Dates:

6th March 2016(Sun)～11th(Fri)

Location:

KANAZAWA CONVENTION BUREAU

Sponsor:

Riken
Pioneering Project
Strategic Programs for Innovative Research (SPIRE) Field 5 “Matter & Universe”
iTHES
ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT
CITY OF KANAZAWA

web：

http://leap2016.riken.jp/

Scientific Program

Overview

The LEAP (Low Energy Antiproton Physics) conference is held every two or three years since 1990 to discuss the latest findings and exchange information in the interdisciplinary fields with low energy antiprotons.
The field of low energy antiproton physics has remarkable progress recently. The number of collaborations and scientists participating various antiproton and antihydrogen physics at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator have been increased, which will be further enhanced by the Extra Low Energy Antiproton Ring (ELENA) expected its operation in a few years. Also studies of proton-antiproton annihilations leading to exotic hadrons offer a new perspective of understanding the dynamics of strong interaction and hadronic matter. Exciting developments are also expected in searches for antimatter in the Universe. The upcoming Facility for Low-Energy Antiproton and Ion Research (FLAIR) as part of the FAIR project will also provide new opportunities for antiproton experiments.
The intent of LEAP 2016 is to actively stimulate the overlap and dialogue between various research forefronts in the diversified field of antiproton physics and related field involving meson and baryon with strangeness.
The scientific program will consist of invited and contributed talks. Poster sessions will also be prepared to enhance further discussions and exchange of information.
The LEAP 2016 is hosted by RIKEN. It will be held on March 6-11, 2016 in Kanazawa, Japan, which takes just 2:30 hours by newly opened ShinKansen (bullet train) from Tokyo. Kanazawa is one of the most beautiful historic cities still keeping the redolence of good old days of Japan. The convention venue will be the Kanazawa Kagekiza (Kanazawa Theater) at the historic center of Kanazawa. The conference excursion will be organized to Shirakawa-go under snow, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995. Let’s leap in an old, fairy tale-like world and experience the picturesque harmony between the village and nature.

The previous successful meetings were held at Stockholm (1990), Courmayeur (1992), Bled (1994), Dinkelsbühl (1996), Villasimius (1998), Venice (2000), Yokohama (2003), Bonn (2005), Vienna (2008), Vancouver (2011), and Uppsala(2013).

The Second Circular will include guidelines for abstract submission, the preliminary program, as well as detailed information about travel, visa, accommodation and the conference excursion.

The social program will include a welcome reception on March 6 in the evening, a public lecture, an excursion, and a conference banquet. The public lecture is free. The registration fee covers the welcome reception and the conference dinner. In addition to the conference excursion, a tour in Kanazawa will be arranged for accompanying persons during the　conference.

The conference website is http://leap2016.riken.jp/, and is updated from time to time to　include new information.

・Antihydrogen
・Probing the Standard Model and Fundamental Symmetries
・Gravity and Antimatter
・Matter-Antimatter interactions
・Hadron and Nuclear Physics with Antiprotons
・Exotic Atoms
・Antimatter in the Universe
・Strangeness in Meson and Baryon Systems
・New Techniques, Instrumentation and Facilities
・Applications of Antiprotons

Dates: October 26-27, 2015
Location: Waterras Common (in Japanese)
web: https://kds.kek.jp/indico/event/19103/overview

3rd Belle II Theory Interface Platform Workshop (B2TiP)

Dates: October 28-29, 2015
Location: KEK (Tsukuba) Kobayashi Hall, Kenkyu Honkan Bldg. 1F
web: https://kds.kek.jp/indico/event/19103/overview

Overview

We are pleased to announce the 5th KEK Flavor Factory Workshop (KEK-FF2015) held on October 26-27, 2015 at Waterras Common in the center of Tokyo, Japan and the 3rd Belle II Theory Interface Platform (B2TiP) Workshop held subsequently on October 28-29, 2015 at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan.

