leader Miyoung Chun, and Science distribution of galaxies inside each News Program Directors Christopher Martin cluster (on an order of 1 million light and Sharif Taha visited the Kavli IPMU years scale). on January 18, 2016. The guests By using gravitational lensing rst heard 30 minute presentations they con rmed the two samples from Kavli IPMU Professor Masashi have similar masses, but that the Hazumi, Professor Masahiro Takada, distribution of clusters was different, Professor Mark Vagins, and University and the difference is a result of the of Tokyo’s School of Science Associate different dark matter environment in Professor and Kavli IPMU Scientist which they formed. Galaxy clusters in Yuji Tachikawa. Following this, ve which member galaxies bunched up minute presentations were given towards the center were less clumpy Kavli IPMU Signs MOU with The by Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Fellows than clusters in which member Institute of Statistical Mathematics Teppei Okumura, Dulip Piyaratne, Ran galaxies were more spread out. They The Institute of Statistical Huo, Yuki Moritani, James Wallbridge, found the total amount of dark matter Mathematics (ISM) and the Kavli Itamar Yaakov, and Lluis Magro. extending to an order of 100 million IPMU agreed to broaden research The guests enjoyed taking part light year scale around the member of collaborations during an MOU signing in tea time before listening to Kavli the former sample of galaxy clusters on January 5, 2016. Kavli IPMU IPMU Director Hitoshi Murayama’s was about 1.5 times less than that Director Hitoshi Murayama, Professor talk about the latest developments at around the member of the latter Naoki Yoshida, and ISM Director- the institute, and ending with a dinner sample. General Tomoyuki Higuchi were with researchers. Their ndings showed for the rst present on the day. Both institutes time that the connection between a have already been collaborating on a galaxy cluster and surrounding dark Japan Science and Technology Agency matter is not characterized solely by CREST (Core Research for Evolutional the mass of clusters, but also by their Science and Technology) project formation history. The results were “Statistical Computational Cosmology 写真 published in Physical Review Letters with Big Astronomical Imaging on January 25, 2016 as an Editor’s Data” (Research Director: Naoki Masashi Hazumi presenting research activities. Suggestion. Yoshida), which started in October 2014. The new partnership will Researchers Find Galaxy Cluster Magnetar Could Have Boosted drive development of a new eld of Environment Not Dictated by Its Explosion of Extremely Bright Mass Alone Supernova statistical computational cosmology. An international group of A group of researchers led by researchers including Kavli IPMU Melina Bersten, Researcher at Instituto Assistant Professor Surhud More, de Astro sica de La Plata, Universidad 写真 Professor Masahiro Takada, NASA Nacional de La Plata in Argentina and Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Kavli IPMU Visiting Associate Scientist, Institute of Technology Researcher and including Kavli IPMU Principal Hironao Miyatake (formerly a JSPS Investigator Ken'ichi Nomoto, tested Fellow at the Kavli IPMU), and a model that suggests that the energy Kavli IPMU Director Murayama and ISM Director- General Higuchi signing the MOU, with the presence Princeton University Professor and to power the luminosity of two of Professor Yoshida. Kavli IPMU Principal Investigator recently discovered unusual super- Kavli Foundation Science Program David Spergel divided almost 9000 luminous supernovae, SN 2011kl Team Visits Kavli IPMU galaxy clusters from the Sloan Digital and ASASSN-15lh, is mainly due to

Kavli Foundation Executive Vice Sky Survey DR8 galaxy catalog into the rotational energy lost by a newly News President and Science Program team two samples based on the spatial born rapidly rotating and strongly

