Seminar/Colloquium Archive

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Mark Trodden (U Penn)
Title:	Galileons and their Generalizations
Date:	Wed, Oct 17, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	649.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Kurt Hinterbichler (Perimeter)
Title:	The pseudo-conformal universe
Date:	Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	785.pdf

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Valentin Tonita (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Twisted Gromov-Witten invariants
Date:	Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Masahito Yamazaki (Princeton)
Title:	New Perspectives on SCFTs
Date:	Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Eung Jin Chun (KIAS)
Title:	LHC Phenomenology of Type II Seesaw
Date:	Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	782.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Francesco Benini (Stony Brook)
Title:	S2 partition functions: Coulomb vs Higgs localization and vortices In two-dimensional N=(2,2)
Date:	Wed, Oct 10, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	775.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Kurt Hinterbichler (Perimeter)
Title:	Developments in massive gravity
Date:	Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	784.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute)
Title:	4D Wilson Loops, 2D Flux Tubes and Integrability
Date:	Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Liam McAllister (Cornell)
Title:	The Wasteland of Random Supergravities
Date:	Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium (PC)

Speaker:	Hisakazu Minakata (Tokyo Metropolitan U.)
Title:	Neutrinos: Kage-Musha in nature which however have a key to understand her fundamental structure
Date:	Wed, Oct 03, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	763.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Henry Tye (Cornell)
Title:	A Stringy Mechanism for a Small Cosmological Constant
Date:	Wed, Oct 03, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	659.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Pierre Schapira (Universit'e Pierre et Marie Curie)
Title:	Hochschild classes and microlocal Euler classes of sheaves and D-modules (joint work with Masaki Kashiwara)
Date:	Wed, Oct 03, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	757.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Yi Wang (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Isocurvatons during inflation: the heavy, the quasi- and the light
Date:	Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	760.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Anton Kapustin (Caltech)
Title:	Three-dimensional Seiberg duality and generalizations of the Verlinde algebra
Date:	Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jillian Scudder (Univ. of Victoria)
Title:	Tracing the effects of gas flows in interacting galaxy pairs
Date:	Tue, Oct 02, 2012, 12:00 - 13:00
Place:	Seminar Room C

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Yukinobu Toda (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	MMP via stability conditions
Date:	Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Ruth Gregory (Durham)
Title:	Lifshitz Solutions in String Theory
Date:	Wed, Sep 26, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	783.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ivan Ip (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Positive Representations of Split Real Quantum Groups
Date:	Fri, Sep 21, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Tommaso Treu (UC Santa Barbara)
Title:	Black holes, Dark Energy, and other Dark Matters
Date:	Fri, Sep 21, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	758.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Grigoris Panotopoulos (OIST)
Title:	The accelerating Universe, and the cosmic mystery of Dark Energy
Date:	Wed, Sep 19, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	756.pdf

Special Seminar (Get-together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Todor Milanov (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	W-constraints for the total descendant potential of a simple singularity
Date:	Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Martin Bureau (Oxford)
Title:	Molecular gas and star formation in early-type galaxies
Date:	Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	730.pdf

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Yasuyoshi Yonezawa (Nagoya U)
Title:	Quantum (sl_n,∧Vn) link invariant and matrix factorizations
Date:	Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Break 15:00-15:30

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Ryo Namba (Minnesota)
Title:	Characteristic signatures in non-gaussianity and statistical anisotropy from vector fields during inflation
Date:	Thu, Sep 06, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	751.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Matteo Cantiello (KITP)
Title:	Long gamma-ray burst progenitors throughout cosmological time
Date:	Wed, Sep 05, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	762.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Rak-Kyeong Seong (Imperial College)
Title:	Brane Tiling mutations and beyond
Date:	Tue, Sep 04, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	733.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Kazuki Sakurai (DESY)
Title:	Constraining low energy supersymmetry beyond CMSSM
Date:	Wed, Aug 29, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Charles Siegel (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	The Schottky problem in genus 5
Date:	Tue, Aug 28, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Takehiko Yasuda (Osaka U)
Title:	Motivic integration and the p-cyclic McKay correspondence
Date:	Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Break 15:00-15:30

