Seminar/Colloquium Archive

Special Seminar (Q&A session)

Speaker:	Prof. Rashid Sunyaev (MPA)
Title:	Q&A session with Prof. Rashid Sunyaev
Date:	Fri, Dec 12, 2014, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Giovanni Faonte (Yale University)
Title:	Nerve construction, A-infinity functors and homotopy theory of dg-categories
Date:	Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Lectures by Prof. Rashid Sunyaev and Prof. Wayne Hu)

Speaker:	Rashid Sunyaev (MPA) / Wayne Hu (KICP)
Title:	(1)CMB temperature and polarization phenomenology, (2) Hot gas in clusters of galaxies, CMB and cosmology
Date:	Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 13:30 - 17:30
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	13:30 - 15:00 "CMB temperature and polarization phenomenology" by Prof. Wayne Hu 16:00 - 17:30 "Hot gas in clusters of galaxies, CMB and cosmology" by Prof. Rashid Sunyaev

Special Seminar (Lecture by Prof. Rashid Sunyaev and Prof. Wayne Hu)

Speaker:	Rashid Sunyaev (MPA) / Wayne Hu (KICP)
Title:	(1) Perturbation Theory, (2)Inflation, (3) IPMU colloquium
Date:	Wed, Dec 10, 2014, 10:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	10:30 - 12:00 "Perturbation Theory" by Prof. Wayne Hu (KICP, Chicago) 13:30 - 15:00 "Inflation" by Prof. Wayne Hu (KICP, Chicago) 15:30 - 17:00 IPMU colloquium: Prof. Rashid Sunyaev

Special Seminar (Astro Lunch Seminar)

Speaker:	Chi-Ting Chiang (MPA)
Title:	Position-dependent power spectrum and the application to the BOSS DR10 CMASS sample
Date:	Tue, Dec 09, 2014, 12:00 - 13:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1334.pdf

Special Seminar (Lecture by Prof. Rashid Sunyaev and Prof. Wayne Hu)

Speaker:	Rashid Sunyaev (MPA) / Wayne Hu (KICP)
Title:	(1)Spectral distortion of the Cosmic Background Radiation, (2) CMB statistics, (3) Discussion on the new Planck results
Date:	Tue, Dec 09, 2014, 10:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	10:30 - 12:00 "Spectral distortion of the Cosmic Background Radiation" by Prof. Rashid Sunyaev (MPA) 13:30 - 15:00 "CMB statistics" by Prof. Wayne Hu (KICP, Chicago) 15:30 - 17:00 Discussion on the new Planck results (Eiichiro Komatsu, Maresuke Shiraishi, Rashid Sunyaev and others)

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Will Donovan (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Geometry of 3-folds, and noncommutative deformations
Date:	Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	15:00-15:30 break

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Kota Yoshioka (Kobe U)
Title:	Beauville's examples of irreducible symplectic manifolds and the cones conjecture of Kawamata and Morrison
Date:	Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	15:00-15:30 break

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Takahiro Nishimichi (IAP)
Title:	Non-perturbative properties of large-scale structure formation and their implications to cosmology
Date:	Fri, Nov 28, 2014, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1329.pdf

Special Seminar (APEC Lunch seminar)

Speaker:	Amanda Karakas (ANU)
Title:	Heavy element production in asymptotic giant branch stars
Date:	Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 12:00 - 13:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (Kavli IPMU Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Naichung Conan Leung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Title:	Donaldson-Thomas theory for Calabi-Yau fourfolds
Date:	Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 10:30 - 11:30
Place:	Room 128, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus, U Tokyo
Related File:	1335.pdf

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Edward Witten (IAS)
Title:	A New Look At The Gopakumar-Vafa Formula
Date:	Fri, Nov 21, 2014, 16:00 - 18:00
Place:	Media Hall @ Kashiwa Library

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Kenichi Yoshikawa (Kyoto U)
Title:	Analytic torsion for Borcea-Voisin threefolds
Date:	Mon, Nov 17, 2014, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	15:00-15:30 break

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Yuichiro Tanaka (U Tokyo)
Title:	Visible actions on generalized flag varieties
Date:	Thu, Nov 13, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (APEC + ICRR seminar)

Speaker:	Alexander Kusenko (Kavli IPMU/UCLA)
Title:	Higgs relaxation and leptogenesis
Date:	Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1298.pdf

Special Seminar (Special ACP Seminar)

Speaker:	Jason Rhodes (NASA JPL)
Title:	WFIRST and Euclid
Date:	Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1217.pdf

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Jacques Delabrouille (CNRS)
Title:	Recent Planck results and the future of CMB observations
Date:	Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 16:30 - 18:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Dulip Piyaratne (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Bridgeland stability conditions on abelian threefolds
Date:	Mon, Oct 27, 2014, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	15:00-15:30 break

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Cliff Burgess (McMaster U)
Title:	Large-Field and Open EFTs, Decoherence and Inflation
Date:	Thu, Oct 23, 2014, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special ACP seminar)

Speaker:	Benny Traktenbrot (ETH-Zurich)
Title:	Spinning supermassive black holes
Date:	Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 12:00 - 13:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (APEC & ICRR seminar)

Speaker:	Sadakazu Haino (Academia Sinica)
Title:	Latest results from AMS
Date:	Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	1288.pdf

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Mauricio Andres Romo Jorquera (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Higher Genus Gromov-Witten invariants and BCOV equations
Date:	Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Strings lunch seminar)

Speaker:	Djordje Radicevic (Stanford U)
Title:	Entanglement Entropy and Lattices
Date:	Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 11:45 - 13:15
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar ((mini-workshop)Towards Quantum Primitive Form Theory)

Speaker:	Mikhail Kapranov & Kouhei Iwaki & Akishi Ikeda
Title:	(Kapranov) Secondary polytopes and Hochschild complexes, (Iwaki) Introduction to exact WKB analysis 2, (Ikeda) Construction of stability conditions from quadratic differentials
Date:	Fri, Oct 10, 2014, 10:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar ((mini-workshop)Towards Quantum Primitive Form Theory)

Speaker:	Mikhail Kapranov & Kouhei Iwaki & Akishi Ikeda
Title:	(Kapranov) Homotopy Lie algebras from secondary polytopes, (Iwaki) Introduction to exact WKB analysis 2, (Ikeda) Geometry of surfaces, derived categories and quadratic differentials
Date:	Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 10:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar ((mini-workshop )Towards Quantum Primitive Form Theory)

Speaker:	Mikhail Kapranov & Kouhei Iwaki & Akishi Ikeda
Title:	(Kapranov) Background on secondary polytopes, Newton polytopes and exponential sums, (Iwaki) Introduction to exact WKB analysis 1, (Ikeda) Derived categories of Ginzburg dg algebras and Bridgeland stability conditions
Date:	Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 10:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (APEC & ICRR seminar)

Speaker:	Motohiko Yoshimura / Noboru Sasao (Okayama U)
Title:	Project of Neutrino Mass Spectroscopy:Its theory and experimental progress
Date:	Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1242.pdf
Remarks:	Talks are given in Japanese

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Ivan IP (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Positive representations and quantum higher Teichmuller theory
Date:	Thu, Sep 25, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Yohsuke Imagi (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Singularities of Special Lagrangian Submanifolds
Date:	Thu, Sep 11, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Jesse Wolfson (Northwestern U)
Title:	Nerves and Group Completion for Categories and Operads: A beginner's guide Part 3
Date:	Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Jesse Wolfson (Northwestern U)
Title:	Nerves and Group Completion for Categories and Operads: A beginner's guide Part 2
Date:	Mon, Sep 01, 2014, 13:00 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony B

Special Seminar (special seminar)

Speaker:	Jesse Wolfson (Northwestern U)
Title:	Nerves and Group Completion for Categories and Operads: A beginner's guide
Date:	Fri, Aug 29, 2014, 13:00 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Yefeng Shen (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Two proofs of modularity of Gromov-Witten correlation functions for elliptic orbifold curves
Date:	Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1252.pdf

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Yi Zhang (Chinese U of Hong Kong)
Title:	SYZ transformation for coisotropic A-branes
Date:	Fri, Jul 11, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Amir Aazami (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	The Petrov classification in general relativity
Date:	Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Jesse Wolfson (Northwestern U)
Title:	A Modular Operad of Embedded Curves
Date:	Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1236.pdf

Special Seminar (Kavli IPMU Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Anatol Kirillov (RIMS, Kyoto University)
Title:	On some quadratic algebras with applications to Topology, Algebra, Combinatorics, Schubert Calculus and Integrable Systems
Date:	Mon, Jun 30, 2014, 16:30 - 18:00
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Andreas Karch (U. Washington)
Title:	Entanglement and Holography
Date:	Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1209.pdf

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Andrei Pajitnov (Université de Nantes)
Title:	Arnold conjecture, Floer homology, and augmentation ideals of finite groups.
Date:	Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Kavli IPMU Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	A.P. Veselov (Loughborough, UK and Tokyo)
Title:	Universal formulae for Lie groups and Chern-Simons theory
Date:	Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 16:30 - 18:00
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS)
Title:	Lecture 2 on Effective field theory of large-scale structure
Date:	Thu, Jun 12, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS)
Title:	Lecture 1 on Effective field theory of large-scale structure
Date:	Thu, Jun 12, 2014, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS)
Title:	Discussion meeting
Date:	Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 13:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	13:30 - 15:00, 15:30 - 17:00

Special Seminar (Lecture)

Speaker:	Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS)
Title:	Lecture 2 on primordial non-Gaussianity
Date:	Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (Lecture )

