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The Physical Society of Japan:
Award for the Encouragement of Young Physicists

Every year the Physical Society of Japan presents theAward for the Encouragement of Young Physicists foryoung researchers who have made outstanding achievements in their early research careers. The winners of thisyear were recently decided by the board meeting of JPS
based on the selection of committees established in 19
divisions of the Society. The maximum number of thewinners from each division has been determined basedon the number of talks at the annual assemblies in thepast three years. All the winners are to give an award
lecture at the next general assembly of the Society scheduled in March 2015. Here is the list of the winners andtheir research topics based on the divisions from which
they have been nominated.

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Theoretical Particle Physics:2
Measurement from Reactor Neutrino
and the First Effective Δm31
Oscillation at Different Baselines”●

Theoretical Nuclear Physics:
Yukinao Akamatsu (Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin ofParticles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University)“Theory of Open Quantum System for Heavy Quarkonia in ThermalMedium”
Shuichiro Ebata (Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University)“Developments of Canonical-basis Time-dependent Hartree-FockBogoliubov Theory”
Daisuke Satow (The European Centre for Theoretical Studies inNuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*))“Development of Novel Perturbation Theory and Establishment ofUltrasoft Fermionic Modes at High Temperature”●Experimental Nuclear Physics:

Takashi Toma (LPT Orsay)“Study of dark matter particle explaining the gamma ray excess fromthe Galactic center”

Hooi Jin ONG (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, OsakaUniversity)“Probing effect of tensor interactions in 16O via (p, d) reaction”

Experimental Particle Physics:

Aiko TAKAMINE (Aoyama Gakuin University College of Scienceand Engineering)“Hyperfine Structure Constant of the Neutron Halo Nucleus 11Be+”

Akira Miyazaki (CERN, European Organization for NuclearResearch)“Direct Measurement of the Hyperfine Structure Interval of
Positronium Using High Power Millimeter Wave Technology”
Yohei Yamaguchi (Department of Physics, Graduate School ofScience, Osaka University)“Observation of Higgs Boson with Di-photon Events in Proton-Proton
Collisions”
Thiago Junqueira De Castro Bezerra (Research Center For NeutrinoScience, Tohoku University)“Improvement of θ13 Measurement in the Double Chooz Experiment48●Cosmic Ray and Astrophysics:
Teruaki Suyama (RESCEU, Graduate School of Science, The
University of Tokyo)“Discovery of a method to discriminate generation mechanisms forprimordial density fluctuations”
Hiroya Yamaguchi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Universityof Maryland)“Studies of Evolution and Origins of Supernova Remnants by X-ray
Spectral Analysis of Non-Equilibrium Plasmas”

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Roger Wendell (Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic RayResearch, The University of Tokyo)“Evidence for the tau appearance in the atmospheric neutrinooscillation”●●

Rui Sakano (ISSP, The University of Tokyo)“Theoretical study of nonequilibrium Kondo effect and current
fluctuations in quantum dots”
Takahiro Morimoto (RIKEN)“Theoretical study of classification and optical responses oftopological materials”

Beam Physics:
Masao Nakao (National Institute of Radiological Sciences)“Resonance coupling induced enhancement of indirect transverse
cooling in a laser-cooled ion beam”
Hiroyuki Harada (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)“Painting-injection study using a virtual accelerator in a highintensity proton accelerator”●●Naoto Tsuji (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science & Graduate
School of Science, The University of Tokyo)“Theoretical study of nonequilibrium phase transitions in strongly
correlated electron systems”

Takuro Ideguchi (Research Centre of Spectrochemistry, School ofScience, The University of Tokyo)“Ultrafast molecular spectroscopy with an optical frequency comb”

Ryusuke Matsunaga (Department of Physiscs, Faculty of Science,
The University of Tokyo)“Higgs amplitude mode in superconductors studied by terahertz
wave”

Seiji Sugawa (National Istitute of Standards and Technology)“Research for novel strongly correlated quantum phases in an opticallattice”●● ivision 6 (Metal physics (Liquid metals,DQuasicrystals), Low Temperature physics (UltralowTemperatures, Superconductivity, Density Waves)):

Division 2 (Plasma):Yasumasa Tsutsumi (Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory, RIKEN)“Theoretical Studies of Topological Superfluid 3He Phase”

Makoto Sasaki (Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu
University)“Theoretical Study of Spatio-temporal Structures of Oscillatory Zonal
Flows and Energy Transfer Processes”

