Seminar/Colloquium Archive

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Tony Yau
Title:	Brane quantization and SYZ mirror symmetry
Date:	Thu, May 14, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Astro Seminar)

Speaker:	Ashley Hai Tung Tan, Neelesh Amrutha and Zachary Steyn (Australian National Univ.)
Title:	Three collaborative talks (Please see each title in the abstract)
Date:	Mon, May 11, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Yi Zhang (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Geometrization of BV quantisation of gerbe connection, higher Russian formula and anomalies
Date:	Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (CD3 Seminar)

Speaker:	Jiamin Hou (University of Cambridge)
Title:	Unveiling New Physics with Galaxy Surveys in the Data-driven Era
Date:	Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (CD3 Seminar)

Speaker:	Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Bridging galaxy formation and cosmology with multi-scale filaments
Date:	Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Rubén Comas Forgas (Balearic Islands University)
Title:	Beyond the Promise of AI: Ethics, Transparency and Academic Integrity in Scholarly Communication
Date:	Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (CD3 Seminar)

Speaker:	Marta Monelli (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Probing fundamental physics with CMB polarization and beyond
Date:	Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (CD3 Seminar)

Speaker:	William DeRocco (University of Maryland)
Title:	Microlensing in the Roman Era
Date:	Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (fundamentals seminar)

Speaker:	Masahito Yamazaki (Kavli IPMU/ UTokyo )
Title:	Quantum Algorithms
Date:	Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	It is only in person.

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Jinglong Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong U)
Title:	Fermion condensate inflation with waterfall mechanism
Date:	Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Astro Seminar)

Speaker:	Gary J Hill (University of Texas at Austin) and Maximilian Fabricius (MPE)
Title:	The Hobby-Eberly Telescope VIRUS Deep Fields Initiative – tracing Ly-alpha emission from the cosmic web at z=2-3
Date:	Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (fundamentals seminar)

Speaker:	Luca Marchetti (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Background Independence: What Is Observable in Gravity, and How Do We Quantize It?
Date:	Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	It is only in person.

Special Seminar (Astro Seminar)

Speaker:	Géza Csörnyei
Title:	SNe II the rescue: independent determination of the Hubble constant through spectral modeling of Type II supernovae
Date:	Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Laurent Freidel (Perimeter)
Title:	Quantum Null Ray: "covariant quantization"
Date:	Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Karsten Heeger (Yale Univ.)
Title:	Probing the Nature of Neutrino Mass
Date:	Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Astro seminar)

Speaker:	Pavan Vynathea (CITA)
Title:	Asymmetrical supernovae triggered by the tidal disruption of white dwarfs
Date:	Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Masaya Yamamoto (Princeton)
Title:	The Legacy DES Y6 Cosmological Constraints from Weak Lensing and Galaxy Clustering
Date:	Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Tomotaka Kuroda (Institute of Science Tokyo/IBS)
Title:	Several examples of the stochastic(-δN) formalism
Date:	Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Hybrid

Special Seminar (fundamentals seminar)

Speaker:	Leander Thiele (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Fundamentals of Machine Learning
Date:	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.

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Anya Nordskova (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Banach’s problem in dimension 4
Date:	Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Salvatore Samuele Sirletti (U.Ferrara)
Title:	Separating the Inseparable: Constraining Arbitrary Primordial Bispectra with Cosmic Microwave Background Data
Date:	Wed, Feb 04, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
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
Date:	Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 13:30 - 17:00
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
Date:	Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

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
Date:	Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3526.pdf
Remarks:	Please open the related file named "3526.pdf" for the speaker's profile.

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Darius Andreas Dramburg (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	A McKay-style correspondence for n-dimensional toric quotient singularities and (n-1)-representation infinite algebras
Date:	Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B