INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the home page of the "Toshiko Yuasa" France Japan Particle Physics Network (TYL-FJPPN). 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

ON-GOING OR RECENT CALLS

2025 TYL-FJPPN call for applications to fund staff exchanges

Submission deadline: March 15th, 2025.
Details of the 2025 call can be consulted here.

2026 joint FJPPN & FKPPN annual workshop

The 2026 TYL-FJPPN workshop, organised jointly with the France-Korea Particle Physics Laboratory, will take place at Hamamatsu city, Japan on 18-21 May 2026.
The workshop indico will be available soon.

2025 JSPS calls

Please see here for details.
- Postdoctoral fellowships in Japanese laboratories
JSPS offers each year postdoctoral fellowships to spend 12 to 24 months in a Japanese laboratory.
Application deadline : 12 November 2025
- Short-term stays in Japanese laboratories
JSPS also offers support for 1-12-month stays of young researchers from France who would like to visit Japanese laboratories.
Application deadline : 10 November 2025.

RECENT EVENTS

2025 joint TYL-FJPPL & FKPPL annual workshop

The 2025 TYL-FJPP workshop, organised jointly with the France-Korea Particle Physics Laboratory, has taken place at Nantes, France on 14-16 May 2025.
See the workshop web site here.
During the workshop, the Young Investigators Award was announced to be given to Shivam Joshi on her work "High Angle Time Projection Chamber projectin the context of the near detector upgrade of the T2K experiment within the NU_10 project"

2024 joint TYL-FJPPL & FKPPL annual workshop

The 2024 TYL-FJPP workshop, organised jointly with the France-Korea Particle Physics Laboratory, has taken place at KISTI (Daejeon) on 22-24 May 2024.
See the workshop web site here.
During the workshop, the Young Investigators Award was announced to be given to Lucile Mellet on her work "To the development of the time generation system for the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment within the FJPPN NU_09 project"

2024 Rikejo Camp

The13th Rikejo camp was organised jointly at KEK on 3-4 April 2024. The event website can be found here.
The Rikejo Camp is one of the FJPPN-TYL programs which invites female high school students from all over Japan to KEK to experience the cutting-edge science, aiming at promoting woman science! This year, a IJCLab-IN2P3 research Yasmine AMHIS gave a lecture!

2023 joint TYL-FJPPL & FKPPL annual workshop

The 2023 TYL-FJPP workshop, organised jointly with the France-Korea Particle Physics Laboratory, has taken place at Ochanomizu University (Tokyo) on 9-11 May 2023.
See the workshop web site here.
During the workshop, the creation of the new TYL International Research Laboratory (IRL-TYL) is signed between IN2P3 and KEK.

2022 Toshiko Yuasa Female Scientist Prize

* Ceremony of the 2022 Toshiko Yuasa Female Scientist Prize hosted by Ochanomizu University on February 14th, 2023: Dr. Hiromi Iinuma, a professor at the Ibaraki University was awarded the Silver Medal on her work "Development of new experimental methods for muon anomalous magnetic moment and electric dipole moment "

2022 joint TYL-FJPPL & FKPPL annual workshop

The 2022 TYL-FJPP workshop, organised jointly with the France-Korea Particle Physics Laboratory, has taken place on 16-18 May 2022.
See the workshop web site here.

2021 Toshiko Yuasa Female Scientist Prize

* Online ceremony of the 2021 Toshiko Yuasa Female Scientist Prize hosted by Ochanomizu University on February 15th, 2022: Dr. Mihoko Nojiri, a professor at the KEK Theory Center was awarded the Gold Medal.

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 is organised remotely on 10-12 May 2021..

2020 Online ceremony of Toshiko Yuasa Female Scientist Prize

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.

2019 Ceremony of Toshiko Yuasa Female Scientist Prize

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.

7th Rikejo Camp

* 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.

French IN2P3 joining Belle II experiment at KEK

• 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

• photo_IRL-TYL:
  

• FKPPN-FJPPN workshop 2024:
  

• Rikejo_2024:
  

• Toshiko Yuasa prize 2022:
  

• FJPPN_CDU_1July2024.pdf: pdf

• FJPPN_structure.key: keynote file

• FKJPPL workshop 2025 Nantes: