Kavli IPMU Seminars

Kavli IPMU Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Seok Kim (Seoul National University)
Title: Hairy black holes in AdS more
Date (JST): Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Zhibang Yao (Leiden University)
Title: Freezing Gravity: A Model for Dark Energy Crossing the Phantom Divide more
Date (JST): Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Priyesh Chackraborty　 (National Taiwan University (LeCOsPA))
Title: Primordial non-Gaussianity from light compact scalars more
Date (JST): Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Erminia Calabrese (Cardiff University)
Title: Exploring the Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background more
Date (JST): Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Place: Lecture Hall
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Abel Táiti Konno Pinheiro (CSIS, UTokyo)
Title: Stay Safe in Disasters: A "Bosai" Seminar on Everyday Steps for Preparedness, Evacuation, and Sheltering in Japan more
Date (JST): Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
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Remarks: Please open the related file named "3526.pdf" for the speaker's profile.
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Tays Miranda De Andrade　 (LPENS)
Title: Stochastic Effects Beyond Inflation more
Date (JST): Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)
Speaker: Yu Tung Yau (Kavli IPMU)
Title: Quantization via transverse PBW theorem and asymptotic locality of Toeplitz operators more
Date (JST): Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Maria Mylova (Kavli IPMU)
Title: Gauge fixing for open systems: A pathway to open gravity EFTs more
Date (JST): Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 13:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Yasuaki Gyoda (Nagoya University)
Title: Generalized discrete Markov spectra more
Date (JST): Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room B
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Wei Li (ITP-CAS)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (fundamentals seminar)
Speaker: Leander Thiele (Kavli IPMU)
Title: Fundamentals of Machine Learning more
Date (JST): Tue, Feb 17, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: The Fundamentals Seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar series on fundamental problems in physics and cosmology. The core mission of our Institute is the study of the Universe, i.e., cosmology in some wider sense, which includes particle physics and string theory, with mathematics providing language and technical tools.

We'd like to further this mission by facilitating interdisciplinary interaction.


We envision holding the seminar once a month. Each session will be a blackboard presentation of some truly important problem with a lot of time for discussion, the talk explaining the issue at hand, what has been tried and did not work, and how mathematics (or anything else) can possibly help. In addition, we plan to include talks on "local problems" that people are working on now and which can benefit from a fresh look.

This meeting is in person only.
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Susmita Jana (APCTP)
Title: Cosmological potential of gravitational wave memory with future detectors more
Date (JST): Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Le Minh Ha (Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM))
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room B
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Matthias Gaberdiel (ETHZ)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Genki Yoshimura　 (Osaka University)
Title: Effective field theory for dissipative photons from higher-form symmetries more
Date (JST): Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Julia Harz (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Title: Advancing Standards in Early Universe Physics: The Impact of Bound States & Thermal Effects more
Date (JST): Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Brandon Rayhaun (Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS))
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Balcony A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Weiguan Cao (Southern Denmark U.)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Max Pettini (Cambridge)
Title: Weighing the Universe with Metal-Poor Damped Lyman alpha Systems more
Date (JST): Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
Place: Lecture Hall
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Serguey T. Petcov (INFN/SISSA)
Title: Modular-Symmetry-Protected Seesaw Mechanism more
Date (JST): Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Dam Son (University of Chicago)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: David Fonseca Mota (University of Oslo)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A