RIMS REVIEW 2021
DAVID EISENBUD, YAKOV ELIASHBERG, NALINI JOSHI,AND TAKASHI TSUBOIC ONTENTS
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Introduction
Summary of Recommendations
Assessment of RIMS organization and activities
Facilities and Resources
Internationalization
Outreach
Appendix A: Members of the Review Committee
Appendix B. Description of the Evaluation Process

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1. I NTRODUCTION
Mathematics is the foundation on which science and technology
are built: The global pandemic has put the use of statistics for epidemiology, and for public health generally, in the spotlight. The interaction of mathematics and theoretical physics is currently verystrong. The very possibility of internet commerce depends on resultsin number-theory. These examples could be multiplied indefinitely.
RIMS is a jewel of Japanese mathematics. It is widely known andhighly respected by foremost mathematicians around the world, anda great many of them have visited RIMS for conferences or for longer
stays. Intellectually, and in fame, RIMS operates on the highest international plane.
Founded in 1963 as a national hub for mathematics, RIMS has
broadened its activity to include graduate training at the Masters
and Doctoral levels, and serves as an International Joint Usage Research Center.
RIMS runs an extraordinarily large number of workshops and conferences every year. It contributes broadly to the community by providing outreach activities and helping to diversifying the populationof mathematicians in Japan.
12 DAVID EISENBUD, YAKOV ELIASHBERG, NALINI JOSHI, AND TAKASHI TSUBOIThis review was initiated by RIMS Director Professor Takashi Kumagai. The review committee could not travel to RIMS becauseof the COVID-19 global pandemic, so RIMS prepared not only theusual documentation of its activities and needs, and the report ofthe visiting committee of 2018, but also a sequence of video presentations and video interviews with students and junior and seniorfaculty to inform the committee. As RIMS is a part of Kyoto University, a meeting of the committee with Kyoto University President
Minato around the crucial question of space was also arranged.
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David Eisenbud, Chair of the Review Committee, March 29, 2021
2. S UMMARY OF R ECOMMENDATIONS(1) RIMS’ current physical facilities are not appropriate to its mission as an international center of mathematics. To keep its
place as a beacon of Japanese mathematics in the world, it
will be important to find larger and better adapted space. A
major part of the function of a research institute is to promotecollaboration, so if RIMS must be spread out over different
buildings, it is very important that they be close to one another. We strongly recommend that the available space beincreased and that the space be co-located.
(2) We applaud the progress made since the 2018 review in securing outside grants. It will be important to build on thissuccess, and ensure a multiplicity of funding sources and amultiplicity of projects.
(3) We note that two women researchers have been hired sincethe 2018 review, a good start. It is important that RIMS continue on this path, and actively develop the talent pool sothat the number of applications from women researchers cangrow; see Section 3.6 for particular suggestions.
(4) To fully exploit the possibilities of international collaboration,
RIMS should advertise more effectively and more widely inmedia with international reach; See Section 5 for particularsuggestions.
(5) As Journal prices increase, RIMS and other institutions facea growing problem of having sufficient journal access. We
recommend that Kyoto University cover the cost of electronic
journal expenses, as it is of benefit not only to RIMS but also

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to other departments. If some sort of consortium arrangement for electronic journal access is possible, this may be desirable.
(6) As a government-funded agency, RIMS has a responsibility
to help educate the public on the beauty, power and importance of mathematics. We applaud the once-a-year event withlectures for a wide audience, and we recommend looking for
further opportunities, especially those that can be promoted
on a national scale.

3. A SSESSMENT OF RIMS ORGANIZATION AND ACTIVITIES
3.1. RIMS as a leading International Mathematical Center. Since
its establishment almost 60 years ago, RIMS has played an importantrole in the organization and acceleration of mathematical research inJapan and worldwide. The certification of RIMS in 2020 as a Joint
Usage / Research Center, and in 2018 as an International Joint Usage/ Research Center underscored the ever increasing importance andimpact of RIMS activities.
The scope and the scale of RIMS activities is very impressive. In
2018 and 2019 RIMS organized 125 international symposia (conferences) and smaller meetings (workshops) intended to promote newinternational collaboration and advance certain particular problems.
RIMS also enables satellite seminars devoted to focused research
on a particular topic, or to surveying an area of Mathematics andMathematical Sciences. RIMS has a successful visitors program that
hosted a total of almost 8000 participants, of whom 925 were international, in the 2018 and 2019. 162 of these stayed at RIMS for at least
2 weeks.
3.2. Research at RIMS. The mathematical research produced by thefull and associate professors at RIMS is outstanding. They publish inhighly rated journals, and receive invitations to deliver named lectures and colloquia across the mathematical sciences. Three members of the RIMS faculty were invited speakers at the recent International Congresses of Mathematicians, which took place in 2014 inSeoul, and in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. In the last 4 years, RIMS full professors delivered over 20 invited lectures at major meetings aroundthe world. The area of expertise of the current 12 full professors of
RIMS covers a broad area of mathematics: these include traditional
strengths in algebraic geometry, representation theory and number

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theory, but also areas of analysis, differential geometry, symplectic geometry, topology, operator algebras, probability, fluid dynamics, discrete mathematics, logic and computer science, mathematicalphysics, Quantum Field Theory.
Operating at this level of mathematical achievement requires highcalibre researchers, who are given time, opportunity and support
to develop their research. RIMS currently employs 12 full professors, 10 associate professors, 3 lecturers and 11 assistant professors.
Positions at all levels except Full Professor are filled after openly
advertised searches. Those at full, associate professor and lecturer
levels have permanent appointments, while assistant professors areappointed for 7 years with the possibility of renewal for further 3
years. Most of the assistant professors in recent years have moved
to permanent faculty positions elsewhere in Japan well before theirterms expired; this underscores the high quality of RIMS junior faculty. The number of appointments at the top two levels is limited by
Kyoto University. There are also project appointments and postdoctoral appointments that are dependent on externally funded grants.
The researchers interviewed for this review were very satisfied
with their position at RIMS. However, some expressed concern that
offices are located across 5 different buildings on campus, making
spontaneous conversations and collaborations difficult, especially forthe younger researchers. This problem has been exacerbated during
the COVID-19 pandemic, although seminars and workshops havecontinued online.
3.3. Workshops, Conferences and Symposia. In 2019 alone, RIMS
hosted 19 Workshops, 64 Symposia, 5 Satellite Seminars and 2 Review Seminars, serving a total of 4103 participants, of whom 542
were from abroad. The series seem to be well organized and wellmanaged by a system of internal and external review committees.
3.4. RIMS’ Graduate Program. As noted in previous reviews, theattraction of graduate students to RIMS is constrained by longstanding circumstances. Students in Japan tend to stay in the same geographic location, rather than moving elsewhere to pursue undergraduate or graduate study. RIMS researchers typically do not teachundergraduate students, so the recruitment of graduate students relies on reputation rather than personal knowledge.
Although it is possible in principle for RIMS to recruit students
internationally, very few scholarships are available. The review committee recommends that RIMS considers seeking philanthropic funding to overcome this problem.

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Students choose their advisors early in the program. Although
this often works well, it has the potential to cause isolation and maylead to students acquiring a narrow view of the field. The review
committee recommends that RIMS encourage networking among
students in different groups, including joint seminars with the Department of Mathematics at Kyoto University and informal seminars
where students could learn about each other’s research.
Despite some effort, the number of female students in the doctoral program remains very low, and in the current cohort of students there are no female PhD students at all. The pool of female
applicants is very small. To help change this unacceptable situation,
RIMS should incorporate additional programs that will increase thepool; some possibilities are suggested in Section 3.6.
RIMS students are generally quite successful in finding jobs after completing their doctoral studies. In 2018 and 2019, 3 students
obtained jobs as faculty members at Japanese universities, 7 foundpostdoctoral research positions and 3 were employed in industry.
It is excellent that RIMS, together with the Department of Mathematics, operates the Mathematics unit of the Japan Gateway: Kyoto University Top Global (KTGU) Program. Through KTGU, RIMS
enables international experiences for graduate students by inviting
top-ranked international researchers to give intensive lecture series,
selecting and inviting researchers to act as additional supervisors,and providing opportunities for students to visit abroad.
RIMS also has a vibrant research program for young postdoctoral
mathematicians. In 2017-2020 RIMS had 42 researchers at this level,
and also hired 2 graduate students in the framework of the ”Sendan
project”. Furthermore, three postdocs per year are hired as “ RIMS
Research Fellows”, a group of young researchers is hired as “RIMS
Project Fellows” associated with a RIMS Research Project, and RIMS
accepts post-doctoral fellows funded by the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science (JSPS).
RIMS budget problems adversely affect the PhD and postdoctoral
programs. An urgent issue for RIMS is to secure an increase in the
PhD and post-doctoral researcher employment budget.

