Masahito Yamazaki: Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Address: Graduate School of Physics, School of Science,
University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Address: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU),
University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
Phone:+81-4-7136-6506 (ofﬁce)
Email:
masahito.yamazaki@ipmu.jp
Web:
http://member.ipmu.jp/masahito.yamazaki/

Personal
Born on May 1983, Japanese citizen.

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Employment
2024–present Professor
Department of Physics, University of Tokyo.
2025–present Project Professor (cross appointment)
Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo.
2022–2024 Professor
Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo.
2018–2022 Associate Professor
Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo.
2013–2018 Assistant Professor
Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo.
(on leave as Visiting Associate Scientist, Sep. 2013– Aug. 2014).
2013–2016

MemberSchool of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study.

2010–2013

Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University.

2010

Postdoctoral Fellow
Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo.

Education
2006–2010 University of Tokyo
Ph.D. in Physics, March 2010.
(Adviser: Hirosi Ooguri and Tsutomu Yanagida).
M.S. in Physics, March 2008.
(Adviser: Tohru Eguchi).
2008–2010 California Institute of Technology, visiting student researcher.
2002–2006 University of Tokyo, B.S. in Physics, March 2006.

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A3Academic Awards and Honors
2022 JSPS Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science2013 Particle Physics Medal: Young Scientist Award in Theoretical Particle
Physics, Japan Particle and Nuclear Theory Forum.
2012 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists, Inoue Foundation for Science.
2010–2011 Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion ofScience.
2010 Research Award (Ph.D.), Department of Physics, University of Tokyo.
2008–2010 Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotionof Science.
2008 Research Award (M.S.), Department of Physics, University of Tokyo.
2006–2008 Fellowship, Japan Student Services Organization.
2004–2008 Fellowship, Shinnihon Scholarship Foundation.
1996–2002 Fellowship, Tokai Junior and Senior High School.

Visiting Appointments
I have visited numerous research institutions in the past, which includes for example:
2022 Spring UC Berkeley, as a Visiting Scholar.
2016 Fall-2017 Spring Harvard University, as a Visiting Scholar.
2015 Fall

University of Oxford, as a Visiting Professor.

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Conference Organizations (as a Co-Organizer)
2014-2024
2018-2024
2024
2022
2022

2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2020
2019
2019
2018
2018
2017
2017
2016
2015
2015
2015
2012
2012
2011

Mathematics and String theory seminar at Kavli IPMU.
Program committee, “Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles andCosmology”
two-week school “Modern view on symmetries and quantum anomalies,”
IHES, France
HirosiFest, Caltech and Kavli IPMU
two-month program “Integrability in String, Field and Condensed Matter
Theory” and associated one-week conference “Talking Integrability: Spins,Fields, and Strings,” KITP
“Dynamics of SCFTs and Special Functions,” Simons Center, Stony Brook“Three Facets of R-Matrices,” Mathematisches Forschungsinstitute Oberwolfach, Germany
SUSY 2021 (convener for "Formal SUSY Theories"), Shanghai/online"Number Theory, Strings, and Quantum Physics", Kavli IPMU/online“Holomorphic Quantum Field Theories,” Kavli IPMU (postponed due tocovid-19)“The World of Mathematical Physics,” Kavli IPMU
“KIAS-YITP workshop,” KIAS, Korea“New Trends in Integrable Systems, ” Osaka City University“Focus Week on Quantum Gravity and Holography,” Kavli IPMU
2-week summer school “Supersymmetric localization and exact results”,IHES, France
IPMU-KIAS-Kyunghee Joint Workshop, KIAS, Korea“Mathematics and Superstring Theory", Kavli IPMU, Japan“Resurgence at Kavli IPMU", Kavli IPMU, Japan.
“Master Lectures on Mathematical Physics: Edward Witten", Sanya, China.
“International Workshop on Condensed Matter Physics & AdS/CFT", KavliIPMU, Japan.
“String Theory in Greater Tokyo 1 and 2", Kavli IPMU and RIKEN, Japan.
High energy theory seminar at Princeton University.
“Entanglement in Discrete and Continuous Quantum Systems on entanglement entropy”, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton, USA.
“Exact Methods in Gauge/String Theories”, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton, USA.

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Selected Invited Talks and Conferences
Since 2005, I have given more than 200 scientiﬁc presentations on my works, including many invited talks at international conferences at research institutes worldwide.
Please see http://member.ipmu.jp/masahito.yamazaki/talks.shtml for a complete list.
This includes the following invited talks at some major conferences in string theory andmathematical physics:
2012, 2018
2021
2018
2014, 2015

Strings conferences
International Congress on Mathematical PhysicsString-Math conference
Integrability in Gauge and String Theory

These days I have been invited to as plenary speakers to conferences in phenomenology/cosmology, e.g.
2019
2019
2019

International Symposium on Particle Physics, String Theory, and Cosmology (PASCOS)
Rencontres de Moriond, EW session
International Workshop on New Physics at the Low Energy Scales (NEPLES)

Recent lecture series at schools for students/postdocs include, for example,
2021
2021
2020
2019
2018

Lectures on 4d Chern-Simons theory, Nagoya
Lectures on swampland conjectures, Kyoto YITP/online
Kavli Asian Winter School (on “Integrability and Knots from Chern-Simons
Theory” and “Minimalistic Introduction to the Swampland”), Tohoku"Integrability and Perturbative Quantum Field Theory", Hamburg"Complex Chern-Simons Theory", UTokyo, Komaba

Refereeing
Served as a referee for many journals in physics and mathematics, including:
Advances in High Energy Physics, Annales Henri Poincaré, Communications inMathematical Physics, Communications in Number Theory and Physics, Foundations of Physics, Journal of High Energy Physics, Journal of Physics A, Letters inMathematical Physics, Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letters B, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters and SIGMA.