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Tevong You (Imperial College London)
Title:	Is it a (Beyond the) Standard Model Higgs?
Date:	Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	748.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Mikhail Kapranov (Yale University)
Title:	Cubic relations in Hall algebras and roots of zeta functions.
Date:	Wed, Aug 15, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Paul Steinhardt (Princeton)
Title:	What Next In Cosmology
Date:	Mon, Aug 13, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Paul Steinhardt (Princeton)
Title:	Quasi-crystals
Date:	Fri, Aug 10, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Get-together Math seminar)

Speaker:	Tomoyuki Abe (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Theory of weight in arithmetic geometry
Date:	Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tathagata Basak (Iowa State U)
Title:	From a finite projective plane to the monster via hyperbolic geometry
Date:	Thu, Aug 09, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Lorenzo Ubaldi (Bonn)
Title:	WIMP dark matter and baryogenesis
Date:	Wed, Aug 08, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	684.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Juergen Fuchs (Karlstad)
Title:	Mapping class group invariants from factorizable Hopf algebras
Date:	Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	738.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Juergen Fuchs (Karlstad)
Title:	Correlation functions in conformal field theory
Date:	Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Leonardo Mihalcea (Virginia Tech)
Title:	QUANTUM K-THEORY AND THE GEOMETRY OF SPACES OF CURVES
Date:	Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Chihway Chang (Stanford)
Title:	Drawing Photons from the Future -- the LSST Photon Simulator and Shear Systematics Studies
Date:	Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yuji Satoh (Tsukuba U)
Title:	Conformal/supersymmetric interfaces for string theory
Date:	Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	726.pdf

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Naoki Yoshida (Department of Physics/Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo)
Title:	Observational Cosmology: Evolution of the Universe over 13.7 billion years
Date:	Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	707.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Masaki Asano (Hamburg)
Title:	Naturalness in SUSY models and LHC results
Date:	Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	John Ellis (King's College London)
Title:	To Higgs or not to Higgs? That is one of the questions.
Date:	Mon, Jul 23, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	731.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	David Morrison (UCSB)
Title:	F-theory on genus one fibrations
Date:	Mon, Jul 23, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	David Morrison (UCSB)
Title:	Fermions for mathematicians
Date:	Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Hitoshi Murayama (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Unified description of Nambu-Goldstnoe Bosons without Lorentz invariance and Presymplectic Geometry
Date:	Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	718.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA/Kavli-IPMU)
Title:	New probes of initial state of quantum fluctuations during inflation
Date:	Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	739.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Koji Nakamura (CERN)
Title:	Latest Results on the Standard Model Higgs Searches at the LHC
Date:	Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	734.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Elizabeth Tasker (Hokkaido University)
Title:	How to kill a giant molecular cloud (GMC)
Date:	Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Marco Peloso (Minnesota)
Title:	Phenomenology of a pseudoscalar inflaton: naturally large non-gaussianity
Date:	Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	717.pdf

Special Seminar (SW Seminar)

Speaker:	Yuji Tachikawa (U Tokyo)
Title:	An introduction to Seiberg-Witten Theory for mathematicians
Date:	Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

Special Seminar (Get-Together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Satoshi Kondo (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	On the rational K_2 of a curve of GL_2 type over the function field of a curve over a finite field
Date:	Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Tsutomu Yanagida (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Why do I believe in SUSY more strongly than before the LHC ?
Date:	Wed, Jul 04, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	723.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yuken Miyasaka (Tohoku U)
Title:	Torsion points on Jacobian varieties and p-adic Sato theory
Date:	Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Nao Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Title:	Towards the Era of High Precision Cosmology
Date:	Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (DMM Seminar)

Speaker:	Daniel Halpern-Leistner (UC Berkeley)
Title:	The derived category of a GIT quotient
Date:	Mon, Jul 02, 2012, 13:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Break 14:00-15:30

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Donghui Jeong (JHU)
Title:	New ways of searching for the primordial gravitational wave from large scale structure
Date:	Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 16:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	720.pdf
Remarks:	Reference: Jeong & Kamionkowski [arXiv:1203.0302] Schmidt & Jeong [arXiv:1204.3625] Jeong & Schmidt [arXiv:1205.1512] Schmidt & Jeong [arXiv:1205.1514]

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Maximilian Stritzinger (Aarhus/Stockholm)
Title:	Multi-wavelength Observations of the Enduring Type IIn Supernovae 2005ip and 2006jd
Date:	Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	695.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Roderik Overzier (UT Austin)
Title:	Real Galaxies & Virtual Universes
Date:	Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Minoru Nagai (U Tokyo)
Title:	2HDM_MFV Facing Recent LHCb Data
Date:	Wed, Jun 27, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Yongbin Ruan (University of Michigan )
Title:	Mirror symmetry and modular form
Date:	Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	706.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Tetsuya Shiromizu (Kyoto U)
Title:	Asymptotic flatness of higher dimensional spacetimes
Date:	Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	667.pdf

Special Seminar (SW Seminar)

Speaker:	Yuji Tachikawa (U Tokyo)
Title:	An introduction to Seiberg-Witten Theory for mathematicians
Date:	Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yongbin Ruan (University of Michigan)
Title:	Gromov-Witten theory of Calabi-Yau spaces Ⅱ
Date:	Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Huai-Liang Chang (HKUST)
Title:	Introduction to Gromov Witten and Fan-Jarvis-Ruan-Witten theory
Date:	Mon, Jun 18, 2012, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	716.pdf
Remarks:	Break 15:00-15:30

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yongbin Ruan (University of Michigan)
Title:	Gromov-Witten theory of Calabi-Yau spaces Ⅰ
Date:	Fri, Jun 15, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Arman Esmaili Taklimi (Unicamp)
Title:	Indirect Dark Matter Detection in the Light of Sterile Neutrinos
Date:	Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	663.pdf

Special Seminar (Kavli IPMU Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Changzheng Li (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Quantum cohomology of flag varieties
Date:	Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 16:30 - 18:00
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

Special Seminar (Kavli IPMU Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Bong Lian (Brandeis University)
Title:	Period Integrals and Tautological Systems
Date:	Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 16:30 - 18:00
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	Uros Seljak (Berkeley/Zurich/IEU)
Title:	Recent developments in galaxy-dark matter clustering connection
Date:	Fri, Jun 08, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Marco Valdes (Pisa)
Title:	High redshift 21 cm signal as a dark matter probe
Date:	Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 16:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	694.pdf

Special Seminar (Get-Together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Siu-Cheong Lau (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Open GW invariants of toric manifolds
Date:	Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Harald Fritzsch (LMU Munich)
Title:	Composite Weak Bosons at the LHC
Date:	Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	700.pdf

Special Seminar (SW Seminar)

Speaker:	Yuji Tachikawa (U Tokyo)
Title:	An introduction to Seiberg-Witten Theory for mathematicians
Date:	Tue, Jun 05, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Raphael Bousso (UC Berkeley)
Title:	Eternal Inflation and the Measure Problem
Date:	Tue, Jun 05, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (DMM seminar)

Speaker:	Tarig Abdelgadir (KIAS)
Title:	Quivers of sections on toric orbifolds
Date:	Mon, Jun 04, 2012, 14:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Break 15:00-15:30

IPMU Colloquium

Speaker:	Anna Frebel (MIT)
Title:	Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old Stars
Date:	Wed, May 30, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	699.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Emiliano Molinaro (CFTP)
Title:	Low Energy Signatures of TeV scale See-Saw Mechanism
Date:	Wed, May 30, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	654.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Sergio Palomares Ruiz (CFTP)
Title:	Beyond dark matter detection with neutrino telescopes
Date:	Wed, May 30, 2012, 12:00 - 13:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Katsuyuki Naoi (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	The X=M conjecture for a quantum affine algebra
Date:	Tue, May 29, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Jeff Cooke (Swinburne)
Title:	Supernovae discoveries in the early Universe
Date:	Tue, May 29, 2012, 12:00 - 13:00
Place:	Seminar Room C
Related File:	708.pdf

Special Seminar (Special Astro Seminar)

Speaker:	Massimo Marengo (Iowa State University)
Title:	Blowing a Standard Candle: the Disappearing Mass of delta Cephei
Date:	Mon, May 28, 2012, 14:00 - 15:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (Lectures on conformal field theory and related topics)

