Tokyo Woman's Christian University Theoretical Physics Laboratory, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Journal Club

Journal Club

At each session, a designated presenter selects a recent or important research paper and gives a talk to the group.
Casual lunchtime meetings, held biweekly on Tuesdays.

When
Tuesdays, biweekly
Lunch break 12:30 – 13:10
Come and go as you please
Where
Building 4, 4th floor
Theoretical Physics Lab, TWCU

Presenters

Ogawa Oda Katayose Takeda Tomiya

(Listed in Japanese alphabetical order)

FY 2026 sessions

  1. #1 Tomiya

    • High-performance training and inference for deep equivariant interatomic potentials

      Chuin Wei Tan · arXiv:2504.16068 [physics.comp-ph]

  2. #2 Oda

    Game-based experience of special relativity at near-light speeds

    • Relativity for games

      Daiju Nakayama, Kin-ya Oda · Paper

    • Covariant Electromagnetism in Past-Light-Cone Formalism

      Daiju Nakayama, Kin-ya Oda, Koichiro Yasuda · arXiv:2408.05481 [physics.class-ph]

    • Seeing through the light cone: Visualizing electromagnetic fields in special relativity

      Daiju Nakayama, Kin-ya Oda, Koichiro Yasuda · arXiv:2505.20596 [physics.ed-ph]

  3. #3 Ogawa

    • An Introduction to time generation on Algebraic Quantum Field Theory

      Tadashi Fujimoto · arXiv:2001.02806 [quant-ph]

    • Introduction to 'the Problem of Time Generation': A Philosophical Interpretation through Algebraic Quantum Field Theory

      Tadashi Fujimoto · Paper

  4. #4 Katayose

    • Exoplanets Across Galactic Stellar Populations with PLATO: Estimating Exoplanet Yields Around FGK Stars for the Thin Disk, Thick Disk and Stellar Halo

      Christopher Boettner · arXiv:2407.15917 [astro-ph.EP]

  5. #5 Oda

    • New class of quantum transitions exhibiting large-scale intercorrelations: Color of the sky

      Kenzo Ishikawa · arXiv:2605.28847 [physics.optics]

    Slides

  6. #6 Tomiya

    Doing scholarly work with AI agents

    • Towards Scientific Intelligence: A Survey of LLM-based Scientific Agents

      Shuo Ren, et al. · arXiv:2503.24047 [cs.AI]

    • OpenAI Agents SDK

      OpenAI · Paper

  7. #7 Takeda

    Quantum double-slit experiment

    • Quantum double slit experiment with reversible detection of photons

      Vipin Devrari, Mandip Singh · Paper

FY 2025 sessions

  1. #1 Tomiya

    • Symmetric Mass Generation with four SU(2) doublet fermions

      Nouman Butt · arXiv:2409.02062 [hep-lat]

    Slides

  2. #2 Iida

    • Aganagic's invariant is Khovanov homology

      Elise LePage · arXiv:2505.00327 [math]

    Slides

  3. #3 Ogawa

    • A Background Independent Algebra in Quantum Gravity

      Edward Witten · arXiv:2308.03663 [hep-th]

  4. #4 Oda

    • Notes on Rindler wave packets in Minkowski spacetime

      Shono Shibuya · arXiv:2505.20078 [hep-th]

  5. #5 Tomiya

    • Flow-Based Sampling for Entanglement Entropy and the Machine Learning of Defects

      Andrea Bulgarelli · arXiv:2410.14466 [hep-lat]

  6. #6 Katayose

    • Ages of Stars and Planets in the Kepler Field Younger Than Four Billion Years

      Luke G. Bouma · arXiv:2410.06246 [astro-ph]

  7. #7 Tomiya

    • Moving Forward: A Review of Autonomous Driving Software and Hardware Systems

      Xu Wang · arXiv:2411.10291 [cs.RO]

  8. #8 Iida

    • Unknotting number is not additive under connected sum

      Mark Brittenham · arXiv:2506.24088 [math]

    • The unknotting number, hard unknot diagrams, and reinforcement learning

      Taylor Applebaum · arXiv:2409.09032 [math]

  9. #9 Ogawa

    • Free motion time-of-arrival operator and probability distribution

      I. L. Egusquiza · arXiv:quant-ph/9905023 [quant-ph]

  10. #10 Takeda

    • Quantum double-double-slit experiment with momentum entangled photons

      Manpreet Kaur · Paper

  11. #11 Katayose

    • Exoplanet Occurrence Rate with Age for FGK Stars in Kepler

      Maryum Sayeed · arXiv:2501.13809 [astro-ph]

  12. #12 Tomiya

    • Quantum simulation of deep inelastic scattering in the Schwinger model

      Kazuki Ikeda · arXiv:2512.18062 [hep-ph]