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- 2024-10-21 CPS Seminar, Michiko Fujii (University of Tokyo) "Formation of intermediate-mass black holes in forming star clusters" (November 1, 2024)
- 2024-10-03 In the Japanese Society for Planetary Science 2024 Autumn meeting, the Ph.D student Tenri Jinno received the Best Presentation Award for "Global N-body simulation of planetary formation: The origins of ice giants". (Japanese page only)
- 2024-07-02 In the HPCI Software Award 2024, the group of Prof. Makino received the excellent award for the development of FDPS (Framework for Developing Particle Simulators) and the group of Associate Prof. Saitoh received the encouragement award for the development of ASURA+BRIDGE. (Japanese page only)
- 2024-05-31 Associate Prof. Takayuki Saitoh (Kobe University) and collaborators Michiko Fujii (University Tokyo), Long Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University), Ataru Tanikawa (Fukui Prefectural University) and Yutaka Hirai (Tohoku University) conducted star cluster formation simulations that resolve individual stars. These simulations reveal that supermassive stars form in the clusters through stellar collisions and then they evolve into intermediate-mass black holes.
- 2023-11-16 Associate Prof. Takayuki Saitoh, who is a member of Program for Promoting Research on the Supercomputer Fugaku" (Structure and Evolution of the Universe Unraveled by Fusion of Simulation and AI) and collaborators, Junichi Baba (Kagoshima University) and Takuji Tsujimoto (NAOJ), studied the enrichment process of the primary elements in the MilkyWay galaxy and found that the Sun's birthplace would be the inner region of the Milky Way galaxy compared to its current position. This model also predicts the distribution of the elements of the planetary materials in time and space. According to this, stars in the inner part of the Milkyway galaxy is more likely to host massive planets, while those in the outer part are more likely to form water-rich planets.
(Japanese page only)
- 2023-10-24 Mr. Keiya Hirashima, who is a graduate student of the University of Tokyo and a member of Program for Promoting Research on the Supercomputer Fugaku" (Structure and Evolution of the Universe
Unraveled by Fusion of Simulation and AI) and collaborators have developed a new method to reproduce the result of the simulation of the expansion of the Supernova shell using deep learning.
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