✨ A Special Encounter at IMS, NUS! We were thrilled to meet Professor Makoto Katori (Department of Physics, Chuo University, Japan) at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, right after his captivating talk at the workshop "Conformal Field Theories: Randomness & Geometry" (18–29 May 2026)! Prof. Katori presented cutting-edge research on Stochastic Log-gases and Multiple Schramm–Loewner Evolutions, unveiling deep mathematical connections between random matrix theory, Gaussian free fields, and conformal field theory — work at the very frontier of mathematical physics and probability theory. We are proud that Prof. Katori has been a valued author and contributor with World Scientific for over 35 years! His publications with us include: 📕 Book Coherent-Anomaly Method: Mean-field, Fluctuations and Systematics M. Suzuki, X. Hu, M. Katori, A. Lipowski, N. Hatano, K. Minami & Y. Nonomura World Scientific, Singapore, 1995 Landmark book on phase transitions and critical phenomena 📖 Book Chapter Book Chapter "Phase Transitions in Contact Process and its Related Process" Makoto Katori & Norio Konno Chapter in edited volume published by World Scientific (DOI: 10.1142/2147) 🔗worldscientific.com/worldsci… 📃 Journal Papers IJMPB · 1990 Paper in International Journal of Modern Physics B, Vol. 4, 1990 Coherent-Anomaly Method applied to critical phenomena 🔗worldscientific.com/doi/10.1… MPLB · 1991 Paper in Modern Physics Letters B, Vol. 5, 1991 🔗worldscientific.com/doi/10.1… Fractals · 1996 Paper in Fractals, Vol. 4, 1996 🔗worldscientific.com/doi/10.1… Fractals · 1998 "Forest Dynamics with Canopy Gap Expansion and Stochastic Ising Model" M. Katori, S. Kizaki, Y. Terui & T. Kubo · Fractals, Vol. 6, No. 01, pp. 81–86, 1998 Interdisciplinary work connecting physics (Ising model) with tropical forest ecology 🔗worldscientific.com/doi/10.1… RMTA · 2022 "Partial Isometries, Duality, and Determinantal Point Processes" M. Katori & T. Shirai · Random Matrices: Theory and Applications, Vol. 11, No. 03, 2022 🔗worldscientific.com/doi/10.1… IJMI · 2025 "Eigenvalue and Pseudospectrum Processes Generated by Nonnormal Toeplitz Matrices with Rank 1 Perturbations" S. Morimoto, M. Katori & T. Shirai · International Journal of Mathematics for Industry, Vol. 17, No. 01, 2025 🔗worldscientific.com/doi/10.1… Prof. Katori shared a heartwarming story — his advisor, Prof. Masuo Suzuki (Tokyo University) wanted to collaborate with World Scientific because he wanted an Asian publisher that has an international reach. Stories like this remind us why we do what we do: to serve the global scientific community — and especially Asian researchers and authors — with dedication and care. We are honoured and deeply inspired. 📚 Explore more of Prof. Katori’s papers, freely accessible for a limited time at worldscientific.com #WorldScientific #WSPC #ConnectingGreatMinds #AsianPublisher #OpenAccess #NUS #IMS #ConformalFieldTheory #RandomMatricesTheoryAndApplications #RMTA #InternationalJournalOfModernPhysicsB #IJMPB #ModernPhysicsLettersB #MPLB #Fractals #FractalsJournal #InternationalJournalOfMathematicsForIndustry #IJMI #RandomMatrices #DeterminantalPointProcesses #SchrammLoewnerEvolution #MathematicalPhysics #ProbabilityTheory #StochasticProcesses #CriticalPhenomena #PhaseTransitions #ContactProcess #CoherentAnomalyMethod #IsingModel #FractalGeometry #StatisticalPhysics #CondensedMatterPhysics #Pseudospectrum #ToeplitzMatrices #GaussianFreeField #DysonBrownianMotion #ResearchExcellence #MathCommunity #PhysicsCommunity #InterdisciplinaryScience #AsianResearch #OpenScience

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 At the 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘗𝘋𝘌𝘴 at IMS, NUS, we sat down with two leading voices in stochastic analysis. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐨 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢 (@uniofwarwick ) tackled a fundamental question: when two solutions of a KPZ-type equation start from different initial conditions, do they eventually synchronise? His answer — yes, with exponential speed — builds a beautiful bridge between stochastic PDEs and the theory of positive random matrices. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐓𝐞-𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐠 (EPFL) works at the edge of what current SPDE theory can handle: the two-dimensional stochastic heat equation at criticality, where the noise is strong enough to break Gaussianity and long-range correlations reshape the behaviour of solutions entirely. Both papers freely accessible for a limited time: ▪️ worldscientific.com/doi/10.1… ▪️ worldscientific.com/doi/10.1… 📚 Prof. Wang's paper appears in 𝘙𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 (RMTA) — a World Scientific journal spanning RMT connections to probability, statistical mechanics, wireless communications, number theory, and more. Browse the latest issues here: worldscientific.com/worldsci… #WorldScientific #WSPC #Mathematics #SPDE #KPZ #RandomMatrices #StochasticAnalysis #CriticalPhenomena #ProbabilityTheory #MathematicalPhysics #IMSNUS #NUS #Singapore #OpenAccess #StochasticsandDynamics #SD #RandomMatricesTheoryandApplications #RMTA