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Biography

Personal Details

Name: Kazuyuki SEKIZAWA
Sex: Male
Date and Place of Birth:
Feb. 22, 1988 (36 years old); Tokyo, Japan
Nationality: Japanese

Present Position and Affiliation

Associate Professor (Nuclear Theory)
Department of Physics, Institute of Science Tokyo
H-27, 2-12-1 O-Okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
Phone: +81-(0)3-5734-2463
E-mail: sekizawa＠phys.sci.isct.ac.jp
Personal URL: sekizawa.fizyka.pw.edu.pl/english/
ORCID: 0000-0001-5800-1995
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Professional Career

Oct. 2024 - Present:
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Apr. 2021 - Sep. 2024:
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Apr. 2018 - Present:
Collaborative Fellow, Division of Nuclear Physics, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Jan. 2018 - Mar. 2021:
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (tenure-track),
Center for Transdisciplinary Research, Institute for Research Promotion, Niigata University, Japan
Sep. 2017 - Dec. 2017:
Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Washington, USA
Apr. 2015 - Aug. 2017:
Research Assistant Professor, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015:
JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2013:
Research Assistant, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Language Ability

Japanese: Mother tongue
English: Intermediate (reading/writing/spoken)
Programing: Fortran, C and CUDA C (w/ MPI and OpenMP)

Awards and Honors

Aug. 2023:
The 22nd (2023) Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award - Tokyo Tech News
Theme: "Developing a Microscopic Theory for Quantum Many-Body Tunneling"
[Research bounty: 2,600,000 JPY]
Jan. 2023:
Distinguished EPJ Referees 2022 - Kazuyuki Sekizawa The Distinguished EPJ Referees 2022



Dec. 2021:
The Award for the Promotion of Early-Career Researchers in School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology 2021
Theme: "Development and Applications of Quantum Many-Body Theory of Heavy-Ion Multinucleon Transfer Reactions for Production of Unknown Unstable Nuclei"
[Research bounty: 600,000 JPY]
Aug. 2019:
The 6th Niigata University Rector Award
Theme: "Suppressed Solitonic Cascade in Spin-Imbalanced Superfluid Fermi Gas"
[Research bounty: 800,000 JPY]
Nov. 2018:
The Excellent Achievement Award (for our HPCI Project: hp170007)
Theme: "Extension and Application of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Predicting Unstable Nucleus Productions"
Mar. 2018:
The 12th (2017) Seitaro Nakamura Prize
(from Soryushi Shogakukai Scholarship Association under the cosponsorship of Yukawa Memorial Foundation)
Article: K. Sekizawa, Phys. Rev. C 96, 014615 (2017)
[Description (in Japanese)]
Dec. 2017:
The RIBF Users Group Thesis Awards 2017 (for the theoretical study in my PhD thesis related to physics at RIBF) [Webpage]
Oct. 2017:
The Warsaw University of Technology Rector Award 2017 (for our scientific achievements)
Feb. 2017:
The Paulo Gomes and Valery Zagrebaev Prize - an award for the best early career researcher oral presentation at the FUSION17 Conference held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 20th - 24th February 2017
Mar. 2016:
The 10th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
Theme: "Heavy-ion multi-nucleon transfer reactions with time-dependent density functional theory"
Article: K. Sekizawa and K. Yabana, Phys. Rev. C 88, 014614 (2013)
[Webpage, Description]
Mar. 2015:
The Award from the Dean of Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba (for my PhD thesis)
Dec. 2014:
The Award for Best Project of the 2014 TALENT Course 5: "Theory for Exploring Nuclear Structure Experiments" [Project (PDF, 0.2 MB)]
Oct. 2014:
The Excellent Achievement Award (for our HPCI Project: hp120204)
Theme: "Study of nuclear dynamics based on the density functional theory"
Dec. 2013:
The Best Participant Award of 2013 TALENT Course 6: "Theory for Exploring Nuclear Reaction Experiments" [Project (PDF, 0.2 MB)]

Competitive Research Grants

Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2029:
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
"Exploring Properties of the Inner Crust of Neutron Stars Through Band Theory Calculations Based on Superfluid Density Functional Theory" (23K03410)
[4,810,000 JPY (Direct cost: 3,700,000 JPY)]
Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2023:
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
"Massively-Parallel Computations of Nuclear Dynamics Based on A Next-Generation Theory with Multiple Slater Determinants" (19K14704)
[4,030,000 JPY (Direct cost: 3,100,000 JPY)]
Aug. 2018 - Mar. 2019:
Sasaki General Foundation in Promoting Environmental Engineering
"Developing Microscopic Theory for Nuclear Fission Dynamics"
[600,000 JPY]
Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015:
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
"Time-Dependent Mean-Field Theory for Multinucleon Transfer Reactions" (25-241)
[1,000,000 JPY/year]