Yuki Nagai (Center for Computational Science & e-Systems, Japan
Atomic Energy Agency)“Theoretical Studies of Unconventional Superconductors by meansof Quasiclassical Numetical Method”

Junya Shiraishi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)“Formulation of matching theory for flowing plasmas”●●

Division 5 (Optical Properties of Condensed Matter):
Kuniaki Konishi (Institute for Photon Science and Technology,
Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)“Circular polarization control utilizing symmetries of artificial
nanostructures”

Division 1 (Atomic and Molecular Physics, Quantum
Electronics, Radiation):

Tomoyuki Morimae (Advanced Scientific Research Leaders
Development Unit, Gunma University)“Application of measurement-based quantum computation tocondenced matter and cryptography”

 ivision 4 (Semiconductors, Mesoscopic Systems
Dand Localization):

Division 3 (Magnetism):
Hiroto Adachi (Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic
Energy Agency)“Theoretical study of spin Seebeck effect”
Toshio Miyamachi (Institute for Solid State Physics, The Universityof Tokyo)“Atomic scale spin engineering by spin polarized STM”
Hironori Yamaguchi (Department of Physical Science, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University)“Syntheses of various quantum magnets by using verdazyl radicalcrystals”

Division 7 (Molecular Solids):
Katsuaki Sugawara (WPI Research Center, Advanced Institute forMaterials Research, Tohoku University)“Electronic structure of graphene related materials studied by highresolution ARPES”
Kazuhiro Yanagi (Department of Physics, Tokyo MetropolitanUniversity)“Control of Physical Properties of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes”
Satoshi Yamashita (Department of Chemistry, Graduate School ofScience, Osaka University)“Thermodynamic Studies on the excitation structure of spin liquid
phase with Fermi liquid like character”

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Division 8 (Strongly Correlated Electron Systems):

Bulletin●Masafumi Udagawa (School of Engneering, The University ofTokyo)“Theoretical studies on the effect of gemetrical frustration in itinerant
electron systems”

Yuki Izumida (Faculty of Science, Ochanomizu University)“Study on limitation of maximum-power efficiency of heat engines”

Seiichiro Onari (Department of Physics, Okayama University)“Study of Mechanism of Superconductivity in Iron-based
Superconductors by Orbital Fluctuation”

Shu Tanaka (Yukawa Institute for Theretical Physics, Kyoto
University)“Study on entanglement of a two-dimensional quantum many-bodysystem”

Hosho Katsura (Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo)“Theoretical studies of magnetism and ferroelectricity in multiferroicsystems”●Takahiro Nemoto (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)“Development of evaluation method for large-deviation function of
stationary stochastic process based on "measurement-and-feedback"
operations”

Division 9 (Surfaces & Interfaces, Crystal Growth):

Yusuke Maeda (The Hakubi Project, Kyoto University)“Discovery and Control of biopolymer segregation under thermaland density gradient”

Akari Takayama (Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo)“Spin-polarized ARPES study of Rashba effect in group V semimetalthin filmss”
Sinichiro Hatta (Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University)“Study of low dimensional physics at surfaces: charge-density-waveand Rashba effect”●●Yutaka Sumino (Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science
Division I, Tokyo University of Science)“Experimental and theoretical study of spontaneous motions in nonequlibrium soft matter systems”

Hiroki Taniguchi (Graduate school of Science, Nagoya University)“Mechanism of Ferroelectricity in Perovskite-type oxides andprospect for new ferroelectric materials”

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 ivision 12 (Soft Matter Physics, Chemical Physics,
D
Biophysics):
Takeshi Kawasaki (Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Universite
Montpellier 2)“Theoretical study of supercooled liquids, glasses and crystals
focusing on crystalline order”

 ivision 10 (Dielectrics, Ferroelectricity, Lattice
DDefects and Nanostructures, Phononic Properties,and X-ray and Particle Beams):

Yuki Tokumoto (Institute of Industrial Science, The University ofTokyo)“Fundamental studies of dislocation dynamics and defect control in
III-Nitride semiconductors”

 ivision 11 (Fundamental Theory of Condensed
D
Matter Physics, Statistical Mechanics, Fluid
Dynamics, Applied Mathematics, Socio- andEeconophysics):●

 ivision 13 (Physics Education, History of Physics,
D
Environmental Physics):
Junichiro Yasuda (Institute of Arts and Sciences, YamagataUniversity)“Evaluation of the Validity of the Force Concept Inventory withSubquestions”