The KEK-FF workshop is aimed at stimulating discussions between experimentalists and theorists who are working on flavor physics. The subjects to be discussed will cover quark-flavor physics of K, D and B mesons and the physics of lepton-flavor violation of muon and tau. The workshop will consist mainly of plenary sessions by invited speakers. The workshop venue “Waterras Common” is located in Tokyo near a couple of train and metro stations: Ochanomizu, Shin-Ochanomizu, Awajicho, Ogawamachi, Kanda and Akihabara stations. We are planning to organize a workshop dinner on a traditional Japanese houseboat (“Yakatabune” in Japanese), which cruises around Tokyo Bay. After the KEK-FF workshop we will arrange buses from Tokyo to Tsukuba on the evening of Oct. 27 for people who will also attend the B2TiP workshop held at KEK. Invited speakers for the KEK-FF workshop include

Theoretical talks:

• Monika Blanke (KIT), “Flavour physics in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity”
• Sebastien Descotes-Genon (LPT, Orsay), “Theoretical status of B → K* µ µ”
• Daping Du (Syracuse), “Semileptonic B decay on the lattice”
• Paolo Gambino (Torino), “NNLO QCD predictions for the radiative B decays”
• Junji Hisano (Nagoya), “Flavor phenomenology in high-scale supersymmetric models”
• Christopher Kelly (BNL), “Kaon decays on the lattice”
• Ulrich Nierste (KIT), “Lepton-flavour violating B decays in generic Z’ models”
• Antonio Pich (Valencia), “Theoretical overview of tau physics”
• Minoru Tanaka (Osaka), “New physics in B → D(*) τ ν”

Experimental talks:

• ATLAS: Noel Dawe (Melbourne), “LFV Higgs decays (H → τ µ in particular)”
• Belle II: Ichiro Adachi (KEK), “Belle II status”
• Belle II: Luigi Li Gioi (MPI), “Belle (II) CPV”
• CMS: Sanjay Swain (NISER), “Bs → µ µ and its future prospects”
• KOTO: Hajime Nanjo (Kyoto), “Kaon experiments”
• LHCb: Antonio Augusto Alves Junior (Cincinnati) , “Recent results on exotic states at LHCb”
• LHCb: Marcin Chrzaszcz (Zurich-UZH), “B → K(*) µ µ, Φ µ µ and R measurements”
• LHCb: Marcello Rotondo (Padova), “Semileptonic decays: D(*) τ ν, |Vub|/|Vcb|”
• LHCb: Carlos Vázquez Sierra (Santiago de Compostela), “Φs and gluonic penguin in Bs”

The B2TiP is a joint theory-experiment effort to study the potential impacts of the forthcoming Belle-II experiment. The B2TiP workshop will consist of parallel sessions of working groups. Please visit the B2TiP Twiki page for details about the scope and working groups of the B2TiP activity:

https://belle2.cc.kek.jp/~twiki/bin/view/B2TiP

We welcome everybody who is interested in flavor physics.

Local organizers:
Toru Goto, Shoji Hashimoto, Satoshi Mishima, Mihoko Nojiri, Yoshihide Sakai, Yutaka Ushiroda and Kei Yamamoto

KEK-FF organizers:
Marco Ciuchini, Bostjan Golob, Toru Goto, Shoji Hashimoto, Kiyoshi Hayasaka, Thomas Mannel, Satoshi Mishima, Yoshihide Sakai, Karim Trabelsi, Phillip Urquijo and Yutaka Ushiroda

B2TiP organizers:
Toru Goto, Emi Kou and Phillip Urquijo

OVERVIEW

Announcement:An ISSA Summer School, August 3-21, 2015, in Kobe, Japan
Title:Towards an Integrative Approach to the Study of Awareness

Summary:
The Initiative for a Synthesis in Studies of Awareness, ISSA for short, is the product of a small group of scientists and scholars advocating an integrative approach to the study of awareness. We will organize a three-week Summer School, with plenary lectures in the morning and parallel sessions in the afternoon, in which the lecturers will lead study groups that may result in original research.

We are using the notion of awaress in a broad sense: we include consciousness in general as well as self-awareness, and responsiveness of autonomous agents in complex systems to each other and to their environment. We thus include neuroscience; cognitive science; artificial intelligence; artificial life and robotics; logic and philosophy, in particular phenomenology. We also include high performance computing and other techniques and methodologies, useful in the areas mentioned above. This is a trial project, to see how we can effectively integrate all these different fields, by forming a forum to present many different approaches.

Participants are expected to have a strong interest, as well as at least some experience, in neuroscience, or in AI, or in some field within cognitive science or philosophy. We expect the students and postdocs to attend the summer school for the full three weeks, to maximize interactions across the many different fields of expertise that they bring in. The summer school is sponsored by ELSI, the Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology; by EON, the ELSI Origins Network funded by the John Templeton Foundation; by AICS, the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science; and the KAKENHI program on Prediction and Decision Making.

