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Physical Society of

Every year the Physical Society of “Direct Measurement of the Hyperfine beam physics: Japan presents the Award for the En- Transition of Positronium using High Yoshitaka Taira (National Institute couragement of Young Physicists for Power Sub-THz Radiation” of Advanced Industrial Science and young researchers who have made Theoretical Nuclear Physics: Technology (AIST)) outstanding achievements in their Takayasu Sekihara (Institute of Particle “Feasibility study of ultra-short gamma early research careers. The winners of and Nuclear Studies, High Energy ray pulse generation by laser Comp- this year were recently decided by the Accelerator Research Organization ton scattering and its application” board meeting of JPS based on the se- (KEK)) lection of committees established in 19 “Study of the structure of Λ (1405) Shigeki Tokita (Institute for Chemical divisions of the Society. The maximum resonance from the electromagnetic Research, University) number of the winners from each form factors in chiral dynamics” “Study of ultrafast electron diffraction division has been determined based Wataru Horiuchi (Department of method and laser-plasma interaction” on the number of talks at the annual Physics, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido assemblies in the past three years. University) division 1 (atoms, molecules etc.): All the winners are to give an award “Ab initio study of the photoabsorption Takeshi Fukuhara (Max-Planck-Institut lecture at the next general assembly of 4He” für Quantenoptik) of the Society scheduled in March Shinsuke Yoshida (Division of Physics, “Production of Quantum Degenerate 2013. Here is the list of the winners Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Gases” and their research topics based on the University of Tsukuba) Masakazu Yamazaki (Institute of Mul- divisions from which they have been “Study of three-gluon correlation tidisciplinary Research for Advanced nominated. functions in single spin asymmetries” Materials, Tohoku University) “Study on Molecular Orbitals by Mul- theoretical particle physics: Experimental Nuclear Physics: tidimensional Electron Spectroscopy” Minoru Nagai (University of Tokyo) Masaki Sasano (RIKEN Nishina Cen- Yu Watanabe (Yukawa Institute for “On electric dipole moment in super- ter for Accelerator-Based Science) Theoretical Physics, ) symmetric models” “Gamow-Teller Transition Strengths “Formulation of Uncertainty Relations Kazuya Yonekura (Institute for Ad- from 56Ni ” by Using Quantum Estimation Theory” vanced Study) Megumi Niikura (Department of “On anomaly puzzle in supersymmet- Physics, School of Science, The Uni- division 2 (plasma): ric gauge theory” versity of Tokyo) Hiroe Igami (National Institute for “First direct lifetime measurement of Fusion Science,) + 72,74 experimental particle physics: the 2 1 state in Zn” “Optimization of electromagnetic Yasuyuki Okumura (Nagoya Univer- Cosmic Ray and Astrophysics: wave launching and plasma conditions sity) Satoru Katsuda (RIKEN) for electron Bernstein wave heating” “The top-quark pair-production cross- “Research of X-Ray measured dynam- section measurement in the dilepton ics of young Supernova Remnant” Mitsuru Honda (Japan Atomic Energy final states at proton-proton collisions Takayuki Saito (Max-Planck-Institut Agency) with √s=7 TeV ” für Physik) “Neoclassical response of a torque and Kodai Matsuoka (Kyoto University) “Study of the high energy gamma-ray a radial electric field due to a non- “Measurement of the Neutrino Beam emission from the Crab pulsar” ambipolar radial current in tokamak with the Muon Monitor and the First Yuichiro Sekiguchi (Yukawa Institute plasmas” Result of the T2K Long-Baseline Neu- for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto Univer- trino Oscillation Experiment” sity) division 3 (magnetism): Takayuki Yamazaki (University of “General relativistic simulation with Shigeki Onoda (Condensed Matter Tokyo) realistic microphysics” Theory Laboratory, RIKEN)

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“Studies on anomalous Hall effects tures and high pressures” crystal growth): from ferromagnets to chiral spin liq- MIZUSHIMA Takeshi (Graduate Koichiro Yaji (Institute of Solid State uids” School of Natural Science and Tech- Physics, University of Tokyo) Makoto Yoshida (Institute for Solid nology, Okayama University) “Discovery of spin-split metallic sur- State Physics, University of Tokyo) “Theory for Majonara state of super- face states on a semiconductor” “NMR study of spin structure and un- fluid 3He and cold atomic gases” Yasuo Yoshida (Institute of Solid State usual spin fluctuation in the frustrated Physics, University of Tokyo) antiferromagnets” division 7 (molecular solids and “Direct observation and manipulation organic conductors): of single-atom spin and magnetic in- division 4 (semiconductors and Satoru Konabe (Graduate School of teraction by spin-polarized scanning mesoscopic systems): Pure and Applied Sciences, University tunneling microscopy” Hideaki Obuse (Karlsruhe Institute of of Tsukuba) Technology, Institute of Nanotechnol- “Theory of exciton many-body effects division 10 (dielectrics, lattice ogy) in carbon nanotubes” defects etc.): “Pioneering work of topological insu- Yuhei Miyauchi (Institute of Advanced No one qualified. lator and Anderson transitions” Energy, Kyoto University / Japan Sci- Division 11 (Statistical physics, fluid Michihisa Yamamoto (Graduate ence and Technology Agency) and mechanics, applied mathematics): School of Engineering, the University “Studies on the electronic structures Otsuki, Michio (Department of Phys- of Tokyo) and optical properties of single-walled ics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin “Pioneering work for quantum in- carbon nanotubes.” University ) formation sciences based on "flying Takashi Yamamoto (Department of “Jamming transition for sheared gran- qubit"” Chemistry, Graduate School of Sci- ular materials” ence, ) Furukawa, Shunsuke (Department of division 5 (optical properties of “Charge ordering and charge fluctua- Physics, The University of Tokyo) condensed matter): tion in molecular conductors” “Entanglement entropy in quantum Takashi Oka (Dept. of Applied Phys- many-body systems” ics, The University of Tokyo) division 8 (strongly correlated Miyazaki, Jun “Theoretical study on the photoin- electron systems): (Advanced Ultrafast Laser Research duced cooperative responses of elec- OHGUSGI, Kenya (Institute for Solid Center, University of Electro-Commu- tronic systems under noequilibrium State Physics, University of Tokyo) nications) condition” “Study of strong electron correlation “Experimental and theoretical studies Takuya Satoh (Institute of Industrial in 5d electron systems” on nonlinear and nonequilibrium sys- Science, The University of Tokyo) KIDA, Noriaki (Department of Ad- tems” “Ultrafast Coherent Control of Mag- vanced Materials Science, School of netic Materials Utilizing Ultrashort Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo) division 12 (soft matter, chemical Light Pulses” “Analysis and control of electroma- and bio physics): Hideki Hirori (Institute for Integrated gnons by terahertz spectroscopy in Ikeda Atsushi (Laboratoire Charles Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto Univer- oxide magnets” Coulomb, Universite Montpellier II) sity) KOTEGAWA, Hisashi (Department of “Study of glass and jamming transi- “Development of a New THz Light Physics, Graduate School of Science, tion based on a mean-field descrip- Source with Ultra High Intensity and Kobe University) tion” Its Application for Nonlinear optical “Study for the novel quantum phases Mitsutake Ayori (Department of Phys- effects” of strongly correlated electron systems ics, Keio University) controlled by pressure” “Development of generalized-ensem- division 6 (metals, ultra-low TOKUNAGA, Yusuke (RIKEN Ad- ble algorithms and structural analysis temperatures, superconductivity): vanced Science Institute) for biomolecular systems” OHMURA Satoshi (Department of “Study of cross-correlated phenomena Physics, Kyoto University) in strongly correlated electron sys- division 13 (physics education, “Ab initio molecular dynamics studies tems” history, environmental physics): on covalent liquids at high tempera- division 9 (surfaces, interfaces, and No one qualified.

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