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IPMU Opening Symposium

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Dates:	March 11 and 12, 2008
Online Registration Deadline:	February 22, 2008 (JST)
Venue:	Media Hall, 1st floor of Kashiwa Library, the University of Tokyo
Invited Speakers:	John Ellis (CERN) Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University) Richard Gaitskell (Brown University) Gian Giudice (CERN) David Gross (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) Masahiko Hayashi (Subaru Telescope NAOJ) Karl Jakobs (University of Freiburg) Art McDonald (Queen's University) Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC Berkeley) James Siegrist (LBNL) Yoichiro Suzuki (ICRR, The University of Tokyo) Simon White (Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching) Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University)
Program:	March 10: 19:00 - 21:00 IPMU inaugural reception at Crest Room, 4th floor of the Crest Hotel Kashiwa March 11: 8:30 - 9:00 registration 9:00 opening remarks 9:30 Murayama: "IPMU" [Windows Media] 10:20 - 10:50 coffee 10:50 Gross: "The state of string theory" [Windows Media] 11:40 Hayashi: "Subaru telescope and its prospects for observational cosmology" [Windows Media] 12:30 - 14:00 lunch 14:00 McDonald: "Experiments at the new SNOLAB underground facility" [Windows Media] 14:50 Yau: "Geometric structures over space and their applications to physics" [Windows Media] 15:40 - 16:10 coffee 16:10 Jakobs: "New horizons in particle physics - from the Higgs boson to dark matter at the LHC" [Windows Media] 17:00 Giudice: "Implications of the Higgs discovery" [Windows Media] 18:00 transportation to the Crest Hotel Kashiwa 19:00 cocktail (the Crest Hotel Kashiwa) 19:30 banquet (the Crest Hotel Kashiwa) March 12: 8:30 - 9:00 coffee 9:00 Fukaya: "Symplectic geometry of Lagrangian submanifold" [Windows Media] 9:50 Suzuki: "Experiments at Kamioka underground" [Windows Media] 10:40 - 11:10 coffee 11:10 White: "The evolution of cosmic structure" [Windows Media] 12:00 - 13:30 lunch 13:30 Reshetikhin: "On mathematical problems of quantum field theory" [Windows Media] 14:20 Gaitskell: "A noble endeavor - the hunt for dark matter" [Windows Media] 15:10 - 15:40 coffee 15:40 Ellis: "Physics perspectives for the LHC" [Windows Media] 16:30 Siegrist: "Collaborative opportunities with the US" [Windows Media] 17:00 end of the symposium

Video Archive	Talks at the symposium can be viewed with Windows Media in cooperation with Information Technology Center, the University of Tokyo.
Real-Time Transmission	Talks at the symposium can be viewed through Real-Time Transmission with Real Media and Windows Media in cooperation with Information Technology Center, the University of Tokyo. March 11, 9:00 - 18:00 and March 12, 9:00 - 17:00 JST (March 11, 0:00 - 9:00 and March 12, 0:00 - 8:00 GMT)

Registration Form	Online Registration Deadline: February 22, 2008 (JST)
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