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

Activities & Collaborations of Divisions (Workshop Room)

Chair:
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:
15:30-16:00	REPORT: Division of Quantum Condensed Matter Physics (M. Otani)
16:00-16:30	REPORT: Division of Life Science: Biological Function and Information Group  (Y. Shigeta and Y. Inagaki)
16:30-17:00	REPORT: Division of Life Science: Molecular Evolution Group  (Y. Inagaki)
17:15-18:30	Reception (at Meeting Room A)

DAY-2 (Feb 17th)

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

Chair:
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（5 min for each）
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:  Reviewer: Makoto Onizuka, Hideo Saito	Room: SB911-2
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:
9:30-10:30	Activity of Project Offices 2 (5 min for each, 10 min for MCRP)
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)