21 magnetized neutron star called a International Relations and Researcher celebrations in commemorating magnetar. Support Section since its launch in Takaaki Kajita’s Nobel Prize in Physics, For more details, see page 26 of October 2007 to March 2014. the Kavli IPMU hosted a public event this issue of the Kavli IPMU News. titled“, Where do we come from? – The group’s paper was published Nobel Prize in Physics Beyond the Nobel Prize in Neutrinos” in Astrophysical Journal Letters on Commemorative Lectures for the at the Yasuda Auditorium on March January 20, 2016. UTokyo Students and Personnel 27, 2016. Around 600 students and university About 470 people came to hear Honors at the 2015 UTokyo personnel crowded into the University about the latest developments in President’s Special Award for of Tokyo’s Yasuda Auditorium in neutrino research from a theoretical Operational Improvement the evening of January 18, 2016, to and experimental perspective, with For their part in improving commemorate Institute for Cosmic Kavli IPMU Director Hitoshi Murayama international researcher support, Ray Research Director and Kavli IPMU talking about“ Neutrinos as our father Kavli IPMU International Relations Principal Investigator Takaaki Kajita who protected us from a complete and Researcher Support Section on receiving the 2015 Nobel Prize in annihilation,” and Professor Mark members, Rieko Tamura and Hisami Physics. The event was broadcast live Vagins talking about“ Supernovae Kuboshima, were commended at the to a total of ve places on the Hongo, as our mother who gave birth to the 2015 University of Tokyo President’s Komaba, and Kashiwa campuses and elements of nature.” The audience Special Award for Operational the Kamioka Observatory. University was most excited when Professor Improvement on December 18, of Tokyo President Makoto Gonokami Vagins explained how last year, 2015, held at the Yasuda Auditorium started by announcing Professor permission was granted within the on the university’s Hongo campus. Kajita would be the fth person in Super-Kamiokande collaboration to Tamura and Kuboshima were part of the university’s history to be given inject gadolinium into the Super- a strategy team led by Midori Ozawa, the title Special University Professor/ Kamiokande’s pure water in order Specialist at the International Affairs Professor Emeritus. Following this to begin a new project to detect Department’s International Planning was a talk by Kavli IPMU Director supernova relic neutrinos. The event Group, and including two members Hitoshi Murayama titled“ Our Father, was a great success in introducing the from that Group. The team developed Neutrinos,” and another by Professor future of research in the eld. a website designed to help university Kajita titled“ Discovery of Neutrino The next lecture in this event series staff and overseas researchers Mass.” Professor Kajita made it a will be cohosted by the School of understand the paperwork needed personal presentation, describing Science and the Institute for Cosmic when coming to Japan. The website the moment he realized his analysis Ray Research on April 24. uses many features used at the Kavli of Kamiokande’s atmospheric IPMU, and it is hoped these will spread neutrino data was indicating across the university and improve neutrino oscillations, to moving from globalization. Kamiokande to Super-Kamiokande, 写真 The team leader Midori Ozawa and nally discovering neutrino served as Head of the Kavli IPMU oscillations. To nish the night, Professor Kajita was given a bouquet of owers, and a special message Mark Vagins giving a talk. board representing Super-Kamiokande and lled with messages from fellow Kavli IPMU and ELSI Host Joint faculty members and students. Public Lecture“ Question of Origins” For the rst time, two WPI (World Kavli IPMU Opens“ Takaaki Kajita Premier International Research Center Nobel Prize Commemorative Initiative) centers studying“ origins,” University of Tokyo President Gonokami (front row center) and all the recipients of 2015 University Lecture Series” the Kavli IPMU and Tokyo Institute of Tokyo President’s Awards for Operational Improvement As part of the University of Tokyo’s of Technology’s Earth-Life Science

