Seminar/Colloquium Archive

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Yaron Oz (Tel-Aviv University)
Title:	Unraveling Turbulence: Modern Perspectives on an Unsolved Problem
Date:	Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	This colloquium will only be held online.

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Zvonimir Vlah (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia )
Title:	Loops in the EFT/PT of Structure Formation
Date:	Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Massimo Porrati (NYU)
Title:	Local operator algebras of charged states in gauge theory and gravity
Date:	Tue, Jul 08, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3403.pdf

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Syiang Li (JHU)
Title:	Testing Hubble Tension Systematics with Cepheids, TRGB & JAGB
Date:	Thu, Jul 03, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Valentín Martínez Pillet (IAC)
Title:	Living with a star: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date:	Thu, Jul 03, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Mao Sheng (Tsinghua University)
Title:	Nonlinear Hodge theory in positive characteristic
Date:	Tue, Jul 01, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Astro Seminar)

Speaker:	Qiuyue Liang (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Probe parity violation signals in stochastic gravitational wave background
Date:	Tue, Jul 01, 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Guy Shtotland (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Title:	Relative Kazhdan-Lusztig isomorphism
Date:	Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Wenbin Yan (Tsinghua University)
Title:	VOA, Higgs bundle and character variety
Date:	Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3401.pdf

Special Seminar (Astro Lunch Seminar)

Speaker:	Alexandre Toubiana (Milano Bicocca)
Title:	Reconciling PTA and JWST and preparing for LISA with POMPOCO: a Parametrisation Of the Massive black hole POpulation for Comparison to Observations
Date:	Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sunil Mukhi (IISER Pune)
Title:	Quasi-characters revisited
Date:	Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	3399.pdf

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Ziwen Zhang (USTC)
Title:	Unexpected clustering pattern in dwarf galaxies challenges formation models
Date:	Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Tsuyoshi Takagi (Dept. of Mathematical Informatics, The University of Tokyo)
Title:	Computational Challenge Problems in Post-Quantum Cryptography
Date:	Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Patrick Lei (Columbia U)
Title:	Gromov-Witten theory of Calabi-Yau threefolds
Date:	Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Hirotachi Abo (University of idaho)
Title:	An algebro-geometric approach to Nash equilibria
Date:	Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sebastian Opper (Charles University, Prague)
Title:	Autoequivalences of triangulated categories via Hochschild cohomology
Date:	Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Kristina Giesel (FAU)
Title:	The Quantum Einstein Equations of Loop Quantum Gravity: applications in cosmology and black holes
Date:	Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Xingyang Yu (Virginia Tech.)
Title:	Dimensional Deconstruction with Generalized Symmetries
Date:	Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Kimiko Yamashita (Ibaraki University)
Title:	Gravitational Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter
Date:	Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Robert Weston (Heriot Watt University)
Title:	Cyclic Representations of Quantum Affine sl(2) and its Borel Subalgebras at Roots of Unity and Q-operators
Date:	Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Marti Rossello (Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica)
Title:	Localization and wall-crossing of giant graviton expansions in AdS5
Date:	Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3387.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yusuke Sato (Osaka Institute of Technology)
Title:	Snake graph and cyclic quotient singularities
Date:	Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yasuaki Gyoda (Nagoya University)
Title:	k-generalized Markov number and snake graph
Date:	Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Victor Robles Sanchez (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Title:	Implications of a quantum-like nature for dark matter in our Milky Way halo and its dwarf galaxy population
Date:	Wed, Jun 04, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Eric Madge (The Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM))
Title:	Probing Ultralight Dark Matter with Quantum Clocks
Date:	Wed, Jun 04, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Renzo Cavalieri (Colorado State University)
Title:	Tropical psi classes and tropicalizations of psi classes
Date:	Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)
Title:	A Polarized Look at the Hubble Constant Problem
Date:	Mon, Jun 02, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Lecture Hall

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ivan Cherednik (University of North Carolina)
Title:	Motivic superpolynomials and surface singularities, Part II
Date:	Thu, May 29, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	This is the second part of his talk, Motivic superpolynomials and surface singularities. Part I will take place at 13:30 on May 27 in Seminar Room A.

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Meng-Xiang Lin (UPenn)
Title:	Apparent Phantom Dark Energy and Growth Suppression from Dark Axion and Dark Baryons Interactions
Date:	Thu, May 29, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Fundamental Problems Seminar)

Speaker:	Taizan Watari (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Another look on the moduli space of theories
Date:	Wed, May 28, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Loris del Grosso (JHU)
Title:	Probing new physics with exotic compact objects
Date:	Wed, May 28, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Mitch Weaver (KAIST)
Title:	Reading between Special Kähler Structures: N =4 sYM
Date:	Tue, May 27, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3333.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ivan Cherednik (University of North Carolina)
Title:	Motivic superpolynomials and surface singularities, Part I
Date:	Tue, May 27, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	The second part of his talk, Motivic superpolynomials and surface singularities, Part II, will take place at 15:30 on May 29 in Seminar Room A.

