An invited review article on tensor networks by Prof. Okunishi, Prof. Nishino, and Prof. Ueda is featured in the JPS Hot Topics.
The 6th Extreme Universe Colloquium was held. [Colloquium Video][Slides].
We will have the 7th online colloquium “Extreme Universe Colloquium” on June 8th (Wed) 14:00 (JST). The speaker is Prof. Sandip P. Trivedi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research). For details, please refer to the poster. If you have not registered yet, please register at our online event website at least three days prior to the colloquium. (It is not necessary to register again if you have done it already.)
We will organize an international YITP workshop "Quantum extreme universe from quantum information" during Sep. 26th - Sep. 30th, 2022. It will be held as a hybrid (online/in-person) meeting. The registration is now open.
A paper by Prof. Masahiro Hotta and Prof. Go Yusa from project D01 and their collaborators is press released. They have constructed a theory which enables one to reproduce the Big Bang universe using a condensed matter experiment --- a theory of a simulator of the extreme universe by using topological materials. For details, see http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2022/05/press20220517-01-bigbang.html.
We will have the 6th online colloquium “Extreme Universe Colloquium” on May 23rd (Mon) 16:00 (JST). The speaker is Prof. Keiji Saito (Keio University). For details, please refer to the poster. If you have not registered yet, please register at our online event website at least three days prior to the colloquium. (It is not necessary to register again if you have done it already.)
Prof. Masaki Shigemori from our group B01 will give two public lectures in Japanese on May 18th and 22nd, entitled "What is string theory?" and "What is holography?".