Highlights (April 2018 - March 2019)


Editor's Suggestions, etc.

  1. T. Takayanagi and K. Umemoto,
    Nature Phys. 14 (2018) no.6, 573.
  2. Featured in Science News, New Scientist, Fox News, Yahoo News, Newsweek, Phys Org, The Register, Inverse, Science Daily, and NSF website etc:
    K. Fang and K. Murase, Nature Physics, 14, 396 (2018).
  3. Interviewed on Sky Telescope and Science News:
    S. S. Kimura, K. Murase, and B. T. Zhang, Physical Review D, 97, 023026 (2018).

Books

  1. Luca Lionni, "Colored Discrete Spaces -- Higher Dimensional Combinatorial Maps and Quantum Gravity --",
    Springer Theses (2018).
  2. Masaru Shibata and Koutarou Kyutoku, "重力波の源",
    Asakura Publishing Co., Ltd. (2018).

Invited Talks (International)

  1. Shuichi Yokoyama, "Anomaly, regularization and partition function on lens space",
    Invited talk at Fudan University, "String Theory and Quantum Field Theory", Shanghai, China, March 2019.
  2. Shuichi Yokoyama, "Aspects of minimal N=4 Chern-Simons theories",
    Invited talk in International Institute of Physics (IIP), "Non-perturbative Non-Perturbative Effects in Supersymmetric Field Theories", Natal, Brazil, October 2018.
  3. Shigeki Sugimoto, "2 dim QED and String Theory revisited",
    invited talk at East Asia Joint Workshop on Fields and Strings 2018, KIAS, Seoul, Nov. 6, 2018.
  4. Yasuaki Hikida, "Conformal blocks from Wilson lines with loop corrections",
    Invited talk at "International Conference on Holography, String Theory and Discrete Approaches in Hanoi," August 6-10, 2018.
  5. Yasuaki Hikida, "Rectangular W-algebras, extended higher spin gravity and dual coset CFTs",
    Invited talk at ESI Programme and Workshop "Higher spins and holography," Vienna, March 11-April 05, 2019.
  6. Seiji Terashima, "exact results in supersymmetric gauge theories",
    Invited lectures at 2018 IHES Summer School: Supersymmetric localization and exact results, July 18-20, 2018.
  7. Luca Lionni, "Counting colored triangulations",
    Invited seminar at City University of Hong-Kong, January 2019.
  8. Hiroshi Kunitomo, "Heterotic string field theory and new relations extending L-infinity algebra",
    Invited talk at "The 32nd International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Method in Physics", Prague, Czech Republic, July 11, 2018.
  9. T. Takayanagi, "Quantum Entanglement and Holography",
    Invited lectures at Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics, Trieste, Italy, March 29,30, 2019.
  10. T. Takayanagi, "Entanglement of Purification and Holography",
    Invited talk at "Tensor Networks from Simulation to Holography II", Berlin, DESY Zeuthen, Germany, March 4th-5th, 2019.
  11. T. Takayanagi, "Quantum Entanglement and Holographic Spacetime",
    Invited colloquium, AEI, Potsdam, Germany, March 1st, 2019.
  12. T. Takayanagi, "Holographic Entanglement of Purification and CFT Dual",
    Invited talk at NCTS Annual Theory Meeting 2018: Particles, Cosmology and Strings, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec 17-20, 2018.
  13. T. Takayanagi, "Holographic Spacetimes as Quantum Circuits of Path-Integrations",
    Invited talk at East Asia Joint Workshop on Fields and Strings 2018, Seoul, Nov. 5-9, 2018.
  14. T. Takayanagi, "From Black holes to Qubits through String Theoretic Microscopes",
    Invited plenary talk at ICHEP2018, Seoul, July 10, 2018.
  15. T. Takayanagi, "Holographic Entanglement of Purification",
    Invited talk at Groningen Scanning New Horizons Meeting, Groningen, Netherlands, June 1, 2018.
  16. T. Takayanagi, "Aspects of Entanglement Evolutions under Local Excitations",
    Invited talk at AdS/CFT @ 20 and Beyond, ICTS, India, May 21-May 24, 2018.
  17. Arpan Battacharyya, "Path Integral complexity in presence of interaction",
    Invited seminar at Institute of Theoretical Physics of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, May 29, 2018.
  18. Arpan Battacharyya, "Path Integral complexity in presence of interaction",
    Invited seminar at Department of Physics, University of Geneva, June 14, 2018.
  19. Arpan Bhattacharyya, "Complexity and RG flow",
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Feb. 26, 2019.
  20. Massimo Porrati, "A proposal for the CFT dual for superstrings on ADS3 at the string radius",
    Invited seminar at Yau Mathematical Science Center, Tsinghua U. Beijing, June 14, 2018.
  21. Massimo Porrati, "A proposal for the CFT dual for superstrings on ADS3 at the string radius",
    Invited seminar at Institute for Advanced Studies, Hong Kong UST, June 19, 2018.
  22. Massimo Porrati, "A proposal for the CFT dual for superstrings on ADS3 at the string radius",
    Invited seminar at Department of Physics, Fudan U. Shanghai, June 22, 2018.
