Interview with Foreign Researchers
We asked some foreign researchers who attended the satellite workshops about their impression of
the workshops and Japanese young researchers.
Volker Schauer
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Q1: Please tell us about your research briefly.
In my research, I create algorithms in order to calculate the electronic structure of clusters of atoms with the finite element method. In general such localized basis functions provide advantages in the efficiency on modern parallel hardware architectures.
Q2: How did you feel when you attended the satellite workshop in Tokyo?
The satellite meeting was an excellent chance to share my research ideas with other young international researchers,working on similar topics.Especially the speakers and topics were thereby well choosen to give a nice overview over the newly developing real space methods in electronic structure calculations - so I enjoyed the seminar very much.
Q3: What is your impression about young researchers in Japan during your stay?
Young researchers seem to find an excellent accademic environment in Japan, which provides various opportunities, as for example it is done by the CMSI.
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Mikael Lund
Lund University, Sweden
Q1: Please tell us about your research briefly.
In the statistical mechanical group at Department of Theoretical Chemistry in Lund, we study materials such clay, cement, and cellulose fibres. We are also interested in more bio-oriented applications such as protein-protein interactions. Our main tools are Monte Carlo and atomistic molecular dynamics simulations as well as classical polymer density functional theory.
Q2: How did you feel when you attended the satellite workshop in Nagoya?
Due to the relatively small number of people at the Nagoya meeting, the discussions were informal and much more lively than at bigger conferences. This, combined with a diverse range of speakers of all ages and from different disciplines, made this meeting a very awarding experience for me and led to a collaboration with Kyoto University.
Q3: What is your impression about young researchers in Japan during your stay?
This was my first time in Japan and to be honest I didn't quite know what to expect other than high scientific quality. From the two meetings I attended I was very impressed by the level of research by the young researchers ̶ especially the concerted efforts to maximize performance on the K computer.
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Glen B. Evenbly
California Institute of Technology, USA
Q1: Please tell us about your research briefly.
My research is focused on the development and application of tensor network methods for the efficient simulation of quantum many body systems. In particular, I do a lot of work with a class of tensor network known as the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz, and study its application to quantum critical systems.
Q2: How did you feel when you attended the satellite workshop in Kobe?
The Kobe meeting was attended by a variety of recognized figures from the tensornetwork community, both locally and from abroad. It was interesting to learn ofthe latest developments happening in tensor networks.
Q3: What is your impression about young researchers in Japan during your stay?
The young researchers I met in Kobe seemed enthusiastic and eager to learn, I had good experiences discussing my research with them, and learning of their own research.
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Vladimir Kazeev
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Q1: Please tell us about your research briefly.
I study the possibility of finding and representing solutions of large-scale problems in terms of relatively few parameters with the use of so-called tensor decompositions. The aim is achieving highly adaptive representations of this kind in computations and grounding them mathematically.
Q2: How did you feel when you attended the satellite workshop in Kobe?
The meeting was very inspiring in terms of the location, scope and participants.In the heart of the Japanese high-performance computing facilities. On important current topics in the numerical simulation of quantum systems. With experts of the field and eager young researchers.
Q3: What is your impression about young researchers in Japan during your stay?
The work presented by young researchers demonstrates a high scientific level and remarkable diligence. Also, I particularly appreciated the effort they made to let us enjoy an internationally-friendly professional environment on the Japanese soil.
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