Highlights (April 2021 - March 2022)


Editor's Suggestions, etc.

  1. Editor's Choice in Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys.:
    T. Fujimori, M. Honda, S. Kamata, T. Misumi, N. Sakai and T. Yoda, "Quantum phase transition and resurgence: Lessons from three-dimensional N = 4 supersymmetric quantum electrodynamics",
    Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2021, 10, 103B04 (2021).
  2. Editor's Choise in Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys.:
    Hayato Kanno and Shigeki Sugimoto, "Anomaly and superconnection",
    Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2022, 1, 013B02 (2022).
  3. Editor's Choise in Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys.:
    Toru Masuda and Hiroaki Matsunaga, "Deriving on-shell open string field amplitudes without using Feynman rules",
    Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2022, 1, 013B06 (2022).
  4. Editor's Choice in Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys.:
    M. Honda, E. Itou, Y. Kikuchi and Y. Tanizaki, "Negative string tension of higher-charge Schwinger model via digital quantum simulation",
    Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2022, 3, 033B01 (2022).
  5. Journal cover of Nature vol. 592, No. 7855 (April 22th, 2021) and article with press release:
    Toshiki, Sato, Keiichi Maeda, Shigehiro Nagataki, Takashi Yoshida, Brian Grefenstette, Brian J. Williams, Hideyuki Umeda, Masaomi Ono, "High-entropy ejecta plumes in Cassiopeia A from neutrino-driven convection",
    Nature 592, 537-540 (2021).

Books

  1. 向山信治, "一般相対論を超える　重力理論と宇宙論",
    サイエンス社 SGCライブラリ170 (2021).
  2. 柴田大, "数値相対論と中性子星の合体",
    共立出版 基本法則から読み解く物理学最前線【25】巻 (2021).

Invited Talks (International)