3.5. International Joint Usage Research Center. International cooperation in mathematical research has always been an importantpart of RIMS’ activity. With its designation in 2018 as International

6 DAVID EISENBUD, YAKOV ELIASHBERG, NALINI JOSHI, AND TAKASHI TSUBOIJoint Usage Research Center, internationalization is even more central. There are currently 4 JU/RC in Japan that are related to Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, but RIMS is the only one whose
mission includes all core mathematical subjects.
The number of international participants grew from 257 in 2017
to 383 in 2018 and 543 in 2019. RIMS has international academic
research agreements with a large number of leading mathematicalorganizations around the world. Further, RIMS created an International Advisory Board which whose members are Professors J.-P.
Bourguignon, M. Barlow, M. Reid and M. Kotani.

3.6. Diversity. The development and growth of the mathematicalcommunity relies on diversity. However, the entry pipeline into
mathematical sciences in Japan is dominated by men and the proportion of women entering undergraduate and graduate study in thisarea has remained very low for decades. While this makes recruitment to RIMS heavily skewed towards male candidates, the review
committee was of the opinion that RIMS could do more to develop
the applicant pool and broaden the entry pipeline across Japan. We
suggest the following actions.
While the number of women in mathematics may be very low inJapan, this is not the case internationally. RIMS should put in place
guidelines for all applications for workshops and research programs
to require that the organizing committees include more than one
gender and that the participant list include the names of an appropriate number of women who will be invited to participate.
All organizers of events at RIMS should be required to subscribe
to a code of conduct before their applications can be considered andall participants should also agree to such a code before they can register to attend any RIMS-endorsed event. RIMS should provide astatement of procedures for dealing with breaches of collegiality, including the name and contact details of an external ombudsperson
who will consider appeals. (If such an office already exists at Kyoto
University, it could simply be referenced.) Examples of codes andprocedures documents are available at cognate institutions such as
MSRI and Banff International Research Station (BIRS).
RIMS should consider holding events featuring women speakers,
including international speakers (since there are relatively few womenmathematicians in Japan). Male mathematicians should be invited
to participate in such events, but the opportunity to speak should be
primarily reserved for women and people of diverse gender.

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Such events for women in mathematics could create mentoring
networks involving students and researchers that could continue beyond the event. They might include the introduction of undergraduate students to possible mentors, and might provide platforms toenable research projects between mentor and mentee. A good modelis the network formed by the ”Women in Number Theory” workshops at BIRS.

4. FACILITIES AND R ESOURCES
4.1. Space. With its three missions, RIMS needs lecture halls, offices
for faculty, short and long term visitors, postdoctoral fellows andPh.D. students. It also needs seminar rooms, and meeting/discussion
rooms. The reports of the three previous external review committes
emphasized that RIMS is seriously handicapped by the space available. The offices of faculty members are not appropriate for theirrange of activities, which include work in education, research andadministration. There is a shortage of discussion spaces and seminar rooms that could facilitate collaboration and discussion among
the young researchers, and there are not enough individual offices
for the international visitors.
After the previous assessment in 2018, RIMS took a 5-year leaseon 8 rooms in the Maskawa Building. The rented space is used fornormal activity of RIMS and we hope that the University will find away to provide space to RIMS without charging rent.
Even with the added space, visitors are frequently asked to sharerooms and the average office space in square meters is small. The
space allotted to RIMS is just a fraction of the government standard
for institutions of this size (71% without the rented space and 77%
with the rented space—and this is apparently without taking into
account the large number of senior visitors, both long and shortterm). In particular, the office space for long-term senior visitorsfrom abroad is inadequate.
The review report of 2018 pointed to the seriousness of the problem created by RIMS offices being split into four distinct buildings,
some at considerable distance from the others. The fact that RIMS
began renting space in Maskawa Building relieved some of the pressure but worsened the splitting problem. This problem causes a loss
of RIMS’ cohesion. For mathematical research, face-to-face discussions are of paramount importance. The splitting problem reduces
opportunities for members and visitors to meet and discuss outside

