Seminar/Colloquium Archive

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yosuke Imamura (Titech)
Title:	Exact results in 3d gauge theories and M-theory
Date:	Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	480.pdf

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:	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:	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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yoichi Kazama (U. Tokyo, Komaba)
Title:	Green-Schwarz superstring with conformal symmetry
Date:	Tue, Jul 05, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	484.pdf

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Shunsuke Tsuchioka (IPMU)
Title:	Recent advances in modular representation theory of the symmetric groups
Date:	Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tomoyuki Abe (IPMU)
Title:	Product formula for p-adic epsilon factors
Date:	Tue, Jun 21, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Thermo-dynamical limit function's seminar)

Speaker:	Yoshio Sano (National Institute of Informatics)
Title:	Thermo-dynamical limit function's seminar
Date:	Mon, Jun 20, 2011, 15:30 - 18:00
Place:	Balcony A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Martin Schnabl (Prag)
Title:	Multiple brane solutions in Open String Field Theory
Date:	Mon, Jun 20, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	486.pdf

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

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Mihoko Nojiri (IPMU)
Title:	Challenges in Fukushima and Japan
Date:	Wed, Jun 15, 2011, 14:00 - 15:30
Place:	Lecture Hall

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yu Nakayama (Caltech)
Title:	Refined topological string for Omega background
Date:	Tue, Jun 14, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	472.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	David Spergel (Princeton U & IPMU)
Title:	Cosmology Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Date:	Wed, Jun 08, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	466.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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)
Title:	Some recent results on microstate geometries.
Date:	Wed, Jun 01, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Masahito Yamazaki (Princeton U.)
Title:	6=3+3
Date:	Tue, May 31, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kentaroh Yoshida (Univ. of Kyoto)
Title:	Yangian symmetry in deformed WZNW models on squashed spheres
Date:	Tue, May 24, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	454.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Yasunobu Uchiyama (SLAC/Stanford)
Title:	The Supernova Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays
Date:	Wed, May 18, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	460.pdf

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Massimo Bianchi (Univ. of Rome)
Title:	Small Black-Holes and Higher Spin States in Heterotic String
Date:	Tue, May 17, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	444.pdf

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

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Koichi Hamaguchi (IPMU)
Title:	The Unification of Forces
Date:	Wed, Apr 27, 2011, 13:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	Part1: 13:30-15:00 Part2: 15:30-17:00

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kazunobu Maruyoshi (SISSA)
Title:	Quantized integrable systems, matrix models and AGT correspondence
Date:	Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	428.pdf

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

Special Seminar (TOPOLOGICAL STRING SEMINAR)

Speaker:	Masahiro Futaki (U Tokyo, Math)
Title:	On the construction of the virtual fundamental class
Date:	Wed, Apr 20, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Mitsutoshi Fujita (IPMU)
Title:	Geometric entropy and confinement/deconfinement transition in d=4 QCD like theories
Date:	Tue, Apr 19, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	452.pdf

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kazuo Hosomichi (YITP)
Title:	SUSY Gauge Theories on Squashed Three-Spheres
Date:	Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	453.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

Special Seminar (DMM (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence) seminar)

Speaker:	Kentaro Hori (IPMU)
Title:	Motivation and Application of Recent Development in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
Date:	Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (DMM (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence) seminar)

Speaker:	Shinobu Hosono (U Tokyo)
Title:	Mirror symmetry and projective geometry of Reye congruences
Date:	Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 10:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	10:30-11:30 Shinobu Hosono 11:45-13:00 Lunch seminar by Kentaro Hori 13:30-15:00 Shinobu Hosono 15:30-17:00 Kentaro Hori

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Takuya Okuda (U. Tokyo)
Title:	Exact results for 't Hooft loops in supersymmetric gauge theories
Date:	Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yuji Tachikawa (IPMU)
Title:	6 = 4+2
Date:	Tue, Mar 01, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Mathematics)

Speaker:	Michel Granger (l'Universite d'Angers, France)
Title:	linear free divisors and quivers
Date:	Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony A

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

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Scott Dodelson (Fermilab/ U Chicago)
Title:	The Dark Sector vs. Modified Gravity
Date:	Wed, Feb 23, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	398.pdf

Special Seminar (Kamioka Seminar)

Speaker:	Roger Wendell (Duke University)
Title:	Long and Longer Baseline Neutrino Oscillations: Searching for Symmetry Violation
Date:	Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Kamioka Satellite

Special Seminar (DMM (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence) seminar )

Speaker:	Hiroshi Iritani (Kyoto University)
Title:	Ruan's conjecture and integral structures in quantum cohomology
Date:	Mon, Feb 21, 2011, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	break at 15:00-15:30

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Ed Turner (Princeton U)
Title:	The Limits of Reductionism
Date:	Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Daniel Harlow (Stanford University)
Title:	Precise Duals in Cosmology
Date:	Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Carsten Rott (The Ohio State University)
Title:	Closing in on Dark Matter
Date:	Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 10:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room at IPMU Kamioka Satellite
Related File:	425.pdf
Remarks:	On air at the Lecture Hall

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

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Luc Dessart (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille)
Title:	Core-collapse supernovae: Cosmological probes and astrophysical laboratories for stellar evolution and explosion
Date:	Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yoonbai Kim (Sungkyunkwan University)
Title:	Fluxes and BPS Vortices in ABJM model
Date:	Tue, Feb 08, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	422.pdf

Special Seminar (Mirror Symmetry)

Speaker:	Kwokwai Chan (IPMU)
Title:	The SYZ picture of mirror symmetry
Date:	Fri, Feb 04, 2011, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Break at 15:00-15:30

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kazuyuki Furuuchi (NCTS Hsinchu)
Title:	D-branes Wrapped on Fuzzy del Pezzo Surfaces
Date:	Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	364.pdf

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

Special Seminar (IPMU Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Kwokwai Chan (IPMU)
Title:	Mirror symmetry for toric Calabi-Yau manifolds from the SYZ viewpoint
Date:	Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 16:30 - 18:00
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

Special Seminar (DMM (Derived category, Mirror symmetry and McKay correspondence) seminar )

Speaker:	Dmitry Kaledin (Steklov)
Title:	Witt vectors as a polynomial functor
Date:	Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	break at 15:00-15:30

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Luis Ho (Carnegie Observatories)
Title:	Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: Recent Developments
Date:	Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Dongsu Bak (Seoul University)
Title:	Phase Transitions in the U(1) Charged Sector of ABJM Theory
Date:	Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (special seminar)

Speaker:	Luis Ho (Carnegie Observatories)
Title:	Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies: Insights into Accretion and Jet Physics
Date:	Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 16:00 - 17:30
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Maria J Rodriguez (MPI)
Title:	New nonspherical black holes and charged black rings.
Date:	Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Oscar Varela (MPG)
Title:	Consistent truncations from wrapped branes, and a Lifshitz solution
Date:	Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 10:00 - 11:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Norihiro Iizuka (CERN)
Title:	Quantum Hall effects, SL(2,Z) symmetry, and Holography
Date:	Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 13:15 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

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

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Albrecht Klemm (Bonn)
Title:	Wall-crossing holomorphic anomaly and mock modularity of multiple M5-branes
Date:	Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

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