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2020/Oct/20(Thu): Shiozaki (D01) was awarded Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize 2020.

2020/Apr/20(MON): Tanaka (B01) and Kashiwaya (B01) were awarded a prize of The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan in 2020.

2020/Mar/16(MON): Newsletter No.5 is now available from our website.

2020/Mar/05(Thu): Akagi (D02) was awarded The 25th Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan.

2020/Feb/17(Mon): Kawaguchi (D04) was awarded the 1st Fumiko Yonezawa Memorial Prize of the Physical Society of Japan.

2019/Oct/23(WED): Fujioka (B01), Shiomi (B01), Ideue (C01), and Uchida (FY2016-2017 A01) were awarded Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan in 2020.

2019/Sep/07(Sat)-08(Sun): IYPT2019 Special Event in Kyoto
Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall 2F

2019/Apr/08(Mon): Tanaka(B01), Yamakage(D03), Yanase(D02) was awarded The 24th Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan.

2019/Mar/18(MON): "Spectrum of itinerant fractional excitations in quantum spin ice" by Udagawa (A01) and coworkers has been selected as Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review Letters.

2019/Mar/13(Wed): Kobayashi(C01) was awarded The Yazaki Academic Award, Yazaki Memorial Foundation for Science and Technology.

2019/Mar/12(Tue): Yoshimi(B01) was awarded The Poster Award in FY2018 RIKEN SPDR & FPR Presentation of Research Results.

2019/Mar/11(MON): Newsletter No.4 is now available from our website.

2019/Feb/26(TUE): Recent paper “Observation of chiral fermions with a large topological charge and associated Fermi-arc surface states in CoSi”by Sato (B01), Souma (B01), Ando (B01) and coworkers has been selected as Editors' suggestion in Physical Review Letters and also featured in Synopsis - Physics (APS). This work has been press-released in Nikkei Sangyo Shinbun and Kagaku Shinbun.

2019/Jan/15(TUE): Papers from the TMS-SPIN(Italy) Alliance Workshop (Erice, July 2018) have been published.

2018/Dec/13(THU): Prof. Shoucheng Zhang, one of the international advisors of the TMS project, has suddenly passed away. We sincerely appreciate his great supports and contributions as an advisor of our topological physics projects in the past 8 years. Our TMS project team expresses its heartfelt sympathy to his family, friends and the co-workers of Stanford University during this time of sorrow.

2018/Nov/29(Thu): Kohda(C01) was awarded The RIEC Tohoku University AWARD.

2018/Aug/21(Tue): Matsuda (A01)　was awarded The Kamerlingh Onnes Prize.

2018/Jul/12(THU): The authors, including Y. Kasahara (A01), J. Nasu (D02), and Y. Matsuda (A01) reported half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect on a quantum spin liquid state of honeycomb magnet RuCl3, which provides direct evidence of chiral Majorana edge currents. The paper was published in Nature (July 12 issue). This work has been press-released in webpages of Kyoto University, University of Tokyo, and Tokyo Institute of Technology, as well as in newspapers, including Asahi Shimbun, Kyoto Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Nikkei, Mainichi, and Yomiuri Shimbun.

2018/Jul/04(Wed): Kohda(C01) was awarded The 17th Intelligent Cosmos award

2018/May/14(MON): Recent paper "Signatures of a Nonthermal Metastable State in Copropagating Quantum Hall Edge Channels" by Hashisaka (C01), Muraki(C01), Fujisawa (C01), and coworkers has been selected as Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review Letters.

2018/May/09(WED): Recent publication on Machine Learning Disordered Topological Phases by Statistical Recovery of Symmetry by Yoshioka (U Tokyo), Akagi (D02), and Katsura (D02, H28-H29) in Phys. Rev. B has been selected as Editors' suggestion.

2018/May/01(TUE): Nagaosa(B01) received the Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Government of Japan.

2018/Apr/17(TUE): Kohda (C01), Hashisaka (C01), Nasu (D02) was awarded a prize of The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan in 2018.

2018/Apr/02(Mon): Yamakage(D03) and Tanaka(B01) has been selected The 10 articles published in 2016 that were most frequently cited in 2017(JPSJ).

2018/Mar/06(TUE): An article by Hattori, Sato(D01), Tanaka(B01) et al. entitled "Edge states of hydrogen terminated monolayer materials: silicene, germanene and stanene ribbons" has been selected in Highlights of 2017 for Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

2018/Feb/15(THU): The authors, including K. Kitagawa (A01), and H. Takagi (A01), reported the first honeycomb-lattice quantum liquid material H3LiIr2O6, on the basis of the spin-orbital entangled pseudo-1/2 spins. The paper was published in Nature (Feb. 14 issue). This work has been press-released as a University of Tokyo webpage as well as in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper.

2018/Feb/09(FRI): A paper on the control of Dirac fermions in trilayer graphene by Sato (B01) et al. has been published in NPG Asia Materials.

2018/Jan/09(TUE): A paper on the discovery of new topological insulator characterized by mirror symmetry by Sato (B01) et al. has been published in npj Quantum Materials.

2017/Dec/30(SAT）: Public lecture video by Dr. Bednorz, "Perovskites - From Insulators to Superconductors Decisive circumstances for the Discovery", is now open.

2017/Dec/29(FRI): Recent publication on the discovery of Dirac-semimetal phase in non-doped Fe-based superconductor by T. Sato group (B01) in Phys. Rev. B has been selected as Editor's suggestion.

2017/Dec/22(FRI): A paper on the discovery of quantum Hall states in thin films of Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 by Uchida (A01) and Nagaosa (B01) et al. has been published in Nature Communications.

2017/Nov/28(TUE）: DC current in the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4 induces Dirac-electron-like behavior with giant diamagnetism. The paper was published in Science (Nov. 24 2017 issue) and the authors include C. Sow (former A01－PD, former Topo-Q-PD), S. Yonezawa (A01), and Y. Maeno (A01). This work has been reported on Kyoto University homepage as well as in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper.

2017/Nov/20(MON）: Two members have been chosen as Highly Cited Researchers 2017 by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters, provider of the Web of Science database). These include Matsuda (A01) and Nagaosa (B01).

2017/Oct/27(FRI): Yonezawa (A01), Kasahara (A01) was awarded Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan of 2018.

2017/Sep/12(TUE): Open project solicitations have been started.

2017/Sep/12(TUE): Kawaguchi (D04) was awarded a prize of The Ryogo Kubo Memorial Prize in 2017.

2017/Sep/11(MON）: A paper on PT symmetry and topological phases in an open quantum system by Kawakami (D01), Obuse (D04) et al. has been published in Nature Physics. This work has been reported on homepages of Kyoto University and Hokkaido University.

2017/Aug/1(TUE）: Recent publication by Y. Takahashi group(C01) in Phys. Rev. A has been selected as Editor's suggestion.

2017/Jul/24(MON): Asano(A01) and Kawaguchi(D04) have been selected as Europhysics Letters' distinguished referees(2016).

2017/Jul/24(MON): TMS members (B01: Nagaosa, C01: Takahashi, D01: Ueda and Nitta) will give talks at the 2017 Science Seminar "New Science Explored by Topology" organized by the Physical Society of Japan.

2017/Jun/22(THU): Recent publication by M. Sato (D01) et al. in Phys. Rev. B has been selected as Editor's suggestion.

2017/Jun/19(MON): A paper on the laser-induced topological superconductivity by Takasan, Daido, Kawakami and Yanase was published in Phys. Rev. B, and has been introduced by an article in Research Highlights of Nature Photonics.The main results of the paper were presented by Takasan at the TMS annual meeting held in Sendai in December, 2016. He received the poster award and the preview award.

2017/May/01(Mon): Ezawa(C01) has been selected The 10 articles published in 2015 that were most frequently cited in 2016(JPSJ).

2017/Apr/14(FRI): Yokoyama (D04) was awarded a prize of The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan in 2017.

2017/Apr/10(Mon): Nasu(D02) was awarded Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan of 2017.

2017/Apr/10(Mon): Kobayashi(C01) was awarded The Osaka University Distinguished Professor.

2017/Apr/03(Mon): Tezuka(D01) was awarded Poster Award in Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography.

2017/Mar/25(FRI): A paper reporting the successful waveform measurement of charge and spin wave packets in a chiral Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid by M. Hashisaka (C01), T. Akiho (C01), K. Muraki (C01), and T. Fujisawa(C01) has been published in Nature Physics. This work has been reported on Tokyo Tech homepage and Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper (p.27 in the morning edition on Mar. 14, 2017), and The Science News (p.4 on Mar. 24, 2017).

2017/Mar/14(TUE): Call for applications for a PD position （Physics Dept. of Kyoto Sangyo Univ., Prof. Segawa)

2017/Mar/10(FRI): Newsletter No.2 is now available from our website.

2017/Jan/20(Fri): Uchida(A01) was awarded The Science Poster Prize in CEMS-QPEC Symposium.

2016/Dec/20(TUE): Topological Materials Science Seminar (28th) by Prof. Y. Ando was broadcasted at Kyoto University(Room 431 Faculty of Science Building 5).

2016/Dec/12(Mon): A paper reporting the discovery of the first superconductor among antiperovskite oxides by Yonezawa (A01), Maeno (A01), M.Sato(D01), Hausmann (JREP invitee, A01) et al. has been published in Nature Communications. This work has been reported on Kyoto University homepage and Yukawa Institute homepage, as well as in the Kyoto Shimbun newspaper.

2016/Nov/16(Wed): Ezawa (C01) was awarded The 13th Japan Surface Science Society Magazine Award.

2016/Nov/16(Wed): Nagaosa(C01) was awarded The Highly Cited Researchers 2016.

2016/Nov/09(WED): A paper on the band engineering of quantum spin Hall insulators using strained-layer heterostructures by Akiho (C01), Irie (C01), Muraki (C01) et al. has been published in Applied Physics Letters.

2016/Oct/28(FRI): A paper on the spin-triplet superconductivity proximity effect by Yonezawa (A01), Maeno (A01) et al. has been published in Nature Communications. This work has been reported on Kyoto University homepage as well as in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper.

2016/Oct/14(FRI): A paper on the discovery of nematic superconductivity by Yonezawa (A01), Nagai (D02), Segawa (B01), Ando (B01), Maeno (A01) et al. has been published in Nature Physics, accompanied by a commentary article in News and Views. This work has been reported on Kyoto University homepage as well as in the Kyoto Shimbun newspaper, the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper, etc.