Seminar/Colloquium Archive

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State U)
Title:	The Little Bang Standard Model
Date:	Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1051.pdf

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Ilya Karzhemanov (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Some uses of entropy in birational geometry
Date:	Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Moshe Rozali (U. British Columbia)
Title:	Holographic topological insulators and superconductors
Date:	Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 15:30 - 16:45
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1099.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Seung-Joo Lee (KIAS)
Title:	An Algorithmic Approach to Heterotic String Phenomenology
Date:	Fri, Dec 06, 2013, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1063.pdf

Special Seminar (Courses in advanced mathematics from basics)

Speaker:	Tanmay Deshpande (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Etale cohomology, l-adic sheaves and Deligne-Lusztig theory
Date:	Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 13:40 - 18:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	1st 13:40 - 15:00, 2nd 15:30 - 18:00

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Changzheng Li (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Primitive forms via polyvector fields
Date:	Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1087.pdf

Special Seminar (special seminar)

Speaker:	Domenico Orlando (École Normale Supérieure )
Title:	Deformed supersymmetric gauge theories from string- and M-theory (Part II): Applications
Date:	Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1058.pdf

Special Seminar (special seminar)

Speaker:	Susanne Reffert (CERN)
Title:	Deformed supersymmetric gauge theories from string- and M-theory (Part I): Introduction to the fluxtrap background
Date:	Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1057.pdf

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Shinnosuke Okawa (Osaka U)
Title:	Non-existence of semi-orthogonal decompositions and sections of the canonical bundle
Date:	Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	14:00-15:00 (Part I) 15:30-17:00 (Part II)

Special Seminar (Conformal Blocks Seminar)

Speaker:	Jesse Wolfson (Northwestern U)
Title:	Loop Groups and Conformal Blocks
Date:	Tue, Nov 19, 2013, 15:30 - 17:30
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	1072.pdf

Special Seminar (Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Mauricio Romo (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Exact Results In Two-Dimensional (2,2) Supersymmetric Gauge Theories With Boundary
Date:	Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 17:00 - 18:30
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff U)
Title:	Spherical DG-functors
Date:	Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	14:00-15:00 (Part I) 15:30-17:00 (Part II)

Special Seminar (Conformal Blocks Seminar)

Speaker:	Simon Wood (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Conformal Blocks and the Ising Model
Date:	Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 15:30 - 17:30
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	1071.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Satoshi Mochizuki (Chuo U)
Title:	Higher derived categories of relative exact categories and non-connective K-theory
Date:	Tue, Nov 12, 2013, 12:00 - 13:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Lecture series)

Speaker:	Charles Siegel (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Minicourse on the Madsen-Weiss Theorem [Part 4]
Date:	Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 11:00 - 12:30
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	[Part 1] 2013 Nov 5, 11-12 [Part 2] 2013 Nov 6, 11-12 [Part 3] 2013 Nov 7, 11-12 [Part 4] 2013 Nov 8, 11-12:30

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	James Michael Wallbridge (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Some foundations of extended quantization
Date:	Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Lecture series)

Speaker:	Charles Siegel (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Minicourse on the Madsen-Weiss Theorem [Part 3]
Date:	Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	[Part 1] 2013 Nov 5, 11-12 [Part 2] 2013 Nov 6, 11-12 [Part 3] 2013 Nov 7, 11-12 [Part 4] 2013 Nov 8, 11-12:30

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Vijay Ravikumar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Title:	Triple Intersection Formulas for Isotropic Grassmannians
Date:	Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1064.pdf
Remarks:	Please note that the schedule has been changed to *Wednesday, November 6* due to the evacuation drill of Kashiwa campus on November 7.

Special Seminar (Lecture series)

Speaker:	Charles Siegel (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Minicourse on the Madsen-Weiss Theorem [Part 2]
Date:	Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	[Part 1] 2013 Nov 5, 11-12 [Part 2] 2013 Nov 6, 11-12 [Part 3] 2013 Nov 7, 11-12 [Part 4] 2013 Nov 8, 11-12:30

Special Seminar (Conformal Blocks Seminar)

Speaker:	Jonathan Maltz (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	A physical introduction to conformal blocks
Date:	Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 15:30 - 17:30
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Lecture series)

Speaker:	Charles Siegel (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Minicourse on the Madsen-Weiss Theorem [Part 1]
Date:	Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	[Part 1] 2013 Nov 5, 11-12 [Part 2] 2013 Nov 6, 11-12 [Part 3] 2013 Nov 7, 11-12 [Part 4] 2013 Nov 8, 11-12:30

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Ferenc Szollosi (Tohoku U)
Title:	EQUIANGULAR LINES IN REAL EUCLIDEAN SPACES AND SEIDEL MATRICES WITH THREE DISTINCT EIGENVALUES
Date:	Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 13:45 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1067.pdf

