Kavli IPMU Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Kimberly Boddy (The University of Texas at Austin)
Title: Cosmological Constraints on Non-Minimally Coupled Ultralight Dark Matter more
Date (JST): Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (Special Seminar)
Speaker: Laurent Freidel (Perimeter)
Title: Quantum Null Ray: "covariant quantization" more
Date (JST): Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Sara Bianco (DESY)
Title: BBN disintegration limits from ν-injections more
Date (JST): Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
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? more
Date (JST): Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: It is only in person.
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Ben Davison (University of Edinburgh)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: This seminar serves as the introductory talk in a four-lecture series on the same topic.
Prof. Ben Davison will give three additional lectures at 13:30 at the following venues.

Seminar Room A on March 30 (Mon)
Seminar Room B on April 1 (Wed)
Seminar Room B on April 2 (Thu)
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas (NorthWestern University)
Title: Metallicity Scaling Relations at Cosmic (after)Noon more
Date (JST): Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: David Sanders (Univ. of Hawaii, Institute of Astronomy)
Title: The Origin and Evolution of Luminous AGN: recent progress and future challenges more
Date (JST): Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Serguey T. Petcov (INFN/SISSA)
Title: Modular-Symmetry-Protected Seesaw Mechanism more
Date (JST): Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Aaron Vincent (Queen's U)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Henrique Rubira (Cambridge/LMU)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Dam Son (University of Chicago)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Benedetta Ciardi (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: Jasper Roosmale Nepveu (NTU national taiwan university)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (CD3 Seminar)
Speaker: William DeRocco (University of Maryland)
Title: Microlensing in the Roman Era more
Date (JST): Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Lecture Hall
APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)
Speaker: David Fonseca Mota (University of Oslo)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (CD3 Seminar)
Speaker: Marta Monelli (Kavli IPMU)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Lecture Hall
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Xiaohan Yan (Toulouse Mathematics Institute)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Special Seminar (CD3 Seminar)
Speaker: Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa (Kavli IPMU)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Lecture Hall
Special Seminar (CD3 Seminar)
Speaker: Jiamin Hou (University of Cambridge)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Lecture Hall
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: David Klompenhouwer (University of Padova)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Laura Schaposnik (Univ. of Illinois Chicago)
Title: TBA more
Date (JST): Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B