Ishino Lab., Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Okayama University
Léo Modart and Loaëc Paol, currently with us as interns from Grenoble Institute of Technology, gave their midterm presentations. They’ve been working steadily day by day, and their results are gradually taking shape. We’re excited to see what comes next.
On the same day, we were delighted to welcome Guillaume Patanchon, who offered warm advice and many helpful suggestions on our research. We are grateful for his visit.
Assistant Professor Ryota Takaku participated in the Low Temperature Detectors Conference 2025 (LTD 2025) held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from June 1 to 6. He gave a poster presentation titled “Development of Electron Neutrino Detectors Using MKID and Indium Targets with Micro‑Machined Mask,” introducing our research and engaging in lively discussions with conference participants.
From June 25 to 27, 2025, Kento (a first-year master’s student) and Assistant Professor Takaku visited the Matsumura Laboratory at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo. During their stay they used a pulsed-laser machining system to prototype sapphire masks for MKID development, and exchanged ideas about their research with the laboratory’s students. The visit proved extremely rewarding, providing great inspiration for driving their future work forward.
(Kento explaining his research.)
As internship students from Grenoble Institute of Technology, Léo Modart (left) and Loaëc Paol (right) will be staying in our laboratory for three months.
We are pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Takaku has joined the Astrophysics Research Laboratory at Okayama University. Expectations are high for the further advancement of astrophysics research. Under this new leadership, the laboratory aims to achieve even greater development.
(In the photo, Assistant Professor Takaku is the second person from the right in the front row.)
On April 24, 2025, first-year doctoral student Ikuma attended the OU-SPRING certificate presentation ceremony held at the 50th Anniversary Commemoration Hall on the Tsushima Campus. OU-SPRING is a JST SPRING-selected initiative that provides research incentive grants and other support to doctoral students, aiding their research and career development. The ceremony was also featured in the “Latest News” section of the university’s official website.
Our lab members went to the Okayama Sakura Carnival and enjoyed a cherry blossom viewing while admiring the beautiful blossoms. In addition, the fourth-year undergraduate students—Ueyama, Hattori, and Fukushima—who joined us this April participated for the first time, and we all had a wonderful time together.
Our laboratory’s Yusuke Takase (third year of the doctoral program, graduating in 2025) was selected from among the doctoral graduates of the Graduate School of Natural Science at Okayama University for the 2024 academic year, in recognition of his outstanding academic performance and character. We extend our heartfelt congratulations.
From March 24 to 28, 2025, he stayed at IRAP in Toulouse, France. During his visit, he discussed the LiteBIRD project and its science with Ludovic Montier (the person on the left in the photo), an IRAP researcher leading LiteBIRD’s European team, as well as with Anthony J. Banday and others, thereby clarifying the future direction and pending tasks. It was an extremely fruitful week.。
Takase from our laboratory has completed the doctoral program, and Namikuma and Omae have completed their master’s program. We sincerely commend their hard work and achievements to date, and we look forward to their continued success in the future. Congratulations!