  1. Shinji Hirano, "Holographic dual of generalized symmetry, mixed anomaly, and interfaces in N = 4 SYM",
    invited seminar at Kentucky University, USA, October 13, 2021.
  2. Shinji Hirano, "Random geometry approach to TTbar-deformed conformal field theory",
    invited seminar at Shing-Tung Yau Center of Southeast University, China, July 9, 2021.
  3. Seiji Terashima,
    Invited talk at the 1st International Conference of Holography and its Applications at Damghan University, Iran (Virtual), 9-10 March 2022,
  4. Masaki Shigemori, "Interpolating between multi-center solutions,"
    Black-hole microstructure III, CEA Saclay, France, June 6, 2021 (online).
  5. Adi Armoni, "Vacua of 3d QCD and holography",
    seminar (online) for NUT (National University Taipei) on December, 2021.
  6. T. Takayanagi, "Holography in de Sitter Space via Chern-Simons Gauge Theory,"
    Indian Strings Meeting 2021, IIT Roorkee, India, Dec.12-17, 2021.
  7. T. Takayanagi, "Holography and Quantum Information,"
    Plenary Talk at IRCHEP 1400, Iran, Nov.8, 2021.
  8. T. Takayanagi, "A New Generalization of Entanglement Entropy: Pseudo Entropy",
    Quantum Information in QFT and AdS/CFT-II, IIT Gandhinagar , Aug.19, 2021.
  9. Masazumi Honda, "Lectures and tutorials on quantum computation",
    INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD, July 13-14, 2021.
  10. Shuichi Yokoyama, "On the definition of energy and a new conserved quantity in General Relativity",
    Invited talk, Physics and Astronomy World Forum, Webiner, December 2, 2021.
  11. Kenta Kiuchi,"Numerical modeling of gravitational wave sources in multimessenger astronomy era",
    Invited colloquium speaker, IAS, Princeton, USA, November, 2021.
  12. Kenta Kiuchi, "Numerical modeling of gravitational wave sources in multimessenger astronomy era",
    Invited speaker, JGRG, Waseda Univ. (on-line), Tokyo, Japan, December, 2021.
  13. Kohta Murase, ``Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Sources and Acceleration,''
    GCOS Workshop, Online, May 2021.
  14. Kohta Murase, ``High-Energy Multimessenger Particle Astrophysics,''
    Invited, Astro Dark 2021, Online, December 2021.
  15. Kohta Murase, ``Promising Sources of High-Energy Neutrinos and Some Implications,''
    Invited, KITP Workshop 2022, Santa Barbara, USA, March 2022.
  16. Kohta Murase, ``Multi-Messenger Study of Heavy Dark Matter,''
    Invited, What is Dark Matter, Online, March 2022.
  17. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimalism in modified gravity",
    invited talk at "Current challenges in gravitational physics", SISSA, April 26, 2021.
  18. Shinji Mukohyama, "Introduction to Modified Gravity",
    QASTM zoominar, May 6, 2021.
  19. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimalism in modified gravity",
    Copernicus webinar, May 25, 2021.
  20. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimalism in modified gravity",
    invited talk at "Quarks", June 9, 2021.
  21. Shinji Mukohyama, "Gravity and Cosmology beyond General Relativity and Gravitational Waves",
    invited talk at "SUSY2021", August 23, 2021.
  22. Atsushi Naruko, "Spatial gradient expansion approach for generic scalar-tensor theories",
    Invited talk at International Workshop "Dawn of Gravitational-wave Cosmology and Theory of Gravity", March 3, 2022.
  23. Atsushi Naruko, "VHDM search & gravity sector",
    Keynote talk at“1st workshop: Multimessenger Study of Heavy Dark Matter, March 8, 2022
  24. Takahiro Nishimichi, “Emulation for lensing and clustering observables of the cosmological large-scale structure”,
    invited seminar at iTHEMS Dark Matter WG, RIKEN (online), 12th May 2021.
  25. Takahiro Nishimichi, ``Emulator Cosmology",
    invited colloquium talk at Department of Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (online), 23rd March 2022.
  26. Atushi Taruya, "Intrinsic alignment of galaxies as a novel cosmology probe”,
    Seminar at Laboratoire de d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), LAM, April 2nd, 2021.
