The Hakubi Project

Jan. 27, 2023  Notice 

【Important】 Notice on the 14th period (2023) call for applications

Kyoto University will implement the 14th Hakubi Project as scheduled.
Details will be announced on this website as soon as they are finalized.
(Probably around the middle of this April)

Jan. 30, 2023  Notice 

Regarding the next director of the Hakubi Center

President Nagahiro Minato has appointed Professor Yoshinobu Takakura (Pharmaceutics, Pharmacokinetics) as the next director of the Hakubi Center. 

His term of office will begin on April 1, 2023 and last one year.

Mar. 23, 2023  Publications 

Associate Professor Motoaki BAMBA (Graduate School of Science) published a paper online.(Communications Physics)

List of authors' name： T. Kurihara, M. Bamba, H. Watanabe, M. Nakajima, and T. Suemoto

Title of paper： Observation of terahertz-induced dynamical spin canting in orthoferrite magnon by magnetorefractive probing

Journal name： Communications Physics

Publication date：March 20, 2023

Volume and page number： Vol. 6, Article number: 51

URL：https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-023-01167-3

DOI： 10.1038/s42005-023-01167-3

Mar. 23, 2023  Publications 

Assistant Professor Toshiyuki Harumoto (Graduate School of Biostudies) published a paper online.(Nature Communications)

List of authors’ name： Kageyama D, Harumoto T, Nagamine K, Fujiwara A, Sugimoto T, Jouraku A, Tamura M, Katoh T, and Watada M

Title of paper： A male-killing gene encoded by a symbiotic virus of Drosophila

Journal name：Nature Communications

Publication date： March 13, 2023

Volume and page number： 14, 1357

URL：https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37145-0

DOI： 10.1038/s41467-023-37145-0

Mar. 20, 2023  Presentation 

Associate Professor Hirokazu Tahara (Institute for Chemical Research) gave a talk at the 70th JSAP Spring Meeting 2023.

Date： March 15, 2023

Presentation title： Optoelectronic processes and coherence in semiconductor nanostructures

Venue： Sophia Univerisity

Location： Tokyo

Host organization：The Japan Society of Applied Physics

URL：https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/jsap2023s/subject/15p-A304-4/tables

Mar. 20, 2023  Award/Commendation 

Assistant Professor Han Bao (Graduate School of Informatics) received Funai Information Technology Award for Young Researchers by Funai Information Science Promotion Foundation.

Award winner： Han Bao

Name of award： Funai Information Technology Award

Host organization： Funai Information Science Promotion Foundation

Title of award： Loss function design towards reliable machine learning

Date：March 16, 2023

Website about award：https://funaifoundation.jp/awardees_up_to_now.php

Mar. 8, 2023  Publications 

Associate Professor CHING Chao-jung (Institute for Research in Humanities) and others published a book, "Ancient Central Asian Writings in the National Museum of Korea II—Written Materials Excavated from the Tarim Basin" (National Museum of Korea).

Title of book：Ancient Central Asian Writings in the National Museum of Korea II—Written Materials Excavated from the Tarim Basin

Full list of authors： CHING Chao-jung, OGIHARA Hirotoshi, KITSUDO Koichi, YAJIMA Yoichi, Cristina SCHERRER-SCHAUB, KWON Youngwoo

Publisher name： National Museum of Korea

Date of issue：December 16, 2022

URL：https://www.museum.go.kr/site/main/archive/report/article_18883

Mar. 8, 2023  Publications 

Associate Professor Ching Chao-jung (Institute for Research in Humanities) published a paper.(Studies on the Inner Asian Languages)

Author's name：Ching Chao-jung

Title of paper： 「磧西稅糧淵源考」

Journal name：Studies on the Inner Asian Languages

Publication date：November 30, 2022

Volume and page number：Page 63-103, Volume 37

Mar. 7, 2023   

A video dialogue with Sayaka Tojima, Assistant Professor (The Kyoto University Museum), titled "Forest of Humanities and Science" (produced by Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human Society) has been come out.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/6hFINCceAYo (in Japanese)

Part 2: https://youtu.be/2DIYCZcmaSY（in Japanese)

Mar. 7, 2023  Presentation 

Associate Professor Maho Iuchi (Graduate School of Letters) give a talk at the BuddhistRoad Guest Lecture.

