
    in "Transient Universe" Nanyang University, Singapore, February 25-- March 1, 2018.
  36. K. Kiuchi, "High precision gravitational wave from binary neutron star mergers",
    Nuclear Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Astronomy Era, June 12th-16th, 2017, ECT*, Italy.
  37. K. Kiuchi,
    Hot topics in General Relativity and Gravitation 3, July. 31- Aug. 4th , 2017, Quy Nhon, Vietnam.
  38. K. Kiuchi,
    Invited Lecturer of International School, Aug. 14th-20th, 2017, Hong- Kong, China.
  39. K. Kiuchi,
    Aspen workshop "Astrophysics of Gravitational Radiation Sources and Multimessenger Astronomy in the Era of LIGO Detections", July 9th-Aug. 6th, 2017, Aspen, USA.
  40. K. Kyutoku, Invited lecture on "initial data of numerical relativity/electromagnetic counterparts to compact binary mergers",
    "Spring school on numerical relativity and gravitational-wave physics" http://ssnr2017.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1.
  41. T. Nakamura, "Merger of binary black hole and Quasi normal mode of black hole",
    2018.2.26 "The transient Universe" NTU, Singapore.
  42. K. Ioka, "Interpreting GW170817 and the Electromagnetic Counterparts as a Short Gamma-Ray Burst",
    Penn State, State College, USA, 2/9, 2018.
  43. K. Ioka, "GW/EM Prompt (GRB and Neutrino)",
    Physics and Astrophysics at the eXtreme (PAX): Binary Neutron Star Mergers State College, USA, 2/5-7, 2018.
  44. K. Ioka, "Interpreting GW170817 and the Electromagnetic Counterparts as a Short Gamma-Ray Burst",
    CosPA 2017 YITP, Kyoto, Japan, 12/11-15, 2017.
  45. K. Ioka, "Gamma-Rays and Afterglow from a Short Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Jets",
    KITP Conference: GW170817: The First Double Neutron Star Merger KITP, Santa Barbara, USA, 12/5-8, 2017.
  46. Yuichiro Sekiguchi, "GW170817: A Modelling Based on Numerical Relativity",
    @International workshop on Hadron and Nuclear Physics 2017 2017.12.18-22, RIKEN.
  47. Yuichiro Sekiguchi, "Numerical Relativity simulations of neutron-star binaries in Kyoto group",
    @Hot Topics in General Relativity and Gravitation 2017.7.30-2017.8.5, ICIES, Quy Nhon, Vietnam.
  48. Kohta Murase,
    MIAPP 2018, MIAPP, Munich, Germany, Oral Presentations, Invited. (March 2018).
  49. Kohta Murase, "High-Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays from Inner Jets of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei",
    MARLAM 2017, George Washington University, Washington DC, (October 2017).
  50. Kohta Murase,
    DanuCo, Cp3 Origins, Odense, Denmark, (August 2017).
  51. Kohta Murase, "Multi-Messenger Implications for Cosmic-Ray Sources and Heavy Dark Matter",
    WIN 2017, UC Irvine, Irvine, (June 2017).
  52. Kohta Murase, "Cosmic-Ray Reservoirs as Non-Thermal Neutrino Sources",
    IPA 2017, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Invited. (May 2017).
  53. Kohta Murase,
    LSST Detection of Optical Counterparts of Gravitational Waves, Columbia University, New York, Panels, Invited. (May 2017).
  54. Kohta Murase, "Gamma-Ray Bursts: Some Tips for Neutrino Astrophysics",
    NEUCOS Workshop, DESY, Zeuthen, Germany (May 2017).
  55. K. Hotokezaka, "A cocoon emission model for EM counterparts to GW17081",
    Astrophysics of NS mergers, Flatiron Institute, 20-22 November 2017 in New York City.
  56. K. Hotokezaka, "Neutron star merger contribution to r-process abundance",
    KITP conference, GW170817, The first double neutron star merger, KITP, 5-8 December 2017 in Santa Barbara.
  57. K. Hotokezaka, "Macronova and r-process Elements in Neutron Star Mergers",
    The transient Universe, NTU, 26 Feb - 1 Mar 2018 in Singapore.
