Hexagons of hexagonal boron nitride join up to form two-dimensional insulator for next-generation electronic devices.

The University of Tokyo Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI) Professor Yuji Tachikawa and The University of Tokyo School of Science graduate student Masaki Okada have found that any operation of non-invertible symmetries is a quantum operation, uncovering a link between quantum information theory and particle and condensed matter physics that had previously been unknown.

►The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) will host the 13^th ITER International School (IIS2024), organized by the ITER^*1 Organization and Aix-Marseille University in France, in Nagoya, Japan for one week from 9^th to 13^th December 2024 as the host country organization.  The main subject of this time is “Magnetic fusion diagnostics and data science.”

►This is one of the world’s largest international schools in the field of nuclear fusion research, where more than 200 graduate students, young scientists and engineers from around the world who are interested in fusion research and development will gather together.  This is the second time that Japan has hosted the school, 16 years after the 2^nd IIS was held in Fukuoka in 2008.

►At IIS2024, there will be lectures on the latest status of ITER which is currently under construction in France, as well as on fusion plasma diagnostic technology and data science.

►On the first day of the school, the representatives from organizing institutions will gather together for a press conference at the venue.

UVA researchers’ new polymer strategy shifts a centuries-old engineering paradigm with a molecular design that doesn’t sacrifice stretchability for stiffness.