Seminar/Colloquium Archive

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Satoshi Shirai (UC Berkeley)
Title:	Model Discrimination at the LHC
Date:	Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Thomas Flacke (Michigan U., MCTP & Wurzburg U)
Title:	Precision constraints on UED models and implications for the LHC
Date:	Fri, Dec 16, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	562.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Marja Hanussek (U Bonn)
Title:	Probing neutrino masses in the baryon triality cMSSM at sqrt(s)=7 TeV
Date:	Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Adam Falkowski (Laboratoire de Physique Theorique d'Orsay)
Title:	Spinning the Top
Date:	Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 13:30 - 14:40
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	589.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Chris Hirata (Caltech)
Title:	Understanding the cosmic recombination epoch
Date:	Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Naoyuki Tamura (SUBARU (NAOJ))
Title:	Subaru fiber multi-object spectroscopy: current & future instruments for large census in astronomy
Date:	Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	588.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Fanky Wong (U Hong Kong)
Title:	Gravitational lensing in a dark matter free braneworld model
Date:	Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	549.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Omar Benvenuto (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
Title:	Signals of Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in Astrophysical Environments
Date:	Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	555.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)
Title:	Challenges of neutrino oscillation physics
Date:	Wed, Nov 30, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	(includes review)

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Sharon Rapoport (Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University)
Title:	Gravitational Lensing as the Source of Enhanced Strong MgII Absorption Towards Gamma-Ray Bursts
Date:	Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	528.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	John Kehayias (IPMU)
Title:	Discrete R-Symmetries and Generalized Gaugino Condensation (and Three Generations)
Date:	Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jens Chluba (Toronto)
Title:	Signals from the cosmological recombination era and spectral distortions of the CMB
Date:	Thu, Nov 17, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	559.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Richard Hill (Chicago)
Title:	Universal behavior in the scattering of heavy, weakly interacting dark matter on nuclear targets
Date:	Tue, Nov 15, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jean-Philippe Uzan (IAP)
Title:	Testing the equivalence principle: the link between constants, gravitation and cosmology
Date:	Thu, Nov 10, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	515.pdf
Remarks:	References [1] J.-P. Uzan, Liv. Rev. Relat. 4, 2 (2011) [2] J.-P. Uzan and B. Leclercq, De l'importance d'etre une constante (Dunos, 2005); translated in English by (Springer, 2009). [3] P. Peter and J.-P. Uzan, Primordial cosmology (Oxford University Press, 2009) [4] K.A. Olive, M. Peloso, and J.-P. Uzan, The wall of fundamental constants, Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 043509.

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Valeri Frolov (Alberta)
Title:	Spinoptics in a stationary spacetime
Date:	Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	534.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Johannes Andersen and Birgitta Nordstrom (The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
Title:	The Origin of the Elements in the Universe
Date:	Fri, Oct 28, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Chunshan Lin (IPMU)
Title:	A Matter Bounce By Means of Ghost Condensation
Date:	Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	522.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Amanda E. Bauer (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Title:	Linking Star Formation Histories with Galaxy Assembly
Date:	Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Bunyo Hatsukade (Kyoto U.)
Title:	Millimeter Survey of Distant Dusty Starburst Galaxies
Date:	Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	527.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Shin'ichiro Ando (Amsterdam)
Title:	Gamma-ray probes of dark matter annihilation
Date:	Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	503.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Biplob Bhattacherjee (IPMU)
Title:	Jet substructure and new physics searches at the LHC.
Date:	Thu, Oct 06, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	523.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Tristan Smith (UC Berkeley)
Title:	Looking for cracks in the standard cosmological model: neutrinos and non-Gaussianity
Date:	Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	512.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jason Rhodes (NASA JPL)
Title:	WFIRST and Euclid
Date:	Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	501.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay (KIAS)
Title:	Aspects of Higgs searches in CP-violating MSSM at the Large Hadron Collider
Date:	Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	502.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Olivier Dore (NASA JPL)
Title:	Planck Early Measurements of the Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies
Date:	Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	500.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Thomas Greif (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics)
Title:	The formation of the first stars and galaxies
Date:	Thu, Aug 25, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Seong-Chan Park (Chonnam National University )
Title:	Super-Planckian scattering at the LHC
Date:	Wed, Aug 24, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	514.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Kathryn Zurek (U Michigan)
Title:	Asymmetric Dark Matter
Date:	Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	491.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Suet-Ying Mak (Daisy, University of Southern California)
Title:	Constraints on modified gravity from future surveys
Date:	Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	499.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jean Coupon (Tohoku U.)
Title:	New insights on galaxy evolution since z ~ 1.2 from the CFHT Legacy Survey
Date:	Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	494.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Yuichiro Nakai (YITP)
Title:	Inflation in Gauge Mediation and Gravitino Dark Matter
Date:	Wed, Jul 27, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	488.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masami Ouchi (ICRR)
Title:	Probing the Epoch of Reionization
Date:	Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	493.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Clifford Cheung (Berkeley)
Title:	Signs of a Hidden Sector from Supersymmetry(s)
Date:	Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	477.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Eiichiro Komatsu (Texas)
Title:	Cosmic Near Infrared Background
Date:	Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Takamitsu Tanaka (Columbia University / Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
Title:	Modeling the Electromagnetic Signature of Merging Supermassive Black Holes
Date:	Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Kimitate Hayasaki and Takamitsu Tanaka give two 40 minute talks. Talk 1: Kimitake Hayasaki (Kyoto University) Talk 2: Takamitsu Tanaka (Columbia University / Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Kimitake Hayasaki (Kyoto University)
Title:	A Road to Supermassive Black Hole Merger
Date:	Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	490.pdf
Remarks:	Kimitate Hayasaki and Takamitsu Tanaka give two 40 minute talks. Talk 1: Kimitake Hayasaki (Kyoto University) Talk 2: Takamitsu Tanaka (Columbia University / Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Anzhong Wang (Baylor U)
Title:	Anisotropic scalings and a theory of quantum gravity
Date:	Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Morimitsu Tanimoto (Niigata U.)
Title:	Impact of Large \theta_{13} on Flavor Physics
Date:	Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	487.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jiro Soda (Kyoto)
Title:	Statistical Symmetry Breaking in the CMB
Date:	Wed, Jun 29, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	469.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masamune Oguri (IPMU)
Title:	Dark matter distribution in clusters from strong+weak lensing
Date:	Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masahito Ueda (U Tokyo)
Title:	Maxwell's Demon: Introduction to Information Thermodynamics
Date:	Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Marco Valdes (Pisa)
Title:	The high-z interplay between annihilating DM and the IGM
Date:	Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	463.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Murray Brightman (MPE)
Title:	An X-ray - infrared study of AGN unification and selection
Date:	Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	475.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Alexander Vikman (CERN)
Title:	Cosmology, Scalar Fields and Hydrodynamics
Date:	Fri, Jun 03, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	461.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	John Silverman (IPMU)
Title:	(Astro)-supercolliders: growing black holes in galaxy mergers
Date:	Thu, Jun 02, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jacob Bourjaily (Princeton)
Title:	Quantum Field Theory and the Analytic S-Matrix, Redux
Date:	Wed, Jun 01, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	456.pdf
Remarks:	1.5 hr