  23. Koutarou Kyutoku, "Numerical relativity simulations of binary-neutron-star mergers and GW170817",
    The Eighth East Asian Numerical Astrophysics Meeting (EANAM 2018), National Cheng-Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, October 23, 2018.
  24. Kenta Kiuchi, "Introduction to a numerical modeling of binary neutron star mergers",
    Workshop/School on Recent Developments in Gravitational Waves and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, March 31, 2018.
  25. Takahiro Tanaka, "Testing gravity theory using gravitational waves",
    2018 Second international workshop "Particles, Gravitation and the Universe"(PGU 2018), Hanoi, Vietnam, December 10-15, 2018.
  26. Takahiro Tanaka, "Testing gravity theory using gravitational waves",
    IBS Workshop on Prospects of Particle Physics and Cosmology KASI, Korea, December 3-6, 2018.
  27. Takahiro Tanaka, "Testing gravity theory using gravitational waves",
    5th Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy: Starobinsky's Universe, August 6-10, 2018.
  28. Kunihito Ioka, "Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Ray Burst Jets",
    Second international workshop: Particles, Gravitation and the Universe, Conference hall, Vietnam national space centre (VNSC), Vietnam academy of science and technology (VAST), Hanoi, December 10-15, 2018.
  29. Kohta Murase, "High-Energy Neutrinos and Gamma-Ray Connections of Cosmic-Ray Sources",
    American Astronomical Society Splinter Meeting, Seattle, January 2019.
  30. Kohta Murase, "High-Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays from Active Galactic Nuclei",
    TeV Particle Astrophysics (TeVPA) 2018, Berlin, August 2018.
  31. Kohta Murase,
    TeV Particle Astrophysics (TeVPA) 2018 Special Workshop, Zeuthen, August 2018.
  32. Kohta Murase, "GRAND Science Cases",
    GRAND Workshop 2018, Paris, August 2018.
  33. Kohta Murase, "Counterparts of Fast Radio Bursts",
    COSPAR 2018, Pasadena, July 2018.
  34. Kohta Murase, "PeV Neutrinos and Beyond",
    ARENA 2018, Catania, June 2018.
  35. Kohta Murase, "Multi-Messenger Emission from Interacting Supernovae",
    Shocking Supernovae, Stockholm, May 2018.
  36. Antonio De Felice, "Cosmological Implications in Massive Gravity",
    The Institute for Fundamental Study, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand, March 2019.
  37. Antonio De Felice, "Massive Gravity & degrees of freedom, strong coupling, ghosts",
    Physics Department, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand, March 2019.
  38. Shinji Mukohyama, "Horava-Lifshitz cosmology revisited",
    Plenary talk at "Quarks-2018", Valday, Russia, May 2018.
  39. Shinji Mukohyama, "Horava-Lifshitz cosmology revisited",
    Invited talk at "GRAVITY, COSMOLOGY & PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL", Paris, June 2018.
  40. Shinji Mukohyama, "Horava-Lifshitz cosmology revisited",
    Invited talk at "StringPheno18", Warsaw, July 2018.
  41. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimalism in Modified Gravity",
    Invited talk at "5th Korea-Japan workshop on Dark Energy", Daejeon, August 2018.
  42. Shinji Mukohyama, "Horava-Lifshitz cosmology revisited",
    Invited talk at "Analytical Methods", Paris, September 2018.
  43. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimalism in Modified Gravity",
    Invited talk at "Modern aspects of gravity and cosmology 2018", Orsay, October 2018.
  44. Atsushi Taruya, "Nonlinear structure formation in cold dark matter cosmology",
    ASIAA colloquium, ASIAA, Taipei, Taiwan, 20th June, 2018.
  45. Atsushi Taruya, "Relativistic effects on observed large-scale structure of the Universe",
    ASIAA-NTU joint colloquium, Taipei, Taiwan, 19th June, 2018.
  46. Atsushi Taruya, "Nonlinear structure formation in cold dark matter cosmology",
    5th Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy: Starobinsky’s Universe, Daejeon, Korea, 6th-10th August, 2018.
  47. Atsushi Taruya, "Lagrangian perturbation theory at shell crossing and beyond",
    IHP Trimester 2018: Analytics, Inference, and Computation in Cosmology, PAris, France, 21st September, 2018.
  48. Atsushi Taruya, "Perturbation theory challenge for cosmological parameters estimation",
    4th CosKASI-ICG-NAOC-YITP joint workshop, Beijing, China, 29th Oct.~2nd November, 2018.
  49. Shuntaro Mizuno, "Blue-tilted Primordial Gravitational Waves from Massive Gravity",
    4th CosKASI-ICG-NAOC-YITP joint workshop, Beijing, China, 29th Oct.~2nd November, 2018.
  50. Hayato Motohashi, "Constant-roll inflation",
    Invited talk at 5th Korea-Japan workshop on Dark Energy: Starobinsky's Universe, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea, August 2018.

