On 20 January, an award ceremony for the 9th Yukawa-Kimura Prize of the Yukawa Memorial Foundation took place in the Panasonic Auditorium of the Yukawa Hall, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP).
The award recipients -- Associate Professor Jun Nishimura of the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), and Program-Specific Associate Professor Masanori Hanada of the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and YITP -- were each presented with a certificate, medal, and cash prize from Director Taichi Kugo of the Yukawa Foundation. Professor Nishimura delivered a commemorative lecture, titled "Numerical simulation of supersymmetric gauge theory and gauge/gravity duality", on behalf of the awardees.
The Yukawa-Kimura Prize was established in 2007 by the Yukawa Memorial Foundation (a public-interest corporation since 1 April 2012) based on a donation from Ms Hiroko Kimura, widow of Professor Toshiei Kimura of Hiroshima University's Research Institute for Theoretical Physics (RITP), which was merged into YITP in June 1990. The Y-K Prize honors outstanding achievements in areas related to fundamental theoretical physics, including gravitational physics, spatiotemporal theory, and field theory. Recipients are chosen by a YITP selection committee.
From left: YITP Director Misao Sasaki, Yukawa Foundation Director Kugo, Associate Professor Nishimura, Program-Specific Associate Professor Hanada, and Dr Shinya Aoki, chair of the Yukawa-Kimura Prize selection committee
Related link
- Yukawa-Kimura Prize
http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kimurasho.oj/kimurasho/index_e.htm
