International KEK-Cosmo and APCosPA Winter School 2019 ”Primordial Black Hole” took place from 22nd through 24th January 2019 at Theory Center, IPNS, KEK. It was successful with about 50 participants attending from all over the world. Please visit

 http://research.kek.jp/people/kohri/KEKCosmo2019.htm

 for more information.

KEK Theory Workshop 2018 is taking place from Dec.17 through Dec.20, 2018.  Please visit

https://conference-indico.kek.jp/indico/event/48/

for more information.

We will host the 8th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics from Nov.13 to Nov.17, 2018. For details please visit:

http://www-conf.kek.jp/qnp2018/

The KEK Theory Center and our sister lab, Fermilab
Theory Division, had the second mini-workshop at Fermilab from September 26th to September 30th.

http://home.fnal.gov/~pjfox/KEK_FNAL_2016/KEK-FNAL2016.html

This time, in addition to the members from KEK and FNAL, we had guest speakers from U. Tokyo and Tohoku U. There were active discussions on various topics in particle physics and cosmology.

Theory center project websites are now available. Please visit

https://www2.kek.jp/theory-center/theory/project/ 

for more information.

New Physics Forum is organized for the purpose of stimulating physics research to understand the origin of elementary particles and the structure of the Universe. U. Tokyo (Hongo), ICRR (Kashiwa) and KEK (Tsukuba) will take turns providing a meeting place every month. Added under “Seminar” section.

KEK Theory Center Associate Professor Jun Nishimura was awarded 2015 Yukawa-Kimura Prize, together with Dr. Masanori Hanada, an Associated Professor (Hakubi Researcher) at Kyoto Univ. Hakubi Center.

http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kimurasho.oj/kimurasho/index_e.htm

As of Nov. 1, 2015, KEK Theory Center was officially inaugurated.

The members of the KEK Theory Center visited our sister lab, Fermilab
Theory Division, and had a mini-workshop from August 3rd to August
7th at Fermilab, USA.

http://theory.fnal.gov/seminars/KEK-FNAL2015.html

The workshop was held as one of the activities based on the MoU
between the KEK Theory Center and Fermilab Theory Division signed in
Winter 2014. The attendees from KEK are Satoshi Iso, Ryuichiro Kitano,
Teppei Kitahara, Masafumi Kurachi, Kosaku Tobioka, and Kei Yamamoto,
and they gave presentations on their recent works. The guest speakers
are also invited: Michael Dine from US Santa Cruz and David E. Kaplan
from Johns Hopkins U, and they gave presentations on exciting timely
topics such as the new/old solutions to the strong CP problem and the
new idea for solving the hierarchy problem, the relaxion. Based on
these interesting talks, participants both from KEK and Fermilab had
stimulating discussions on various topics studied in both institutes,
including the strong CP problem, supersymmetric models, the nature of
the Higgs boson, LHC physics, neutrino physics, and flavor physics.

KEK Theory Center Website has been moved to the new webserver.