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Thomson Reuters has selected Prof. Shin’ichi Nojiri, the director of Division of Theoretical Studies of KMI, as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2014. Highly Cited Researchers represent the world’s leading scientific minds and earn the distinction by writing the greatest number of reports ranked among the top 1% most cited papers for their subject field between 2002 and 2012. The full details are available from the Thomson Reuters website.

On March 27, 8th Seitaro Nakamura prize ceremony and the award lecture were held at the 69th annual meeting of the Japan Physical Society (Shonan campus, Tokai University). Tsunehide Kuroki, an Assistant Professor at Division of Theoretical Studies, who was awarded the prize for his research on the equivalence of the matrix model and the superstring theory, and its application to study of spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry in the theory, attended the ceremony, and was given a certificate from Michiji …

Two new faces, Dr. KATO Yuji and Dr. HAYAKAWA Tomokatsu, received a official letter of appointment from Director General MASKAWA Toshihide on April 3. From the left, Assistant Prof. MIURA Kohtaroh (Computational Theoretical Physics Laboratory/Division of Theoretical Studies), Prof. NOJIRI Shinichi (Director), Deputy Director KUNIEDA Hideyo, Director General MASKAWA Toshihide, Prof. IIJIMA Toru (Director), Dr. KATO Yuji (Researcher at Tau-Lepton Data Analysis Laboratory/Origin of Spacetime Structures Group), Dr. HAYAKAWA Tomokatsu (Researcher at Instrument Development Laboratory/Origin of Spacetime Structures Group)

Sakata Memorial KMI Mini-Workshop on “Strong Coupling Gauge Theories Beyond the Standard Model” (SCGT14Mini) was held at KMI from March 3rd to 5th, 2014. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss theoretical and phenomenological issues of strong coupling gauge theories beyond the standard model. About 60 researchers attended the workshop, and through the oral and poster presentation, fruitful discussions were held in particular about the composite Higgs models for the electroweak physics in the context of LHC experiments and …