• Conferences: ALL 2008 2007
• Seminars: 2009 - 2008 2007

Conferences

• Mini Workshop at IPMU A New Recursion from Random Matrices and Topological String Theory
  December 11-13, 2008
• Focus Week on Messengers of Supernova Explosions
  November 17-21, 2008
• A Workshop on Micro-local analysis on symplectic manifolds
  September 16-18, 2008
• Focus Week on Quantum Black Holes
  September 12-16, 2008
• Exceptional collections and degenerations of varieties
  September 1-5, 2008
• Focus week on LHC physics
  June 23-27 , 2008
• Moonshiney Conference in Kashiwa
  May 22 - 24 , 2008
• Asian mathematicians and theoretical physicists
  Mar 20 to 22, 2008
• Focus week: Neutrino Mass
  Mar 17 to 21, 2008
• Opening Symposium
  Mar 11 and 12, 2008
• Focus week: LHC Phenomenology
  Dec 17 to 21, 2007

Seminars

• Amihay Hanany (Imperial College)
  "Brane Tilings and M2 branes"
  December 24, 2008
• Yuji Tachikawa (IAS)
  "New Developments in d=4, N=2 Superconformal Field Theories"
  December 24, 2008
• Nakwoo Kim (Kyung Hee University)
  "On the geometry of supersymmetric AdS solutions"
  December 18, 2008
• Kazunori Kohri (Lancaster)
  "Big-bang nucleosyntheis and a hint to solve problems in astrophysics,cosmology and particle physics."
  December 18, 2008
• Kevin Bundy (UC Berkeley)
  "The Mass-Dependent Role of Mergers in Galaxy Evolution"
  December 16, 2008
• Alexie Leauthaud (LBL)
  "Halo properties of Groups and Clusters via Weak Gravitational Lensing in COSMOS"
  December 16, 2008
• Hiro Tajima (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
  "Science and Instrumentation of ASTRO-H Mission: Next Generation X-ray/Gamma-ray Satellite Mission"
  December 15, 2008
• Manabu Akaho (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
  "Immersed Lagrangian Floer theory"
  December 11, 2008
• Yuji Okawa (University of Tokyo)
  "The boundary state from open string fields"
  December 3, 2008
• Kentaro Hori (University of Toronto / IPMU)
  "A pair of non-birational but derived equivalent Calabi-Yau manifolds from non-Abelian gauge theories"
  December 1, 2008
• Mikaël Pichot (IPMU)
  "Groups of intermediate rank"
  November 28, 2008
• Seiji Terashima (YITP)
  "Toward a Proof of Montonen-Olive Duality via Multiple M2-branes"
  November 27, 2008
• Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC Berkeley & Amsterdam)
  "Quantum groups at roots of unity and invariants of links"
  November 20, 2008
• Joe Conlon (Oxford)
  "Hierarchy Problems in String Theory: An Overview of the LARGE Volume Scenario"
  November 20, 2008
• Pisin Chen (National Taiwan University & Stanford)
  "Title: The Dark Energy Puzzle"
  November 19, 2008
• David Morrison
  "Open strings and noncommutatie algebraic geometry"
  November 17, 2008
• Kazuya Koyama (Portsmouth)
  "Modified gravity as an alternative to dark energy"
  November 10, 2008
• Shirley Ho (Princeton)
  "What can you do with Cosmic Microwave Background as a Backlight?"
  November 10, 2008
• Simeon Hellerman (IPMU)
  "Cosmological unification of string theories"
  November 6, 2008
• Chun-Lin Shan (Seoul National U.)
  "Identifying Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data"
  November 6, 2008
• Lawrence Hall (UC Berkeley)
  "Predictions from the Multiverse."
  November 5, 2008
• Sergey Gorchinskiy (Steklov Mathematical Institute)
  "Conjectures on motives: case of simple threefolds."
  November 5, 2008
• Hiromitsu Takahashi (GLAST)
  "The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope"
  October 30, 2008
• Shigeki Sugimoto (IPMU)
  "Properties of Baryons in Holographic QCD"
  October 29, 2008
• Anatoli Kirillov (RIMS, Kyoto university)
  "Dunkl operators and quadratic algebras"
  October 27, 2008
• Michael Semenov-Tian-Shansk(University of Bourgogne)
  "Poisson groups and differential Galois theory of Schroedinger equation on the circle."
  October 27, 2008
• Alex Kusenko (UCLA)
  "Echoes of supersymmetry from the early universe: baryons, dark matter, and gravitational waves."