Competitive Computational Resources

Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2024:
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2023
(1) "Study of Dynamic Effects of Pairing Correlations with Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory" (hp230180)
[7,346,680 CPU-hours]
Resource: Grand Chariot, IIC, Hokkaido University
(2) "Superfluid Dynamics within Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory" (hp230081) [564,000 GPU-hours]
Resource: TSUBAME3.0, GSIC, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2023:
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2023
(1) "Extension and Application of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Predicting Unstable Nucleus Productions"
(hp220035) [5,765,760 CPU-hours]
Resource: Oakbridge-CX, ITC, The University of Tokyo
(2) "Superfluid Dynamics within Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory" (hp220072) [300,000 GPU-hours]
Resource: TSUBAME3.0, GSIC, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2022:
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2021
(1) "Extension and Application of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Predicting Unstable Nucleus Productions"
(hp210023) [9,400,320 CPU-hours]
Resource: Oakforest-PACS, JCAHPC
(2) "Superfluid Dynamics within Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory" (hp210079) [288,000 GPU-hours]
Resource: TSUBAME3.0, GSIC, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2021:
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2020
(1) "Extension and Application of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Predicting Unstable Nucleus Productions"
(hp200022) [9,400,320 CPU-hours]
Resource: Oakforest-PACS, JCAHPC
(2) "Superfluid Dynamics within Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory" (hp200115) [284,000 GPU-hours]
Resource: TSUBAME3.0, GSIC, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2020:
18th PRACE Project Access Call
Investigation of quantum turbulence in strongly interacting Fermi systems (pr63) [1,161,765 GPU-hours (79.0 Million CPU-hours)]
Resource: Piz Daint, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS); Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2019
(1) "Extension and Application of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Predicting Unstable Nucleus Productions"
(hp190002) [9,400,320 CPU-hours]
Resource: Oakforest-PACS, JCAHPC
(2) "Superfluid Dynamics within Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory" (hp190063) [300,000 GPU-hours]
Resource: TSUBAME3.0, GSIC, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2019:
16th PRACE Project Access Call
Interdisciplinary simulations of Fermi superfluids far from equilibrium (pr39) [1,208,824 GPU-hours (82.2 Million CPU-hours)]
Resource: Piz Daint, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS); Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2018
(1) "Extension and Application of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Predicting Unstable Nucleus Productions"
(hp180080) [9,400,320 CPU-hours]
Resource: Oakforest-PACS, JCAHPC
(2) "Nuclear reactions from time-dependent density functional theory" (hp180066) [292,000 GPU-hours]
Resource: TSUBAME3.0, GSIC, Tokyo Institute of Technology
(3) "Nuclear Fission from Extended Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory" (hp180048) [284,000 GPU-hours]
Resource: TSUBAME3.0, GSIC, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2018:
14th PRACE Project Access Call
Nonequilibrium dynamics in strongly interacting and superfluid Fermi systems (pr03) [925,000 GPU-hours (62.9 Million CPU-hours)]
Resource: Piz Daint, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS); Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2017
(1) "Extension and Application of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Predicting Unstable Nucleus Productions"
(hp170007) [7,168,000 CPU-hours]
Resource: HITACHI SR16000/M1, IIC, Hokkaido University
(2) "Nuclear reactions from time-dependent density functional theory" (hp170181) [405,000 GPU-hours]
Resource: TSUBAME2.5, GSIC, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2017:
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2016
"Study of nuclear dynamics based on the time-dependent density functional theory" (hp160062) [11,200,000 CPU-hours]
Resource: HITACHI SR16000/M1, IIC, Hokkaido University
Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2016:
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2015
"Study of nuclear dynamics based on the time-dependent density functional theory" (hp150081) [10,816,000 CPU-hours]
Resource: HITACHI SR16000/M1, IIC, Hokkaido University
Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2015:
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2014
"Study of nuclear dynamics based on the time-dependent density functional theory" (hp140010) [11,776,000 CPU-hours]
Resource: HITACHI SR16000/M1, IIC, Hokkaido University
Oct. 2012 - Mar. 2014:
Projects using the HPCI system for the fiscal year 2012-2013
"Study of nuclear dynamics based on the density functional theory" (hp120204) [3,313,778 CPU-hours]
Resource: HITACHI SR16000/M1, IIC, Hokkaido University