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Adam Amara (ETH-Zurich)
Title:	Gravitational Lenses of the Dark Universe
Date:	Thu, May 26, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	465.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Junichi Tanaka (U Tokyo)
Title:	Recent results from ATLAS at the LHC
Date:	Wed, May 25, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Takahiro Tanaka (YITP)
Title:	Natural selection of inflationary vacuum required by infra-red regularity and gauge-invariance.
Date:	Wed, May 18, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masahiro Takada (IPMU)
Title:	Information content in cosmological observables
Date:	Thu, Apr 28, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Takashi Moriya (IPMU)
Title:	Supernova Explosions in Dense Circumstellar Medium
Date:	Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	450.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Yoshitaka Hatta (Tsukuba U.)
Title:	Jets at weak and strong coupling
Date:	Wed, Apr 20, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	446.pdf
Remarks:	1.5 hr

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Keiichi Maeda (IPMU)
Title:	Asymmetry in Type Ia Supernovae: An Origin of Their Observational Diversities?
Date:	Thu, Apr 14, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	449.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masayuki Tanaka (IPMU)
Title:	A new method to identify AGNs and the nature of low-luminosity AGNs
Date:	Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Norimi Yokozaki (Hongo, Tokyo)
Title:	Soft Leptogenesis and Gravitino Dark Matter in Gauge Mediation
Date:	Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	447.pdf
Remarks:	start time subject to change

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Eibun Senaha (NCTS)
Title:	Electroweak baryogenesis in the MSSM revisited
Date:	Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	445.pdf
Remarks:	start time subject to change

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Ezequiel Treister (University of Hawaii)
Title:	Super-massive Black Holes Across the Cosmic History
Date:	Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	439.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Hajime Sugai (Kyoto U)
Title:	Active galaxies observed with integral field spectroscopy
Date:	Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	440.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Yusei Koyama (U. Tokyo)
Title:	Panoramic mapping of star formation in and around distant clusters of galaxies
Date:	Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	419.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Norikazu Yamada (KEK)
Title:	Search for Walking Technicolor theory using Lattice
Date:	Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 13:00 - 14:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	434.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Elena Sorokina (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)
Title:	Supernova Explosions inside Carbon-Oxygen Circumstellar Shells
Date:	Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	413.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Stefano Liberati (SISSA, Trieste)
Title:	Quantum Gravity phenomenology: achievements and challenges
Date:	Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 13:00 - 14:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	412.ppt

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Melina Bersten (IPMU)
Title:	Comparing Hydrodynamic Models with Observations of Type II Plateau Supernovae
Date:	Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	380.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Andrea Ferrara (Scuda Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Title:	First Stars and their Local Relics
Date:	Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	418.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Fuminobu Takahashi (IPMU)
Title:	Another dark component of the Universe
Date:	Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 13:00 - 14:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	402.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Gaston Folatelli (IPMU)
Title:	Distance Precision with Type Ia Supernovae
Date:	Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	381.pdf