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their own research groups, which is of essential importance to produce unexpected encounters of knowledge and ideas. Such an inappropriate situation tends to cause isolation of researchers, and postdoctoral fellows. The geographic separation of the faculty lessens
their interaction.
On Wednesday, March 10 (JST) the Review Committee, accompanied by Director Takashi Kumagai and Deputy Director Narutaka
Ozawa, met with Kyoto University President Nagahiro Minato to
discuss possible solutions to the space problem at RIMS. The committee explained that RIMS is a major source of prestige for Kyoto
University, known and esteemed around the world in the companyof such venerable institutions as the Institute for Advanced Studyin Princeton, USA or the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, England; but that visitors to RIMS must note that the physical facilities
made available to RIMS do not measure up to those at other institutes of the same standing. As RIMS is very much an icon of Japanese mathematics, the committee feels that this problem deserves urgent University and even national attention.
President Minato explained some of the difficulties in correcting
this situation, but also explained that there is a major planning exercise going on in the University that could result in an improvementfor RIMS; and he promised to keep RIMS’ need in mind as that planning goes forward. He also told the committee of a beautiful newguesthouse that will become available, and predicted that visitors to
RIMS would be among the frequent users of that facility.
4.2. RIMS activities in the time of COVID. RIMS activities in 2020
were severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The individual
research programs of RIMS faculty continued but, following governmental and Kyoto university regulations, RIMS had to cancel its visitors program and many planned meetings, while converting othermeetings to online or hybrid formats. RIMS prepared guidelines forthe organizers and participants for all types of meetings in these circumstances.
4.3. Administrative Staff. RIMS’ staff takes care of around 4000 participants and nearly 500 foreign visitors each year. The staff coordinates the schedules of parallel conferences, prepares for visas andtravel and housing for foreign visitors, and processes the large volume of paperwork corresponding to all the services rendered. Supporting the level of activity of the International JU/RC requires ahigh level of administrative skill. This differs from the standard expectation of administrative staff in a university. Kyoto University

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may wish to consider a career-path for staff with such skill to maintain the current high quality.
Providing an excellent research environment and maintaining RIMS’reputation requires an excellent staff. The current quality of support
is highly appreciated by both faculty members and visitors.
RIMS’ IT staff maintains the computer system and organises computer access for visitors. In the COVID-19 situation, the RIMS staff
supports online and hybrid conferences and workshops, and madehandbooks for running hybrid meetings. This activity is also verymuch appreciated by the community.
4.4. Financial Resources. RIMS’ revenue comes from three sources:
Management expenses grants, International JU/RC funds, and competitive external grants (Grant-in-aid of JSPS) won by individual members. There are several pressing problems:
When it was selected as International JU/RC in 2018, RIMS’ budget increased—but is now less than it was in 2012. Moreover, Kyoto
University funds and International JU/RC funds are gradually decreasing. The International JU/RC budget is not sufficient for its
activity, and the deficit is covered by RIMS’ management money.
RIMS fosters young researchers, but this program is not financiallysound. The employment of postdocs is partly paid by Kashiwara’s
Chern Medal Award, which will end in this year.
Part of International JU/RC funds are earned in competitions, but
RIMS has to organise its program of meetings before the outcomeof the competition is known. RIMS has had a high success rate sofar, but this is an additional threat to RIMS’ operations. It would bevery important to reduce the financial risks so that RIMS can plan
effectively.
Modern mathematics finds applications in industry so it may bepossible for RIMS or its affiliated centers to obtain some corporate
funding. Professor Bourguignon, a member of the International Advisory Committee, has had success in doing this for the I.H.E.S near
Paris, and may be able to help RIMS start such programs.
4.5. Computing Facilities. An Institute of RIMS stature must havea high quality computer network, providing fast and reliable connectivity, and this need will only increase in the future. High quality
IT management is also required, especially for hybrid meetings. The
magnitude and the success of RIMS meetings under pandemic conditions shows that this requirement is currently fulfilled. However,the committee was told the Wifi may not be strong enough in somerooms.

