• Oct. 4: Professor Ishii was invited to speak at 10th Asian Physics Symposium at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.
• Oct. 1: Ms. Yang (D1), Mr. Sohib (D1), Mr. Zohan (D1), Ridho (M1), Nadia M1), Adzky (M1), David (M1), Vani (M1) joined as new members.
• Apr. 1: Mr. Yamate (B4) and Mr. Yanase (B4) joined as new members.
• Apr. 1: Dr. Hana joined as a specially-appointed assistant professor. Mr. Yedija entered the doctoral program, while Inoue advanced to the master’s program.

• Mar. 22: Congratulations to Hana (D3) and Tominaga (M2) for winning the Dean's Award for the Graduate School of Science.
• Mar. 22: Hana was awarded a Doctor of Science degree; Tominaga, Juhri, and Yedija were awarded Master of Science degrees. Congratulations!
• Feb. 22: Hana (D3) published a paper as the lead author on permanent spin helix states on diamond surfaces in Appl. Phys. Express 16 023001 (2023).
• Jan. 5: A co-authored paper on the development of new computational methods for the anomalous Hall effect and Nernst effect by Prof. Ishii and three alumni who earned their doctorates at our lab was published in Physical Review B 107, 024404 (2023).
• Dec. 19: Tominaga’s (M2) paper was accepted for publication in JJAP.
• Dec. 14-16: A special lecture series on "The basics and applications of density functional theory" was given by by Professor Taisuke Ozaki, the Professor of ISSP, the university of Tokyo.
• Nov. 23: Professor Ishii was invited to speak at an online international conference hosted by Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Syifa (M2) also gave an oral presentation.
• Nov. 9: A paper co-authored by Sawahata (research collaborator), Yamaguchi (specially-appointed assistant professor), Minami (alumnus, currently a specially-appointed assistant professor at the University of Tokyo), and Professor Ishii on calculating the anomalous Hall effect and Nernst effect using localized Berry curvature in momentum space was accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B.
• Oct. 14-15: Professor Ishii gave an oral presentation at the 3rd Area Meeting on 2.5D Material Science. Shibata (D2) also participated and presented a poster.
• Oct. 1: New members joined: Miura (D1), Salsabila (D1), Ghiffari (M1), Akmal (M1), and Sulthan (M1).
• Sep. 30: Vierta, Ira, and Vidia were awarded Master of Science degrees. Congratulations!
• Sep. 23: Zhang (D1) gave an oral presentation at the 83rd Japan Society of Applied Physics Autumn Meeting at Tohoku University.
• Sep. 12-15: Morishima (M1), Juhri (M2), Shibata (D2), and Yamaguchi (specially-appointed assistant professor) presented posters at the Physical Society of Japan Fall Meeting at Tokyo Institute of Technology.
• Aug. 3-6: Juhri and Yedija gave oral presentations at the international conference IUMRS-ICYRAM 2022 (online).
• Aug. 1: A paper by Yamaguchi on first-principles calculation method development for applying electric fields to insulators using pseudo-atomic orbitals was accepted in Computer Physics Communications.
• Jul. 31-Aug. 1: Tominaga (M2) presented a poster at the international conference APAC SILICIDE 2022 (online).
• Jun. 16: Professor Ishii's research project was selected for a grant from the Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “2.5D Material Science”.
• Jun. 7: An online kickoff symposium was held for the international joint research project on data-driven design of high-performance thermoelectrics in atomic-layer and topological materials.
• May 1: Rifki Shariati joined as a specially-appointed assistant professor.
• Apr. 1: Inoue (B4) joined as a new member. Zhang advanced to the doctoral program, and Morishima advanced to the master’s program.

Oct. 01: Research Assistant Professor Dr. Naoya Yamaguchi, Ms. Sefty Unitasari (M1), Ms. Siti Amalia Sasmito(M1, double degree program, UGM), and Mr. Zhang Yaotang(Research student) joined our group.