Yoichiro Suzuki, and all the collaboration about the link between science and News members who are coauthors of art. the papers representing the Super- Special exhibitions on display during Kamiokande’s main achievements were the two-day event included an Artist selected as laureates. in Residence art exhibition showcasing Nomura’s work, mathematics puzzles, Yuji Tachikawa Receives the 2016 Kavli IPMU tours, and a screening New Horizons in Physics Prize of the science documentary Particle On November Fever, with Japanese subtitles advised 9, 2015, the by UC Berkeley Professor and Kavli Breakthrough Prize IPMU Visiting Senior Scientist Yasunori Foundation also Nomura, and by Kavli IPMU staff. announced Yuji With most of the country still Takaaki Kajita Receives Japan’s Tachikawa as one of in celebration over Takaaki Kajita Order of Culture the recipients of the receiving the Nobel Prize, the open The University of 2016 New Horizons Yuji Tachikawa campus attracted a record number of Tokyo’s Institute for in Physics Prize. Tachikawa is an visitors: more than 10,000 came by Cosmic Ray Research Associate Professor at the University Kashiwa campus over the event, 3,700 Director and Kavli of Tokyo’s School of Science, and a to the Kavli IPMU alone. IPMU Principal Scientist at the Kavli IPMU. The prize Investigator Takaaki recognizes junior researchers who Kajita was selected have made signicant contributions to as a 2015 recipient Takaaki Kajita the eld of fundamental physics. of the Order of Culture. At a ceremony Tachikawa was recognized for at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on penetrating and incisive studies November 3, Emperor Akihito awarded of supersymmetric quantum eld the medal to Kajita for his signicant theories. For example, his outstanding Masahiro Takada’s talk contribution to the development of contribution to the discovery of Japan’s culture. the Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa correspondence led to spectacular Yoichiro Suzuki and Takaaki Kajita advances in quantum eld theory and Awarded 2016 Breakthrough Prize string theory. in Fundamental Physics On November Open Campus Kashiwa 2015 9, 2015, the Yoichiro Suzuki’s talk Breakthrough “Bright Science, from Kashiwa” was Prize Foundation the theme of this year’s open campus Kavli Prize Laureate Lectures in awarded this year’s (October 23 - 24, 2015). Tokyo Breakthrough Prize in Highlights at the Kavli IPMU included On October 31, 2015, up to 400 Fundamental Physics special seminars on both days“, The visitors came to Kokuyo Hall in to the leading Yoichiro Suzuki Dark Side of the Universe through the Shinagawa, Tokyo, to hear renown scientists and team members involved Eyes of the Subaru Hyper Suprime- scientists speak at the“ 2015 Kavli Prize in ve neutrino experiments (Japan’s Cam” by Professor Masahiro Takada Laureate Lectures,” supported by Super-Kamiokande, KamLAND, K2K on the rst day, and“ Capturing Dark the Kavli Foundation, the Norwegian and T2K, Canada’s SNO, and China’s Matter: Closing in on the Mystery of Academy of Science and Letters, the Daya Bay). The prize is an international the Universe from Underground” by Norwegian Embassy, and the Kavli IPMU. award recognizing scientists who have Yoichiro Suzuki on the second day. The event started with a welcoming contributed to human knowledge of Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow Ryo from Kavli Foundation President Robert the mysteries of the Universe. Namba and contemporary artist and Conn. With Kavli IPMU Director Hitoshi From the Super-Kamiokande Artist in Residence participant Yasuo Murayama as host, physical chemist experiment, leaders Takaaki Kajita and Nomura took part in a talk event and 2014 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

28 Kavli IPMU News No. 32 January 2016 laureate Thomas Ebbesen talked characteristics about the equipment Santa Claus Visits the Donguri Day about his work in nano-optics, and that both of them currently work on. Nursery theoretical physicist and 2014 Kavli The teatime at the end of the event The Kashiwa Campus Donguri Day Prize in Astrophysics laureate Alan gave participants a chance to ask their Nursery threw its annual Christmas Guth talked about cosmic in ation and own questions to the speakers. The party on December 18, 2015. This year, whether our universe is really part of a room was buzzing with conversations Kavli IPMU Assistant Professor Kevin multiverse. for a long time, providing an uplifting Bundy transformed into Santa Claus, end to the event. and joined in the celebration with the Donguri children.

(From left) President Conn, Professor Guth, Director Murayama, and Professor Ebbesen

