"Demon soul" contest : Winners announcement

About 2 months ago was the start of the "Demon soul" contest.

It is now time to announce the winners : 

1) Yuma Murata (Japan) for his short story "A winter day"
2) Gregory Armstrong (US) for his demon portraits.

They will each receive a signed copy of  Demon Soul


Another contest might be hold next year, stay tuned.

Japan : Japanese traditional music

En français
In Mai, I had the chance to be invited to a concert of traditional Japanese music where my friend was playing shakuhachi. The shakuhachi is a Japanese traditional wood flute. My friend was playing only at the end of the concert so I had time to first enjoy other instruments, such as koto, an very complicated string instrument.
Here is a part of the concert.
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Japan : Back to Asakusa

En français
Last Mai, just as I did the before, I went to Asakusa festival, walked from the gate to the temple, met a friend at his shop, took pictures of star cats and enjoyed the festival street food.
In Mai there are always a lot of festivals around Asakusa and they are interesting to look at.
I hope you'll enjoy the little tour of it through this video.
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Physics : Paper on a new topic

En français
It has been a long time since the last update on my research. The research previously discussed on the

CLF annual report 2009-2010 post has been pursued further leading to the publication of my first PRA paper last July. It explains in details the theory behind the "Molecular Siegert states in an electric field". We developed the Siegert states method applied to molecular system and obtained orientation-dependent and electric field-dependent energies and ionization rates for the ground state and degenerate first excited states of H₂⁺. The  results are compared with energies obtained from perturbation theory and

 the ionization rates obtained from the recently developed asymptotic theory.

The article can be found here.