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Seminar/Colloquium Archive

Special Seminar (topological string seminar)
Speaker: Constantin Teleman (UC Berkeley)
Title: The structure of 2D semi-simple field theories more
Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 15:30 - 17:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Topological string seminar)
Speaker: Constantin Teleman (UC Berkeley)
Title: Lie group actions on linear categories more
Date: Mon, Dec 13, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Tea Break 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (Topological String Seminar)
Speaker: Masahide Shimizu (Hokkaido U)
Title: Open mirror symmetry for Pfaffian Calabi-Yau manifold more
Date: Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 17:00 - 20:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Break for 18:00-19:00
Special Seminar (Mathematics)
Speaker: Toshiyuki Kobayashi (U Tokyo)
Title: Analysis on Minimal Representations more
Date: Thu, Dec 09, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (DMM (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence) seminar )
Speaker: Alexey Bondal (IPMU/Aberdeen)
Title: Degeneration of minuscule varieties, quiver toric varieties and mirror symmetry. more
Date: Wed, Dec 08, 2010, 13:00 - 15:00
Place: Balcony A
Special Seminar (DMM seminar)
Speaker: Takeo Nishinou (Tohoku U)
Title: Toric degeneration and tropical curves more
Date: Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Special seminars on The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF))
Speaker: Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)
Title: The Next Generation Transient Facility more
Date: Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 14:00 - 15:00
Place: Lecture Hall
Special Seminar (Special seminars on The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF))
Speaker: Robert Quimby (Caltech)
Title: Charting the Transient Sky: The Palomar Transient Factory more
Date: Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 13:00 - 14:00
Place: Lecture Hall
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Krzysztof Gawedzki (ENS-Lyon)
Title: Global Gauge Anomalies in Two Dimensions more
Date: Wed, Dec 01, 2010, 16:00 - 17:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence seminar)
Speaker: Osamu Iyama (Nagoya U)
Title: Calabi-Yau triangulated categories and Cluster tilting more
Date: Tue, Nov 30, 2010, 10:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: The first part ends at 12:00.
The second part starts at 15:30.
Special Seminar (IPMU Komaba Seminar)
Speaker: Scott Carnahan (IPMU)
Title: Borcherds products in monstrous moonshine. more
Date: Mon, Nov 29, 2010, 16:30 - 18:00
Place: Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus
Special Seminar (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence seminar)
Speaker: Osamu Iyama (Nagoya University)
Title: Calabi-Yau triangulated categories and Cluster tilting more
Date: Mon, Nov 29, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: break between 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (IPMU Komaba Seminar)
Speaker: Tomoo Matsumura (Cornell University)
Title: Hamiltonian torus actions on orbifolds and orbifold-GKM theorem (joint work with T. Holm) more
Date: Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 14:40 - 16:10
Place: Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus
Special Seminar (DMM seminar)
Speaker: Yukiko Konishi (Kyoto University)
Title: Local B-model and mixed Hodge structure more
Date: Mon, Nov 22, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (The IPMU Lectures on Theoretical Physics)
Speaker: Domenico Orlando (IPMU)
Title: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz: recent developments more
Date: Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo, Department of Physics, room 233
Remarks: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz

October, 1st 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical system and the original Bethe solution for the XXX1/2 spin chain

October, 8th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 5th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical spectrum for the XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 12th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the XXZ spin chain and the SL(2)q quantum symmetry

November, 19th 2010. 15:30-17:00
recent developments
Special Seminar (Mirror Symmetry for Miniscule Varieties)
Speaker: Alexey Bondal (IPMU/Aberdeen)
Title: Mirror Symmetry for Minuscule Varieties more
Date: Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 10:30 - 12:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Special Seminar (topological string seminar)
Speaker: Marco Baumgartl (LMU, Munich)
Title: D-Brane Superpotentials: A Worldsheet Perspective more
Date: Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Tea break for 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (The IPMU Lectures on Theoretical Physics)
Speaker: Domenico Orlando (IPMU)
Title: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz: the XXZ spin chain and the SL(2)q quantum symmetry more
Date: Fri, Nov 12, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo, Department of Physics, room 233
Remarks: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz

October, 1st 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical system and the original Bethe solution for the XXX1/2 spin chain

October, 8th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 5th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical spectrum for the XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 12th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the XXZ spin chain and the SL(2)q quantum symmetry

November, 19th 2010. 15:30-17:00
recent developments
Special Seminar (The IPMU Lectures on Theoretical Physics)
Speaker: Domenico Orlando (IPMU)
Title: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz: the physical spectrum for the XXX1/2 spin chain more
Date: Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo, Department of Physics, room 233
Remarks: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz

October, 1st 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical system and the original Bethe solution for the XXX1/2 spin chain

October, 8th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 5th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical spectrum for the XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 12th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the XXZ spin chain and the SL(2)q quantum symmetry

November, 19th 2010. 15:30-17:00
recent developments
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Luca Ciotti (Bologna)
Title: Tidal fields, stellar escape from galaxies in clusters more
Date: Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Luca Ciotti (Bologna)
Title: Physical processes on stellar dynamics (relaxation, dynamical friction, phase-space consistency, etc) more
Date: Thu, Nov 04, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Special Seminar (Mathematics)
Speaker: Raphael Ponge (U Tokyo)
Title: Fefferman's program on conformal geometry and the Green functions of the conformal powers of the Laplacian more
Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (IPMU Komaba Seminar)
Speaker: Todor Milanov (IPMU)
Title: Quasi-modular forms and Gromov--Witten theory of elliptic orbifold P^1 more
Date: Mon, Oct 18, 2010, 16:30 - 18:00
Place: Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Yifung (Bess) Ng (Case Western Reserve University)
Title: The magnetized universe via CMB more
Date: Thu, Oct 14, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (DMM seminar)
Speaker: Richard Eager (UC Santa Barbara)
Title: Quivers, Non-Commutative Geometry, and AdS/CFT more
Date: Thu, Oct 14, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Remarks: Break 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (The IPMU Lectures on Theoretical Physics)
Speaker: Domenico Orlando (IPMU)
Title: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz: the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for XXX1/2 spin chain more
Date: Fri, Oct 08, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo, Department of Physics, room 233
Remarks: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz

October, 1st 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical system and the original Bethe solution for the XXX1/2 spin chain

October, 8th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 5th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical spectrum for the XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 12th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the XXZ spin chain and the SL(2)q quantum symmetry

November, 19th 2010. 15:30-17:00
recent developments
Special Seminar (DMM seminar)
Speaker: Nathan Broomhead (Leibniz University)
Title: Dimer models and noncommutative crepant resolutions more
Date: Mon, Oct 04, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (The IPMU Lectures on Theoretical Physics)
Speaker: Domenico Orlando (IPMU)
Title: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz: the physical system and the original Bethe solution for the XXX1/2 spin chain more
Date: Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo, Department of Physics, room 233
Remarks: Lectures on the Bethe Ansatz

October, 1st 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical system and the original Bethe solution for the XXX1/2 spin chain

October, 8th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 5th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the physical spectrum for the XXX1/2 spin chain

November, 12th 2010. 15:30-17:00
the XXZ spin chain and the SL(2)q quantum symmetry

