Seminar/Colloquium Archive

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Alexander Voronov (University of Minnesota)
Title:	The n-category of cobordisms and TQFTs.
Date:	Mon, May 25, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	JongHee Yoo (FNAL)
Title:	Search for Dark Matters and Axions
Date:	Thu, May 21, 2009, 13:00 - 14:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Remarks:	30 min. earlier

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Avelino Vicente (IFIC)
Title:	Neutrino masses in R-parity violating supersymmetry
Date:	Wed, May 20, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	81.pdf

Special Seminar (Kamioka)

Speaker:	Andreas Piepke (University of Alabama)
Title:	The elusive Neutrino: how double beta decay and the EXO experiment may help unlock its secrets
Date:	Wed, May 20, 2009, 10:00 - 11:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Kamioka Satellite
Related File:	89.pdf
Remarks:	to be broadcasted to Prefab B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Isaia Nisoli (U Pisa)
Title:	Index and residue theorems in holomorphic dynamics, an overview and some recent developments
Date:	Fri, May 15, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tatsuo Suwa (Hokkaido University)
Title:	Residues of Chern classes
Date:	Fri, May 15, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	75.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Satoshi Yamaguchi (Seoul National University)
Title:	Surface operators and AdS/CFT correspondence
Date:	Thu, May 14, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	66.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	S. Horiuchi (IPMU)
Title:	Neutrino Probes of Supernovae
Date:	Thu, May 14, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	73.pdf

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Yongbin Ruan (Univ. Michigan)
Title:	Lecture Series on Topological Strings and Mirror Symmetry at Landau-Ginzburg-Orbifolds
Date:	Mon, May 11, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Yongbin Ruan (Univ. Michigan)
Title:	Lecture Series on Topological Strings and Mirror Symmetry at Landau-Ginzburg-Orbifolds
Date:	Mon, May 11, 2009, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ken-Ichi Yoshikawa (the University of Tokyo)
Title:	K3 surfaces with involution and Borcherds products
Date:	Fri, May 08, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

Special Seminar (lecture)

Speaker:	Yongbin Ruan (Univ. Michigan)
Title:	Lecture Series on Topological Strings and Mirror Symmetry at Landau-Ginzburg-Orbifolds
Date:	Fri, May 08, 2009, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yongbin Ruan (Univ. Michigan)
Title:	Landau-Ginzburg model and integrable hierarchies
Date:	Thu, May 07, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Keisuke Izumi (IPMU)
Title:	Ghost of Massive graviton in de Sitter space
Date:	Thu, May 07, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	53.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Linda Uruchurtu (DAMPT)
Title:	Four point functions of higher weight operators in the AdS/CFT Correspondence.
Date:	Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Hajime Takami (IPMU)
Title:	Investigation of the sources of the highest energy cosmic rays and neutrinos
Date:	Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	51.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Todor Eliseev Milanov (North Carolina State University)
Title:	Gromov-Witten Theory and Integrable Hierarchies
Date:	Mon, Apr 27, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	24.pdf

Special Seminar (Joint Seminars on Cosmology and Gravitation)

Speaker:	Jike Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Title:	some research on the BESIII experiment offline software
Date:	Mon, Apr 27, 2009, 10:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Kamioka Satellite
Remarks:	To be broadcasted to prefab B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yasuhiro Sekino (OIQP)
Title:	Future foam: Nontrivial topology from bubble collisions ineternal inflation
Date:	Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	65.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Tetsutaro Higaki (Tohoku U.)
Title:	Duality cascade of softly broken supersymmetric theories
Date:	Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	59.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	John Silverman (ETH-Zurich)
Title:	Co-evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies within their larger-scale structures
Date:	Wed, Apr 22, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	64.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Florian Gmeiner (NIKHEF, Amsterdam)
Title:	The Landscape of Intersecting Brane Models
Date:	Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	29.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Francis Bernardeau (Saclay)
Title:	New Insights Into Cosmological Gravitational Clustering
Date:	Fri, Apr 17, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	55.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Takao Suyama (Seoul National University)
Title:	On the strong coupling behavior of Wilson loops in N=2 superconformal gauge theories
Date:	Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	62.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	JoAnne Hewett (SLAC, Stanford)
Title:	Supersymmetry Without Prejudice
Date:	Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	22.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Christophe Grojean (CERN)
Title:	Composite Higgs Physics
Date:	Wed, Apr 15, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	21.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv)
Title:	Studying Galaxies and Reionization with 21-cm Cosmology
Date:	Tue, Apr 14, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	54.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Elias Kiritsis (University of Crete)
Title:	Improved Holographic QCD
Date:	Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	20.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Ruth Gregory (Durham)
Title:	Dark energy or light gravity?
Date:	Wed, Apr 08, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Media Hall, 1st floor of Kashiwa Library

