Okayama University has been selected as one of the major contributing
partners to promote research in the EU-funded international joint
project "CMB-INFLATE". The project is coordinated by the University of
Paris and the research team consists of 16 universities and research
institutes from around the world (including 4 from Japan). After a
competitive application process, the project was approved for a research
grant through the RISE Project and EU Horizon 2020 Research and
Innovation Program in February 2021. The main goal of the project is to
analyze the unique polarization pattern in the CMB (Cosmic Microwave
Background) radiation imprinted by primordial gravitational waves. It is
believed that the research will help identify the inflation mechanism
that led to the exponential expansion of space in the early universe
before the hot Big Bang.
Okayama University is represented by Professor ISHINO Hirokazu from the
Department of Physics at the Graduate School of Natural Science and
Technology and his research team,
who promote the research and development of advanced data analysis
methods to evaluate and mitigate systematic errors with the aim of
observing CMB more accurately at large angular scales. The research
team’s analysis methods have been instrumental in the LiteBIRD
project, which is a scientific satellite whose launch has been approved
by JAXA in the 2020s. Their work can be applied to various CMB
observation efforts, making it possible to “observe” the gravitational
waves present at the origin of the universe and investigate the reasons
for cosmic inflation.
The research period for CMB-INFLATE is set for 4 years and during this
time Okayama University will serve as a data analysis base, welcoming
many researchers representing institutions in France, Italy, Norway, and
other European countries to our campus to promote international joint
research.
Professor ISHINO was selected as one of the lead researchers in Okayama
University’s original project titled, “International Research Center
Formation Program to Accelerate Okayama University Reform (RECTOR)” in
2020 and we expect his numerous efforts to increase the number of
collaborative international research projects in the near future. In
addition to sharing exciting research results from "CMB-INFLATE" through
EURAEXESS, Okayama University plans to promote the expansion of
international joint research projects and activities.
○ Organizations participating in CMB-INFLATE:
University of Paris (Representative), Okayama University, Hanoi Institute of Technology, French National Center for Scientific Research, University of Ferrara, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Stockholm University, Nagoya University, SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), University of Tokyo, The Sapienza University of Rome, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of Oslo, University of Toronto, University of Cardiff, KEK (Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
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