Seminar/Colloquium Archive

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Brian Wecht (IAS)
Title:	Recursion Relations and String Theory Amplitudes
Date:	Wed, Jun 30, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Alexander Voronov (U. Minnesota)
Title:	Higher Categories and TQFTs
Date:	Tue, Jun 29, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Kentaro Nagao (Nagoya University)
Title:	Donaldson-Thomas theory and cluster algebras
Date:	Mon, Jun 28, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A
Remarks:	Break 15:00-15:30

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Almudena Arcones (Basel)
Title:	Heavy element synthesis in neutrino-driven neutron-star winds of core collapse supernovae
Date:	Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	280.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Nakwoo Kim (Kyung Hee University)
Title:	Holographic superconductors from M5-branes.
Date:	Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	291.pdf

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Masahiro Futaki (Univ. Tokyo)
Title:	Homological mirror symmetry for toric Fano stack and suspension for directed Fukaya categories
Date:	Mon, Jun 21, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Break 15:00-15:30

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Roger Blandford (KIPAC (Stanford U))
Title:	Fermi's Restless Universe
Date:	Fri, Jun 18, 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Lecture Hall

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jounghun Lee (Seoul University)
Title:	Bullet Cluster: A Challenge to LCDM Cosmology
Date:	Thu, Jun 17, 2010, 13:00 - 14:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Martijn Wijnholt (MPI)
Title:	MSW Instantons
Date:	Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Andreas Karch (University of Washington, Seattle)
Title:	A Particle Physicist's Perspective on Topological Insulators
Date:	Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	255.ppt

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Linda Uruchurtu (Imperial College London)
Title:	Warped anti-de Sitter spaces from brane intersections in type II string theory
Date:	Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	288.pdf

Special Seminar (Kamioka)

Speaker:	Daniel Greenwald (Max-Planck-Institute)
Title:	Muon Colliders & Frictional Cooling
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.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University)
Title:	New approaches to numerical Calabi-Yau metrics
Date:	Tue, Jun 01, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	270.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Takahiro Sumi (Nagoya Univ)
Title:	Study of the Galactic structure and halo dark matter by Gravitational microlensing
Date:	Thu, May 27, 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	283.ppt

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Lawrence Krauss (Arizona State University)
Title:	Primordial Gravitational Waves as Probes of the Early Universe
Date:	Thu, May 27, 2010, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Lawrence Krauss (Arizona State University)
Title:	Cosmology as Science? From Inflation to Eternity
Date:	Wed, May 26, 2010, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Lecture Hall

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Robert Quimby (CalTech)
Title:	The Illuminating Deaths of Massive Stars
Date:	Tue, May 25, 2010, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Johanna Knapp (IPMU)
Title:	Global SO(10) F-theory GUTs
Date:	Tue, May 25, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	278.pdf

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
Date:	Tue, May 25, 2010, 12:10 - 13:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	282.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Shigeki Matsumoto (Toyama University)
Title:	CDMS II result and Light Higgs Boson Scenario of the MSSM
Date:	Fri, May 21, 2010, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	267.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Satoshi Kondo (IPMU)
Title:	Part 2: Algebraic varieties (schemes) and some conjectures in number theory
Date:	Wed, May 19, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Satoshi Kondo (IPMU)
Title:	Part 1: First introduction to number theory
Date:	Wed, May 19, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Frans Klinkhamer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Title:	New approach to the cosmological constant problem: q-theory
Date:	Tue, May 18, 2010, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	236.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Antal Jevicki (Brown university)
Title:	Classical AdS String : Solutions and Dynamics of Moduli
Date:	Tue, May 18, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Charlie Beil (UC Santa Barbara)
Title:	The geometry of noncommutative singularity resolutions: shrinking exceptional loci to zero size
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
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
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
Date:	Tue, May 11, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Daniel Moskovich (JSPS/RIMS Kyoto)
Title:	Untying coloured knots
Date:	Tue, May 11, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
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)
Date:	Mon, May 10, 2010, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	we hava a break at 15:00-15:30.

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Chris Belczynski (LANL, Warsaw Observatory)
Title:	Double Compact Objects in Universe
Date:	Thu, May 06, 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (LECTURE)

Speaker:	Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Title:	lecture 5 Evolution of Interstellar Dust
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
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
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
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
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)
Date:	Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Christoph Weniger (DESY)
Title:	Decaying dark matter, anisotropies, lines, and the Fermi LAT gamma-ray data
Date:	Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 13:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	257.pdf

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Title:	lecture 2 Physics of Interstellar Dust (1)
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
Date:	Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Masato Taki (YITP)
Title:	2D Conformal Symmetries, 4D Gauge Theories, & AGT Relations
Date:	Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Title:	New Views of Interstellar Dust
Date:	Mon, Apr 19, 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Bertrand Toen (U. Montpellier)
Title:	Lecture 4: Topological and motivic invariants of dg-categories.
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
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.
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.

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
Title:	A tale of two spectra: from a gamma-ray puzzle to cosmic rays and dark matter
Date:	Thu, Apr 15, 2010, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	245.pdf

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Bertrand Toen (U. Montpellier)
Title:	Lecture 2: Moduli 1: moduli space of simple objects.
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.
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.

