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ICPS2026

The 37th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors 2026

Committees

Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair
  • Leo Esaki (The Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki)
Chair
  • Yasuhiko Arakawa (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Vice-Chairs
  • Hideo Ohno (Tohoku Univ.)
  • Seigo Tarucha (RIKEN)
Secretary general
  • Satoshi Iwamoto (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Secretaries
  • Maki Kushimoto (Nagoya Univ.)
  • Masahiro Nomura (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Honorary Members
  • Hiroshi Amano (Nagoya Univ.)
  • Tsuneya Ando (Inst. of Science Tokyo)
  • Hiroyuki Sakaki (Nara National Inst. of Higher Education and Research)
Members
  • Shuji Hasegawa (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Mutsuko Hatano (Inst. of Science Tokyo)
  • Toshiro Hiramoto (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Yoshiro Hirayama (National Inst.s for Quantum Science and Technology / Tohoku Univ.)
  • Shingo Katsumoto (Tokyo City Univ.)
  • Tsunenobu Kimoto (Kyoto Univ.)
  • Seiji Miyashita (The Physical Society of Japan)
  • Susumu Noda (Kyoto Univ.)
  • Tetsuomi Sogawa (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.)
  • Shigeaki Zaima (Meijo Univ.)

International Advisory Committee

Members
  • Israel Bar-Joseph (Weizmann Inst. of Science)
  • Shen Bo (Peking Univ.)
  • Yong-Hoon Cho (KAIST)
  • Tomasz Dietl (Inst. of Physics, PAN)
  • Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zürich)
  • Bernard Gil (Univ. of Montpellier)
  • Guang-Yu Guo (National Taiwan Univ.)
  • Pawel Hawrylak (Univ. of Ottawa)
  • Chennupati Jagadish (Australian National Univ.)
  • Belita Koiller (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
  • Donghan Lee (Chungnam National Univ.)
  • Allan MacDonald (Univ. of Texas)
  • Laurens Molenkamp (Würzburg Univ.)
  • Elisa Molinari (Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
  • Umesh Mishra (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Amalia Patane (Univ. of Nottingham)
  • Lars Samuelson (Lund Univ.)
  • Maurice Skolnick (Univ. of Sheffield)
  • Lucia Sorba (NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR)
  • Gottfried Strasser (Technical Univ. of Vienna)
  • Mike Thewalt (Simon Fraser Univ.)
  • Lieven Vandersypen (Delft Univ. of Technology)
  • Klaus von Klitzing (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung)
  • Luis Vina (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
  • Bang-fen Zhu (Tsinghua Univ.)

Steering Committee

Chair
  • Masaaki Tanaka (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Vice-Chairs
  • Mikito Koshino (The Univ. of Osaka)
Secretary
  • Shinobu Ohya (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Members
  • Le Duc Anh (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Momoko Deura (Waseda Univ.)
  • Pham Nam Hai (Inst. of Science Tokyo)
  • Kohei Hamaya (The Univ. of Osaka)
  • Masayuki Hashisaka (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Toprasertpong Kasidit (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Takuya Maeda (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Osamu Nakatsuka (Nagoya Univ.)
  • Shoichi Sato (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Kentarou Sawano (Tokyo City Univ.)
  • Takuo Tanemura (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Tomoe Yayama (Kogakuin Univ.)

Program Committee

Chair
  • Kazuhiko Hirakawa (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Vice-Chairs
  • Yoichi Kawakami (Kyoto Univ.)
  • Akira Oiwa (The Univ. of Osaka)
Secretaries
  • Tetsuo Kodera (Inst. of Science Tokyo)
  • Yasutomo Ota (Keio Univ.)

Category 1 Material growth, structural properties, and characterization (bulk, nanowires, dots)

Subcommittee Chair
  • Katsuhiro Tomioka (Hokkaido Univ.)
Members
  • Erik Bakkers (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology)
  • Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (EPFL)
  • Jinkwan Kwoen (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Emanuele Pelucchi (Tyndall National Inst.)
  • Hoe Tan (Australian National Univ.)

Category 2 Wide-bandgap semiconductors and devices

Subcommittee Chair
  • Yoichi Kawakami (Kyoto Univ.)
Members
  • Guillaume Cassabois (Univ. of Montpellier)
  • Tsunenobu Kimoto (Kyoto Univ.)
  • Takuya Maeda (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Ulrich Schwarz (TU Chemnitz)
  • Xinqiang Wang (Peking Univ.)
  • Huili Grace Xing (Cornell Univ.)

Category 3 Semiconductors for terahertz and mid infrared

Subcommittee Chair
  • Kazuhiko Hirakawa (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Members
  • Masayuki Fujita (The Univ. of Osaka)
  • Manfred Helm (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
  • Junichiro Kono (Rice Univ.)
  • Hua Li (SIMIT, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  • Miriam Vitiello (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)

Category 4 Graphene, 2D materials

Subcommittee Chair
  • Tomoki Machida (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Members
  • Goki Eda (National Univ. of Singapore)
  • Mikito Koshino (The Univ. of Osaka)
  • Mina Maruyama (Univ. of Tsukuba)
  • Yasumitsu Miyata (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
  • Rai Moriya (The Univ. of Tokyo)

Category 5 Halide perovskites and organic semiconductors

Subcommittee Chair
  • Takashi Kondo (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Members
  • Tae Woong Kim (Konkuk Univ.)
  • Hong Lin (Tsinghua Univ.)
  • Kazuteru Nonomura (The Univ. of Tokyo)
  • Tsuyoshi Sekitani (The Univ. of Osaka)

Category 6 Topological states of matter

Subcommittee Chair
  • Koji Muraki (NTT Basic Research Labs)
Members
  • Kai Chang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  • Srijit Goswami (TU Delft)
  • Jelena Klinovaja (Univ. of Basel)
  • Javad Shabani (New York Univ.)

Category 7 Spintronics, spin-related phenomena, novel spintronics materials and devices

Subcommittee Chair
  • Makoto Kohda (Tohoku Univ.)
Members
  • Haruki Sanada (NTT Basic Research Laboratory)
  • Thomas Schäpers (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
  • Junichi Shiogai (The Univ. of Osaka)
  • Jianhua Zhao (National Key Laboratory of Spintronics, Hangzhou International Innovation Inst. of Beihang Univ.)

Category 8 Low-dimensional semiconductor systems (1D, 2D)

Subcommittee Chair
  • Kensuke Kobayashi (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Members
  • Christopher Bauerle (Institut Neel - CNRS)
  • Milena Grifoni (Universität Regensburg)
  • Sadashige Matsuo (Inst. of Science Tokyo)
  • Michihisa Yamamoto (The Univ. of Tokyo)

Category 9 Quantum Hall effect, and fractional quantum Hall effect

Subcommittee Chair
  • Toshimasa Fujisawa (Inst. of Science Tokyo)
Members
  • Gabor Csathy (Purdue Univ.)
  • Preden Roulleau (CEA Saclay)
  • Naokazu Shibata (Tohoku univ.)
  • Heung-Sun Sim (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology)
  • Jun Zhu (Pennsylvania State Univ.)

Category 10 Optical properties of quantum dots and nanocrystals, optoelectronics

Subcommittee Chair
  • Takashi Kita (Kobe Univ.)
Members
  • Jen-Inn Chyi (National Taiwan Univ.)
  • Jonathan Finley (Technical Univ. of Munich)
  • Reina Kaji (Hokkaido Univ.)
  • Guyot-Sionnest Philippe (The Univ. of Chicago)
  • Jun Tatebayashi (The Univ. of Osaka)

Category 11 Nanophotonics

Subcommittee Chair
  • Masaya Notomi (Inst. of Science Tokyo)
Members
  • Takuya Inoue (Kyoto Univ.)
  • Min-Kyo Seo (KAIST)
  • Jun-ichi Takahara (The Univ. of Osaka)
  • Bo Zhen (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
  • Lei Zhou (Fudan Univ.)

Category 12 Quantum optics, quantum emitters, NV centers

Subcommittee Chair
  • Norikazu Mizuochi (Kyoto Univ.)
Members
  • Igor Aharonovich (Univ. of Technology Sydney)
  • Junko Ishi-Hayase (Keio Univ.)
  • Fedor Jelezko (Ulm Univ.)
  • Renbao Liu (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Department of Physics)

Category 13 Quantum technologies: semiconductor qubits and applications, cryo-CMOS technologies

Subcommittee Chair
  • Akira Oiwa (The Univ. of Osaka)
Members
  • Hendrik Bluhm (RWTH Aachen Univ.)
  • Xuedong Hu (Univ. at Buffalo)
  • Arne Laucht (UNSW)
  • Takashi Nakajima (RIKEN)
  • Yasuhiro Tokura (Univ. of Tsukuba)

Category 14 Semiconductor hybrid systems, nano-mechanics and phononics, novel devices

Subcommittee Chair
  • Hiroshi Yamaguchi (NTT Basic Research Laboratories)
Members
  • Seiji Akita (Osaka Metropolitan Univ.)
  • Alejandro Fainstein (CNEA Bariloche)
  • Seiya Kasai (Hokkaido Univ.)
  • Donghun Lee (Korea Univ.)
  • Xin Zhou (CNRS)