Date：April 12, 2023

Presentation title： Post-Imperial Tibetan History and Karakhoto Texts

Name of university where the talk is given： BuddhistRoad, Ruhr University Bochum

Venue：Zoom Online

Host organizer： BuddhistRoad: Dynamics in Buddhist Networks in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th Centuries

URL：https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/en/events/post-imperial-tibetan-history-and-karakhoto-texts/

Feb. 28, 2023  Publications 

Associate Professor Motoaki BAMBA (Graduate School of Science) published a paper online.(Scientific Reports)

List of the authors' names： Kenji Hayashida, Takuma Makihara, Nicolas Marquez Peraca, Diego Fallas Padilla, Han Pu, Junichiro Kono, and Motoaki Bamba 

Title： Perfect intrinsic squeezing at the superradiant phase transition critical point

Journal name：Scientific Reports

Publication date：13 February, 2023

Volume and page number： Vol. 13, Article number: 2526

URL：https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29202-x

DOI： 10.1038/s41598-023-29202-x

Feb. 24, 2023   

An interview article featuring Assis. Prof. Sayaka Tojima (The Kyoto University Museum) has been posted on the website "That's Kyodai".

Information

Website: That's Kyodai

Posted date: February 22, 2023

URL: https://www.thats.pr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/2023/02/22/13474/

Feb. 20, 2023  Publications 

Assistant Professor Shunsuke Adachi (Graduate School of Science) published a paper online. (Physical Review Letters)

List of the author names： S. Kotaka, S. Adachi, R. Fujinaka, S. Honda, H. Nakata, Y. Seino, Y. Sueno, T. Sumida, J. Suzuki, O. Tajima, and S. Takeichi (DOSUE-RR Collaboration)

Title：Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter in the Mass Range 74–110 μeV/c^2 with a Cryogenic Millimeter-Wave Receiver

Journal name： Physical Review Letters

Publication date： 17 February, 2023

Volume and Page number： 130, 071805

URL： https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.071805

DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.071805

Kyoto University press release：https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research-news/2023-03-07-1

Feb. 2, 2023  Publications 

Associate Professor Komei Kadowaki and Assistant Professor Masato Yamamichi translated a book by Gary Mittelbach and Brian McGill, now being published on 2023.2.17 from Maruzen Publishing Group.

Information

"ミッテルバッハ・マギル群集生態学"

List of the translators：Komei KADOWAKI, Masato YAMAMICHI, Shunsuke UTSUMI

Publisher name：Maruzen Publishing Group

Date of publication： February 17, 2023

URL：https://www.maruzen-publishing.co.jp/item/b304845.html

Jan. 31, 2023  Notice 

Assistant Professor Eita NAKAMURA (Graduate School of Informatics) and Associate Professor Kohei KUSADA (iCeMS/Graduate School of Science) were selected for the FOREST program of Japan Science and Technology Agency.

Two projects led by Hakubi researchers were selected for the FOREST program of Japan Science and Technology Agency.

・Eita NAKAMURA (10th batch, assistant professor, Graduate School of Informatics)

・Kohei KUSADA (11th batch, associate professor, iCeMS/ Graduate School of Science)

◆About Fusion Oriented REsearch for disruptive Science and Technology （FOREST） program

https://www.jst.go.jp/souhatsu/en/index.html

◆A list of proposals selected for FOREST program in FY2022 (in Japanese only)

https://www.jst.go.jp/souhatsu/document/res2022.pdf

Jan. 27, 2023  Presentation 

Associate Professor Motoaki BAMBA (Graduate School of Science) give a talk at The 70th JSAP Spring Meeting 2023.

Date：March 15, 2023

Presentation title： Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling to Control Quantum States in Thermal Equilibrium

Venue： Sophia University

Location：Tokyo

Host organization： The Japan Society of Applied Physics

URL：https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/jsap2023s/subject/15p-A304-3/tables

Jan. 23, 2023  Publications 

Associate Professor Tadashi TANABE (Graduate School of Letters) published a paper online.(Kokka)

Author's name：Tadashi TANABE

Title of paper： A Newly Found Hephtalite Silver Cup and East-West Cultural Contact

Journal Name：Kokka

Publication date：January 20, 2023

Volume and page number：P7-24, Vol.1527

URL：https://publications.asahi.com/ecs/detail/?item_id=23995