Kavli IPMU Seminars

Kavli IPMU Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

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: Lukas Nakamura (IMJ-PRG)
Title: Gromov-Witten invariants of the Hopf link conormal more
Date (JST): Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
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
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Angelica Lola Danhaive (University of Cambridge)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
Place: Seminar Room A
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 (GTM Seminar)
Speaker: Anya Nordskova (Kavli IPMU)
Title: Banach’s problem in dimension 4 more
Date (JST): Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room B
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
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Liang Tan (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)
Title: Probe Neutrino and light DM with Cosmic Gravitational focusing more
Date (JST): Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Francesco Sala (University of Pisa)
Title: Cohomological Hall algebras of 1-dimensional sheaves and Yangians over the Bridgeland's space of stability conditions more
Date (JST): Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Chuan-Yang Xing (China University of Petroleum)
Title: (TBA) more
Date (JST): Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room 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: Subhadeep Sarkar (the Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna))
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Wed, Mar 11, 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