  October 23, 2008
• David Berenstein (University of California, Santabarbara)
  "A new dimension for the AdS/CFT correspondence"
  October 22, 2008
• Thierry Foglizzo (Service d'Astrophysique & Waseda)
  "From the whistle of a kettle to the asymmetric explosion of supernovae"
  October 22, 2008
• Domenico Orland (IPMU)
  "Quantum Crystals and Topological Strings"
  October 16, 2008
• Kaoru Hagiwara (KEK)
  "Jet angular correlation in vector-boson fusion processes at hadron colliders"
  October 15, 2008
• Maxim Kontsevich (IHES)
  "Wall Crossing"
  October 14, 2008
• Johan Alwall (SLAC)
  "Matching QCD radiation in gluino and squark production at the LHC"
  October 14, 2008
• Akihiro Tsuchiya (IPMU)
  "Conformal field theory and vertex operator algebras"
  October 14, 2008
• Tom Broadhurst (Tel Aviv/Visitor)
  "Testing LCDM with Subaru Observations of Cluster Mass Profiles"
  October 10, 2008
• Shima Shimizu (ZEUS)
  "Results on the proton structure from HERA"
  October 09, 2008
• Takaya Nozawa (IPMU)
  "Formation of dust in primordial supernovae and its survival within the supernova remnants"
  October 08, 2008
• Doron Lemze (Tel Aviv)
  "Combining Lensing, X-ray, and galaxy dynamic Measurements in Clusters"
  October 07, 2008
• George Hou (National Taiwan University)
  "CP Violation for the Heaven and the Earth"
  October 02, 2008
• Sven Bjarke Gudnason (Univ. of Pisa)
  "SO and USp K\"ahler and HyperK\"ahler Quotients and Lumps"
  October 02, 2008
• Cosimo Bambi (IPMU)
  "A possible observational signature of the weight of vacuum energy"
  October 01, 2008
• Simon Dedeo (Chicago)
  "The View from UChicago"
  September 25, 2008
• Simon Dedeo (Chicago)
  "The Phenomenology of Gravity"
  September 24, 2008
• Antonio Enea Romano (YITP)
  "Effects of particle production during inflation"
  September 22, 2008
• Shin Nakamura (Center for Quantum Spacetime (CQUeST), Sogang University)
  "A Holographic Dual of Bjorken Flow"
  September 19, 2008
• Shunji Matsuura (University of Tokyo / Perimeter institute)
  "Holographic non-local operators"
  September 18, 2008
• Brian Powell (IPMU)
  "What we know (and may ever know) about inflation"
  September 18, 2008
• Jing Shu (IPMU)
  "Topological Interactions at the LHC and Generalized Landau-Yang Theorem"
  September 17, 2008
• Kai Wang (IPMU)
  "Testing origin of neutrino mass at the LHC"
  September 10, 2008
• Atish Dabholkar (Univerisite Pari 6)
  "Black Hole Entropy in String Theory - A Window into the quantum Structure of Spacetime -"
  September 10, 2008
• Mitsuru Kakizaki (Bonn University)
  "Abundance of Thermal Relics in Non-standard Cosmological Scenarios"
  September 9, 2008
• Yasuaki Hikida (KEK)
  "The FZZ-Duality Conjecture - A Proof"
  September 3, 2008
• Andrei Frolov, "A Singularity Problem with f(R) Dark Energy"
  August 28, 2008
• Yeong-Gyun Kim, "Mass and Spin at LHC "
  August 22, 2008
• David M. Goldberg, "Where is the Information in Cluster Lenses?"
  August 21, 2008
• Hisanori Furusawa, "Applications of wide and deep multi-waveband imaging in the extragalactic astronomy : Suprime-Cam to HSC"
  August 18, 2008
• Michael Kiermaier, "One-Loop Riemann Surfaces in Schnabl Gauge"
  August 13, 2008
• Shushi Harashita, ": Introduction to Deligne-Lusztig theory"
  August 11, 2008
• Nagao Kentaro, "Counting invariants of perverse coherent systems on CY 3-folds and their wall-crossings"
  August 4, 2008
• Akihiro Tsuchiya, "Vertex Operator Algebra with C₂-finite conditions and Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory"
  July 31, 2008
• Satoshi Kondo, "On a Drinfeld modular analogue of Beilinson's conjecture"
  July 30 , 2008
• Jie Xiao, Fan Xu, "Lie Algebras Associated with Derived Categories III."
  July 29, 2008
• Lin Weng, "Symmetries and the Riemann Hypothesis"
  July 28 , 2008
• Jie Xiao, Fan Xu, "Lie Algebras Associated with Derived Categories II."
