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Hello, I’m Watanabe, a first-year master’s student.

Our Global Seminar started the other day.
With the new academic year underway, our lab activities have officially begun, and we’ve welcomed new B4 students as well as M1 students who transferred from other institutions.
With more members, the group has become even more lively, and we’ll do our best together by helping each other whenever we run into difficulties.

Hello! I’m Imai, a second-year master’s student (M2) starting this academic year.

The other day, our lab members had a cherry blossom viewing party. The timing was perfect—the flowers were in full bloom, and the pleasant weather made it a great way to feel the arrival of spring. Personally, I especially enjoyed the pizza—it was really delicious!

I’m looking forward to working hard in the new academic year!

Hello, I am Tao, a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor.

On March 13, 2026, I attended the Retirement Commemorative Lecture and Celebration for Professor Hiroaki Kobayashi, held at Hotel Metropolitan Sendai. On that day, many people gathered from within and outside Tohoku University, including those from academia, industry, and government, as well as collaborators, students, and alumni, providing an opportunity to reflect once again on Professor Kobayashi’s longstanding contributions to education, research, and academic exchange.

At the commemorative lecture, under the chairmanship of Professor Takizawa, we first heard opening remarks from Professor Takafumi Aoki, followed by Professor Kiyoshi Kurihara. Subsequently, there was a video message from Professor Michael Resch, lectures by Professor Shunichi Koshimura, Professor Sabine Roller, and Professor Akihiro Musa, and finally a commemorative lecture by Professor Kobayashi himself. During the group commemorative photograph session and the subsequent celebration, many people offered congratulatory speeches and presented commemorative gifts, and the event was enveloped in a warm atmosphere throughout. Through my participation this time, I was able to once again appreciate the significant achievements that Professor Kobayashi has built in research, education, and international exchange.

Hello! I’m Project Assistant Professor Tao.

From March 16 to 18, I participated in the 203rd HPC and 17th QS Joint Research Meeting at the Hokkaido University Academic Exchange Center. The meeting featured presentations on HPC systems, quantum computing, quantum-HPC integration, numerical computation, and related topics.

Project Researcher Omura from our laboratory presented “Implementation of a GPU Resource Reclamation Mechanism for Emergency Computing and Its Practical Evaluation.” Professors Takizawa and Kawai were co-authors. Additionally, Visiting Associate Professor Takahashi also participated as a co-author in “FS3.0: Research on HPCI Operational System Development Plan Looking Toward the Post-Fugaku Era.”

Overall, the meeting covered topics including HPC systems, numerical computation, accelerator computing, performance evaluation, as well as quantum annealing, block encoding, QC and HPC, qubit mapping, FTQC, Fugaku and energy efficiency, LLM utilization technologies, and Ising machines. The intersection of HPC and quantum computing, as well as the operation and integration of next-generation computing infrastructure, were key focal points of this research meeting.

Hello! This is Watanabe, a fourth-year undergraduate student.

We recently had our undergraduate thesis presentation, and Ishihara and I (both B4 students) gave our presentations. We were able to complete them successfully and had meaningful discussions with both students and professors.

Based on the valuable comments we received during the presentation, we will continue working hard on writing our undergraduate thesis and our xSIG paper.
We would like to sincerely thank all the professors and students who supported us with our research and presentation practice.