Curriculum Vitae
Tadashi Takayanagi
Aug 8th, 2024

Personal data
First name:Tadashi

Last name:Takayanagi

Position:

Professor at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan.

Visiting Position

Visiting Senior Scientist at Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, 277-8583, Japan.

E-mail:takayana@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Date of birth:

October 11, 1975

Place of birth:Tokyo, JapanNationality:

Japanese

Education and professional experience
periodposition

place

Apr.1994 – Mar.1998 Undergraduate student

Department of Physics, University of Tokyo

Apr.1998 – Jun.2002

Ph.D. student

Department of Physics, University of Tokyo

Jun.2002– Jul.2002

JSPS postdoc fellow

Department of Physics, University of Tokyo

Aug.2002–Aug.2005

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jefferson

PhysicalLaboratory,

Harvard

University
Sep.2005–Mar.2006

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Apr.2006-Aug.2008

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics, Kyoto University

Sep.2008-Mar.2012

Associate Professor

Institute for the Physics and Mathematics ofthe Universe, the University of Tokyo

Apr.2012-present

Professor

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

Sep.2015-Aug.2022

Principal Investigator

It from Qubit Simons Collaboration on Quantum Fields, Gravity, and Information

Apr.2020-Mar.2030

InaRIS fellow

Inamori Foundation

Sep.2021-Mar.2026

Head Researcher

MEXT Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) ”Extreme Universe”

Academic degrees
month/year

degreesubject

University

March 27, 1998

Bachelor of Science

physics

University of Tokyo

March 29, 2000

Master of Science

physics

University of Tokyo

June 28, 2002

Doctor of Science

physics

University of Tokyo(Ph.D. Advisor: Tohru Eguchi)

Academic awards• Jan. 2011: 4th Yukawa-Kimura Prize (from Yukawa Memorial Foundation)• Nov. 2013: 28th Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize (from Nishinomiya City)• Nov. 2014: The 2015 New Horizons in Physics Prizes (from The BreakthroughPrize Foundation)• Dec. 2016: The 2016 Nishina Memorial Prize (from Nishina Memorial Foundation)• Aug. 2024: the 2024 ICTP Dirac Medal (from ICTP)

Selected plenary talks and invited lectures
KITP Conference, UCSB (Apr. 2024)
Simons Institute Workshop, UC Berkeley (Mar. 2024)
JGRG32, Nagoya (Nov. 2023)
Celestial Kick off, Harvard (Oct.2023)
KMI colloquium, Nagoya (Jul. 2023)
iTHEMS colloquium, Riken, Wako (Apr 2023)
Donald R. Hamilton Colloquium, Princeton (Feb. 2023)
Simons Collaboration on It from Qubit Annual Meeting (Dec. 2022)
2nd Symposium on Trans-scale Quantum Science, Tokyo (Nov. 2022)
HirosiFest, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo, (Oct. 2022)
The Physical Society of Japan 2022 Annual Meeting, Plenary Session (Mar. 2022)
Colloquium, ICTS, Bangalore (Jan. 2022)
Colloquium, Seuol National U. (Oct. 2021)
15th Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology (Jan. 2021)
KITP Conference, UCSB (Jan. 2020)
Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics, ICTP (Mar. 2019)
Coloquium, AEI, Potsdam (Mar. 2019)ICHEP2018, Seoul, (Jul.2018)
AdS/CFT@20 and Beyond, ICTS, Bangalore (May 2018)
It from Qubit workshop/school, Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche (Jan. 2018)

20 Years Later: The Many Faces of AdS/CFT, Princeton, USA (Oct. 2017)
Strings2017, TelAviv (Jun. 2017)
IGST 2016, Humboldt U., Berlin (Aug. 2016)
Strings 2016, Tsinghua U., Beijing (Aug. 2016)
Andy Fest, Harvard (Jul. 2015)
KITP conference, UCSB (Jun. 2015)
Simons Symposium on Quantum Entanglement, Puerto Rico (Mar. 2015)
Lectures at Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics, ICTP (Mar. 2014)
Aspen Conference (Mar. 2014)
8th Asian Winter School, Puri (Jan. 2014)
Arnold Sommerfeld School, Munich (Aug. 2013)
Gauge/Gravity Duality 2013, Munich (Jul. 2013)
GR20, Warsaw (Jul. 2013)
Strings 2013, Sogang University, Seoul (Jun. 2013)
7th Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology, Beijing (Feb. 2013)
International Symposium Ahrenshoop, Berlin (Aug. 2012)
KITP conference, UCSB (May. 2012)
CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theory (Feb. 2012)
Strings 2011, Uppsala (Jun. 2011)
Aspen Conference (Feb. 2011)
YKIS2010 symposium, YITP Kyoto (Jun. 2010)
Quantum Theory and Symmetries 6, Kentucky (Jul 2009)
Miami 2007, Celebrating ten years of AdS/CFT, Florida (Dec. 2007)
JGRG 17, Nagoya (Dec. 2007)
Komaba 2007, Tokyo (Feb. 2007)
Indian Strings Meeting, Puri (Dec. 2006)
Strings 2005, Toronto, Canada (Jul. 2005)