Invited Talks (in Japan)

  1. Yuya Kusuki, "Light cone structure of Virasoro blocks",
    Invited talk at "Recent Developments in Gauge Theory and String Theory", in Keio University, Sep. 20, 2018.
  2. Seiji Terashima, "AdS/CFT Correspondence in Operator Formalism",
    Invited talk at OIST Mini Symposium "Holographic Tensors", Oct. 31, 2018.
  3. 杉本茂樹, "超対称性の破れと超弦理論",
    研究会「質量階層性に対する新しい原理が導く多彩な物理現象とプランクスケールの物理」における招待講演, 信州大学, Sep. 19, 2018.
  4. Shigeki Sugimoto, "Comments on finite temperature/density in holographic QCD",
    invited talk at YKIS2018b Symposium "Recent Developements in Quark-Hadron Sciences", YITP, Kyoto, June 13, 2018.
  5. Shigeki Sugimoto, "2 dim QED and String Theory revisited",
    invited talk at KEK Theory workshop 2018, KEK, Tsukuba, Dec. 20, 2018.
  6. Masaki Shigemori, "Supercharging Superstrata",
    Invited talk at an international symposium RIKKYO MathPhys 2019, Rikkyo University, Japan, January 2019.
  7. Luca Lionni, "Uncolored tensor models : 1/N expansions and universality classes",
    Invited talk at a workshop "Holographic tensors ", OIST, Okinawa, November 2018.
  8. Luca Lionni, "Escaping the branched polymer phase in dynamical triangulations",
    Invited talk at a workshop "Discrete approaches to the dynamics of fields and space-time ", Tohoku University, September 2018.
  9. T. Takayanagi, "Recent Developments in AdS/CFT",
    Invited talk at the 4th KMI International Symposium, KMI, Nagoya, Feb. 18-20, 2019.
  10. T. Takayanagi, "Holographic Entanglement of Purification and CFT Dual",
    Invited talk at KEK Theory Workshop 2018, KEK, Dec. 17-20, 2018.
  11. Massimo Porrati, "A PROPOSAL FOR THE CFT DUAL OF ADS3 AT THE STRING SCALE",
    Invited talk at a workshop "New Frontiers in String Theory 2018", YITP, Kyoto University, July 3, 2018.
  12. Massimo Porrati, "TWO APPLICARIONS OF THE INFRARED FACTORIZATION OF INFRARED DYNAMICS",
    Invited talk at International Conference on Modified Gravity (MOGRA), Kobayashi Maskawa Institute, Nagoya University, August 8, 2018.
  13. Yuichiro Sekiguchi, "Impact of GW170817 on the NS-matter equation of state",
    YKIS2018b Symposium : Recent Developments in Quark-Hadron Sciences, YITP, Kyoto University, June 11-15, 2018.
  14. Koutarou Kyutoku, "Gravitational waves from binary neutron stars",
    Hadron structure and interaction in dense matter, KEK Tokai Campus, November 11-12, 2018.
