Hibi no Koto no ha —Miscellany

Yamato uta ha, hito no kokoro wo tane to shi te, yorodu no Koto no ha to zo nare ri.

The seeds of Japanese poetry lie in the human heart and grow into leaves of ten thousands of words.

Ki no Tsurayuki
Kokin Wakashū   kanajo

In this page I will write down recent news, miscellaneous thoughts in daily research and so on, since I was encouraged to do so by my friend Masato Mimura. I do not know how long I can continue......

31st/March/2015 Tuesday

New Academic Year. Busy now.

1st/April/2014 Tuesday

It's been ages (this is the first update of Hibi no Koto no ha in these 18 months!). I have moved to Tokyo Denki University this April as an Assistant Professor. Thank you for your continued cooperation!!!

29th/July/2012 Sunday

I leave Japan today for Heidelberg, Germany so as to attend the international conference Iwasawa 2012. I expect that the climate is much milder in Germany than in Japan ......... it is too hot and humid now in Osaka!!!

7th/April/2012 Saturday

Iwasawa Theory Workshop 2012 has finished without any problems. Each lecture was stimulating and there were no boring minutes! I am very grategul to all the participants and Professor Ochiai, the organizer of this conference.

On my own talk, I am very sorry that I have no time to discuss main conjectures and related topics (but I also think that it might be a reckless schedule from the beginning). I wish I could deal with these topics at another place......

31st/March/2012 Saturday

Iwasawa Theory Workshop 2012 is coming soon. I am looking forward to it very much, but I do not know when I can finish the preparation for my talks......?!

14th/March/2012 Wednesday

Professor Seidai Yasuda visited Osaka University and attended the monthly Galois representation seminar. It seems like spring will come soon.

9th/March/2012 Friday

I attended the final lecture of Professor Yoshiyuki Yoshida (Kyoto University). His talk contains many interesting topics such as a replication of his past computer experimentand reminiscences with Professor Goro Shimura.

29th/February/2012 Wednesday

It is February 29th, the date which occurs every four year. For me, however, it seems to be a very ordinary day.

31st/January/2012 Tuesday

The day after tomorrow I am going to give a seminar presentation, which would be the last seminar presentation of this academic year.

1st/January/2012 Sunday

A happy new year!!!

We had a tough time last year after the Great Earthquake in Tohoku. I hope that it will be nice this year.

3rd/November/2011 Sunday

Machikane Festival, the university festival of Osaka University, has been held at Toyonaka campus and today is the final day. And soI visited the exhibition organized by Department of Mathematics. They gave many mathematically interesting topics which can easily be found in everyday life, and it is a verynice exhibition.

18th/October/2011 Tuseday

I displayed a pair of Shisa on the desk of my room. They have exotic flavour and look very nice, don't they?

13th/October/2011 Thursday

The workshop has finished today. Though it was not so nice weather during the workshop, there were many wonderful talks. It was a very exciting workshop, and Okinawa is the best place to hold a workshop, isn't it?

I am going to return to Osaka tomorrow, and so I will enjoy the last night at Okinawa!!

The picture bellow is one of Shikinaen Royal Park, which is one of the World Heritages in Okinawa.

9th/October/2011 Sunday

I have come to Okinawa to attend Workshop on arithmetic geometry 2011 which will start tomorrow.

Though it is October, it's too hot and humid in Naha City.

28th/September/2011 Saturday

It has suddenly got cold in Osaka since the monstrous typhoon had gone.

Autumn is just around the corner, I think.

10th/September/2011 Saturday

I participated the Summer School on Number Theory, which is a traditional summer school in Japan. There were about eighty participants!

Before the summer school I had felt insecure a bit because the lifting of automorphic forms ---the theme of the summer school this year--- seemed to be quite different from my research fields. However they were just groundless fears: every lecture was indeed very interesting. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the organizers Professor Keiichi Gunji and Professor Hiroaki Narita.

I am looking forward to the summer school next year, the theme of which is around Stark's Conjecture.

8th/August/2011 Monday

My schedule on Summer Semester was over by today's seminar.

It was a busy semester because the circumstance got changed greatly, but I'm finally acclimatized to my new life.

30th/July/2011 Saturday

I visited Kyushu University to attend the comprehensive lecture series of Professor Kazuya Kato (the University of Chicago). It was a very great lecture, in which he tried to understand many different kinds of themes such as Hodge conjecture, the theory of Minhyong Kim, and so on via the view point of classification spaces of Hodge structure and p-adic Hodge structure. I enjoyed the lecture very much from start to finish.

And I got overwhelmed by his unflagging vitality.

17th/July/2011 Sunday

I visited Kyoto to see Yamahoko Junkou, one of the most famous events in Gion Festival. This was the first time for me to see Yamahoko Junkou.

The Kyoto city was terribly crowded, but the great parade of glorious Yamahoko's was very wonderful.

17th/May/2011 Tuesday

I made a rehearsal of the forthcoming talk at Tambara with Professor Tadashi Ochiai. It took me a bit long time to check the detail of computation in Kato's paper, and so I could not prepare well. However maybe I can make it somehow in a week.

I feel a bit tense since this is my first instructional survey talk on workshops.

3rd/May/2011 Tuesday

I came back to Japan yesterday without no particular problems. It was a bit tight schedule to go to Europe and return in a week, I think. Under the influence of the large earthquake in Tohoku, there were much fewer passengers than I imagined on the plane back to Japan.

Since the return date is just on the Golden Week, I am now planning to relieve my fatigue from traveling.

26th/April/2011 Tuesday

I have arrived at the hotel in Münster (about 11:30 p.m., 25th/April in German time). I got very tired, especially because I had to wait for six hours at Frankfurt Mein Airport to transit. (the total trip time is over 24hours!!)

Now I am going to take a good rest to prepare for the conference.

24th/April/2011 Sunday

I will visit Münster to attend the international workshop.

I am looking forward to it because it is my first conference where Non-commutative Iwasawa theory plays the leading part.

11th/April/2011 Monday

I had a Tianjin-Mapo don, which is the blend of two popular Chinese-Japanese dish Tianjin don and Mapo dofu, as lunch. It tasted very nice.

I got surprised that there were ``Tianjin-Mapo kewpies'' in coops of University Osaka!!!

10th/April/2011 Sunday

I attended Mini workshop on Iwasawa theory from 8th to 10th April held at Kyoto University. I have not been so good at making a speech in English yet, but luckily I was able to have a chance to discuss non-commutative Iwasawa theory with Min-Lung Hsieh and other young mathematicians during the conference.

How beautiful Kyoto City in spring was decorated by plenty of cherry blossoms!

1st/April/2011 Friday

I have moved to Osaka University! I would like to do my best turning over a new leaf, but for the moment I should tidy the new room filled with too much luggage......