As part of the summer school, students will attend the EON Workshop on “The Emergence of Autonomous Subsystems in Complex Systems” on August 12-14. The ELSI Origins Network (EON) is a new initiative launched by the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology. EON’s goal is to promote Origins of Life as a scientific field and as a global community, and to support research that addresses its most fundamental questions. This workshop is the first in a planned series of ten, each of which will bring together leading scientists and promising students and postdocs, to formulate and address the most important questions in the field. This first workshop addresses the emergence of autonomy in a very broad sense, from the origin of life on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the universe, to the origin of plants and animals as more complex forms of life, all the way to the origin of intelligence and self-awareness, as well as the origin of cultural institutions. By participating in the workshop, students will gain a deeper understanding of the questions at the interface between the physical, life and cognitive sciences, as well as having the opportunity to contribute to an expected publication.

Contact:Piet Hut, email: piet@ias.edu
LOCATION:Each day, except on Aug. 11:
Center for Planetary Science (CPS),7-1-48, Minamimachi, Minatojima, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan

PROGRAM:

DAILY SCHEDULE for the first two weeks:

only on the first day: 9:00 – 9:30: Introduction

PROGRAM OF LECTURES for the first two weeks:

First Week:

Second Week:

Monday, August 10

Tuesday, August 11:

August 12-14: EON workshop on “The Emergence of Autonomous Subsystems in Complex Systems”

TENTATIVE PROGRAM for the third week:

Dates: September 1-4, 2015
Location: Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

web： http://www.heap.phys.waseda.ac.jp/kakenhi/NW2015/

Aim of the workshop:
We would like to have the workshop to discuss the nuclear physics for supernova simulations and its influence on supernova explosions and associated multi-messengers. As detailed multi-dimensional supernova simulations become feasible in coming years, importance of microphysics grows rapidly together with increasing need for unexpected extreme conditions. We want to get together to pin down the uncertainty of nuclear physics influence in explosion dynamics and the birth of compact objects and to envisage the next direction of nuclear data for simulations.

Topics to discuss:
Influence of nuclear physics to supernovae
Usage of tables of equation of state
Neutrino reactions and electron capture rates
Needs of nuclear data for astrophysical applications

With view of the current situation of nuclear physics impact on supernovae, we want to lively exchange ideas to clarify microphysics problems. We plan to have ample discussion time as much as possible in order to initiate new collaborations of supernova simulations through common usage and new construction of nuclear data.

Workshop venue:
Meeting Rooms, The Mishima hamber of Commerce and Industry
3 min walk from Mishima station (South Exit)
http://www.mishima-cci.or.jp
(Unfortunately, it’s only in Japanese. We provide further info later. )
Meeting place is located near Mishima station, which is within an hour from Tokyo by Shinkansen, Kodama-Express. Mishima is a popular sightseeing place for vacations near Mt. Fuji, having the historical Mishima-Taisha “Great Shrine” and cold spring water flow from Fuji-yama. Numazu is a neighboring town with a major fishing port and markets, providing fresh fishes for Sushi. Numazu and Mishima both consist of entry points to the Fuji-Hakone-Izu national park and the Izu-peninsula Geopark.

List of invited speakers:
A. Dzhioev (JINR)
M. Hempel (Basel)
J. Holt (U. Washington)
E. O’Connor (North Carolina)

Y. Fujita (RCNP, Osaka)
S. Furusawa (NAOJ)
S. Nakamura (Osaka U.)
K. Nakazato (Tokyo U. Sci.)
S. Noji (RCNP, Osaka)
Y. Sekiguchi (Toho)
T. Takiwaki (RIKEN)
A. Tamii (RCNP, Osaka)
H. Togashi (RIKEN)
A. Ono (Tohoku U.)
T. Otsuka (U. Tokyo)

We are looking forward to having you in Mishima/Numazu to enjoy discussion and conversation with a relaxed atmosphere in the resort area with a view of Mt. Fuji.

Organizers:
Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Kei Kotake and Shoichi Yamada

Supported by:
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Nos. A 24244036, C 15K05093)
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (No. A0524103006) “New Developments in Astrophysics Through Multi-Messenger Observations of Gravitational Wave Sources”
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (No. 24105001) “Nuclear Matter in Neutron Stars Investigated by Experiments and Astronomical Observations”
HPCI Strategic Program Field 5 “The origin of matter and the universe”

The aim of the symposium is to summarize the HPCI Strategic Program “The Origin of Matter and the Universe” (2011-2015).
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This is a joint program of computational particle/nuclear/astro physics. By using 10 PFlops K-computer, and will be continued further in a different scheme even beyond 2015. At this symposium, we will discuss the current topics in particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics from the point of view of large scale numerical simulations.