10DAVID EISENBUD, YAKOV ELIASHBERG, NALINI JOSHI, AND TAKASHI TSUBOIMost researchers at RIMS have relatively modest computing needs,
which are met by desktop and laptop computers purchased using
the individual researchers’ Grants-in-Aid. However, some groups,
such as the numerical analysis group, have much greater needs; someof these are fulfilled by a computer in RIMS’ basement, by university
supercomputing facilities, and by applying to use the Fugaku computer at RIKEN. RIMS has a terminal room for the use of visitorsand students. Computing facilities seems to be sufficient even inthis COVID-19 situation.
It should be noted that researchers’ own computers and the processor in the RIMS basement need to be renewed every 5 years andsoftware must be updated periodically.
4.6. Library and Publications. In mathematics, it is still necessary
to maintain a good library, and RIMS’ has several challenges in doing so: The library of RIMS is an important national resource, since
many smaller universities do not subscribe to a full range of journals.
Thus it would be reasonable for the library to be funded nationally,or directly by Kyoto University, but RIMS must presently fund its library largely by itself. Second, there is a space problem in the librarybecause of the increased number of academic books and journals.
Finally, the escalation in prices of electronic journals can no longer
be addressed by an individual university but should be handled nationally.
RIMS also supports research by its publication activities. It issues
three kinds of publications: the journal Publications of the ResearchInstitute for Mathematical Sciences, the series Kokyuroku, and the
RIMS Kokyuroku Bessatsu series. Each of the three publications has
its own importance. It is important in mathematics to continue thepublication activity.
5. I NTERNATIONALIZATION
In its capacity as an International Joint Usage Research Institute,
RIMS has a remarkably large and varied program of workshops andconferences of several types. Most of these workshops are organizedby Japanese mathematicians, and we believe that information about
the possibilities is relatively widely known in Japan. However, thisseems not yet to be the case abroad.
Given RIMS international reputation, we believe that the possibility of organizing events at RIMS should be very attractive to a broadinternational community. To encourage more applications from abroad,we feel that RIMS should advertise the possibilities more broadly.

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The first and simplest way to do this is to add information to thewebsite, which is presently very sparse. The different types of workshop listed should be more clearly distinguished, and the website
should say what kinds of events are appropriate for each category.
Links to examples of successful workshops of each type should begiven, showing things like the number of national and international
participants. The available facilities should be made clear: how muchspace is available (with pictures), how much financial support fordomestic and international travel should be spelled out. The process
for judging applications should also be clarified: who will make thefinal decisions, and when they will be made. The data should beavailable in HTML, not just through downloaded PDFs.
We recommend that the calls for proposal include requirements
or at least strong recommendations for national and gender diversity. In particular, women on an organizing committee tend to know
women in the field, and can help attract them, which leads to morediverse workshops.
A second step in encouraging international applications and participation is to advertise internationally. The Notices of the American
Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society Newsletter, the London Mathematical Society Newsletter and other similar
publications would all be appropriate venues; some may be willingto accept a short article about the possibilities, in addition.
6. O UTREACH
An institution such as RIMS can significantly add to the publicawareness–and thus support–of mathematics. RIMS currently hosts
a program of lectures for the general public each year in which several RIMS faculty each give a few lectures on some topic of mathematical interest, and these are well-received. However, they are local
in character, not fully reflecting RIMS standing as a national and international resource.
We recommend broadening this program in several ways. First,
speakers for the public could be chosen from a broader pool, not justfrom RIMS, and could include speakers from the domains of application of mathematics—it is probably more effective to hear someone
from the “outside” say how important mathematics is than to hear amathematician say the same thing.
Now that recording is easy, RIMS could aspire to present lecturesthat would be seen and appreciated by a large national audience.
The ease of adding captions would even make it possible to include

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non-Japanese speakers. YouTube, or something similar, might be auseful platform.
Social media have become important not only for reaching the
public, but also for reaching young researchers. Relatively few senior mathematicians are at home with these tools, so RIMS might
consider employing a communications specialist who would introduce RIMS in these formats.
Another medium that can have wide distribution is film, made either for television documentaries or for commercial theatres. RIMS
could consider producing films about mathematicians or about important societal applications.