November, 19th 2010. 15:30-17:00
recent developments
Special Seminar (topological string seminar)
Speaker: David Morrison (UC Santa Barbara/IPMU)
Title: Quivers from Matrix Factorizations more
Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010, 13:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Introductory talk before the tea break 15:00-15:30.
Special Seminar (topological string seminar)
Speaker: Daniel Krefl (IPMU)
Title: Instanton counting in Omega background and beyond more
Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2010, 13:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: There will be a tea break around 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (topological string seminar)
Speaker: Everyone
Title: Tutorial Session more
Date: Mon, Sep 06, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (topological string seminar)
Speaker: Emanuel Scheidegger (Augsburg University)
Title: The Yau-Zaslow conjecture and Noether-Lefschetz theory more
Date: Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 13:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Remarks: Break 15:00-15:30, Start with (30 minutes) introduction to non-experts.
Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)
Speaker: Makoto Miura (University of Tokyo)
Title: Toric degenerations of Grassmann manifolds and mirror symmetry more
Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Break 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (Topological String Seminar)
Speaker: Kyoji Saito (IPMU)
Title: Special Geometry (after Strominger) more
Date: Fri, Aug 27, 2010, 13:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Break 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (special seminar)
Speaker: Cornelius Schmidt-Colinet (IPMU)
Title: 2-dimentional lattice models and renormalization more
Date: Thu, Aug 26, 2010, 15:30 - 17:30
Place: Balcony A
Special Seminar (Quantum Deformation Theory Seminar)
Speaker: Alexander Voronov (U. Minnesota)
Title: Quantum Deformation Theory more
Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2010, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Balcony A
Special Seminar (DMM seminar)
Speaker: Masahito Yamazaki (IPMU)
Title: Donaldson-Thomas invariants, wall-crossing and matrix models more
Date: Mon, Aug 23, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Break 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (Quantum Deformation Theory Seminar)
Speaker: Alexander Voronov (U. Minnesota)
Title: Quantum Deformation Theory more
Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Balcony A
Remarks: Rescheduling from Mon, Aug 16.
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (University of Toronto)
Title: The Annihilator of the Derived Singularity Category more
Date: Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Quantum Deformation Theory Seminar)
Speaker: Alexander Voronov (U. Minnesota)
Title: Quantum Deformation Theory more
Date: Thu, Aug 05, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Balcony A
Special Seminar (iPC seminar)
Speaker: Zohar Komargodski (IAS)
Title: Methods in Supersymmetric Field Theories and Supergravity Theories more
Date: Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Lecture Hall
Special Seminar (Quantum Deformation Theory Seminar)
Speaker: Alexander Voronov (U. Minnesota)
Title: Quantum Deformation Theory more
Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Balcony A
Special Seminar (DMM seminar)
Speaker: Ed Segal (London Imperial college)
Title: The Calabi-Yau/Landau-Ginzburg correspondence for B-branes more
Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Break 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Yuu Niino (Kyoto U)
Title: Host Galaxies of "Dark" Gamma-Ray Bursts more
Date: Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 12:10 - 13:15
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Kentaro Nagamine (Univ. Nevada Las Vegas)
Title: Galaxy Formation with Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations in the JWST Era more
Date: Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 12:10 - 13:15
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Quantum Deformation Theory Seminar)
Speaker: Alexander Voronov (U. Minnesota)
Title: Quantum Deformation Theory more
Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Balcony A
Special Seminar (Special seminar)
Speaker: Alexis Finoguenov (MPE)
Title: Groups and clusters of galaxies in deep X-ray surveys more
Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Balcony A
Related File: 293.pdf
Special Seminar (IPMU Seminar)
Speaker: Nobuhiko Katayama (KEK)
Title: B is for BIRD more
Date: Tue, Jul 13, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Lecture Hall
Related File: 285.pdf
Special Seminar (DMM seminar (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence seminar))
Speaker: Martin Guest (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Title: Differential equations aspects of quantum cohomology (Part 1) Some new solutions of the tt*-equations (Part 2) more
Date: Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Break 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (IPMU Seminar)
Speaker: Daniel Holz (Los Alamos)
Title: Cosmology from gravitational-wave standard sirens more
Date: Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (DMM seminar)
Speaker: Kentaro Nagao (Nagoya University)
Title: Donaldson-Thomas theory and cluster algebras more
Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Balcony A
Remarks: Break 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (DMM seminar)
Speaker: Masahiro Futaki (Univ. Tokyo)
Title: Homological mirror symmetry for toric Fano stack and suspension for directed Fukaya categories more
Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: Break 15:00-15:30
Special Seminar (Special seminar)
Speaker: Martijn Wijnholt (MPI)
Title: MSW Instantons more
Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 15:30 - 16:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Kamioka)
Speaker: Daniel Greenwald (Max-Planck-Institute)
Title: Muon Colliders & Frictional Cooling more
Date: Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room at IPMU Kamioka Satellite
Remarks: (For researchers on Kashiwa-campus)
You can join this seminar with video-conference system in Conference Room A.
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Poshak Gandhi (ISAS, JAXA)
Title: New constraints on accretion from Optical and X-ray rapid timing observations of black hole binaries more
Date: Tue, May 25, 2010, 12:10 - 13:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 282.pdf
Special Seminar (DMM seminar)
Speaker: Charlie Beil (UC Santa Barbara)
Title: The geometry of noncommutative singularity resolutions: shrinking exceptional loci to zero size more
Date: Mon, May 17, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: we will have a break at 15:00-15:30.
Special Seminar (Topological String Seminar)
Speaker: Wolfgang Lerche (CERN)
Title: Matrix Factorizations, Contact Terms and Intersecting Branes more
Date: Thu, May 13, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Topological String Seminar)
Speaker: Wolfgang Lerche (CERN)
Title: Matrix Factorizations, Contact Terms and Intersecting Branes more
Date: Wed, May 12, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Topological String Seminar)
Speaker: Wolfgang Lerche (CERN)
Title: Matrix Factorizations, Contact Terms and Intersecting Branes more
Date: Tue, May 11, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence seminar (DMM seminar))
Speaker: Kazushi Ueda (Osaka University)
Title: Dimer models and exceptional collections(Part 1) Tropical coamoebas and A-infinity categories(Part 2) more
Date: Mon, May 10, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: we hava a break at 15:00-15:30.
Special Seminar (LECTURE)
Speaker: Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Title: lecture 5 Evolution of Interstellar Dust more
Date: Tue, Apr 27, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Special Seminar (IPMU Komaba Seminar)
Speaker: Akishi Ikeda (The University of Tokyo)
Title: The correspondence between Frobenius algebra of Hurwitz numbers and matrix models more
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010, 16:30 - 18:00
Place: Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus
Special Seminar (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence seminar (DMM seminar))
Speaker: Akira Ishii (Hiroshima University)
Title: Dimer models and exceptional collections more
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: we have a break at 15:00-15:30.
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Title: lecture 4 Dust in Galaxies more
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Special Seminar (Topological String Seminar)
Speaker: Andrea Prudenziati (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Title: Taming open/closed string duality with a Losev trick more
Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Title: lecture 3 Physics of Interstellar Dust (2) more
Date: Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Title: lecture 2 Physics of Interstellar Dust (1) more
Date: Wed, Apr 21, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Title: lecture 1 Observed Properties of Interstellar Dust more
Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Bertrand Toen (U. Montpellier)
Title: Lecture 4: Topological and motivic invariants of dg-categories. more
Date: Fri, Apr 16, 2010, 13:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: We will have a break at 15:00-15:30.
We have a homepage for detailed information on this lecture. Please click speaker's name.
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Boris Tsygan (Northwestern University)
Title: Oscillatory Modules and Applications to Symplectic Geometry more
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010, 17:30 - 19:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Bertrand Toen (U. Montpellier)
Title: Lecture 3: Moduli 2: moduli of non simple objects and higher stacks. more
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: We have a homepage for detailed information on this lecture. Please click speaker's name.
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Bertrand Toen (U. Montpellier)
Title: Lecture 2: Moduli 1: moduli space of simple objects. more
Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: We have a homepage for detailed information on this lecture. Please click speaker's name.
Special Seminar (Lecture)
Speaker: Bertrand Toen (U. Montpellier)
Title: Lecture 1: Generalities on dg-categories. more
Date: Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: We have a homepage for detailed information on this lecture. Please click speaker's name.
Special Seminar (IPMU/ISSP Joint Colloquium)
Speaker: Anthony J. Leggett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Introduction to High Energy Low Temperature Physics more
Date: Mon, Mar 15, 2010, 13:20 - 14:50
Place: Lecture Hall
Special Seminar (Special seminar)
Speaker: Shinsei Ryu (UC Berkeley)
Title: Ten-fold classification of topological insulators and superconductors more
Date: Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place: Balcony A
Related File: 224.pdf
Special Seminar (IPMU Komaba seminar)
Speaker: Timur Sadykov (Siberian Federal University)
Title: Bases in the solution space of the Mellin system more
Date: Mon, Feb 01, 2010, 16:30 - 18:00
Place: Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus