Yukawa-Tomonaga Centennial Symposium
--- Progress in Modern Physics ---

11-13 December, 2006

Inamori Hall, Shirankaikan, Kyoto University

Purpose of this symposium

Hideki Yukawa and Sin-itiro Tomonaga, who are the first and second Nobel prize laureates in Japan, were born on January 23, 1907 and on March 31, 1906, respectively. They were classmates at Kyoto University as well as at high school. Kyoto University has decided to celebrate centennial of their birth throughout the academic year 2006-2007 (2006 April to 2007 March).

As is well known, Prof. Yukawa predicted the existence of the pi-meson as the origin of strong force and hence created a new field of physics, the elementary particle physics. Prof. Tomonaga developed the renormalization theory in QED and made numerous invaluable contributions to the developments in particle physics and solid state physics. At this occasion of their centennial, we would like to review the developments in modern physics pioneered by them, discuss the present status of various areas in physics, and provide a future perspective on fundamental physics in the 21st century.

SOC

Takao Ohta Hiroyuki Hata Naoto Saito
Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo Ryusuke Ikeda Misao Sasaki
Hikaru Kawai Yoshiteru Maeno Noboru Sasao
Taichi Kugo (Chair) Takashi Nakamura
Teiji Kunihiro Masao Ninomiya

LOC

Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo Hiroyuki Hata Misao Sasaki
Taichi Kugo Ryusuke Ikeda Noboru Sasao

Advisory

Masako Bando Makoto Kobayashi Hiroshi Toki
Toru Eguchi Yoshiki Kuramoto Koichi Yazaki
Kazuo Fujikawa Toshihide Maskawa Motohiko Yoshimura
Hidetoshi Fukuyama Humitaka Sato
Hisashi Horiuchi Katsuhiko Sato

Sponsored by

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics, Kyoto University
Grant-in-Aid for the 21st Century COE “Center for Diversity and Universality in Physics”

Co-sponsored by

The Physical Society of Japan
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Yukawa Memorial Foundation