  July 28, 2008
• Michael Strauss, "Quasars from z=0 to z=6: Demographics and Clustering as Clues to their Physical Nature"
  July 24 , 2008
• Jie Xiao, Fan Xu, "Lie Algebras Associated with Derived Categories I."
  July 24, 2008
• Joint Seminars on Cosmology and Gravitation
  Latham Boyle, "Binary black hole merger: symmetry and the spin expansion"
  July 23, 2008
• Latham Boyle, "Testing inflation: gravitational waves, consistency conditions, and bootstrap relations"
  July 22, 2008
• Jie Xiao, Fan Xu, "Drived Hall algebra III."
  July 21, 2008
• Jie Xiao, Fan Xu, "Drived Hall algebra II."
  July 18, 2008
• Kyoji Saito, "Partition functions for non-commutative lattices"
  July 17, 2008
• Kenji Kadota, "Cosmology in warped extra dimensions"
  July 17, 2008
• Kazuhiro Sakai, "AdS/CFT correspondence and Integrable systems"
  July 16, 2008
• Jie Xiao, Fan Xu, "Drived Hall algebra I."
  July 14, 2008
• Shiou Kawagoe, "Neutrino oscillations in non-spherical supernova"
  July 10, 2008
• Yuji Sano, "On multiplier ideal sheaves on toric Fano manifolds."
  July 3, 2008
• Kentaro Nagamine, "Galaxy Formation through Cosmic Time using Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations: successes and current issues"
  July 2, 2008
• J.Manuel Garcia-Islas, "Quantum topological invariants and black hole entropy"
  June 30 , 2008
• Andrei Mikhailov, "String theory and Maillet formalism"
  June 26 , 2008
• Shigeki Matsumoto, "Weak Scale Gravitino Dark Matter"
  June 26 , 2008
• Andrei Mikhailov, "String theory and Maillet formalism"
  June 25 , 2008
• J.Manuel Garcia-Islas, "Spin foam models of quantum gravity"
  June 25 , 2008
• Massimo Passera, "The muon g-2 and the bounds on the Higgs boson mass."
  June 24 , 2008
• Seminar in Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences
  H. Murayama, "IPMU, Mathematics, Physics, and me"
  June 20 , 2008
• Sakura Schafer-Nameki, "Planar AdS/CFT: wrapping it up"
  June 19 , 2008
• Andy Neitzke, "BPS Wall-crossing and Hyperkahler Geometry"
  June 19 , 2008
• Andy Neitzke, "Crossing the Wall: overcoming an Obstruction in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory"
  June 18 , 2008
• Eiichiro Komatsu, "Hunting for Primordial Non-Gaussianity"
  June 13 , 2008
• Shushi Harashita, "Generic Newton polygons of Ekedahl-Oort strata in the moduli space of abelian varieties."
  June 12 , 2008
• Eiichiro Komatsu, "The 5-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation"
  June 11 , 2008
• Michael Douglas, "Balanced Kahler metrics and physics "
  June 10 , 2008
• Michael Douglas, "String compactification and the landscape. "
  June 9 , 2008
• Alejandro Ibarra, "Indirect Signatures of Gravitino Dark Matter"
  June 9 , 2008
• Kentaro Hori, "Phases of N=2 theories in 1+1 dimensions with boundary Part II"
  June 5 , 2008
• Yukiko Konishi, "On solutions to Walcher's extended holomorphic anomaly equation"
  June 4 , 2008
• IPMU Komaba Seminar
  Shinobu Hikami, "Intersection theory from duality and replica"
  June 2, 2008
• Masahito Yamazaki, "Quivers, brane tilings and toric Calabi-Yau/Sasaki-Einstein geometry"
  May 29 , 2008
• Nobuchika Okada, "Higgs boson mass bounds in the Standard Model with seesaw-induced neutrino masses"
  May 29 , 2008
• Yasuaki Hikida, "H₃⁺ Liouville relation and its applications"
  May 28 , 2008
• Kazushi Ueda, "Toric degenerations of Gelfand-Cetlin systems and potential functions"
  May 21 , 2008
• Bondal, "Derived categories in Noncommutative Geometry"
  May 14 , 2008
• IPMU Komaba Lecture 4
  Akihiro Tsuchiya, "Homotopy Theory (before 1970)"
  May 13, 2008
• IPMU Komaba Seminar
  Jean-Michel Bismut,
  Lecture 1: "The hypoelliptic Laplacian"
  Lecture 2: "A survey of Quillen metrics"
  May 12 and 19 , 2008
• Kai Martens, "Cosmogenic Neutrinos and the HiRes experiment"
  May 12 , 2008
• IPMU Mathematics seminar in Kashiwa
  Yukinobu Toda, "Limit stable objects on Calabi-Yau 3-folds."
