Labs in Nagoya University

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The lab observes building vibrations to nurture earthquake-resilient communities and people.

The Tobita Lab studies earthquake engineering and community disaster prevention, centered on observing and monitoring building vibrations. Together with the Mori Lab and the Nagae Lab, it forms the Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Prevention Group, which trains students as a research division of architectural structural engineering. To reduce earthquake damage, the group works on three aspects: research (koto), systems and devices (mono), and raising disaster-prevention awareness and education (hito).

#Vibration monitoring #Earthquake engineering #Community disaster prevention

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The lab reads how buildings shake in earthquakes from the relationship between the ground and structures.

The Mori Lab studies earthquake-resistant structures, earthquake engineering, and earthquake disaster prevention. Its specialties are building foundation structures and the dynamic interaction in which the ground and a building influence each other; the lab analyzes how buildings shake during earthquakes. Together with the Tobita Lab and the Nagae Lab, it forms the Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Prevention Group, which trains students as a research division of architectural structural engineering.

#Earthquake-resistant structures #Foundation structures #Dynamic soil-structure interaction

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The lab studies the seismic performance of super high-rise buildings and construction methods that withstand earthquakes.

The Nagae Lab specializes in building structures and studies earthquake engineering to make buildings more resistant to earthquakes. For reinforced concrete and steel buildings, it investigates seismic performance using records of full-scale shake table tests and numerical analysis. Its main themes are evaluating the seismic performance of super high-rise buildings and developing retrofit measures, and developing easy-to-build, economical high-seismic-performance construction methods together with design methods for them.

#Earthquake engineering #Building structures #Skyscrapers

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The lab studies reinforced concrete buildings from both structural and materials perspectives.

The Concrete Engineering Lab studies construction materials and the structural safety of buildings made of reinforced concrete. A group that investigates structures and a group that investigates materials carry out research together. The lab places importance on students gaining a real, hands-on understanding of how structures fail, through experiments in which large test specimens are broken. Another feature of the lab is its emphasis on working together as a team.

#Reinforced concrete structures #Earthquake engineering #Building materials science

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The lab explores the structures and properties of molecules with π electrons and applies them to battery electrode materials.

The group studies the structures of organic molecules and metal complexes with extended π electrons, and the electrical and magnetic properties that arise from them. The lab synthesizes not only classical porphyrins but also isomers with different structures and contracted and expanded porphyrinoids, and investigates the properties of each individual molecule. The focus of recent research is developing these molecules as organic electrode materials for secondary batteries. The lab is part of Nagoya University's international program (G30) and recruits undergraduate and graduate students from overseas.

#Porphyrins #Organic electrode materials #Secondary batteries

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The lab studies disaster mitigation to prepare for flood and storm surge damage.

The Tashiro Lab specializes in river engineering and applied ecological engineering, and studies disaster mitigation measures against flood and sediment disasters as well as river and watershed environments. The lab belongs to an industry-academia joint research division on lifeline disaster prevention at the Disaster Mitigation Research Center. It works on flood analysis that takes into account buildings, roads, and even underground sewer facilities, and on crisis management planning to prepare for giant typhoons. Aiming for a safe and secure society that coexists with nature, the lab also works on building community-level disaster mitigation systems in cooperation with industry, government, and the public.

#River engineering #Applied ecological engineering #Flood crisis management

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A research group that explores the atomic structure of complex materials through large-scale first-principles calculations.

The lab uses first-principles calculations to clarify the atomic-scale structures and properties of matter and materials. First-principles calculations are computationally very expensive, which has made it difficult to handle large, complex systems containing many atoms. Together with a group in the UK, the lab has developed its own computational method and program that can handle large systems, and uses them to study defects, surfaces and interfaces, and nanostructured materials. Students can join the lab from graduate school. Research is carried out at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki.

#First-principles calculations #Order-N methods #Machine learning

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Research on quantum groups over noncommutative spaces, studied through operator algebras.

Prof. Arano studies operator algebras and, from that standpoint, quantum groups. An operator algebra can be thought of as a "noncommutative version" of the algebra formed by continuous functions on a space. Studying the group structure on such a "noncommutative space" is quantum group theory in the sense of operator algebras. Centered on the representation theory and topological aspects of quantum groups, the professor also works on the classification of group actions and on tensor categories.

#Operator algebras #Quantum groups #Tensor categories

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Research analyzing the mathematical structures at the foundation of superstring theory.

Prof. Awata studies the mathematical structures of quantum field theories, including superstring theory. Superstring theory is considered a leading candidate for a theory that explains interactions, including gravity, in a unified way. To grasp the new geometric and algebraic structures essential to understanding it, the lab analyzes the underlying mathematics. The lab studies the representation theory of infinite-dimensional algebras such as the Virasoro algebra, and the properties of Jack polynomials and Macdonald polynomials.

#Quantum field theory #Representation theory of infinite-dimensional algebras #Symmetric functions