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Seminar/Colloquium Archive

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Satoshi Shirai (UC Berkeley)
Title: Model Discrimination at the LHC more
Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room B
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Thomas Flacke (Michigan U., MCTP & Wurzburg U)
Title: Precision constraints on UED models and implications for the LHC more
Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 562.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Marja Hanussek (U Bonn)
Title: Probing neutrino masses in the baryon triality cMSSM at sqrt(s)=7 TeV more
Date: Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Adam Falkowski (Laboratoire de Physique Theorique d'Orsay)
Title: Spinning the Top more
Date: Thu, Dec 15, 2011, 13:30 - 14:40
Place: Seminar Room B
Related File: 589.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Chris Hirata (Caltech)
Title: Understanding the cosmic recombination epoch more
Date: Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Naoyuki Tamura (SUBARU (NAOJ))
Title: Subaru fiber multi-object spectroscopy: current & future instruments for large census in astronomy more
Date: Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 588.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Fanky Wong (U Hong Kong)
Title: Gravitational lensing in a dark matter free braneworld model more
Date: Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 15:30 - 16:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 549.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Omar Benvenuto (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
Title: Signals of Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in Astrophysical Environments more
Date: Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 555.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)
Title: Challenges of neutrino oscillation physics more
Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Lecture Hall
Remarks: (includes review)
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Sharon Rapoport (Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University)
Title: Gravitational Lensing as the Source of Enhanced Strong MgII Absorption Towards Gamma-Ray Bursts more
Date: Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 528.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: John Kehayias (IPMU)
Title: Discrete R-Symmetries and Generalized Gaugino Condensation (and Three Generations) more
Date: Thu, Nov 24, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room B
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Jens Chluba (Toronto)
Title: Signals from the cosmological recombination era and spectral distortions of the CMB more
Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 559.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Richard Hill (Chicago)
Title: Universal behavior in the scattering of heavy, weakly interacting dark matter on nuclear targets more
Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room B
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Uzan (IAP)
Title: Testing the equivalence principle: the link between constants, gravitation and cosmology more
Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 515.pdf
Remarks: References
[1] J.-P. Uzan, Liv. Rev. Relat. 4, 2 (2011)
[2] J.-P. Uzan and B. Leclercq, De l'importance d'etre une constante (Dunos, 2005); translated in English by (Springer, 2009).
[3] P. Peter and J.-P. Uzan, Primordial cosmology (Oxford University Press, 2009)
[4] K.A. Olive, M. Peloso, and J.-P. Uzan, The wall of fundamental constants, Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 043509.
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Valeri Frolov (Alberta)
Title: Spinoptics in a stationary spacetime more
Date: Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 15:30 - 16:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 534.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Johannes Andersen and Birgitta Nordstrom (The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
Title: The Origin of the Elements in the Universe more
Date: Fri, Oct 28, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Chunshan Lin (IPMU)
Title: A Matter Bounce By Means of Ghost Condensation more
Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 522.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Amanda E. Bauer (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
Title: Linking Star Formation Histories with Galaxy Assembly more
Date: Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Bunyo Hatsukade (Kyoto U.)
Title: Millimeter Survey of Distant Dusty Starburst Galaxies more
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 527.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Shin'ichiro Ando (Amsterdam)
Title: Gamma-ray probes of dark matter annihilation more
Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 503.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Biplob Bhattacherjee (IPMU)
Title: Jet substructure and new physics searches at the LHC. more
Date: Thu, Oct 06, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 523.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Tristan Smith (UC Berkeley)
Title: Looking for cracks in the standard cosmological model: neutrinos and non-Gaussianity more
Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 512.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Jason Rhodes (NASA JPL)
Title: WFIRST and Euclid more
Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 501.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay (KIAS)
Title: Aspects of Higgs searches in CP-violating MSSM at the Large Hadron Collider more
Date: Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 502.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Olivier Dore (NASA JPL)
Title: Planck Early Measurements of the Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies more
Date: Thu, Sep 01, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 500.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Thomas Greif (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics)
Title: The formation of the first stars and galaxies more
Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Seong-Chan Park (Chonnam National University )
Title: Super-Planckian scattering at the LHC more
Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 514.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (U Michigan)
Title: Asymmetric Dark Matter more
Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 491.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Suet-Ying Mak (Daisy, University of Southern California)
Title: Constraints on modified gravity from future surveys more
Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 499.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Jean Coupon (Tohoku U.)