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Shunichi Horigome (Tohoku Univ.)
Title:	JFlow: Model-Independent Spherical Jeans Analysis using Equivariant Continuous Normalizing Flows
Date:	Fri, May 23, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Adil Jueid (IBS)
Title:	CosmiXs: cosmic messenger spectra for dark matter indirect searches
Date:	Fri, May 23, 2025, 13:30 - 14:40
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3379.pdf

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Daniele Sorini (Durham Univ.)
Title:	The impact of baryonic astrophysics on the distribution of matter within and beyond haloes
Date:	Thu, May 22, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Neal Dalal (Perimeter)
Title:	AGN HBT OMG
Date:	Wed, May 21, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Vicharit Yingcharoenrat (Chulalongkorn U.)
Title:	Beyond Coleman’s Instantons
Date:	Fri, May 16, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Francesco Serra (JHU)
Title:	Shadow charges in the Standard Model
Date:	Fri, May 16, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Nantao Zhang (Tsinghua university)
Title:	Bogomolov-type inequalities and Bridgeland stability conditions on threefolds
Date:	Thu, May 15, 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room B

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Evan McDonough (University of Winnipeg)
Title:	Primordial Black Holes and Multifield Inflation
Date:	Thu, May 15, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Masaru Shibata (Max Planck Institute For Gravitational Physics/YITP)
Title:	Exploring neutron-star mergers in numerical relativity
Date:	Wed, May 14, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Ayuki Kamada (University of Warsaw)
Title:	Decay of scalar condensation: three approaches
Date:	Wed, May 14, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ting Xue (University of Melbourne)
Title:	Character sheaves, d-Harish-Chandra series, and affine Springer fibres
Date:	Tue, May 13, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kari Vilonen (University of Melbourne)
Title:	Unitary representations of Lie groups and Hodge theory
Date:	Tue, May 13, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Johannes Herms (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Light thermal relic dark matter enabled by a second Higgs
Date:	Fri, May 09, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Che-Yu Chen (RIKEN iTHEMS)
Title:	Joining black hole imaging and ringdown: A novel view of testing gravity
Date:	Thu, May 08, 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Anastasia Fialkov (Cambridge)
Title:	21-cm cosmology: prospects and insights
Date:	Fri, May 02, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sergej Monavari (EPF Lausanne)
Title:	The motive of the Hilbert scheme of points
Date:	Fri, May 02, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Enrique Alvarez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Title:	The cubic action for gravity
Date:	Fri, May 02, 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yinan Wang (Peking Univ.)
Title:	SymTFT for flavor symmetries
Date:	Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	3350.pdf

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Fabio Maltoni (UC Louvain)
Title:	Quantum Observables in High Energy Physics
Date:	Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Morimitsu Tanimoto (Niigata University)
Title:	Neutrino CP violation in Axionless solution to the strong CP problem with two zero textures
Date:	Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Marina Purri Brant Godinho (University of Glasgow)
Title:	Derived symmetries induced by crepant contractions.
Date:	Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Charles Adler (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
Title:	Where is the Science in all that Fiction?
Date:	Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Parth Shimpi (University of Glasgow)
Title:	Drifting towards rational curves
Date:	Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Belen Gavela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and IFT-UAM/CSIC)
Title:	Higgs near-criticality af future colliders
Date:	Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Ryuki Hyodo (SpaceData Inc. / Institute of Science Tokyo)
Title:	A Concept for a Three-Layer AI-Driven Digital Twin Platform
Date:	Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	This seminar marks the first in a joint seminar series between Kavli IPMU and F-REI (The Fukushima Institute for Research, Education, and Innovation), held under the framework of our MOU. Dr. Hyodo is the Chief Science Officer at SpaceData Inc. and is leading several exciting projects based on his "AI-Driven Digital Twin Platform.” Their approach may offer new ways to visualize, store, and share research data at IPMU.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sebastian-Philip Harris (DESY)
Title:	Holographic Interfaces in Symmetric Product Orbifolds
Date:	Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3360.pdf

Special Seminar (Joint MS/APEC Seminar)

Speaker:	Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)
Title:	Emergent Space-Time and Early Universe Cosmology from the BFSS matrix model
Date:	Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Serguey Petcov (IINFN/SISSA/ Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Fermion Mass Hierarchies and Modulus Stabilisation in Modular Flavour Theories
Date:	Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Eugenia Cheng (School of Art Institute of Chicago) joined by Peter Wesoloski
Title:	The Sum of the Score: Math in Music
Date:	Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Place:	Media Hall in Kashiwa Library
Remarks:	The venue is Media Hall, located in Kashiwa Library on the Kashiwa Campus.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff University)
Title:	The Hochschild homology of a non-commutative symmetric quotient stack
Date:	Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Surjeet Rajendran (JHU)
Title:	A Solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem with a Classical Volume Element
Date:	Wed, Apr 09, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Chenjing Bu
Title:	Intrinsic enumerative geometry
Date:	Tue, Apr 08, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Joint IPMU/ICRR/ILANCE seminar)

