The Kavli IPMU Focus Week Workshop on Cosmology with Small Scale Structure
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Kavli IPMU April 2013–March 2014 Annual Report 2013 Kavli IPMU ANNUAL REPORT 2013 April 2013 – March 2014 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Todai Institutes for Advanced Study The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan TEL: +81-4-7136-4940 FAX: +81-4-7136-4941 http://www.ipmu.jp/ World Premier International Research Center Initiative ISSN 2187-7386 Printed in Japan Contents Foreword ....................................................................................................................2 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................4 2 News & Events .......................................................................................................8 3 Organization ......................................................................................................... 10 4 Staff ..................................................................................................................... 14 5 Research Highlights ..............................................................................................20 5.1 Langlands correspondence for function fields an -adic cohomology theory ...................... 20 5.2 Gromov-Witten invariants and representations of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras .............22 5.3 Mirror symmetry on primitive forms ........................................................................................d 푝 23 5.4 Flops and S-duality conjecture ..................................................................................................26 5.5 The nonlinear sigma model: a new paradigm for physics beyond the Standard Model ...........27 5.6 Polynomial chaotic inflation in supergravity ............................................................................29 5.7 Flat potential of Higgs at the Planck scale ................................................................................30 5.8 Focus point gaugino mediation ..................................................................................................31 5.9 Latest results and status of the XMASS experiment ................................................................32 5.10 Status of the T2K experiment ....................................................................................................34 5.11 Current status of EGADS .........................................................................................................36 5.12 Measurement of the dark matter distribution in fifty galaxy clusters ......................................38 5.13 The Subaru FMOS-COSMOS survey of star-forming galaxies at high redshift .................... 40 5.14 Evolution of the stellar-to-dark matter relation: separating star-forming and passive galaxies from z = 1 to 0 ..........................................................................................43 5.15 Detection of the gravitational lens magnifying a Type Ia supernova ...................................... 44 6 Awards ..................................................................................................................46 7 Conferences ..........................................................................................................48 7.1 Mini-Workshop on “Massive Gravity and Its Cosmological Implications” .............................48 7.2 MaNGA Focus Week .................................................................................................................50 7.3 The Kavli IPMU School on the Future of Collider Physics .........................................................52 7.4 The Kavli IPMU Focus Week Workshop on Cosmology with Small Scale Structure .............54 7.5 European Union’s UNIFY Workshop .......................................................................................56 7.6 Holography and QCD—Recent Progress and Challenges— ....................................................58 7.7 Symposium on Gravity and Light ............................................................................................. 60 7.8 International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay Copyright © 2014 Kavli IPMU and Neutrino Detectors (NNN13) .............................................................................................62 All rights reserved 7.9 SUSY: Model-Building and Phenomenology ........................................................................... 64 Editorial board members 7.10 Workshop on “Primitive Forms and Related Subjects” ........................................................... 66 Kenzo Nakamura (chair), Masayuki Nakahata, Ken’ichi Nomoto, Kyoji Saito, Tsutomu Yanagida 7.11 Mini-Workshop on “Massive Gravity and Its Cosmological Implications” .............................68 7.12 Peter Goddard Symposium ........................................................................................................70 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe 7.13 The 3rd and 4th Open Meetings for the Hyper-Kamiokande Project .......................................72 Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan 8 Seminars ............................................................................................................... 74 Tel: +81-4-7136-4940 Fax: +81-4-7136-4941 9 Visitors ................................................................................................................ 84 http://www.ipmu.jp/ 10 Publications ........................................................................................................ 106 Design: aha co., ltd. 11 Preprints .............................................................................................................126 http://www.a-ha.co.jp/ 12 Conference Presentations and Seminar Talks .................................................... 138 13 Outreach and Public Relations ........................................................................... 150 On the cover: The full view of M31 taken by HSC. The HSC mounted on the Subaru Telescope can observe an extremely wide field of view, equal to 9 times the area of the full moon. In some parts at the edge re- gion appear to be strange color since the boundary area of the image circle is hard to process and observed area is not perfectly coinciding between the 3 bands. (Image credit: HSC Collaboration / Kavli IPMU.) Kavli IPMU Annual Report 2013 1 Foreword It is a good time to reflect on the first seven years of our institute. The Kavli Institute for the Phys- ics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) was founded seven years ago on October 1, 2007. We proposed to address five basic questions about the Universe, how it began, what it is made of, what its fate is, what its fundamental laws are, and why we exist in it. We do so by com- bining mathematics, physics, and astronomy, employing accelerator-based experiments, under- ground experiments, and observations at telescopes. This Institute literally started from scratch, but now has grown to a size of about 150 people on site including graduate students and support staff. Overall, I believe the Institute came out to be exactly as proposed. Our unique building allows mathematicians, physicists and astronomers to be under the same roof, sharing seminars and the daily teatime. Interdisciplinary discussions have become a commonplace. The Institute is highly international; more than a half of the members are not Japanese nationals. Every member was hired anew, and the quality of the hires is clear; about 90% of the postdocs have been offered po- sitions at other excellent institutions after their term at Kavli IPMU, and more than a third of them are on faculty positions by now. Our citation counts are similar to other world-leading research institutions. Thanks to several high profile papers and high international visibility, our members are invited to major conferences as keynote or summary speakers. We advertise positions interna- tionally and attract nearly a thousand applications each year. Many papers were written based on mutual inspiration of mathematicians and physicists. Key “in- terpreters” to overcome the language barrier between mathematicians and physicists played critical roles to make it possible. This is crucial to address the question “what are the fundamental laws?” The large projects proposed in the original proposal are producing fruits. The direct dark matter detection experiment XMASS was built and produced world best limits on some candidates. It is addressing the question “what is the Universe made of.” The KamLAND-Zen effort produced the world best limit on neutrinoless double beta decay (this result was published in February, 2013, namely, in FY2012). Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) was designed, built, commissioned, and the 300-night survey was approved on the Subaru telescope, one of the largest in the world. Data from the initial few nights are being analyzed. Combined with the theoretical research by our members, they address the question “why do we exist.” Hitoshi Murayama Director We proposed Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) in 2009, which is now under construction. The combination of imaging survey using HSC and spectroscopic survey using PFS on the same tele- scope promises to be a world-leading observational program, looking into “the fate of the Uni- verse” a trillion years from now. We are now proposing LiteBIRD satellite experiment to look for