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Wei Song (The Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Title:	The Kerr/CFT Correspondence
Date:	Thu, Apr 02, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Ruth Gregory (Durham Univ)
Title:	Holography and braneworld black holes.
Date:	Thu, Apr 02, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Henry Tye (Cornell)
Title:	Is there eternal inflation in the cosmic landscape?
Date:	Wed, Apr 01, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	18.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Simeon Hellerman (IPMU)
Title:	The Strong Gravity Theorem
Date:	Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute)
Title:	Quantum Resolution of Cosmological Singularities
Date:	Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	17.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Seong Chan Park (IPMU)
Title:	Splitting Kaluza-Klein spectrum and its phenomenology
Date:	Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	16.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jing Liu (Max Planck Institut fuer Physik, Muenchen, Germany)
Title:	Development of segmented germanium detectors for neutrinoless double beta decay experiments
Date:	Tue, Mar 24, 2009, 10:30 - 11:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Kamioka Satellite
Related File:	61.pdf
Remarks:	to be broadcasted to Tokatsu 405

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Geoffry Schrank (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)
Title:	Dynamics of Hyperpolarized 129Xe Production
Date:	Tue, Mar 24, 2009, 09:30 - 10:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Kamioka Satellite
Related File:	60.pdf
Remarks:	to be broadcasted to Tokatsu 405

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Hiroyuki Nakaoka (University of Tokyo)
Title:	Introduction to the 2-categorical homological algebra
Date:	Thu, Mar 19, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	15.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Pierre-Simon Mangeard (CPPM, Marseille)
Title:	In situ commissioning of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter and early Z' to ee discovery potential
Date:	Wed, Mar 18, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	56.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Kouichi Hirotani (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Title:	Pulsars: excellent systems for testing particle acceleration theories
Date:	Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	14.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Andreas Karch (Washington Univ. USA)
Title:	A holographic perspective on non-relativistic defects.
Date:	Thu, Mar 12, 2009, 15:30 - 17:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	13.ppt

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tetsuji Kimura (YITP)
Title:	AdS Vacua, Attractor Mechanism and Generalized Geometries
Date:	Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	25.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State U.)
Title:	Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders
Date:	Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 10:00 - 11:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	50.pdf
Remarks:	ACP seminar in an irregular time

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Simon Glover (ITA, Heidelberg University)
Title:	The stellar initial mass function in low metallicity gas
Date:	Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	12.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Stavros Katsanevas (IN2P3/CNRS and IPMU)
Title:	A roadmap to the stars: towards a global strategy for astroparticle
Date:	Mon, Mar 02, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	11.pdf

Special Seminar (Joint Seminars on Cosmology and Gravitation)

Speaker:	Ghazal Geshnizjani (Perimeter Institute)
Title:	Observational Evidence for Cosmological-Scale Extra Dimensions
Date:	Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	10.pdf
Remarks:	Joint Seminars on Cosmology and Gravitation http://www.ipmu.jp/seminars/joint_cosmo/index.html

Special Seminar (Joint Seminars on Cosmology and Gravitation)

Speaker:	Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter Institute)
Title:	The end of the cosmological constant problem!
Date:	Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	9.pdf
Remarks:	Joint Seminars on Cosmology and Gravitation http://www.ipmu.jp/seminars/joint_cosmo/index.html