22 Kavli IPMU News No. 33 March 2016 Institute (ELSI), hosted a public event Asia, the University of Tokyo Professor their families. To date, a lot of people presenting the latest developments in Takahiro Nakajima gave a talk titled, have completed their 40 hours of research, and discussing the question “The Ins and Outs of Cosmologia Introductory Japanese Course taught about origins using philosophy. – Imagination of China’s Theory of by Kavli IPMU’s Japanese Language WPI Program Director Toshio Kuroki the Universe.” Following the talks, teacher Masami Nishikawa. opened the event on January 10, both speakers discussed the East and This time, four students celebrated 2016, where 300 people came to the West views of the Universe, and how nishing their Japanese classes on Miraikan (The National Museum of physicists and philosophers regard March 29, 2016, and received their Emerging Science and Innovation) the cosmos. The day ended with tea certi cates. They are Kavli IPMU in Odaiba, Tokyo to hear Kavli IPMU time, where speakers and members Postdoctoral Fellows David Stark, Luo Director Hitoshi Murayama’s talk“ The of the audience crowded around one Feng, Han Chengcheng, and Kavli Origin of the Universe and the Birth of another with tea and coffee, asking IPMU Academic Support Staff Joshua Stars,” and ELSI Director Kei Hirose’s more questions and discussing ideas. Speagle’s ancée Rebecca Bleich. talk“ The Origin of Earth and the Birth of Life,” and lastly University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy Director Shinji Kajitani’s talk“ Genealogy of Science 写真 写真 and World Views – Historical Meaning behind Human Existence.” Afterwards, the three speakers took part in a Yasunori Nomura (left) and Takahiro Nakajima (right) discussing. round table“ What Does It Mean to Photo of four Japanese class students having their certi cates, with Japanese Language teacher Question Origins?” The event ended Masami Nishikawa (back row, second from the Taking Part in the AAAS Annual right) and other attendants. with conversations between the Meeting lecturers and the audience. This year’s American Association for Kavli IPMU Seminars the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting (February 11 – 15) 1. “Supersymmetric Casimir Energy was held in Washington, D.C. MEXT, and the Anomaly Polynomial” JSPS, and the nine WPI centers took Speaker: Hee-Cheol Kim (Perimeter part in it and jointly hosted the WPI Inst) 写真 booth for three days (February 12 – Date: Dec 15, 2015 14) to further promote the research 2. “Some Examples of Projective being carried out at each WPI center 4-Folds with Primitive From left to right: Kei Hirose, Hitoshi Murayama, and Shinji Kajitani. to an international audience. For the Automorphisms of Positive rst time, questionnaires were handed Entropy” Kavli IPMU Hosts“ East and West out at the WPI booth in order to see Speaker: Keiji Oguiso (U Tokyo) Views of the Universe” how much the American public was Date: Dec 21, 2015 The Kavli IPMU lecture hall reached aware of the program. The results 3. “Afeck-Dine Sneutrino Ination full capacity on March 20, 2016, revealed that the Kavli IPMU was the & SU(5) Grand Uni cation in Pure when the institute hosted the public most well-known among visitors. Gravity Mediation” lecture“ East and West Views of the During three days, the WPI booth Speaker: Jason Evans (KIAS) Universe.” To begin with, University was visited by more than 320 people Date: Dec 24, 2015 of California, Berkeley Professor and including researchers, journalists, 4. “Exponential Networks and BPS Kavli IPMU Visiting Senior Scientist students, and families. State Counting” Yasunori Nomura gave a talk titled, Speaker: Richard Eager (U “Multiverse Theory – The Universe Japanese Class Completion Heidelberg) as Explained by Theoretical Physics.” Ceremony Date: Dec 29, 2015

Then, Chinese philosophy expert and The Kavli IPMU has been offering 5. “Phenomenology of vectorlike News Institute for Advanced Studies on Japanese classes to researchers and lepton extensions of the SM or two

