On 18 January 2017, the 10th Yukawa-Kimura Prize award ceremony took place at the Panasonic Auditorium of Yukawa Hall, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), to honor this year's awardee, YITP Associate Professor Atsushi Taruya.
After receiving a certificate, medal, and cash prize, Dr Taruya delivered a commemorative lecture entitled, "Exploring the Universe by Perturbation Calculation for Gravitational Evolution of Structures".
The Yukawa-Kimura Prize was established in 2007 by the Yukawa Memorial Foundation (a public-interest cooperation since 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 1990. The prize recognizes outstanding achievements in gravitational physics, spatiotemporal theory, field theory, and fundamental theoretical physics, areas in which Professor Kimura made significant pioneering contributions. A YITP committee selects the awardees.
From left: YITP Director Misao Sasaki, Yukawa Memorial Foundation Adviser Toshihide Maskawa, Associate Professor Taruya, Yukawa Memorial Foundation Director Taichi Kugo, and Professor Sinya 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