  58. K. Hotokezaka, "EM counterparts to a neutron star merger, GW170817",
    The first annual symposium of the innovative area "Gravitational wave physics and astronomy: Genesis", University of Tokyo, 5 -7 Mar 2018, Tokyo Japan.
  59. Antonio De Felice, "Cosmological Implications in Massive Gravity",
    Invited plenary talk in "Ninth Aegean Summer School. Einstein's theory of gravity and its modifications: from theory to observations" Apollonia, Sifnos, September 18-23, 2017.
  60. Shinji Mukohyama, "Massive gravity and cosmology",
    1st JOINT SYMPOSIUM UNIVERSITAT HAMBURG & KYOTO UNIVERSITY, July 2017, Humburg, Germany.
  61. Shinji Mukohyama, "Towards a new scenario of inflationary magnetogenesis",
    Hot Topics in General Relativity and Gravitation, July 2017, Quy Nhon, Vietnum.
  62. Shinji Mukohyama, "Updates on massive gravity cosmology",
    Hot Topics in General Relativity and Gravitation, August 2017, Quy Nhon, Vietnum.
  63. Atsushi Taruya, "Challenges in perturbation theory calculation of large-scale structure",
    Cosmological Quests for the Next Decade, 17-21st April, KASI, Korea.
  64. Atsushi Taruya, "Relativistic distortions of large-scale structure",
    KIAS-YITP joint workshop, 19-22nd September, YITP, Japan.
  65. Atsushi Taruya, "Perturbative description of Vlasov-Poisson system in cosmology: approaching and going beyond shell-crossing",
    Collisionless Boltzmann (Vlasov) Equation and Modeling of Self-Gravitating Systems and Plasmas, 30th October-3rd November, CIRM, France.

Invited Talks (in Japan)

  1. Masato Nozawa, Hideo Kodama, "Inflation in maximal gauged supergravity",
    Invited talk at "Exceptional Groups as Symmetries of Nature '17", KEK, July, 2017.
  2. Masato Nozawa, "Black holes in general relativity",
    Invited talk at "Geometry of Moduli Space of Low Dimensional Manifolds", RIMS, January, 2018.
  3. Masaki Shigemori, "Black Hole Microstates",
    Invited plenery talk at Sugawara Symposium on Fundamental Problems in Theoretical Physics, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 28, 2018.
  4. Masaki Shigemori, "The Black Hole Microstate Geometry Program",
    at the Invited plenery talk at workshop JGRG27, Hiroshima, Japan, Nov. 30, 2017.
  5. Masanori Hanada, "Chaos, Black Hole and Random Matrix",
    invited talk at Quantum Thermodynamics: Thermalization and fluctuations, YITP, Kyoto University, Sept 29, 2017.
  6. Masanori Hanada, "Gauge/gravity duality and its 'application' ",
    invited talk at Spring meeting of The Physical Society of Japan, Tokyo University of Science, March 22, 2018.
  7. Nilay Kundu,​ ​"Second law of black-hole thermodynamics in​ ​ higher derivative theories of gravity",
    Invited talk at Particle Theory Group​,​ Osaka University. November - 2017.
  8. 疋田泰章, 招待講演「Conformal blocks from Wilson lines with loop corrections」,
    関西素粒子セミナー, 大阪, 3/1, 2018.
  9. Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo, "Deformation of N=4 SYM with space-time dependent couplings",
    Invited seminar at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Feb. 9, 2018.
  10. Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo, "The O(d,d) story of alpha'-corrections",
    Invited talk at International Molecule-type Workshop on Recent Developments in Microstructures of Black Holes at YITP, Japan, Nov. 22, 2017.
  11. Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo, "The O(d,d) story of alpha'-corrections",
    Invited talk at "East Asia Joint Workshop on Fields and Strings 2017" KEK Theory workshop 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 16, 2017.
  12. Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo, "Non-geometric fluxes and stable dS in SUGRA",
    Invited seminars at Kyoto Physics Department, Kyoto, Japan, July. 6, 2017.
