External Review (2020-2025)


External Review on Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba (2020-2025)

Date February 16th (Mon), 17th (Tue), 18th (Wed), 2026
Place Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba

External Review Committee

Chair Prof. Hideo Saito (Keio University, Japan)
Vice Chair

Prof. Aiichiro Nakano (University of Southern California, USA)
 
  • Prof. Stephen R. Sharpe (Department of Physics, University of Washington, USA)
  • Prof. Eiichiro Kokubo (National Astronomical Observatory of JAPAN, Japan)
  • Prof. Morten Hjorth-Jensen (Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway)
  • Prof. Christopher Lane (College of the Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Rhode Island, USA)
  • Prof. Chuan-yao Lin (Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Prof. Kathryn Mohror (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
  • Prof. Makoto Onizuka (Osaka University, Japan)

Schedule

DAY-1  (Feb 16th)

Overview of CCS (Workshop Room)

Chair: Y. Shigeta
9:30-10:15 Welcome & Overview of CCS (Y. Shigeta, Director of CCS)
10:15-10:45 Activities and Results 2020-2025 (Y. Shigeta, Director of CCS)
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Y. Shigeta
11:00-11:45 Supercomputer Systems including Pegasus, Miyabi as JCAHPC, Sirius(PACS12.0) (O. Tatebe)
11:45-12:15 Tour to Pegasus System
12:15-13:30 Lunch (at “Tsukuba Demi”)

Activities & Collaborations of Divisions (Workshop Room)

Chair: M. Otani
13:30-14:00 REPORT: Division of Particle Physics(Y. Kuramashi)
14:00-14:30 REPORT: Division of Astrophysics (K. Ohsuga)
14:30-15:00 REPORT: Division of Nuclear Physics (T. Nakatsukasa)
15:00-15:30 Group Photo & Coffee Break
Chair: T. Amagasa
15:30-16:00 REPORT: Division of Quantum Condensed Matter Physics (M. Otani)
16:00-16:15 REPORT: Division of Life Science: Biological Function and Information Group (Y. Shigeta)
16:15-16:30 REPORT: Division of Life Science: Molecular Evolution Group  (Y. Inagaki)
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-18:30 Reception (light meal at Meeting Room A)

DAY-2 (Feb 17th)

Activities of Divisions (cont’d) (Workshop Room)

Chair: K. Ohsuga
9:30-10:00 REPORT: Division of Global Environmental Science (H. Kusaka)
10:00-10:30 REPORT: Division of High Performance Computing Systems (O. Tatebe)
10:30-11:0 REPORT: Division of Computational Informatics: Database Group (T. Amagasa)
11:00-11:30 REPORT: Division of Computational Informatics: Computational Media Group (Y. Kameda)
11:30-12:00 Activity of Project Offices 1
　• Project Office for Exascale Computational Sciences 5 min
　• Project Office for HPCI (JICFuS) 5 min
　• Project Office for AI & Big Data 5 min
　• Department of Computational Medical Science 5 min
　• Office for the Society-Academia Collaboration in Computational Sciences 5 min
12:00-13:30 Lunch 

Breakout Sessions

13:30-17:30 Division of Particle Physics
Reviewer: Stephen R. Sharpe		 Room:
D410,D411
Division of Astrophysics
Reviewer: Eiichiro Kokubo		 Room:
RoomA
Division of Nuclear Physics
Reviewer: Morten Hjorth-Jensen		 Room: 
D413
Division of Quantum Condensed Matter Physics
Reviewer: Aiichiro Nakano		 Room: 
D201
Division of Life Science
Reviewer: Christopher Lane		 Room: 
RoomB
Division of Global Environmental Science
Reviewer: Chuan-yao Lin		 Room: 
RoomC
Division of High Performance Computing Systems
Reviewer: Kathryn Mohror		 Room: 
SB911-1
Division of Computational Informatics: Database Group
Reviewer: Makoto Onizuka		 Room:
SB911-2
Division of Computational Informatics: Computational Media Group
Reviewer: Hideo Saito		 Room:
SB913
17:30-18:00 Closing of DAY2 (at Workshop Room, CCS)
19:00-21:00 Committee Meeting with Dinner

DAY-3 (Feb 18th)

Activities of Divisions (cont’d) (Workshop Room)

Chair: O. Tatebe
9:30-10:30

Activity of Project Offices 2
　• Multidisciplinary cooperative research project (MCRP) 10-20 min
　• Project Office for Exascale Computing System Development (& HAIRDESC)  10 min
　• Project Office for High Performance Computing System Development and Operation 5 min
　• Liaison Office for Multidisciplinary Computational Sciences 5 min
　• Promotion Office for Computational Sciences 5 min
　• Bureau of Public Relations and Strategy  5 min
10:30-11:00 Future Plan (Y. Shigeta, Director of CCS)
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Internal Lunch Meeting by External Review Committee

Discussion (Workshop Room)

13:00-13:40 Open Discussion and Review Summary 
13:40 Closing Remarks (H. Saito, External Review Committee)