Kavli IPMU seminars/colloquia/conferences

Kavli IPMU seminars/colloquia/conferences

Seminar/Colloquium Archive

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Thomas Siegert (U. Wurzburg)
Title: TBA more
Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Pavel Petrov (IBS)
Title: Nonsingular Cosmologies in Horndeski Gravity more
Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Yu Watanabe (UCLA)
Title: Dark Matter and MeV γ-ray Detection with COSI more
Date: Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Serguey T. Petcov (INFN/SISSA)
Title: Modular-Symmetry-Protected Seesaw Mechanism more
Date: Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL, Swizterland)
Title: The Redshift Galaxy Surveys in the Next Decade more
Date: Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Place: Seminar Room B
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Dibyendu Nanda (Osaka Univ.)
Title: Gazing into the dark sector interactions through cosmological observables more
Date: Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Stefano Anselmi (University of Padova)
Title: The challenges of using Baryon Acoustic Oscillations distances for cosmology more
Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Renyue Cen (Zhejiang U )
Title: TBA more
Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Chris Ashall (University of Hawaii)
Title: The Infrared Revolution: Supernovae with the James Webb Space Telescope more
Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Christian Capanelli (McGill University)
Title: TBA more
Date: Fri, Nov 07, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Benjamin Bose (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Cosmological Tensions in the Era of Euclid more
Date: Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Aurora Simionescu (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and University of Groningen)
Title: The circulation of mass and metals in the Universe, as revealed by high resolution X-ray spectroscopy with XRISM more
Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Joakim Flinckman (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)
Title: Gravity beyond a single metric: Ghost-free interactions of spin-2 fields more
Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Andrea Cristofoli (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Title: A New Perspective on Gravity: Black Hole Interactions from On- Shell Amplitudes more
Date: Wed, Oct 08, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Kohei Kamada (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, U of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Title: B-L magnetic helicity and lepton asymmetry from axion inflation more
Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room B
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Tanveer Karim (Univ. of Toronto)
Title: Constraining Cosmology and Galaxy Physics using Emission-Line Galaxies and CMB secondary anisotropies more
Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Eduardo Rozo (The University of Arizona)
Title: The Dynamical Halo Model more
Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Siyao Li (Science Tokyo/IBS)
Title: Decay and lifetime of oscillons coupled to an external scalar field: Insights from instability band analysis more
Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Abel Vanel (CEA-Saclay)
Title: X- and gamma-ray miniature detector developments at CEA for space science and industrial applications more
Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Hanyu Zhang (Univ. of Waterloo)
Title: Enhancing DESI DR1 Full-Shape Analysis more
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Shivam Pandey (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: Building Accelerated Forward Models for the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe more
Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Jean Choppin Haudry de Janvry (LBL)
Title: Calibrating the tomographic redshift distributions of the HSC Shape Catalog with DESI more
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Dan Scolnic (Duke University)
Title: The Hubble Tension and Evolving Dark Energy Measurements: State of the Evidence more
Date: Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Andrei Cuceu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab )
Title: DESI DR2 results: From Baryon Acoustic Oscillations to Dark Energy and beyond more
Date: Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Federica Tarsitano (ETH Zurich)
Title: Dual and Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Stage IV surveys: Pathways to LISA-detected Gravitational Waves more
Date: Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 11:30 - 12:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Andreas Faisst (IPAC/CalTech)
Title: The Build-up of Metals and Dust at High Redshifts more
Date: Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 11:00 - 11:30
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Jason Evans (Tsung-Dao Lee Inst., Shanghai)
Title: Electric Dipole Moments From Missed Dark Matter Scattering more
Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Kazuya Koyama (Portsmouth U.)
Title: Cosmological tests of gravity more
Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Tatsuo Kobayashi (Hokkaido University)
Title: Coupling selection rules in particle physics and string compactification more
Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Takeshi Kobayashi (SISSA)
Title: Gravothermalizing into primordial black holes, boson stars, and cannibal stars more
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Rupert Croft (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: AI cosmological simulations and the Lyman-alpha forest more
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Zvonimir Vlah (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia )
Title: Loops in the EFT/PT of Structure Formation more
Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Syiang Li (JHU)
Title: Testing Hubble Tension Systematics with Cepheids, TRGB & JAGB more
Date: Thu, Jul 03, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Valentín Martínez Pillet (IAC)
Title: Living with a star: the good, the bad, and the ugly more
Date: Thu, Jul 03, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Ziwen Zhang (USTC)
Title: Unexpected clustering pattern in dwarf galaxies challenges formation models more
Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Kristina Giesel (FAU)
Title: The Quantum Einstein Equations of Loop Quantum Gravity: applications in cosmology and black holes more
Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Kimiko Yamashita (Ibaraki University)
Title: Gravitational Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter more
Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Victor Robles Sanchez (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Title: Implications of a quantum-like nature for dark matter in our Milky Way halo and its dwarf galaxy population more
Date: Wed, Jun 04, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Eric Madge (The Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM))
Title: Probing Ultralight Dark Matter with Quantum Clocks more
Date: Wed, Jun 04, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)
Title: A Polarized Look at the Hubble Constant Problem more
Date: Mon, Jun 02, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Lecture Hall
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Meng-Xiang Lin (UPenn)
Title: Apparent Phantom Dark Energy and Growth Suppression from Dark Axion and Dark Baryons Interactions more
Date: Thu, May 29, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Loris del Grosso (JHU)
Title: Probing new physics with exotic compact objects more
Date: Wed, May 28, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Shunichi Horigome (Tohoku Univ.)
Title: JFlow: Model-Independent Spherical Jeans Analysis using Equivariant Continuous Normalizing Flows more
Date: Fri, May 23, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Adil Jueid (IBS)
Title: CosmiXs: cosmic messenger spectra for dark matter indirect searches more
Date: Fri, May 23, 2025, 13:30 - 14:40
Place: Seminar Room A
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APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Daniele Sorini (Durham Univ.)
Title: The impact of baryonic astrophysics on the distribution of matter within and beyond haloes more
Date: Thu, May 22, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Neal Dalal (Perimeter)
Title: AGN HBT OMG more
Date: Wed, May 21, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Francesco Serra (JHU)
Title: Shadow charges in the Standard Model more
Date: Fri, May 16, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Evan McDonough (University of Winnipeg)
Title: Primordial Black Holes and Multifield Inflation more
Date: Thu, May 15, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Ayuki Kamada (University of Warsaw)
Title: Decay of scalar condensation: three approaches more
Date: Wed, May 14, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Johannes Herms (Kavli IPMU)
Title: Light thermal relic dark matter enabled by a second Higgs more
Date: Fri, May 09, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Che-Yu Chen (RIKEN iTHEMS)
Title: Joining black hole imaging and ringdown: A novel view of testing gravity more
Date: Thu, May 08, 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Anastasia Fialkov (Cambridge)
Title: 21-cm cosmology: prospects and insights more
Date: Fri, May 02, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (UC Louvain)
Title: Quantum Observables in High Energy Physics more
Date: Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Seminar Room B
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Morimitsu Tanimoto (Niigata University)
Title: Neutrino CP violation in Axionless solution to the strong CP problem with two zero textures more
Date: Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Belen Gavela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and IFT-UAM/CSIC)
Title: Higgs near-criticality af future colliders more
Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Serguey Petcov (IINFN/SISSA/ Kavli IPMU)
Title: Fermion Mass Hierarchies and Modulus Stabilisation in Modular Flavour Theories more
Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Surjeet Rajendran (JHU)
Title: A Solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem with a Classical Volume Element more
Date: Wed, Apr 09, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Simon May (Perimeter)
Title: Fuzzy dark matter meets galaxy formation with IllustrisTNG more
Date: Fri, Apr 04, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Raul Abramo (U. Sao Paulo)
Title: A robust cosmic standard ruler from the cross-correlation of galaxies and dark sirens more
Date: Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Olivier Dore (JPL/Caltech)
Title: Mapping the Universe with SPHEREx more
Date: Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Ue-Li Pen (CITA and ASIAA)
Title: Line Intensity Mapping: opportunities and challenges more
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Stephane Lavignac (Institute of Theoretical Physics)
Title: Testing the heavy decaying sterile neutrino hypothesis at the DUNE near detector more
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Michihisa Takeuchi (Zhongshan U.)
Title: Current status of 2HDMs for muon g-2 / Probing right handed neutrinos via try-lepton signals at the LHC more
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Takahiro Terada (Nagoya Univ.)
Title: Memory-Burdened Primordial-Black-Hole Dark Matter probed by Induced Gravitational Waves more
Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Michiru Uwabo (IBS)
Title: Peak sphericity of non-Gaussian random field more
Date: Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Philipp Schicho (University of Geneva)
Title: Perturbative cosmological phase transitions and their bubble wall velocities more
Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Philipp Hoehn (OIST)
Title: Observables and dynamical frames in gravity more
Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Conference Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Antonio de Felice (YITP, Kyoto Univ.)
Title: Instability of regular BH solutions in NED more
Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Conference Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Xiaohui Fan (Univ. of Arizona)
Title: An Early JWST View of Quasars at Cosmic Dawn more
Date: Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Sokratis Trifinopoulos (MIT)
Title: Flavor Patterns of Fundamental Particles from Quantum Entanglement? more
Date: Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Bum-Hoon Lee (Center for Quantum SpaceTime, Sogang University)
Title: Early Dark Energy model as a common ground for Cosmic Birefringence and the Hubble Tension more
Date: Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Shaoping Li (Osaka University)
Title: Resonant Forbidden Leptogenesis more
Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A