  27. Atsushi Taruya, "Intrinsic alignment of galaxies as a novel probe of cosmology”,
    The 319th Nano-science seminar, Tokyo Institute of Technology, July 16th, 2021.
  28. Atsushi Taruya, “Relativistic signature of large-scale structure observations - toward alternative test of gravity - "
    Astronomy colloquium, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, March 9th, 2022.
  29. Deruelle, Nathalie, "Binary pulsars and precision tests of General Relativity"
    invited speaker at the First NIP Conference, held in Tirana (Albania), 10-12 February 2022.
  30. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes",
    Invited talk at Sakharov's centennial symposium: Quantum Gravity and Cosmology, June 5, 2021, online.
  31. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves",
    Invited talk at Lake Como School on Multi-Messenger in Astrophysics, June 29, 2021, online.
  32. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes - a few recent topics",
    Invited talk at APCTP seminar, July 6, 2021, online.
  33. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes and Cosmological Gravitational Waves",
    Invited talk at Gravitational Wave Probes of Physics Beyond Standard Model, July 15, 2021, online.
  34. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes: Roles of isocurvature perturbations",
    Invited talk at Black Holes Inside and Out, September 28, 2021, online.
  35. Misao Sasaki, "Inflation and cosmological perturbations",
    Invited talk at APCTP lectures, November 29,30, 2021, online.
  36. Misao Sasaki, "Cosmology of Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves",
    Invited talk at 4th LeCosPA Symposium “Unity of Physics? From Plasma Wakefields to Black Holes, November 30, 2021, online.
  37. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes Review",
    Invited talk at Dark Sectors of Astroparticle Physics (AstroDark-2021), December 10, 2021, online.
  38. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Hole Cosmology",
    Invited talk at Recent Advances in Theoretical Cosmology and Astrophysics, December 16, 2021, online.
  39. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves",
    Invited talk at Indian Institute of Technology seminar, January 7, 2022, online.
  40. Misao Sasaki, "PBHs from inflation and gravitational waves",
    Invited talk at New observational windows on the high-scale origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry, January 13, 2022, online.
  41. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes from Inflation",
    Invited talk at YKIS 2022a: Gravity - The Next Generation-, February 14, 2022, online
  42. Katsuki Aoki, “UV consistency of gravitational and cosmological EFTs”,
    Invited talk at AAPPS-DACG Workshop 2021 on Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation (online), Oct. 2021.
  43. Katsuki Aoki, “Positivity vs. Lorentz-violation”,
    Invited talk at 8th Korea-Japan workshop on Dark Energy (online), Oct. 2021.
  44. Katsuki Aoki, “The Effective Field Theory of Vector–Tensor Theories”,
    Invited talk at Dawn of Gravitational-wave Cosmology and Theory of Gravity, Tohoku University, Mar. 2022.
  45. Kazufumi Takahashi,
    Invited talk, JGRG webinar series 2022.
  46. Francesco Di Filippo, "Geodesically complete black holes",
    Invited talk at The Quantum and The Gravity, online, April 28, 2021.
  47. Francesco Di Filippo, "On the assumptions leading to the information loss problem",
    Invited talk at Cosmology and Quantum Space Time, Seoul, South Korea, August 3, 2021.
  48. Francesco Di Filippo, "On the assumptions leading to the information loss paradox",
    Invited talk at Copernicus Webinar and Colloquium Series, online, August 3, 2021.
  49. Francesco Di Filippo, "On the assumptions leading to the information loss paradox",
    Perimeter quantum gravity seminar seires, Waterloo, Canada/online, October 14, 2021.
  50. Mohammad Ali Gorji,
    Invited speaker for “8th Korea-Japan workshop on Dark Energy, October 18, 2021.

Invited Talks (in Japan)

  1. T. Takayanagi, "Emergence of Gravitational Spacetime from Quantum Information,"
    The Physical Society of Japan 2022 Annual (77th) Meeting, Plenary Session Program, JPS meeting, Online, Mar.18, 2022.
  2. T. Takayanagi, "Extreme Universe of spacetime and matter from quantum information, "
    Physics Frontiers with Quantum Science and Technology, U. of Tokyo , Tokyo, Mar.9-10, 2022.
  3. T. Takayanagi, ``Holography in de Sitter Space via Chern-Simons Gauge Theory, "
    RIKKYO MathPhys. 2022, Rikkyo U.., Tokyo, Jan.8-10, 2022.
  4. Adi Armoni, "Vacua of 3d QCD and holography",
    invited talk at OIST, on Nov. 11, 2021.
  5. Yasuaki Hikida, "CFT realizations of Gaiotto-Rapcak dualities",
    invited talk at "KIAS-YITP Joint Workshop 2021 String Theory and Quantum Gravity", YITP, Kyoto, Japan, December 14, 2021.
  6. Yasuaki Hikida, "3d de Sitter space/2d CFT correspondence",
    invited talk at "Extreme Universe Online Seminar", YITP, Kyoto, Japan, March 8, 2022.
  7. K. Suzuki, "Factorizing Wormholes in a Partially Disorder-Averaged SYK Model'',
    Invited talk at Quantum Information Entropy in Physics, YITP, Kyoto, March 2022.
  8. Sinya Aoki, "Recent progresses in the HAL QCD method for hadron interactions",
    YITP workshop "QCD phase diagram and lattice QCD", YITP, Koyo University, Japan, October 25-29, 2021.
  9. Sinya Aoki, "Recent results for hadron interactions in the HAL QCD method",
    BNL-HET & RBC Joint workshop "DWQCD@25", Virtual Event, December 13-18, 2021
  10. Masazumi Honda, "Digital Quantum Simulation of higher-charge Schwinger model",
    Nishinomiya-Yukawa memorial theoretical physics workshop: Quantum computing for quantum field theories, YITP, Kyoto University, Japan, February 24, 2022.
  11. Masazumi Honda, "Digital Quantum Simulation of higher-charge Schwinger model with Topological term",
    Tensor Network States: Algorithms and Applications (TNSAA) 2021-2022 Online Workshop, January 19, 2022.
  12. Masazumi Honda, "Quantum Computation and Quantum Field Theory",
    Tagen Danwakai, Nagoya University, Japan, December 1, 2021.
  13. Masazumi Honda, "Digital Quantum Simulation of the Schwinger Model with Topological Term",
    East Asia Joint Symposium on Fields and Strings, Osaka City University, Japan, November 24, 2021.
  14. Masazumi Honda, "Digital Quantum Simulation of the Schwinger Model with Topological Term",
    the 79th Quantum Physics and Nano science special seminar, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, October 11, 2021.
  15. Masazumi Honda, "Intensive lectures on quantum computation",
    Kanazawa University, Japan, September 27-29, 2021.
  16. Masazumi Honda, "Intensive lectures on black hole microstate counting",
    Chu-bu summer school, Japan, September 8-10, 2021.
  17. Masazumi Honda, "Intensive lectures on quantum computation",
    Meiji University, Japan, August 17-20, 2021.
  18. Masazumi Honda, "Lecture and Hands-on on quantum computation",
    11th HPC-Phys meeting, Japan, June 10-11, 2021.
  19. Shinji Hirano, "Holographic dual of generalized symmetry, mixed anomaly, and interfaces in N = 4 SYM",
    invited seminar at Nagoya University, Japan, January 21, 2022.
  20. Shinji Hirano, "Random Geometry Approach to TTbar deformed Conformal Field Theory",
    invited seminar at Rikkyo University, Japan, May 12, 2021.
  21. T. Ugajin, "The island formula and Petz map",
    invited talk at Workshop on quantum information and quantum black holes (online ), September 10, 2021.
  22. T. Ugajin, "On the island formula,"
    invited talk at seminar series in Kansai area (関西地域セミナー), October 30, 2021.
  23. T. Ugajin, "Entanglement between two gravitating universes,"
    invited seminar at Rikkyo university, December 7, 2021.
  24. Kunihito Ioka, Keynote talk "High-Energy Astrophysics",
    at NAOJ Future Planning Symposium 2021 ~Thinking about Future Plans Across Wavelengths~, online, 11/9-10, 2021
  25. Kenta Kiuchi, "Recent progress of numerical relativity simulations of compact objects and its application to gravitational wave astrophysics",
    Invited speaker, RESCEU SUMMER SCHOOL (on-line), August, 2021.
  26. Kenta Kiuchi, "重力波天文学時代における数値相対論による波源のモデリング",
    日本物理学会シンポジウム（on-line), 2022年3月
  27. Kohta Murase, ``High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics in the Multimessenger Era,''
    YITP Kyoto University, July 2021.
  28. Kohta Murase, ``High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics in the Multimessenger Era,''
    iTHEMS RIKEN, October 2021.
  29. Takashi Yoshida, "The final evolution of massive stars and presupernova neutrinos",
    invited talk at a symposium session "Exploring new horizens in supernova research via the upgraded Super-Kamiokande" in JPS 2021 Autumn Meeting, Online, September 17, 2021.
  30. Shinji Mukohyama, "一般相対論を超える重力理論と重力波",
    invited talk at "素粒子と重力波", February 22, 2022.
  31. Atsushi Taruya, “Nonlinear structure formation in cold dark matter dominated universe”,
    Theoretical physics colloquium, Rikkyo University, October 5th, 2021.
  32. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes and Gravitationa Waves",
    JPS Annual Meeting Symposium: Perspectives on Gravitational Wave Cosmology, March 18, 2022, online

Others

  1. Gorji, Mohammad Ali,
    Selection as distinguished referee of European Physical Journal (EPJ).
  2. Kazufumi Takahashi,
    Outstanding Presentation Award, The 30th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan.