2025 WPI-SKCM² Spring Symposium: Hiroshima

Date 4-5 March 2025 & 6 March Satellite Diversity Event

Venue Hiroshima International Conference Center

Register Here!
  Participants may register to present a poster

Registration Deadline Feb 17, 2025, 8:30 JST

Symposium Registration Fees
  Students: 3,000 JPY
  Professionals: 5,000 JPY
  (Symposium Fees covered for WPI-SKCM² members)

Reception Registration Fees
  4 March Evening Reception: 8,000 JPY

Join us for the annual 2025 WPI-SKCM² Spring Symposium, where world-renowned scientists and emerging researchers will gather to explore cutting-edge research in knot topology and chirality, fostering interdisciplinary exploration of their intersection and potential connections across disciplines. The scientific program will cover a diverse range of topics, including applied mathematics, quantum matter, soft matter and biological systems, as well as particle and nuclear physics and cosmology. We are greatly looking forward to bringing together diverse minds for intellectual exchange.

This year, the symposium will be held in Hiroshima City, the nearest metropolitan area to SKCM² and globally recognized as the “City of Peace.”

Quantum Matter

• Tsuyoshi Kimura (University of Tokyo)
• Joel Moore (University of California, Berkeley)

Soft Matter and Biological Systems

• Harry Laurence Anderson (University of Oxford)
• Tony Z Jia (Institute of Science Tokyo)
• Hiromasa Niinomi (Tohoku University)
• Pawel Pieranski (University of Paris-Sud)
• Jonathan Selinger (Kent State University)

Particle/Nuclear Physics & Cosmology

• Yoshitaka Hatta (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• Raphael Tieulent (ITER Organization)

Math and Applied Math

• Yasuhiko Asao (Fukuoka University)
• Motoko Kotani (Tohoku University)
• Sonia Mahmoudi (Tohoku University)
• Koya Shimokawa (Ochanomizu University)