23 Higgs doublet model” Speaker: Timothy Logvinenko avour models: rare processes and Speaker: Seodong Shin (Indiana U) (Cardiff U) dark matter” Date: Jan 06, 2016 Date: Jan 19, 2016 Speaker: Lorenzo Calibbi (Chinese 6. “Four dimensional N=2 SCFT and 15“. A Charged Membrane Paradigm Academy of Sciences) singularity theory” at Large D” Date: Feb 02, 2016 Speaker: Dan Xie (Harvard U) Speaker: Mangesh Mandlik (TIFR) 25“. A new spin on the stellar content Date: Jan 07, 2016 Date: Jan 20, 2016 of the Carina dSph galaxy” 7. “The role of General Relativity 16“. Physics of extended Higgs sectors” Speaker: Giuseppe Bono (U Rome and stellar tides in few-body Speaker: Shinya Kanemura Tor Vergata / U Tokyo) interactions involving stars, neutron (Toyama U) Date: Feb 03, 2016 stars, white-dwarfs and black Date: Jan 20, 2016 26“. Towards the discovery of CP holes” 17“. Stars on death row” violation in neutrinos” Speaker: Johan Samsing (Princeton U) Speaker: Sam Jones (HITS) Speaker: Hiro Tanaka (U British Date: Jan 07, 2016 Date: Jan 20, 2016 Columbia) 8. “Homological projective duality for 18. "Contraction algebra and Date: Feb 03, 2016 Sym^2 P^n” invariants of singularities” 27“. Constrain Galaxy Formation Speaker: Jorgen Rennemo (ASC Speaker: Zheng Hua (U Hong Kong) Physics from Large-Scale Structure Oxford) Date: Jan 21, 2016 Measurements and Weak Lensing” Date: Jan 12, 2016 19“. Modeling Dynamic Phases Speaker: Ying Zu (CMU) 9. “Hamiltonian approaches to in Stellar Evolution using Date: Feb 04, 2016 strongly coupled quantum eld Multidimensional Hydrodynamics 28“. The REsolved Spectroscopy Of a theory” Simulations” Local VolumE (RESOLVE) Survey Speaker: Slava Rychkov (CERN & U Speaker: Philipp Edelmann (HITS) and its Environmental COntext Paris 6) Date: Jan 21, 2016 (ECO) Catalog” Date: Jan 13, 2016 20“. Physics of the early universe Speaker: Sheila Kannappan (U 10“. Exact quantization conditions for using the measurement of North Carolina) relativistic integrable systems” comics microwave background Date: Feb 04, 2016 Speaker: Yasuyuki Hatsuda (U polarization and path forward in 29“. About the structure of the moduli Geneva) next 15 years using a satellite” space of Higgs pairs with nilpotent Date: Jan 14, 2016 Speaker: Tomotake Matsumura residues” 11“. Type II-P supernovae as primary (ISAS/JAXA) Speaker: Denis Degtyarev (HSE, distance indicators in cosmology” Date: Jan 22, 2016 National Research U) Speaker: Petr Baklanov (ITEP 21“. Stroll along the Walls with Python Date: Feb 04, 2016 Moscow) - BPS spectra of supersymmetric 30“. Minimal Dark Matter, reloaded” Date: Jan 14, 2016 theories” Speaker: Marco Cirelli (LPTHE) 12“. Dark Matter Searches with Speaker: Chan Youn Park (Rutgers U) Date: Feb 05, 2016 Neutrinos” Date: Jan 25, 2016 31“. A Holographic Study of Chern- Speaker: Carsten Rotts 22“. Comparison of LIGO / Virgo upper Simons Defects” (Sungkyunkwan U) limits with predicted compact Speaker: Charles Melby-Thompson Date: Jan 19, 2016 binary merger rates” (Fudan U) 13“. Wormholes, Emergent Gauge Speaker: Chris Belczynski (Warsaw U) Date: Feb 09, 2016 Fields, and the Weak Gravity Date: Jan 27, 2016 32“. 6 vertex quantum integrable Conjecture” 23“. Probing the Early Universe: system and cohomology of Speaker: Daniel Harlow (Center for Innovative Approaches in Millimeter Grassmanian” the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Wavelength Cosmology” Speaker: Vassili Gorbounov (U Harvard U) Speaker: Abby Crites (Caltech) Aberdeen) Date: Jan 19, 2016 Date: Jan 28, 2016 Date: Feb 10, 2016 14“. P-functors” 24“. Phenomenology of low-energy 33“. Surface defects as transfer matrices”