Speaker:	Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS)
Title:	Lecture 1 on primordial non-Gaussianity
Date:	Mon, Jun 09, 2014, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Charles Siegel (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Trees and an Affine Cover of ﹨ bar{﹨mathcal{M}}_{0,n+1}
Date:	Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Sergei Duzhin (Steklov Institute of Mathematics)
Title:	On some strange dynamical systems in the real plane
Date:	Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	1203.pdf

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Changzheng Li (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	On equivariant Pieri rule of isotropic Grassmannians
Date:	Thu, May 22, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Daniel Pomerleano (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Homological mirror symmetry for the genus 2 curve
Date:	Thu, May 08, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Informal seminar)

Speaker:	Bryan Webber (U Cambridge)
Title:	Precision of Standard Model parameters and Higgs properties
Date:	Wed, May 07, 2014, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1186.pdf

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Edgar Shaghoulian (Stanford U.)
Title:	Warped entanglement entropy
Date:	Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1181.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Ruben Minasian (CEA Saclay)
Title:	Alpha-prime adventures
Date:	Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	1194.pdf

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Tirasan Khandhawit (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth 4-manifolds
Date:	Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1188.pdf

Special Seminar (Special seminar)

Speaker:	Freeman Dyson (IAS)
Title:	Q&A with Freeman Dyson
Date:	Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 13:30 - 17:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	13:30-15:00, 15:30-17:30

Special Seminar (Q&A Session with Professor Peter Goddard (IAS))

Speaker:	Peter Goddard (Institute for Advanced Study)
Title:	Q&A Session with Professor Peter Goddard
Date:	Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (CPseminar)

Speaker:	Jarah Evslin (IHEP/Beijing, IMP/Lanzhou)
Title:	The Leptonic CP Phase from T2(H)K and oscillations from mu+ Decay at Rest
Date:	Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Takeshi Ikeda (Okayama University of Science)
Title:	Pfaffian sum formula for the symplectic Grassmannians
Date:	Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Marcello Bernardara (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse)
Title:	Derived categories, noncommutative motives and commutative theorems
Date:	Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	1156.pdf
Remarks:	Part 1; 14:00 - 15:00 Part 2; 17:00 - 18:30 The note of Related File have been written by Prof. Uehara.

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Genki Oouchi (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Lagrangian embedding of cubic 4-folds containing a plane
Date:	Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Part 1; 14:00 - 15:00 Part 2; 15:30 - 17:00

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Richard Driessnack Eager (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	The Gauged Linear Sigma Model and GIT
Date:	Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Hiraku Abe (Waseda University)
Title:	Young diagrams and intersection numbers for toric manifolds associated with Weyl chambers
Date:	Thu, Feb 27, 2014, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Supernova Seminar)

Speaker:	Devendra Sahu (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore)
Title:	Supernova SN 2012dn: A spectroscopic clone to SN 2006gz
Date:	Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 15:40 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Math/Physics talk)

Speaker:	Miguel Angel Javaloyes (University of Murcia, Spain)
Title:	Interplay between Randers metrics and the causal geometry of stationary spacetimes. Almost isometries.
Date:	Fri, Feb 14, 2014, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	1147.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Jeong-Hyuck Park (Sogang U)
Title:	How many is different? Answer from the ideal Bose gas.
Date:	Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 12:15 - 13:45
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	1115.pdf

Special Seminar (Kavli IPMU Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Hans Jockers (The University of Bonn)
Title:	Characteristic classes from 2d renormalized sigma-models
Date:	Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 17:00 - 18:30
Place:	Room 128, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo

Special Seminar (GTM seminar)

Speaker:	Yukinobu Toda (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Flops and S-duality conjecture
Date:	Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Conformal Blocks Seminar)

Speaker:	Charles Siegel (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	CohFT and conformal blocks, or, how I learned to stop worrying and compute all the Chern classes
Date:	Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 15:30 - 17:30
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Yukiko Konishi (Kyoto U)
Title:	Local quantum cohomology and mixed Frobenius Structure
Date:	Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A
Remarks:	14:00-15:00 (Part I) 15:30-17:00 (Part II)

Special Seminar (Conformal Blocks Seminar)

Speaker:	Cornelius Schmidt (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Recurrence (and resummation) of conformal blocks
Date:	Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 15:30 - 17:30
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Tomoyuki Abe (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Crystalline companion of l-adic sheaves
Date:	Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Supernova Seminar)

Speaker:	Takashi Hosokawa (U Tokyo)
Title:	Formation of First Stars
Date:	Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	1113.pdf

Special Seminar (Conformal Blocks Seminar)

Speaker:	Ivan Ip (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Quantum Liouville's Theory and Modular Double of Uq(sl(2,R))
Date:	Tue, Jan 14, 2014, 15:30 - 17:30
Place:	Balcony A