  15. Koutarou Kyutoku, "Multi-messenger from compact binary mergers",
    the 10th International Workshop on Very High Energy Particle Astronomy in 2019 (VHEPA2019), ICRR UTokyo, February 18-20, 2019.
  16. Kenta Kiuchi, "Frontiers in Numerical Relativity",
    Invited lecturer, 2019 YITP Asia-Pacific Winter School and Workshop on Gravitation and Cosmology, Kyoto, Japan, Feb. 11-15, 2019.
  17. Kenta Kiuchi, Invited Speaker,
    Workshop on r-Process and Unstable Nuclei in Multi-messenger Astronomy, Riken, Wako, Japan, June 20-22, 2018.
  18. Kenta Kiuchi, "Binary Neutron Star Merger",
    Invited Speaker, Workshop on Jet and Shock breakout in Cosmic transient, YITP, Kyoto, Japan, May 14-18, 2018.
  19. Takahiro Tanaka, "Gravitational waves from BH mergers as a new probe of physics",
    AVENUES OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN CURVED SPACETIME, Keio University, July 27-28, 2018.
  20. Kunihito Ioka, "Study of Black Holes and Multi-Messenger Astronomy with CTA",
    Symposium at Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan: Frontier of High Energy Astrophysics with The Cherenkov Telescope Array Kyushu Univ., March 14-17, 2019.
  21. Kunihito Ioka, "Jet in Electromagnetic Counterparts to GW170817", "The Spectrum of a Fast Shock Breakout from a Stellar Wind",
    Diversity of High-energy Astronomical Phenomena, ICRR, Kashiwa, Japan, November 20-21, 2018.
  22. Kohta Murase, "High-Energy Neutrinos and Multi-Messenger Implications",
    VHEPA 2019, Kashiwa, February 2019.
  23. Kohta Murase, "Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Astrophysics in the Multi-Messenger Era",
    Telescope Array 10th Anniversary Symposium, Kashiwa, December 2018.
  24. Antonio De Felice, "My research on dark energy in US and EU",
    Kobe University, Kobe, February, 2019.
  25. 向山信治, 招待講演「修正重力理論の数理：ハミルトニアン解析から現象論まで」,
    日本物理学会年会, 九州大学, 2019年3月.
  26. 樽家篤史, "ゆがんだ宇宙の大規模構造：宇宙論の新しいプローブ",
    立教大学物理学セミナー, 2018年6月.
  27. 樽家篤史, "宇宙のゆらぎ 〜大規模構造の形成と非線形進化〜",
    京大数理研 RIMS共同研究「乱流と遷移：構造、多重スケール、モデル」,2018年7月.
  28. 樽家篤史, "暗黒物質ハロー：位相空間から探る宇宙の構造形成",
    東北大学天文学教室談話会, 2019年2月.
  29. Hayato Motohashi, "Modified gravity with higher derivatives",
    Invited talk at 第7回観測的宇宙論ワークショップ，山口大学，2018年11月.
  30. Hayato Motohashi, "Exact solutions in modified gravity with higher derivatives",
    Colloquium at Rikkyo University, January 2019.