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Wei Li (IPMU)
Title:	Three Stringy Realizations of Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Date:	Thu, Feb 26, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Misha Verbitsky (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics)
Title:	SYZ conjecture for hyperkaehler manifolds
Date:	Thu, Feb 26, 2009, 13:30 - 15:30
Place:	Room630
Related File:	48.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Federico Urban (UBC)
Title:	The cosmological constant as a manifestation of the conformal anomaly
Date:	Thu, Feb 26, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	7.swf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Ashley J. Ruiter (New Mexico State Univ)
Title:	Double Compact Object Binaries
Date:	Wed, Feb 25, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	6.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Saleem Zaroubi (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen)
Title:	Probing the End of the Universe's Dark Ages with LOFAR
Date:	Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	A.G. de Bruyn (ASTRON, Dwingeloo and Kapteyn Institute Groningen))
Title:	LOFAR - a major new low frequency observatory: science drivers, challenges and some pilot facility results
Date:	Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	4.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Shouhei Ma (University of Tokyo)
Title:	0-dimensional cusps of the Kahler moduli of a K3 surface
Date:	Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Frank Daniel Steffen (Max Planck Institute of Physics)
Title:	Supersymmetric Dark Matter in Cosmology and at Colliders
Date:	Wed, Feb 18, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	2.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Sergei Blinnikov
Title:	Supernova light
Date:	Mon, Feb 16, 2009, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	1.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Yifang Wang
Title:	Reactor neutrino experiments and future prospects
Date:	Thu, Feb 12, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masahiro Ibe (SLAC)
Title:	R-axion: A new physics signature involving muon pairs
Date:	Thu, Feb 12, 2009, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	44.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Robert Brandenberger (McGill)
Title:	String Theory and the Very Early Universe
Date:	Mon, Feb 09, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	43.pdf

Special Seminar (IPMU seminar)

Speaker:	Hideki Maeda (Centro de Estudios Cientificos)
Title:	Self-similar growth of black holes in the Friedmann universe
Date:	Mon, Feb 09, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	42.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Daniel Sternheimer (Keio University)
Title:	The deformation philosophy of quantization, singleton physics and noncommutative analogues of space-time structures
Date:	Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jiayu Tang (IPMU)
Title:	Complementarity of Future Dark Energy Probes
Date:	Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Roberto Emparan (ICREA & U.Barcelona)
Title:	Black Holes and Blackfolds in Higher Dimensions
Date:	Wed, Feb 04, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	39.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tatsuma Nishioka (Kyoto University)
Title:	CFT Duals for Extreme Black Holes
Date:	Thu, Jan 29, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	38.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Andrea Ferrara (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
Title:	The First Billion Years
Date:	Tue, Jan 27, 2009, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	37.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Amaya Moro-Martin (Princeton)
Title:	Debris Disks
Date:	Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	36.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ryo Ookawa (Tokyo Institue of Technology)
Title:	Moduli of Bridgeland semistable objects on the projective plane
Date:	Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	35.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masamune Oguri (Stanford)
Title:	The SDSS Quasar Lens Search and its use as a dark energy probe
Date:	Thu, Jan 22, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kenneth Shackleton (IPMU)
Title:	On Harvey's curve complex
Date:	Fri, Jan 16, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Jan Zaanen (Leiden University)
Title:	Planckian dissipation
Date:	Thu, Jan 15, 2009, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	32.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Haibo Yu (University of California, Irvine)
Title:	Hidden Charged Dark Matter and Its Relics
Date:	Thu, Jan 15, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	46.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Dmitry Kaledin (Steklov Institute)
Title:	Fedosov quantization in algebraic and holomorphic setting
Date:	Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yu Nakayama (UC Berkeley)
Title:	An Index for Non-relativistic Superconformal Field Theories
Date:	Thu, Jan 08, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	31.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Kiwoon Choi (KAIST)
Title:	M_{T2}-assisted on-shell reconstruction of missing momenta and application to spin measurement at the LHC
Date:	Thu, Jan 08, 2009, 13:00 - 14:00
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	28.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Henk Hoekstra (Leiden)
Title:	Weak lensing by large scale structure
Date:	Wed, Jan 07, 2009, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Seiji Kawamura (NAOJ)
Title:	Journey Toward Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Date:	Mon, Jan 05, 2009, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building
Related File:	30.pdf