March 1980, B.Sc University of Tokyo

March 1982, M.Sc University of Tokyo

March 1985, D.Sc. University of Tokyo

April 1985, Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ( KEK)

September 1985, Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

September 1987, Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of  North Carolina at Chapel Hill  

January 1989, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Tohoku University

December 1992, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, KEK

July 2000, Professor, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK    

Educational Background

* April, 1986 – March, 1990
      Department of Physics, University of Tokyo.
      Degrees: B.Sc (Physics)
* April, 1990 – March, 1992
      Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo.
      Degrees: M.Sc (Physics)
* April, 1992 – March, 1995
      Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo.
      Degrees: D.Sc (Physics)

Research Careers

* 1 April, 1994 – 14 August, 1995
      National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK),
      Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
* 15 August, 1995 – 31 October, 1998
      Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Assistant Professor.
* 1 November, 1998 – 31 October, 2000
      Niels Bohr Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow (for Research Abroad)
      of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
* 1 November, 2000 – 31 October, 2001
      Niels Bohr Institute, Research Assistant Professor.
* 1 November, 2001 – 31 March, 2003
      Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Assistant Professor.
* 1 April, 2003 -
      High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Associate Professor.

list of main publications

[1] M.Hanada, J.Nishimura, Y.Sekino and T.Yoneya,
“Monte Carlo studies of Matrix theory correlation functions,”
Physical Review Letters 104 (2010) 151601.

[2] M.Hanada, Y.Hyakutake, J.Nishimura and S.Takeuchi,
“Higher derivative corrections to black hole thermodynamics from
supersymmetric matrix quantum mechanics,”
Physical Review Letters 102 (2009) 191602.

[3] M.Hanada, A.Miwa, J.Nishimura and S.Takeuchi,
“Schwarzschild radius from Monte Carlo calculation of the Wilson loop
in supersymmetric matrix quantum mechanics,”　
Physical Review Letters 102 (2009) 181602.

[4] G.Ishiki, S.-W.Kim, J.Nishimura and A.Tsuchiya,
“Deconfinement phase transition in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory
on R×S3 from supersymmetric matrix quantum mechanics,”
Physical Review Letters 102 (2009) 111601.

[5] K.N.Anagnostopoulos, M.Hanada, J.Nishimura and S.Takeuchi,
“Monte Carlo studies of supersymmetric matrix quantum mechanics with
sixteen supercharges at finite temperature,”
Physical Review Letters 100 (2008) 021601.

[6] M.Hanada, J.Nishimura and S.Takeuchi,
“Non-lattice simulation for supersymmetric gauge theories in one
dimension,”
Physical Review Letters 99 (2007) 161602.

[7] T.Azuma, S.Bal, K.Nagao and J.Nishimura,
“Nonperturbative studies of fuzzy spheres in a matrix model
with the Chern-Simons term”,
Journal of High Energy Physics 0405 (2004) 005.

[8] J.Ambjorn, K.N.Anagnostopoulos, J.Nishimura and J.J.Verbaarschot,
“The factorization method for systems with a complex action:
A test in Random Matrix Theory for finite density QCD”,
Journal of High Energy Physics 0210 (2002) 062.

[9] J.Nishimura and F.Sugino,
“Dynamical generation of four-dimensional space-time
in the IIB matrix model”,
Journal of High Energy Physics 0205 (2002) 001.

[10] K.N.Anagnostopoulos and J.Nishimura,
“New approach to the complex-action problem and
its application to a nonperturbative study of superstring theory”,
Physical Review D 66 (2002) 106008.

[11] J.Nishimura and G.Vernizzi,
“Brane world generated dynamically from string type IIB matrices”,
Physical Review Letters 85 (2000) 4664.

[12] J.Ambjorn, K.N.Anagnostopoulos, W.Bietenholz, T.Hotta and
J.Nishimura,
“Monte Carlo studies of IIB matrix model at large N”,
Journal of High Energy Physics 0007 (2000) 011.

[13] J.Ambjorn, Y.M.Makeenko, J.Nishimura and R.J.Szabo,
“Lattice gauge fields and discrete noncommutative Yang-Mills theory”,
Journal of High Energy Physics 0005 (2000) 023.

[14] J.Ambjorn, K.N.Anagnostopoulos, W.Bietenholz, T.Hotta and
J.Nishimura,
“Large N dynamics of dimensionally reduced 4D SU(N)
super Yang-Mills theory”,　
Journal of High Energy Physics 0007 (2000) 013.

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