Teaching Experience

FY2020:
  • Exercise Course in Physics C,D [2nd semester, Electromagnetism]
  • Nuclear Physics Reading Seminar [2nd semester]
    (Textbooks: Shapes and Shells in Nuclear Structure, S.G. Nilsson, I. Ragnarsson; NEUTRON STARS 1 - Equation of State and Structure, P. Haensel, A.Y. Potekhin, and D.G. Yakovlev)
  • Modern Physics Seminar (2020/10/13):
    "Cutting Edge Nuclear Physics Research: Supercomputing for Quantum Many-Body Dynamics —Superfluid Phenomena, Nuclear Collisions, and Astrophysics—"
  • Introduction to Nuclear Physics for 1st-year Students (2020/05/13):
    "Introduction to Nuclear Phyiscs —Quarks, New Elements Synthesis, and Neutron Stars—"
  • Active Learning in Physics, Mini Reading Seminar [2nd quarter]
    (Textbook: Frontiers in Physics Vol.21 - Understanding the World of Supernova Explosion from Atomic Nuclei, K. Sumiyoshi [in Japanese; *The title was solely translated at my own discretion])
FY2019:
  • Exercise Course in Physics C,D [2nd semester, Electromagnetism]
  • Nuclear Physics Reading Seminar [2nd semester]
    (Textbooks: Shapes and Shells in Nuclear Structure, S.G. Nilsson, I. Ragnarsson; Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems, A.L. Fetter, J.D. Walecka)
  • Modern Physics Seminar (2019/12/10):
    "Cutting Edge Nuclear Physics Research: Supercomputing for Quantum Many-Body Dynamics —Superfluid Phenomena, Nuclear Collisions, and Astrophysics—"
  • Introduction to Nuclear Physics for 1st-year Students (2019/10/23):
    "Cutting Edge Nuclear Physics Research: Supercomputing for Quantum Many-Body Dynamics —Superfluid Phenomena, Nuclear Collisions, and Astrophysics—"
  • Active Learning in Physics, Mini Reading Seminar [2nd quarter]
    (Textbook: FOR THE LOVE OF PHYSICS: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time—A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics, Walter Lewin with Warren Goldstein)
FY2018:
Teaching Assistant@University of Tsukuba:
  • Apr. 2013 - Jul. 2013:  Electromagnetism
  • Jun. 2012 - Mar. 2013:  Task-exploring training
  • Sep. 2011 - Mar. 2012:  Task-exploring training
  • Apr. 2011 - Jul. 2011:  Quantum mechanics

Education

Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015:
Doctoral Program in Physics, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan (PhD)
Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2012:
Master's Program in Physics, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan (MSc)
Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2010:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science Division I, Tokyo University of Science, Japan (BSc)
Apr. 2003 - Mar. 2006:
Inagakuen Public High School, Japan (the 22nd term classes)

Scholarship

Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2013:
Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Scholarship (interest-free)

Professional Membership

JPS - The Physical Society of Japan, Feb. 2011 - Present (ID: 55314H)

Professional Activities

RIBF Theory Forum (3rd-term member), April 2022 -
RIBF-UEC (User Executive Committee), Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025
JPS Journals Editorial Committee, April 2022 - March 2024
RIKEN Visiting Researcher, May 2022 - March 2025

Organizers

  1. The 7th Workshop on Many-Body Correlations in Microscopic Nuclear Model "Sado2024", Sado Island, Niigata, Japan, 25-27 Oct., 2024
  2. The 6th Workshop on Many-Body Correlations in Microscopic Nuclear Model "Sado2023", Sado Island, Niigata, Japan, 28-30 Sep., 2023
  3. The 4th informal discussion meeting for young scientists—the future of exotic nuclear physics, RIKEN Kobe Campus, Hyogo, Japan, 15-17 Mar., 2023
  4. The 3rd informal discussion meeting for young scientists—the future of exotic nuclear physics, RIKEN Kobe Campus, Hyogo, Japan, 19-21 Feb., 2020
  5. The 5th Workshop on Many-Body Correlations in Microscopic Nuclear Model "Sado2019", Sado Island, Niigata, Japan, 5-6 Sep., 2019
  6. Tsukuba-CCS Workshop on "Microscopic Theories of Nuclear Structure and Dynamics", CCS, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, 10-12 Dec., 2018
  7. The 4th Workshop on Many-Body Correlations in Microscopic Nuclear Model "Sado2018", Sado Island, Niigata, Japan, 18-20 Aug., 2018

Last update: October 7th, 2024 
Curriculum Vitae (PDF, 395 KB) 

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