Title: New insights on galaxy evolution since z ~ 1.2 from the CFHT Legacy Survey more
Date: Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 494.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Yuichiro Nakai (YITP)
Title: Inflation in Gauge Mediation and Gravitino Dark Matter more
Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 488.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Masami Ouchi (ICRR)
Title: Probing the Epoch of Reionization more
Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 493.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Clifford Cheung (Berkeley)
Title: Signs of a Hidden Sector from Supersymmetry(s) more
Date: Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 477.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Eiichiro Komatsu (Texas)
Title: Cosmic Near Infrared Background more
Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
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 more
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: Kimitake Hayasaki (Kyoto University)
Title: A Road to Supermassive Black Hole Merger more
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: Anzhong Wang (Baylor U)
Title: Anisotropic scalings and a theory of quantum gravity more
Date: Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Morimitsu Tanimoto (Niigata U.)
Title: Impact of Large \theta_{13} on Flavor Physics more
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 more
Date: Wed, Jun 29, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 469.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Masamune Oguri (IPMU)
Title: Dark matter distribution in clusters from strong+weak lensing more
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 more
Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Marco Valdes (Pisa)
Title: The high-z interplay between annihilating DM and the IGM more
Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 463.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Murray Brightman (MPE)
Title: An X-ray - infrared study of AGN unification and selection more
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 more
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 more
Date: Thu, Jun 02, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Jacob Bourjaily (Princeton)
Title: Quantum Field Theory and the Analytic S-Matrix, Redux more
Date: Wed, Jun 01, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 456.pdf
Remarks: 1.5 hr
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Adam Amara (ETH-Zurich)
Title: Gravitational Lenses of the Dark Universe more
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 more
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Takahiro Tanaka (YITP)
Title: Natural selection of inflationary vacuum required by infra-red regularity and gauge-invariance. more
Date: Wed, May 18, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Masahiro Takada (IPMU)
Title: Information content in cosmological observables more
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Takashi Moriya (IPMU)
Title: Supernova Explosions in Dense Circumstellar Medium more
Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 450.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Yoshitaka Hatta (Tsukuba U.)
Title: Jets at weak and strong coupling more
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2011, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 446.pdf
Remarks: 1.5 hr
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Keiichi Maeda (IPMU)
Title: Asymmetry in Type Ia Supernovae: An Origin of Their Observational Diversities? more
Date: Thu, Apr 14, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 449.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 more
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 more
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 more
Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 14:00 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 445.pdf
Remarks: start time subject to change
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Ezequiel Treister (University of Hawaii)
Title: Super-massive Black Holes Across the Cosmic History more
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 more
Date: Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 440.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Yusei Koyama (U. Tokyo)
Title: Panoramic mapping of star formation in and around distant clusters of galaxies more
Date: Thu, Feb 24, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 419.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Norikazu Yamada (KEK)
Title: Search for Walking Technicolor theory using Lattice more
Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 13:00 - 14:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 434.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Elena Sorokina (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)
Title: Supernova Explosions inside Carbon-Oxygen Circumstellar Shells more
Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 413.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Stefano Liberati (SISSA, Trieste)
Title: Quantum Gravity phenomenology: achievements and challenges more
Date: Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 13:00 - 14:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 412.ppt
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Melina Bersten (IPMU)
Title: Comparing Hydrodynamic Models with Observations of Type II Plateau Supernovae more
Date: Tue, Feb 01, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room B
Related File: 380.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Andrea Ferrara (Scuda Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Title: First Stars and their Local Relics more
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 more
Date: Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 13:00 - 14:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 402.pdf
ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)
Speaker: Gaston Folatelli (IPMU)
Title: Distance Precision with Type Ia Supernovae more
Date: Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 13:00 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 381.pdf