24 Kavli IPMU News No. 33 March 2016 Speaker: Junya Yagi (U Warsaw) Date: Mar 11, 2016 Personnel Changes Date: Feb 16, 2016 44“. Exact results for 5D 5 34“. The AdS5×S String Field Theory supersymmetric theories on toric Reappointment vertex and integrability” manifolds” Former Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Speaker: Romuald Janik Speaker: Maxim Zabzine (Uppsala U) Fellow Wiphu Rujopakarn was (Jagiellonian U) Date: Mar 15, 2016 reappointed on March 1, 2016 Date: Feb 23, 2016 45“. Perspectives for Particle Physics 35“. Determinant line bundles, beyond the Standard Model” Moving out chiral fermions, and equivariant Speaker: John Ellis (KCL) The following people left the Kavli cohomology” Date: Mar 16, 2016 IPMU to work at other institutes. Their Speaker: Xiaoyi Cui (U Göttingen) 46“. Hydrogen de cient peculiar time at the Kavli IPMU is shown in Date: Feb 25, 2016 supernovae” square brackets. 36“. Counting open curves via closed Speaker: Devendra Sahu (Indian Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow curves” Inst of Astrophysics, Bangalore) Shamik Banerjee [April 16, 2014 – Speaker: Tony Yue YU (Institut de Date: Mar 17, 2016 February 29, 2016] moved to the Mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris 47“. (Lecture 1) Supersymmetry and its Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar in Rive Gauche) breaking” India as a Reader-Fuculty. Date: Mar 01, 2016 Speaker: Nathan Seiberg (IAS) Kali IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow Kaori 37“. The Palomar Transient Factory and Date: Mar 21, 2016 Hattori [July 1, 2015 – March 31, the Discovery of Incredibly Young 48“. (Lecture 2) Supersymmetry and its 2016] moved to the National Institute Supernova” breaking” of Advanced Industrial Science and Speaker: Peter Nugent (LBNL) Speaker: Nathan Seiberg (IAS) Technology as a Researcher. Date: Mar 02, 2016 Date: Mar 22, 2016 Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow 38“. Study of double beta decay using 49“. Where are we heading?” Tadashi Ishibe [April 1, 2015 – March

ZnMoO4 cryogenic scintillating Speaker: Nathan Seiberg (IAS) 31, 2016] moved to the Graduate 116 bolometers and CdWO4 crystal Date: Mar 23, 2016 School of Mathematical Sciences, the scintillators” 50“. (Lecture 3) Anomalies, conformal University of Tokyo as a Postdoctoral Speaker: Cherniak Dmytro (Inst for manifolds, and spheres” Researcher. Nuclear Research, Kyiv) Speaker: Nathan Seiberg (IAS) Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow Date: Mar 02, 2016 Date: Mar 24, 2016 Yu Nakayama [September 1, 2015 39“. Inationary Magnetogenesis with 51“. Large-scale magnetic elds can – March 31, 2016] moved to Rikkyo Broken Local U(1) Symmetry” explain the baryon asymmetry of University as an Associate Professor. Speaker: Chunshan Lin (YITP) the universe” Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow Shun Date: Mar 04, 2016 Speaker: Tomohiro Fujita (Stanford U) Saito [April 1, 2013 – March 31, 2016] 40“. Mysteries in the Bootstrap” Date: Mar 24, 2016 moved to the Max Plabck Institute for Speaker: David Poland (Yale U) 52“. (Lecture 4) On gapped boundary Astrophysics as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Date: Mar 08, 2016 phases of topological phases” Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow 41“. LHC 750 GeV diphoton excess Speaker: Nathan Seiberg (IAS) Yasuhiro Takemoto [April 1, 2014 and some interpretations” Date: Mar 25, 2016 – March 31, 2016] moved to the Speaker: Jin Min Yang (ITP) 53“. Universal vertex algebras and free Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Date: Mar 09, 2016 eld realisations” Osaka University as an Assistant 42“. The wild youth of galaxy clusters” Speaker: Simon Wood (ANU) Professor. Speaker: Emanuelle Daddi (CEA- Date: Mar 29, 2016 Also, Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Saclay) 54“. Reheating and Primordial Fellow Amir Aazami resigned the Kavli Date: Mar 10, 2016 Gravitational Waves in Generalized IPMU at the expiration of his term, 43“. Future multi-opjects spectrographs Galilean Genesis” from January 16, 2013 to January 15,

at ESO” Speaker: Sakine Nishi (Rikkyo U) 2016. News Speaker: Vincenzo Maineiri (ESO) Date: Mar 30, 2016

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