Speaker:	Deborah Harris (York Universtiy )
Title:	Neutrino Interactions and the Nuclei that Affect Them
Date:	Mon, Apr 07, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Simon May (Perimeter)
Title:	Fuzzy dark matter meets galaxy formation with IllustrisTNG
Date:	Fri, Apr 04, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Raul Abramo (U. Sao Paulo)
Title:	A robust cosmic standard ruler from the cross-correlation of galaxies and dark sirens
Date:	Thu, Apr 03, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Olivier Dore (JPL/Caltech)
Title:	Mapping the Universe with SPHEREx
Date:	Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Ue-Li Pen (CITA and ASIAA)
Title:	Line Intensity Mapping: opportunities and challenges
Date:	Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Stephane Lavignac (Institute of Theoretical Physics)
Title:	Testing the heavy decaying sterile neutrino hypothesis at the DUNE near detector
Date:	Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Dieter Luest (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)
Title:	Black Holes as Probes for UV Physics
Date:	Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Michihisa Takeuchi (Zhongshan U.)
Title:	Current status of 2HDMs for muon g-2 / Probing right handed neutrinos via try-lepton signals at the LHC
Date:	Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Rene Meyer (U. Würzburg)
Title:	A PT symmetric holographic metal
Date:	Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3343.pdf

Special Seminar (Seminar on Fundamental Problems in Physics and Cosmology)

Speaker:	Simeon Hellerman (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	The structure of theory space in quantum and statistical physics.
Date:	Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Takahiro Terada (Nagoya Univ.)
Title:	Memory-Burdened Primordial-Black-Hole Dark Matter probed by Induced Gravitational Waves
Date:	Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Weiguan Cao (The University of Southern Denmark)
Title:	Duality viewpoint of noninvertible symmetry protected topological phases
Date:	Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Jiakang Bao (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Crystals and Double Quiver Yangians
Date:	Fri, Mar 14, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Lucien Hennecart
Title:	Cohomological integrality for symmetric quotient stacks
Date:	Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Gordon Baym (University of Illinois, Urbana)
Title:	The Golden Age of Neutron Stars
Date:	Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London and CERN)
Title:	Gravitational Waves and Black Holes: Searching for the Biggest Bangs since the Big Bang with Atom Interferometers
Date:	Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sheldon Katz
Title:	Gopakumar-Vafa invariants via Wilson loops
Date:	Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Michiru Uwabo (IBS)
Title:	Peak sphericity of non-Gaussian random field
Date:	Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Fundamental Problems Seminar)

Speaker:	Anamaria Hell (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Degrees of Freedom: Foundations and Challenges
Date:	Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	This meeting is in person only.

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Philipp Schicho (University of Geneva)
Title:	Perturbative cosmological phase transitions and their bubble wall velocities
Date:	Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Johanna Knapp (Melbourne)
Title:	A non-abelian GLSM for cubics
Date:	Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Jaewon Song (KAIST)
Title:	A Family of Vertex Operator Algebras from Argyres-Douglas Theory
Date:	Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Ampan LAOSUNTHARA (Institute of Science Tokyo, School of Environment and Society)
Title:	Natural disasters - awareness among Gaijin in Japan
Date:	Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Language: English

Special Seminar (Joint APEC-MS Seminar)

Speaker:	Luca Marchetti (OIST)
Title:	Quantum Gravity and Emergent Cosmology: A Group Field Theory Perspective
Date:	Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3324.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ciceri Franz (ENS de Lyon)
Title:	Holography for the IKKT matrix model
Date:	Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3308.pdf

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Philipp Hoehn (OIST)
Title:	Observables and dynamical frames in gravity
Date:	Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Conference Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Antonio de Felice (YITP, Kyoto Univ.)
Title:	Instability of regular BH solutions in NED
Date:	Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Conference Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tianyu YUAN (Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China)
Title:	A Morse A infinity-model for the higher-dimensional Heegaard Floer homology of cotangent fibers
Date:	Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Xiaohui Fan (Univ. of Arizona)
Title:	An Early JWST View of Quasars at Cosmic Dawn
Date:	Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (GTM Seminar)

Speaker:	Eric Chen (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	S-duality of boundary conditions in arithmetic contexts
Date:	Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Sokratis Trifinopoulos (MIT)
Title:	Flavor Patterns of Fundamental Particles from Quantum Entanglement?
Date:	Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

Special Seminar (a Joint IPMU/ICRR/ILANCE seminar)

Speaker:	Akira Konaka (TRIUMF )
Title:	Water Cherenkov Test Experiment (WCTE) at CERN and its spin-off drinking water monitoring project
Date:	Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker:	Bum-Hoon Lee (Center for Quantum SpaceTime, Sogang University)
Title:	Early Dark Energy model as a common ground for Cosmic Birefringence and the Hubble Tension
Date:	Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Khee-Gan Lee (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Revealing the Cosmic Baryons over 11 Billion Years
Date:	Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Douglas Scott (University of British Columbia)
Title:	LiteBIRD: inflation and other science
Date:	Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Remarks:	A public talk as part of the LiteBIRD face-to-face meeting at Kavli IPMU.