7. A PPENDIX A: M EMBERS OF THE R EVIEW C OMMITTEE• Yakov Eliashberg eliash@stanford.edu
Department of Mathematics
Stanford University
450 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305-2125• David Eisenbud (Chair)de@msri.org
MSRI
17 Gauss Way
Berkeley CA 94720• Nalini Joshi
nalini.joshi@sydney.edu.au
School of Mathematics and Statistics F07,
The University of Sydney,
Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia• Takashi Tsuboi
mail@tsuboi-takashi.sakura.ne.jp
Faculty of Engineering, Musashino University
3-3-3 Ariake Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8181
RIKEN iTHEMS
2-1 Hirosawa Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198

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8. A PPENDIX B. D ESCRIPTION OF THE E VALUATION P ROCESS
Already when the Review Committee was organized it was clearthat an on-site review would not be realized because of the COVID19 pandemic. The evaluation was thus performed online, using remote meeting systems.
In early December, 2020, the members of the Review Committee received the self-evaluation report document produced by the
RIMS Self-evaluation committee (A. Tamagawa, M. Hasegawa, S.
Mochizuki and N. Ozawa). The Review Committee met in Zoom
on December 16 to discuss what further information it would like,and sent the resulting list of questions to Professor Takashi Kumagai,
Director of RIMS, at the beginning of January 2021. These questions
were answered a week later, and the committee also received links to
the information RIMS had prepared to help the organizers of hybrid
meetings.
In the place of on-site review, the Review Committee was sent a
series of videos prepared by RIMS that was accessible from mid January to the end of evaluation process. The contents of the videos
were:• Welcome message from Professor Shigefumi Mori [3min];• Presentation by the Director of RIMS, Professor Takashi Kumagai [1hr 5min] with [Slides PDF];• Tour of RIMS buildings (guided by Professor Kaoru Ono)[11min];• Presentation on the conduct of hybrid Workshops by Professor Takashi Kumagai [11min];• Interviews with senior faculty members, part 1: Interviewsof Professor Tomoyuki Arakawa, Associate Professor David
Croydon, Associate Professor Masayuki Kawakita, and Associate Professor Kazushige Terui [46min];• Interviews with junior faculty members, part 2: Interviews ofLecturer Go Yamashita, Assistant Professor Suguru Ishikawa,
Assistant Professor Mayuko Yamashita, and Project AssistantProfessor Yu Yang [29min];• Interviews with other researchers: Collective interview of Dr.
Morimichi Kawasaki, Dr. Hideya Watanabe, Dr. Sven Moller
and Dr. Kazumi Higashiyama [32min];• Interviews with students: Collective interview of Kohei Sasaya,
Hiroaki Karuo, Youji Fukihara, Zeming Sun and Ryoga Mahara [19min],where the interviewer was always Professor Narutaka Ozawa.

14DAVID EISENBUD, YAKOV ELIASHBERG, NALINI JOSHI, AND TAKASHI TSUBOIOn Thursday February 4, 8AM-10 AM JST, Professor Takashi Kumagai, Director of RIMS, accompanied by members of the RIMS
Executive Board, made an extended presentation, by Zoom, of theself-evaluation report. This was followed by questions from the reviewers. Then Members of the Review Committee had discussion
on additional data necessary for the evaluation. Recognizing thatthe problem of space was a major issue for RIMS, the review committee decided to write a letter to the President of Kyoto University.
This was also discussed at the summarizing session with the RIMS
members.
Members of the Review Committee discussed the body of the letter to the President of Kyoto University on February 6, JST, and gathered additional questions and a request for additional data, whichwere sent to Professor Takashi Kumagai.
On February 9, 8AM-10 AM JST, RIMS members answered thequestions and explained on supplementary data by Zoom. Then
Members of the Review Committee discussed the structure and preparation of the evaluation report. In the summarizing discussions, themembers committed to delivering the report in March. Professor
Takashi Kumagai, Director of RIMS, expressed his gratitude to thejob of the Review Committee.
On Tuesday February 16 and again on Tuesday February 22 (JST),the Review Committee met to work on the report.
Professor Nagahiro Minato, President of Kyoto University, accepted
the Review Committee’s request to meet, and the date was set for
Wednesday March 10, 9:45-10:30 JST. Members of the Review Committee first meet with RIMS’ Director Takashi Kumagai and Deputy
Director Narutaka Ozawa, who accompanied them at the meetingwith President Minato. The discussions concerned RIMS’s space
problem, and the review more generally.