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Education

Courses

FY2026
Fall semester: Fundamentals of Information and Computational Science (Q3), Computational Science (Q4), Computational Science Experiments 2A/B (Q3 or Q4), Computational Condensed Matter Theory a (Q3), b (Q4).
Spring semester: Computational Experiments 1A (Q1), Nanoscience (Q1, Q2), Computational Materials Science (graduate course, intensive lectures in September).
FY2025
Fall semester: Fundamentals of Information and Computational Science (Q3), Computational Science (Q4), Computational Science Experiments 2A/B (Q3 or Q4), Computational Condensed Matter Theory a (Q3), b (Q4).
Spring semester: Computational Experiments 1A (Q1), Nanoscience (Q1, Q2), Computational Materials Science (graduate course, intensive lectures in September).
FY2024
Fall semester: Fundamentals of Information and Computational Science (Q3), Computational Science (Q4), Computational Science Experiments 2A/B (Q3 or Q4), Computational Condensed Matter Theory a (Q3), b (Q4).
Spring semester: Computational Experiments 1A (Q1), Nanoscience (Q1, Q2), Computational Materials Science (graduate course, intensive lectures in September).

Course histories are available on the Japanese education page.

Courses Related to Thesis Research

Past thesis titles are listed on the thesis page.

Reading Seminars (Fourth-Year Undergraduate and Master’s Students)

The following books and lecture notes were studied in the spring semester of each academic year. English titles of Japanese books below are translations.

FY2026
Makoto Okazaki, Quantum Mechanics of Matter (new edition), Iwanami Shoten, 2021 (Japanese).
FY2025
M. Cohen and S. Louie, Modern Condensed Matter Physics, translated into Japanese by Takashi Odagaki, Takashi Yoshidome, and Tsuyoshi Okubo, Yoshioka Shoten, 2021.
FY2024
Yasuhiro Iye, Superconductivity, Asakura Publishing, 2005 (Japanese).
FY2023
Kenji Fukushima and Hosho Katsura, Introduction to Physics and Deep Learning from the Basics: Hands-on Practice with Python, Kagaku Joho Shuppan, 2022 (Japanese).
FY2022
Hiroaki Kusunose, Spin and Orbit, Kodansha Scientific, 2019 (Japanese).
Tomotoshi Nishino, Understanding Quantum Computers at Last, Kodansha, 2015 (Japanese).
FY2021
Yukito Iba, Bayesian Statistics and Statistical Physics, Iwanami Shoten, 2013 (Japanese).
FY2020
Akio Tomiya, A First Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning (lecture notes, Japanese).
FY2019
Shingo Katsumoto, Quantum Transport Properties of Semiconductors, Baifukan, 2014 (Japanese).
FY2017 and FY2016
Aritomo Kawabata, Solid State Physics, Asakura Publishing, 2007 (Japanese).
FY2015
Walter A. Harrison, Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids, Dover Publications, New York, 1989.
FY2014
Seigo Kishino, Fundamentals of Modern Semiconductor Devices, Ohmsha, 1995 (Japanese).
FY2013 and FY2012
Makoto Okazaki, Quantum Mechanics of Matter, Iwanami Shoten, 1995 (Japanese).
FY2011
Aritomo Kawabata, Solid State Physics, Asakura Publishing, 2007 (Japanese).
FY2010 and FY2009
Makoto Okazaki, Quantum Mechanics of Matter, Iwanami Shoten, 1995 (Japanese).
FY2008
Hiroyuki Shiba, Fundamentals of Solid State Physics, Baifukan, 2007 (Japanese).
FY2007 and FY2006
Makoto Okazaki, Quantum Mechanics of Matter, Iwanami Shoten, 1995 (Japanese).