  May 8 , 2008
• IPMU Seminar
  Kentaro Hori, "Phases of N=2 theories in 1+1 dimensions with boundary"
  Apr 30 , 2008
• IPMU Komaba Seminar
  Motohico Mulase, "Recursion relations in intersection theory on the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces"
  Apr 24 , 2008
• Chuan-Ren Chen, "Direct and Indirect search for signals of the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity at Colliders"
  Apr 23 , 2008
• Motohico Mulase, "Integrable systems and intersection theory on moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces"
  Apr 23 , 2008
• IPMU Komaba Lecture 3
  Akihiro Tsuchiya, "Homotopy Theory (before 1970)"
  Apr 22 , 2008
• José M Figueroa-O'Farrill, "Killing superalgebras in supergravity"
  Apr 16 , 2008
• IPMU Komaba Lecture 2
  Akihiro Tsuchiya, "Homotopy Theory (before 1970)"
  Apr 15 , 2008
• Shin'ichiro Ando, "Astrophysical Probe of New Physics: Cosmological Dark Matter and Anisotropy"
  Apr 11 , 2008
• Simeon Hellerman, "Cosmological Unification of String Theories"
  Apr 9 , 2008
• IPMU Komaba Lecture 1
  Akihiro Tsuchiya, "Homotopy Theory (before 1970)"
  Apr 8 , 2008
• Yen-Ting Lin, "Ensemble properties of cluster galaxies and their redshift evolution"
  Apr 4 , 2008
• Damien A. Easson, "Cosmology from spinning branes"
  Mar 14 , 2008
• Shing-Tung Yau, "Geometric analysis and their applications in mathematics and theoretical physics"
  Mar 10 , 2008
• Keiichi Maeda, "Hunting for the Geometry of Supernova Explosions by Optical/NIR Observations"
  Mar 5 , 2008
• Alexandre Kozlov, "Neutrino physics program at KamLAND"
  Feb 28 , 2008
• Masaki Tsukamoto, "Deformation of Brody curves and mean dimension"
  Feb 27 , 2008
• Werner Porod, "Testing supersymmetric neutrino mass models at future collider experiments"
  Feb 22 , 2008
• David Poland, "More visible effects of the hidden sector"
  Feb 21 , 2008
• Mohab Abou Zeid, "Gauge Theory, Gravity and Twistor String Scattering Amplitudes"
  Feb 20 , 2008
• Mark Vagins, "GADZOOKS! A Potential Super-Kamiokande Upgrade"
  Feb 19 , 2008
• Yuki Shimizu, "Direct and Indirect Dark Matter Search Experiment"
  Feb 14 , 2008
• Koichi Hamaguchi, "Ultralight Gravitino at the LHC"
  Feb 13 , 2008
• Katrin Wendland, "How to lift a construction by Hiroshi Inose to conformal field theory"
  Feb 12 , 2008
• Hiroyuki Abe, "Moduli stabilization, F-term uplifting and sequestering in supergravity models"
  Feb 6 , 2008
• Jenny Greene, "The Mass Function of Local Active Black Holes"
  Mariska Kriek, "AGNs and suppressed star formation in massive galaxies at z~2.5"
  Feb 1 , 2008
• Jim Gunn, "BOSS"
  Jan 28, 2008
• Matthew Buckley, "Discriminating spin through quantum interference"
  Jan 16, 2008
• Tadashi Takayanagi, "Holography and Entanglement Entropy"
  Jan 10, 2008
• Naoki Yoshida, "Structure Formation in the Early Universe"
  Jan 9, 2008
• Takada Masahito, "Gravitational lensing and dark matter and dark energy"
  Jan 8, 2008
• IPMU Seminar on Mathematical Physics, Komaba
  Dec 17, 2007
• Dmitry Kaledin, "Deligne conjecture and the Drinfeld double"
  Dec 10, 2007
• Shigeki Sugimoto, "String theory and QCD"
  Oct 30, 2007, 5 pm, Main Seminar Room, 6th floor, ICRR
• Hiroshige Kajiura, "Some examples of triangulated and/or $A_\infty$-categories related to homological mirror symmetry"
  Oct 29, 2007
• Shinobu Hosono, "Topics on string theory, mirror symmetry, and Gromov-Witten invariants"
  Oct 15, 2007