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Bumsig Kim (KIAS)
Title:	Orbifold Quasimap Theory
Date:	Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	14:00-15:00 (Part I) 15:30-17:00 (Part II)

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Tirasan Khandhawit (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Stable homotopy type of Seiberg-Witten monopole Floer homology
Date:	Thu, Oct 24, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	1039.pdf

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Adam Burrows (Princeton U)
Title:	Lecture 3: "Brown Dwarfs: 20 Years Later"
Date:	Thu, Oct 24, 2013, 10:45 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1054.pdf

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Adam Burrows (Princeton U)
Title:	Lecture 2: "Core-Collapse Supernovae and Diagnostics: Some Observables and Diagnostics"
Date:	Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 16:35 - 17:35
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1053.pdf

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Adam Burrows (Princeton U)
Title:	Lecture 1: "Progress Towards the Core-Collapse Supernova Mechanism"
Date:	Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1052.pdf

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Jesse Wolfson (Northwestern University)
Title:	Index Theory in Algebraic K-Theory and Algebraic Geometry
Date:	Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1038.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Roberto Percacci (SISSA)
Title:	Introductory course on functional renormalization group III
Date:	Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 10:30 - 12:30
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Roberto Percacci (SISSA)
Title:	Introductory course on functional renormalization group II
Date:	Wed, Oct 09, 2013, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Osamu Iyama (Nagoya U)
Title:	Tilting theory on Geigle-Lenzing weighted projective spaces
Date:	Mon, Oct 07, 2013, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	14:00-15:00 (Part I) 15:30-17:00 (Part II)

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Lance Labun (LeCosPa)
Title:	Photons from a QCD phase transition in neutron star mergers
Date:	Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1026.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Roberto Percacci (SISSA)
Title:	Introductory course on functional renormalization group I
Date:	Fri, Oct 04, 2013, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Michael Wemyss (U Edinburgh)
Title:	Noncommutative Deformations of curves and spherical twists
Date:	Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Valentin Tonita (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Reconstruction and convergence results in quantum K-theory
Date:	Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Todor Eliseev Milanov (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Affine Artin groups
Date:	Thu, Sep 12, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1018.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Emil Khabiboulline (Caltech)
Title:	How Does Galaxy Environment Influence AGN Activity?
Date:	Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1012.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Josh Speagle (Harvard)
Title:	The Evolution of Star-Forming Galaxies Over Cosmic Time
Date:	Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1013.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Vassily Gorbounov (University of Aberdeen)
Title:	Young-Baxter algebras and Quantum Cohomology
Date:	Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 13:30 - 14:55
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Anatoly Kirillov (RIMS, IPMU)
Title:	Dunkl operators
Date:	Mon, Aug 26, 2013, 13:30 - 14:55
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Mikhail Kapranov (Yale U)
Title:	Triangulated surfaces in triangulated categories
Date:	Fri, Aug 23, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Yoshiki Oshima (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Branching laws for discretely decomposable restrictions
Date:	Thu, Aug 15, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Yuuki Shiraishi (Osaka U)
Title:	A uniqueness theorem for Frobenius manifolds and Gromov-Witten theory for orbifold projective lines
Date:	Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony B
Remarks:	Break 15:00-15:30

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Yuuki Shiraishi (Osaka U)
Title:	Primitve forms for affine cusp polynomials
Date:	Tue, Aug 06, 2013, 13:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A
Remarks:	Break 15:00 - 15:30

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Moshe Rozali (Univ. of British Columbia)
Title:	Inhomogeneous Holography
Date:	Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	988.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Mao Sheng (USTC)
Title:	Nonabelian Hodge theory in positive characteristic
Date:	Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Si Li (Boston University)
Title:	B-twisted sigma-model and Calabi-Yau geometry
Date:	Mon, Jul 22, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Kavli IPMU Komaba seminar)

Speaker:	Daniel Pomerleano (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Homological Mirror Symmetry for toric Calabi-Yau varieties
Date:	Wed, Jul 17, 2013, 17:00 - 18:30
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Kwok-Wai Chan (CUHK)
Title:	SYZ for local mirror symmetry
Date:	Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Kavli IPMU Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Richard Eager (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Elliptic genera and two dimensional gauge theories
Date:	Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 17:00 - 18:30
Place:	Komaba Room 122

Special Seminar (Special Astrophysics Seminar)

Speaker:	Matt Malkan (UCLA)
Title:	New Views of Galaxy Evolution: The Young and The Dusty
Date:	Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 16:00 - 17:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	982.pdf

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Zheng Hua (U of Hong Kong)
Title:	orientation data and quantization
Date:	Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Math-Astro seminar )

