INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the home page of the "Toshiko Yuasa" France Japan Particle Physics Laboratory (TYL-FJPPL). Information on on-going collaborative projects involving French and Japanese research teams pursuing particle and astroparticle physics, instrumentation R&D, accelerator physics and technology and several other related topics can be found here. Support for staff exchanges and joint training initiatives for students and junior staff can be applied for on a yearly basis. A general workshop is also organised annually to bring together the teams involved. Topical workshop, schools and other special events are also sponsored both in France and Japan. Please see the details below.

WHAT IS TYL-FJPPL ?

• Presentation
  
• Directors and steering committee members
  
• On-going French-Japanese collaborative projects
  
• Annual call to fund staff exchanges between France and Japan
  
• Support and promotion of students and junior researchers

2021 TYL-FJPPL / FKPPL JOINT ANNUAL WORKSHOP

Due to the pandemic, we had unfortunately to cancel the 2020 workshop in Nantes, France.
The 2021 joint TYL-FJPPL and FKPPL workshop will be organised remotely during the week 10-14 May 2021. More information to come.

2021 TYL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS TO FUND STAFF EXCHANGES

The call for submission of applications and activity reports is now open.
Submission deadline: February 12, 2021.
Details of the 2021 call can be consulted here.

JSPS Summer Program 2021

Fellowships are offered to young researchers from France to do a research internship in a Japanese laboratory during summer 2021. Are concerned: M2 students, doctoral or post-doctoral students who have defended their thesis for less than 6 years.
Details can be consulted here.
Application deadline: CLOSED since December 10, 2020.

SUPPORT FOR STUDENT STAYS IN THE PARTNER COUNTRY

Support for French students:
French CNRS offers grants (funded by JSPS) to PhD students or postdocs, having already/or going to defend their PhD thesis in France, for 12 to 24 month stays in Japan. Please see information here:
Short stays
Long stays
This call is now closed.
Deadline for submission of applications was : 2 April 2020.

Support for Japanese students:
The French Embassy in Japan calls for applications of Japanese students (grants for all levels) wishing to pursue parts of their studies in France, please check information here:
In French
In Japanese
This call is now closed.
Deadline for submission of applications was : 30 September 2019.

RECENT EVENTS

* Online ceremony of the Toshiko Yuasa Female Scientist Prize hosted by Ochanomizu University on February 15th, 2021: Dr. Sugumi Kanno, Kyushu University, and Dr. Yu Nakahama, Nagoya University, were awarded the Silver Medal.

* Ceremony of the Toshiko Yuasa Female Scientist Prize took place at Ochanomizu University on February 12th, 2020. Dr. Mika Masuzawa, researcher at KEK, Japan, was awarded the Gold medal.

* Denis PERRET-GALLIX Memorial Symposium
KEK and Toshiko Yuasa Laboratory (TYL-FJPPL) organized a symposium to celebrate the life and work of Dr. Denis Perret-Gallix (1949-2018). The symposium took place on April 2nd, 2019 from 1:30 pm at the KEK Tsukuba campus, featuring talks dedicated to the memory of Dr. Perret-Gallix. website here.
Dr. Denis Perret-Gallix conducted various collaborations between France and KEK in high energy physics. The French-Japan Particle Physics Laboratory (FJPPL), now TYL, was established in 2006, for which Denis played a leading role.

* 2019 TYL-FJPPL YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD WINNER
The winners of the 2019 TYL-FJPPL Young Investigator Award is Dr.Sviatoslav Bilokin (IPHC Strasbourg) for his innovative contribution to physics analysis and to the calorimeter of the future ILC (projects HEP-01 and HEP-07). The award was given during the TYL-FJPPL annual workshop, in Jeju, that took place in May 8-10, 2019. The ceremony included a short talk by the awardee.

* The TYL Science Camp for Female High School Students is a joint program of the TYL and KEK Gender Equality Office, organised at KEK with the aim of encouraging young Japanese female students to pursue scientific studies and careers. It involves several activities, including introductory lectures on advanced science results, casual talks by graduate students majoring in science and engineering, visits of research facilities at KEK.The last session was organised at KEK, April 3-4, 2018, in the presence of two of the TYL Directors, Prof. Junji Haba of KEK and Dr. Marc Besançon of CEA, and included a French speaker, Dr. Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille of CEA. Please read the information on the 2018 session here, in English and in Japanese.

• On the 11th of October 2017, the Ambassador of France to Japan, His Excellency Laurent Pic and his party visited KEK Tsukuba campus to attend a ceremony of raising the French national flag at the KEKB Tsukuba Laboratory, commemorating the 24th nation participating in the Belle II experiment. Please see the details.
  

TYL-FJPPL ANNUAL WORKSHOPS

• The 2019 edition took place on May 8-10 in Seogwipo KAL hotel, Jeju island, South Korea.
  

Web site of the workshop: see here.

• Previous TYL-FJPPL workshops

TYL-FJPPL INTRANET & MAILING LIST

• FJPPL Intranet for FJPPL members The Twiki FJPPL web for members only
• FJPPL Intranet for SC members The Twiki FJPPL web for Steering Committee members only

• Register to the TYL-FJPPL Twiki here: TWikiRegistration
• Register to the TYL-FJPPL mailing list: Here