Speaker:	Akihiro Tsuchiya
Title:	Extended W algebra of type A.D.E. at positive rational level
Date:	Sat, May 26, 2012, 15:30 - 17:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Akihiro Tsuchiya was a starting member of IPMU in mathemtics and has been a principal investigator in mathematics 2008-2011. He retired from IPMU in March 2012. We thank him for his contributions to start mathematics at IPMU. We plan to have his last lecture at IPMU as follows. All are welcome. ================================================================== Date: May 26 (Sat), 2012 Place: Seminar Room A, IPMU Program: 13:30 - 15:00 Yoshitake Hashimoto (Tokyo City Univ.) 15:00 - 15:30 Tea break 15:30 - 17:30 Akihiro Tsuchiya 18:00 - Dinner ==================================================================

Special Seminar (Lectures on conformal field theory and related topics)

Speaker:	Yoshitake Hashimoto (Tokyo City Univ.)
Title:	Conformal Field Theory Associated to C2-cofinite Vertex Operator Algebras (joint with Professor Akihiro Tsuchiya)
Date:	Sat, May 26, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	701.pdf
Remarks:	Akihiro Tsuchiya was a starting member of IPMU in mathemtics and has been a principal investigator in mathematics 2008-2011. He retired from IPMU in March 2012. We thank him for his contributions to start mathematics at IPMU. We plan to have his last lecture at IPMU as follows. All are welcome. ================================================================== Date: May 26 (Sat), 2012 Place: Seminar Room A, IPMU Program: 13:30 - 15:00 Yoshitake Hashimoto (Tokyo City Univ.) 15:00 - 15:30 Tea break 15:30 - 17:30 Akihiro Tsuchiya 18:00 - Dinner ==================================================================

Special Seminar (Get-Together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Scott Carnahan (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	Monstrous moonshine and generalized moonshine
Date:	Thu, May 24, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (SW Seminar)

Speaker:	Yuji Tachikawa (U Tokyo)
Title:	An introduction to Seiberg-Witten Theory for mathematicians
Date:	Thu, May 24, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony B

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Norimi Yokozaki (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	125 GeV Higgs in Gauge Mediation Models
Date:	Wed, May 23, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Masataka Chida (Kyoto University)
Title:	Anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions for modular forms
Date:	Tue, May 22, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A

Special Seminar (IPMU Komaba Seminar)

Speaker:	Emanuel Scheidegger (The University of Freiburg)
Title:	Topological Strings on Elliptic Fibrations
Date:	Mon, May 21, 2012, 17:00 - 18:30
Place:	Room 002, Mathematical Sciences Building, Komaba Campus

Special Seminar (Special Seminar)

Speaker:	David Skinner (Perimeter Institute)
Title:	The Secret Life of Scattering Amplitudes
Date:	Mon, May 21, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	704.pdf

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Marta Volonteri (IAP)
Title:	Massive black holes in galaxy mergers: accretion and dynamics
Date:	Thu, May 17, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	670.pdf

Special Seminar (SW Seminar)

Speaker:	Yuji Tachikawa (U Tokyo)
Title:	An introduction to Seiberg-Witten Theory for mathematicians
Date:	Thu, May 17, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Douglas Spolyar (Fermilab)
Title:	Dark Matter and Light.
Date:	Wed, May 16, 2012, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	Atsushi Taruya (U Tokyo)
Title:	Gravitational-wave backgrounds from ground and space-based interferometers
Date:	Tue, May 15, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	668.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Andrea Prudenziati (YITP)
Title:	Looking for a worldsheet description of the Nekrasov partition function
Date:	Tue, May 15, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	682.pdf

Special Seminar (Get-Together Math Seminar)

Speaker:	Changzheng Li (Kavli IPMU)
Title:	A mirror symmetric construction of quantum cohomology of flag varieties
Date:	Thu, May 10, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Balcony A

ACP Seminar (Astronomy - Cosmology - Particle Physics)

Speaker:	George Efstathiou (Cambridge)
Title:	Early Results from Planck
Date:	Thu, May 10, 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Lecture Hall
Related File:	681.pdf

Special Seminar (SW Seminar)

Speaker:	Yuji Tachikawa (U Tokyo)
Title:	An introduction to Seiberg-Witten Theory for mathematicians
Date:	Thu, May 10, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Dan Xie (IAS)
Title:	General Argyres-Douglas theory
Date:	Tue, May 08, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A