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Hal Tasaki

Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University

If you don't know Gakushuin University (I'm sure you don't), please take a look at this short Nature article entitled "Noble halls of discovery" and also this 5 minutes video broadcasted in the APS March meeting 2023.

fields of interest: Mathematical Physics, Statistical Physics, Quantum Physics
mailing address: Department of Physics, Gakushuin University, 171-8588, JAPAN
phone: 81-3-5992-1107 (Faculty of Science)
fax: 81-3-5992-1029 (Faculty of Science)
e-mail: hal.tasaki[atmark]gakushuin.ac.jp or hal.tasaki[atmark]gmail.com (replace [atmark] with @)
Date of birth: August 28, 1959
Sep. 1986: PhD (University of Tokyo)
1986--1987: Research associate, Department of Physics, Princeton University
1987--1988: Instructor, Department of Physics, Princeton University
1988--1990: Lecturer (full time), Department of Physics, Gakushuin University
1990--1999: Associate professor, Department of Physics, Gakushuin University
1999--present: Professor, Department of Physics, Gakushuin University
1997: Ryogo Kubo Memorial Prize (the 1st recipient)

2024--present: Executive committee member of the International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP)
2018--present: Editor-in-chief of Journal of Statistical Physics
2021--present: Seriese editor of Mathematical Physics Studies (Springer) and SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics (Springer)
2022--present: Organizer of One World IAMP Mathematical Physics Seminar

2021, 2022: Selection committee member of Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (APS+AIP) Vice Chair (2021), Chair (2022)
2023--2024: Selection committee member of Henri Poincare Prize 2024 (IAMP)
2014--2021: JST CREST and PRESTO "Mathematical Modeling" Advisor

1960 1987 2008 2020 present

Current Interest

Lectures and publications

I am making some lecture videos public. Please see the ist of my online lectures.
The lecture series in 2021 on "Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases and topological indices in quantum spin chains" may be useful to some.

For my scientific papers, see my Google Scholar page.

The following is the list of my books in English.


Research Topics (obsolete!)

One of the aims of physics is to elicit "universal" properties from the world we observe (in various manners), and truly "understand" them. I have been mostly interested in various physical problems in which many (or infinitely many) degrees of freedom generate nontrivial physics, and worked on problems from such fields as statistical physics, condensed matter physics, and field theories. I have been trying to prove mathematically rigorous results which are at the same time important and enlightening from physicists' point of view.

Main topics and their detais follow. There is also a list of selected publications.

hal.tasaki@gakushuin.ac.jp