RCAST NAVI 2016/07

  RCAST NAVI
  2016 JULY
  http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_en.html


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*2016/7/19
  Researchers Create Means to Monitor Anthropogenic Global Warming in Real
  Time

  Associate Professor Yu Kosaka (Climate Science Research, RCAST) and
  Professor Shang-Ping Xie (Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the
  University of California San Diego) simulated in a computer model, for
  the first time, the realistic evolution of the global mean surface
  temperature since 1900. They identified the tropical Pacific natural
  variability as an essential "pacemaker" of the staircase-like global
  warming. The results of this research, "The tropical Pacific as a key
  pacemaker of the variable rates of global warming," was published in the
  journal Nature Geoscience.

  Press Release
  http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/report/2016/0719P_en.html

*2016/7/25
  Single microwave-photon detector using an artificial Λ-type three-level
  system

  Research Scientist Kunihiro Inomata of the RIKEN CEMS, Professor
  Yasunobu Nakamura of RCAST (Quantum Information Physics and Engineering)
  and international team have demonstrated an efficient and practical
  single microwave-photon detector based on the deterministic switching in
  an artificial Λ-type three-level system implemented using the dressed
  states of a driven superconducting quantum circuit. The detector can be
  exploited for various applications in quantum sensing, quantum
  communication and quantum information processing. The results of this
  research was published in the Nature Communications.

  Nature Communications
  http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160725/ncomms12303/full/ncomms12303.html


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* Professor Hisashi Nakamura (Climate Science Research)'s project
  supported under the Belmont Forum International Opportunities Fund.
  http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/report/2016/0607_en.html


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* Associate Professor Satoshi Ikeuchi (Islamic Political Thought) was
  awarded the 12th Nakasone Yasuhiro Award of Excellence in July 1st.

* Research Associate Hiroshi Watanabe (Theoretical chemistry) won an
  excellent presentation award at the 19th Annual Meeting of the
  Theoretical Chemical Society of Japan.

* Keiuke Kawashima (Ishikita Lab.) won a Photosynthesis seminat 2016,
  Mimuro award.
  http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/soee/topics/setnws_20160726150708928200542781.html