  13. Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo, "The O(d,d) story of alpha'-corrections",
    Invited talk at Workshop: "Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography", Kyoto, Japan, April. 8, 2017.
  14. Shigeki Sugimoto, "Chern-Simons 5-form and Holographic Baryon",
    Invited seminar at Nagoya University, April 25, 2018.
  15. Shigeki Sugimoto, "SUSY gauge theory with space-time dependent couplings",
    Invited talk at East Asia Joint Workshop on Fields and Strings 2017, KEK theory workshop 2017 KEK, 2017, Nov. 16, 2017.
  16. Shigeki Sugimoto, "SUSY gauge theory with space-time dependent couplings and intersecting branes",
    Invited semianr at Rikkyo University, Jan. 30, 2018.
  17. 杉本茂樹, 集中講義「弦理論とコンパクト化」
    立教大学、２０１７年１０月１６-１８日
  18. 青木慎也, 招待講演「QCDから核力を導く　--クォーク・グルーオンからハドロンを理解できるか？--」
    第８９回東京大学物理学教室コロキウム、東京大学、２０１７年６月２日
  19. K. Kiuchi, "Gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals from a binary neutron star merger GW170817",
    Innovative area workshop "Why does the Universe accelerate? - Exhaustive study and challenge for the future", Feb. 10-12th, 2018, Tohoku Univ., Sendai.
  20. K. Kiuchi, "Numerical modeling of a central engine of short gamma-ray bursts",
    2017 Innovation of research of gamma-ray burst, Nov. 21-23th, 2017, ICRR, Tokyo.
  21. K. Kiuchi, "Numerical modeling of binary neutron star mergers and gravitational waves",
    The 25th Anniversary Memorial Symposium of CCS, Univ. Tsukuba "Progress and Future of Computational Sciences", Oct.10-11th, Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba.
  22. K. Ioka, "Multi-Messenger Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Era", KEK Theory Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology (KEK-PH2018) KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, 2/13-16, 2018.
  23. K. Ioka, "Can an Off-axis GRB Jet in GW170817 Explain All the Electromagnetic Counterparts?", 宇宙線研研究会「ガンマ線バースト研究の新機軸」 ICRR, Kashiwa, Japan, 11/21-23, 2017.
  24. K. Ioka, "Astrophysical Problems in the Gravitational Wave Era",
    新学術領域「なぜ宇宙は加速するのか？- 徹底的究明と将来への挑戦-」(Why does the Universe accelerate?-Exhaustive study and challenge for the future) KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, 3/8-10, 2017.
  25. K. Ioka, "MeV Gamma-Ray Bursts",
    第一回MeVガンマ線天文学研究会 京都大学北部総合教育研究棟益川ホール, Kyoto, Japan, 2/27-28, 2017.
  26. 諏訪雄大, "星の死：超新星爆発",
    第30回 理論懇シンポジウム(2017/12/25, 東京大学)
  27. 諏訪雄大, "中性子星形成と超新星",
    第２回　～中性子星の観測と理論～　研究活性化ワークショップ (2017/11/23, 国立天文台)
  28. Kohta Murase, "High-Energy Emission from Nascent Pulsar Wind Nebulae",
    Electromagnetic Counterparts of Neutron Star and Black Hole Mergers, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, (March 2017).
  29. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimally Modified Gravity",
    4th Korea-Japan joint workshopon Dark Energy, August 2017, Nagoya.
  30. 樽家篤史, "宇宙の大規模構造の理論的記述：標準宇宙モデルを超えて",
    物理学教室談話会, 6月27日, 名古屋大学
  31. 樽家篤史, "宇宙大規模構造観測で探る宇宙と摂動論",
    日本物理学会秋季大会招待講演, 9月13日, 宇都宮大学
  32. 樽家篤史, "宇宙の大規模構造形成",
    理研シンポ・iTHES/iTHEMS研究会「非平衡物理の最前線」, 12月6-8日, 理化学研究所
  33. 水野俊太郎, "Quantum Entanglement in multi-field inflation",
    重力・宇宙論研究会, ３月13-15日, 山口大学