Speaker:	Marcus Werner (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	New applications of de-Sitter geometry in astrophysics II
Date:	Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 10:00 - 11:30
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Satoshi Kondo (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	On the higher Chow group of product of curves
Date:	Thu, Jun 20, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Shlomo S. Razamat (IAS)
Title:	3d dualities from 4d dualities
Date:	Fri, Jun 14, 2013, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	963.pdf

Special Seminar (Math-Astro seminar)

Speaker:	Marcus Werner (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	New applications of de-Sitter geometry in astrophysics I
Date:	Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	David R. Morrison (UCSB)
Title:	The Gamma class and perturbative sigma models
Date:	Fri, Jun 07, 2013, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Yefeng Shen (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Global mirror symmetry for invertible simple elliptic singularities
Date:	Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Math-Astro seminar)

Speaker:	Amir Aazami (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	The singularity theorems in general relativity. III
Date:	Fri, May 24, 2013, 10:00 - 11:30
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	946.pdf

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Shunsuke Tsuchioka (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras and the symmetric groups (survey)
Date:	Thu, May 23, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Ziming Nikolas Ma (CUHK)
Title:	Witten deformation and Morse category
Date:	Mon, May 20, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Math-Astro seminar)

Speaker:	Amir Aazami (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	The singularity theorems in general relativity. II
Date:	Fri, May 17, 2013, 10:00 - 11:30
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	945.pdf

Special Seminar (Math-Astro seminar)

Speaker:	Amir Aazami (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	The singularity theorems in general relativity. I
Date:	Fri, May 10, 2013, 10:00 - 11:30
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	944.pdf

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Katsuyuki Naoi (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Finite-dimensional representations over a quantum loop algebra and their classical limits
Date:	Thu, May 09, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	temporary/4nimctkm45iu.pdf

Special Seminar (Courses in advanced mathematics from basics)

Speaker:	Todor Milanov (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	An introduction to the theory of primitive forms (Part 2)
Date:	Fri, Apr 26, 2013, 15:30 - 17:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	926.pdf

Special Seminar (Courses in advanced mathematics from basics)

Speaker:	Todor Milanov (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	An introduction to the theory of primitive forms (Part 1)
Date:	Fri, Apr 26, 2013, 13:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	925.pdf

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Mauricio Andres Romo Jorquera (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Topological-antitopological fusion and gauged linear sigma models
Date:	Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Atsushi Kanazawa (University of British Columbia)
Title:	Calabi-Yau threefolds of Type K
Date:	Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 17:00 - 18:30
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Daniel Michael Pomerleano (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Symplectic cohomology and mirror symmetry
Date:	Thu, Apr 11, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Yasunori Nomura (UC berkeley)
Title:	Complementarity or Firewalls: the Emergence of Classical Worlds
Date:	Fri, Apr 05, 2013, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Ivan Chi-Ho Ip (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Universal R-operator for split real quantum groups
Date:	Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Charles Martin Siegel (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Cyclic Covers, Pryms and Moduli
Date:	Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Gil Paz (Wayne State Univ.)
Title:	The charge radius of the proton
Date:	Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	901.pdf
Remarks:	[1] R. Pohl et al., Nature 466, 213 (2010), A. Antognini et al. Science 339, 417 (2013) [2] R.J. Hill, G. Paz, PRL 107, 160402 (2011) [3] R.J. Hill, G. Paz, PRD 82, 113005 (2010)

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Changzheng Li (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Integrable systems and toric degenerations
Date:	Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Douglas Scott (UBC)
Title:	The Standard Cosmological Model
Date:	Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 16:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	887.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Jay Armas (Univ. of Bern)
Title:	(Electro)elasticity from Gravity
Date:	Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Alexey Bondal (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Categorical approach to discrete harmonic analysis
Date:	Thu, Feb 07, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Artan Sheshmani (Max Planck Institute)
Title:	Donaldson-Thomas invariants of 2-dimensional torsion sheaves and modular forms
Date:	Mon, Feb 04, 2013, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Break 15:00-15:30

Special Seminar (Astro lunch seminar)

Speaker:	Masao Hayashi (NAOJ)
Title:	Star formation activity in and around high-z clusters revealed with Subaru
Date:	Mon, Jan 28, 2013, 12:00 - 13:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	868.pdf

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Arend Bayer (Edinburgh)
Title:	Birational geometry of moduli of sheaves on K3s via Bridgeland stability
Date:	Mon, Jan 21, 2013, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Break 15:00-15:30

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Tanmay Neelesh Deshpande (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Character sheaves on unipotent groups
Date:	Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Yu Nakayama (Caltech/IPMU)
Title:	Does anomalous violation of null energy condition invalidate holographic c-theorem?
Date:	Tue, Jan 08, 2013, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	837.pdf