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Joshua Ruderman (Princeton)
Title:	Hiding the Higgs with Lepton Jets
Date:	Thu, Apr 08, 2010, 13:00 - 14:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	232.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Hiroyuki Fuji (Nagoya Univ)
Title:	Volume Conjecture and Topological Recursion
Date:	Tue, Apr 06, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	243.pdf
Remarks:	Presentation file will be updated. Please see the newest files at http://qken.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~fuji/dfm/ipmu10_1.pdf http://qken.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~fuji/dfm/ipmu10_3.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masaomi Tanaka (IPMU)
Title:	Spectropolarimetric View of Supernova Explosions
Date:	Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 13:00 - 14:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	244.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Zoltan Kunszt (ETH Zurich)
Title:	Calculating multi-leg one loop amplitudes with unitarity cut method
Date:	Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 13:00 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	238.pdf
Remarks:	starts 30 min. earlier than before. mini-review 25min. + 5min. break + 1hour regular seminar

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Won-Sang Cho (IPMU)
Title:	New particle mass spectrometry at the LHC
Date:	Thu, Mar 18, 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Jacopo Stoppa (Cambridge)
Title:	D0-D6 states counting and Gromov-Witten invariants.
Date:	Tue, Mar 16, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (IPMU/ISSP Joint Colloquium)

Speaker:	Anthony J. Leggett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Title:	Introduction to High Energy Low Temperature Physics
Date:	Mon, Mar 15, 2010, 13:20 - 14:50
Place:	Lecture Hall

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Nozomu Kawakatu (U. Tsukuba)
Title:	Fate of young radio-loud AGN: Dead or alive ?
Date:	Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	231.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ryo Suzuki (Trinity Colledge, Dublin)
Title:	Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz for Konishi-like states in AdS_5 x S5
Date:	Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Bernard Carr (Queen Mary University of London / RESCEU)
Title:	New cosmological constraints on primordial black holes
Date:	Thu, Mar 04, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Robert Penner (Aarhus Univ/USC/Caltech)
Title:	Finite type invariants and the Ptolemy groupoid
Date:	Tue, Mar 02, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	David Wands (University of Portsmouth)
Title:	Primordial density perturbations from inflation
Date:	Thu, Feb 25, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	230.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ernesto Lupercio (CINVESTAV)
Title:	Nearly Frobenius Structures and Quantum Field Theory.
Date:	Tue, Feb 23, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room D

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Olaf Scholten (KVI / Groningen)
Title:	Improved flux limits for neutrinos with energies above 10^22 eV from NuMoon observations
Date:	Mon, Feb 22, 2010, 15:00 - 16:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Kamioka Satellite
Remarks:	you can participate in this seminar in seminar room D on 5th floor.

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Andrew Tolley (Perimeter Institute)
Title:	Non-gaussianities and the Inflationary Initial State
Date:	Mon, Feb 22, 2010, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Masahiro Takada (IPMU)
Title:	Cosmic structure formation and weak gravitational lensing
Date:	Wed, Feb 17, 2010, 13:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Barton Zwiebach (MIT)
Title:	T-duality, field theory, and Courant brackets
Date:	Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 17:00 - 18:30
Place:	Balcony A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Nathan Berkovits (The University of São Paulo)
Title:	Holography from the AdS_5xS^5 Pure Spinor Formalism
Date:	Thu, Feb 11, 2010, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Aya Bamba (Dublin/JAXA)
Title:	The Next Generation X-ray satellite: ASTRO-H
Date:	Tue, Feb 09, 2010, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Conference Room A
Related File:	211.pdf

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Shinsei Ryu (UC Berkeley)
Title:	Ten-fold classification of topological insulators and superconductors
Date:	Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	224.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jing Shu (IPMU)
Title:	Neutrino Constraints on Inelastic Dark Matter after CDMS II
Date:	Thu, Feb 04, 2010, 14:15 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masato Yamanaka (ICRR)
Title:	Implications of CDMS II result on Higgs sector in the MSSM
Date:	Thu, Feb 04, 2010, 13:30 - 14:15
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Volker Schomerus (DESY, Hamburg)
Title:	Solving Complex Projective Superspace
Date:	Tue, Feb 02, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	226.pdf

Special Seminar (IPMU Komaba seminar)

Speaker:	Timur Sadykov (Siberian Federal University)
Title:	Bases in the solution space of the Mellin system
Date:	Mon, Feb 01, 2010, 16:30 - 18:00
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	James M. Lattimer (SUNY)
Title:	Neutron Stars and the Dense Matter Equation of State
Date:	Thu, Jan 28, 2010, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Lecture Hall

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masayuki Tanaka (IPMU)
Title:	The environmental dependence of galaxy properties at 0<z<2
Date:	Thu, Jan 28, 2010, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	221.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Daniel Krefl (IPMU)
Title:	Aspects of orientifolds in topological string theory
Date:	Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sergey Galkin (IPMU)
Title:	Mirror symmetries of P2 enumerated by Markov triplets.
Date:	Tue, Jan 19, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Balcony B on the 5th floor of the IPMU new building

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Ken'ichiro Nakazato (Kyoto U.)
Title:	Exploring Hadron Physics in Black Hole Formations: a New Promising Target of Neutrino Astronomy
Date:	Thu, Jan 14, 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	204.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sumit Das (Kentucky University)
Title:	DILATON COSMOLOGIES AND THEIR GAUGE THEORY DUALS
Date:	Tue, Jan 12, 2010, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Related File:	207.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Doug Spolyar (Fermilab)
Title:	Dark Matter and The First stars
Date:	Fri, Jan 08, 2010, 11:00 - 12:30
Place:	Room 633, 6th floor, General Research Building

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Gaston Folatelli (IPMU)
Title:	TBA
Date:	Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 13:00 - 14:00
Place:	Seminar Room A