The major topics will include

• hadron physics from lattice QCD
• nuclear physics from lattice QCD
• high precision quantum few-body calculations
• large scale simulations of nuclear many-body problems
• supernova simulations
• compact star mergers
• formation of black holes and gravitational waves
• algorithms for computational physics
• etc.

Now, the registion and submission of the abstract is open.
The important dates:
Deadline of abstract submission: September 15th , 2015
Deadline of Registration fee: October 15th , 2015

We look forward to seeing you in Nara.
Shinya Aoki (chair, YITP), Tetsuo Hatsuda (vice-chair, RIKEN), Masayuki Umemura (vice-chair, Tsukuba)
Scientific secretaries:
Emiko Hiyama(RIKEN), Hideo Matsufuru(KEK)
contacting e-mail address: qucs2015 ’at’ ml.kek.jp

Overview

Dates:

Wednesday, February 18 – Saturday, February 21, 2015

Location:

Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo
February 18 Room #212, Faculty of Engineering, Bldg. 2
February 19-21 Koshiba Hall, Faculty of Science, Bldg. 1
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Sponsors:

Computational Materials Science Initiative(CMSI), Joint Institute for Computational Fundamental Science,Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, HPCTECH Corporation

web：

http://www.cms-initiative.jp/ja/events/cmsi-international-workshop-on-computational-methods-for-quantum-many-body-systems-1

Scope:

Efficient and reliable computation of strongly interacting many fermion systems for the purpose of clarifying novel properties and unexplored concept of nature is a grand challenge of computational science. The development of fermion simulations and their methods are widely recognized as the key for the next generation of simulation of matter that has the predictive power. Efficient methods of fermion simulations will serve for the breakthrough in many areas of physics, chemistry and biology.
This workshop focuses on the methodologies and algorithms for fermion many-body systems. Efficient and accurate algorithms will be intensively discussed. This is a joint activity of condensed matter physics, nuclear and elementary particle physics as well as quantum chemistry. The workshop is organized for intensive and thorough discussions among people from different disciplines to stimulate interdisciplinary collaborations. Our focus will be on tensor network algorithms and related matrix product methods, various quantum Monte Carlo methods, first-principles approaches, methods for dynamics and others together with their cutting-edge applications.

International workshop on “Hypernuclear physics with Electromagnetic Probes”

Overview

Dates:

January 19(Monday) – 23(Friday), 2015

Location:

RIKEN Main Research Building(19th-21rd), Frontier Research Laboratory(22nd)

Sponsors:

HPCI Strategic Program Field 5
RIKEN iTHES

program

Jan. 19th (Mon.) (Main Research Building, 4F, 435&437)

Jan. 20th (Tues.) (Main Research Building, 4F, 435&437)

Jan. 21st (Wed.) (Main Research Building, 4F, 435&437)

Jan. 22nd (Thu.) (Frontier Research Laboratory, 3F, meeting room)

Jan. 23rd (Fri.)
Free discussion

Overview

Dates:

from 28 October 2014 09:00 to 31 October 2014 18:00

Location:

KEK (Tsukuba) Kobayashi Hall, Kenkyu Honkan Bldg. 1F

Sponsors:

High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), HPCI Strategic Program Field 5 “The origin of matter and the universe”

web:

http://kds.kek.jp/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=15873

Registration deadline:12 September 2014

We are happy to announce the combined meeting of the 4th KEK Flavor Factory (KEK-FF) workshop and the first workshop of “Belle II-Theory interface Platform (B2TiP)” to be held on October 28-31, 2014 at KEK. As in the previous KEK-FF workshops, we aim at stimulating discussions between experimentalists and theorists working on flavor physics. The subjects to be discussed will cover quark-flavor physics of K, D and B mesons and the physics of lepton-flavor violation of muons and tau leptons.

At KEK, the SuperKEKB/Belle II facility is currently in the middle of its construction stage and is expecting its first physics run in 2016. At J-PARC, several flavor-physics experiments are planned or are ongoing. Sharing knowledge and the exchange of ideas among theorists and experimentalists is crucial for the success of these projects.

The B2TiP is an initiative to coordinate a joint theory-experiment effort to study the potential impacts of the Belle II program. This will be the first workshop of the series which will occur twice a year until the end of 2016. More details of the B2TiP can be found at the B2TiP Twiki page: https://belle2.cc.kek.jp/~twiki/bin/view/Public/B2TIP

The meeting consists of the plenary sessions of KEK-FF workshop in the first two days (Oct 28-29) and the plenary and parallel sessions of B2TiP workshop in the last two days (Oct 30-31). More details of the meeting will be available at this web page.

We warmly invite those who are interested in these exciting physics subjects.

KEK-FF Organizers:

Marco Ciuchini (INFN Rome Tre)
Bostjan Golob (Ljublijana)
Toru Goto (KEK)
Shoji Hashimoto (KEK)
Kiyoshi Hayasaka (Nagoya)
Thomas Mannel (Siegen)
Yoshihide Sakai (KEK)
Karim Trabelsi (KEK/Lausanne)
Phillip Urquijo (Melbourne)
Yutaka Ushiroda (KEK)

B2TiP Organizers:

Toru Goto (KEK)
Emi Kou (LAL)
Phillip Urquijo (Melbourne)

Overview

Dates: July 16, 2014 9am – 6:15pm + networking time
Venue: RIKEN AICS 6F (Kobe, Japan)
Sponsors: IDC
web: http://www.hpcuserforum.com/events.html
Registration

The 53rd HPC User Forum will be held in RIKEN AICS (Kobe, Japan) to promote information sharing and establishing networks in HPC communities in Japan.

Many speakers from major organizations in U.S., Korea, Poland and Japan to talk about the HPC market overview, the latest scientific results and technologies, partnership with industries, and updates from each HPC center.

Quantum computing usage by NASA and new benchmark directions will also be talked and we have a panel discussion by vendors. It is a great opportunity to talk to speakers during networking 1:1s at the end of the day.

Agenda: Future of HPC

Speakers:

– US: NCSA, DOE, NASA, CUNY, PSC, Boeing and IDC
– Korea: National SC
– Porland: ICM/University of Warsaw
– Japan: JAXA, JAMSTEC, Information Technology Center of the University of Tokyo, and RIKEN AICS
Vendors: Fujitsu, NEC, DDN, Hitachi, Cray, SGI, D-wave, HP, IBM, Dell

Registration

Visit IDC HPC User Forum Website – First come, first served
http://www.hpcuserforum.com/register-international.html

Overview

Dates: from 13 February 2014 09:00 to 15 February 2014 17:00
Location: KEK (Tsukuba) Room: Kobayashi Hall, Kenkyu Honkan Bldg. 1F
Sponsors: High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)、HPCI Strategic Program Field 5 “The origin of matter and the universe”
web：http://kds.kek.jp/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=13910

We are happy to announce the 3rd KEK Flavor Factory workshop to be held on February 13-15, 2014 at KEK. As in the previous workshops of this series, we aim at stimulating discussions between experimentalists and theorists working on flavor physics. The subjects to be discussed will cover quark-flavor physics of K, D and B mesons and the physics of lepton-flavor violation of muons and tau leptons.

At KEK, the SuperKEKB/Belle II facility is currently in the middle of its construction stage and is expecting its first physics run in 2016. At J-PARC, several flavor-physics experiments are planned or are currently under construction. Sharing knowledge and the exchange of ideas among theorists and experimentalists is crucial for the success of these projects.

Invited (confirmed) speakers from the theory side include
Vincenzo Cirigliano (LANL)
Gilberto Colangelo (Bern)
Thorsten Feldman (Siegen)
Alexander Khodjamirian (Siegen)
Chris Sachrajda (Southampton)
Junko Shigemitsu (Ohio State)
David Straub (TU Munich)

and more, and we also invited representatives from experimental groups. We warmly invite those who are interested in these exciting physics subjects. A registration page will open shortly.

We warmly invite those who are interested in these exciting physics subjects.

KEK-FF Organizers:

Marco Ciuchini (INFN Rome Tre)、Bostjan Golob (Ljublijana)、Toru Goto (KEK)、Shoji Hashimoto (KEK)、Kiyoshi Hayasaka (Nagoya)、Thomas Mannel (Siegen)、Yoshihide Sakai (KEK)、Karim Trabelsi (KEK)、Phillip Urquijo (Bonn)、Yutaka Ushiroda (KEK)
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