Kai Martens (left) and Masaaki Hayashida on stage Kevin Bundy as Santa Claus Kavli IPMU and ICRR Joint Public Lecture: See the Unseen Universe The 5th Annual WPI Joint Kavli IPMU Seminars On November 22, 2015, the Kavli Symposium IPMU and University of Tokyo Institute On December 26, 2015, the Kavli 1. “Cosmic Reionization on Computers for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) hosted IPMU took part in the 5th Annual 2. How to build a virtual universe” their 13th joint event at the University WPI Joint Symposium“ Seeing, Speaker: Nick Gnedin (Fermilab / U of Tokyo’s Hongo campus. More than Touching, and Feeling Science” at Chicago) 170 people, from young junior high Kyoto University. This year’s event was Date: Oct 01, 2015 school students to senior citizens lled hosted by the Institute for Integrated 2. “On the proof of the S-duality up the Koshiba Hall. Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS). modularity conjecture for the Kavli IPMU Associate Professor Every year, the symposium has quintic threefold” Kai Martens started the event, with invited local high school students to Speaker: Artan Sheshmani (Ohio a talk titled“ Dark Matter: Mystery, hear and ask about the latest cutting State U / Kavli IPMU) Imagination, and Challenge.” In it, he edge developments in science. Date: Oct 01, 2015 talked about how scientists rst found This year’s event included talks from 3. “6d SCFTs and their evidence concluding that dark matter three scientists, and a special talk by compactications” exists in the Universe, and about his Kyoto University President and gorilla Speaker: Kazuya Yonekura (Kavli own work on the XMASS project. In expert Juichi Yamagiwa. A special IPMU) the next talk, ICRR Project Assistant highlight of the day was a panel Date: Oct 06, 2015 Professor Masaaki Hayashida gave a discussion where scientists shared 4. “Expansion Opacity in Supernova talk titled“ Look into Our Dynamic stories about their research notebooks, Models: Line Lists and the Shape of Universe Using High-Energy Gamma and how it shapes their work. The Type Ia Supernova Light Curves” Rays,” and explained how scientists other WPI institutes including the Speaker: Elena Sorokina (Sternberg study the Universe using gamma Kavli IPMU set up booths upstairs, and Astronomical Inst) rays, and shared stories about the enjoyed the time answering questions Date: Oct 07, 2015 Cherenkov Telescope Array currently from curious students and participants. 5. “The Growth of Today’s Most being built. Massive Galaxies over the Last 12.8 Following on from the talks, both Gyr of Cosmic History” speakers took part in a discussion titled Speaker: Danilo Marchesini (Tufts U) “Making the World’s Only Handmade Date: Oct 08, 2015 Machine.” There, they shared stories 6. “In the Alphabet of Bsm Curiosities, about what got them interested in A is for Axion” their current projects, what other Speaker: Sacha Davidson (Inst News projects they had worked on, and High school students crowd around WPI booths Nuclear Physics of Lyon / CNRS )

29 Date: Oct 09, 2015 Date: Oct 23, 2015 supernovae” 7. “K. Saito structures and string 19“. Matrix factorizations and the Speaker: Anders Jerkstrand (Queens theory” Landau-Ginzburg/conformal eld U Belfast) Speaker: Yakov Kononov (HSE, theory correspondence” Date: Nov 05, 2015 Moscow) Speaker: Ana Ros Camacho (Institut 29“. A formula for the double Date: Oct 13, 2015 de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris ramication cycle” 8. “The Stellar IMF of Early-type Rive Gauche) Speaker: Felix Janda (IMJ-PRG) Galaxies from Strong Gravitational Date: Oct 27, 2015 Date: Nov 05, 2015 Lensing” 20“. Cartan eigenvectors, Toda masses, 30“. Lepton Flavor Violating Processes Speaker: Alessandro Sonnenfeld and their q-deformations” in Mirror Fermion Model” (Kavli IPMU) Speaker: Vadim Schechtman Speaker: Tzu-Chiang Yaun Date: Oct 13, 2015 (Toulouse Mathematics Inst) (Academia Sinica) 9. “Sheaves on Lorentzian manifolds” Date: Oct 27, 2015 Date: Nov 06, 2015 Speaker: Pierre Schapira (U Paris VI) 21“. Searching for 5-dimensional 31“. Calabi-Yau structures on dg Date: Oct 13, 2015 Nontrivial UV Fixed Point” categories and shifted symplectic 10“. Introduction to BV quantization” Speaker: Jin-beom Bae (Seoul structures on moduli” Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC National U) Speaker: Christopher Brav (HSE Berkeley) Date: Oct 28, 2015 Moscow) Date: Oct 13, 2015 22“. Probing properties of cosmic Date: Nov 11, 2015 11“. Localization of 4d N=1 super- strings through Pulsar Timing 32“. Search for Muon to Electron Yang-Mills on elliptic brations” Arrays” Conversion at J-PARC ̶ the Speaker: Itamar Yaakov (Kavli IPMU) Speaker: Sachiko Kuroyanagi COMET Experiment” Date: Oct 14, 2015 (Nagoya U) Speaker: Yasushi Kuno (Osaka U) 12“. Introduction to BV quantization” Date: Oct 28, 2015 Date: Nov 11, 2015 Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC 23“. Innite Phase Space and the Two- 33“. Magnetar powered superluminous Berkeley) Headed Arrow of Time” supernovae” Date: Oct 14, 2015 Speaker: Alan Guth (MIT) Speaker: Mariana Orellana (National 13“. Introduction to BV quantization” Date: Oct 30, 2015 U Rio Negro, Argentina) Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC 24“. Modeling cosmic-ray propagation Date: Nov 11, 2015 Berkeley) in the Galaxy” 34“. The Cosmic Dawn : Physics of the Date: Oct 15, 2015 Speaker: Carmelo Evoli (DESY) First Luminous Objects” 14“. Flops and spherical functors” Date: Nov 02, 2015 Speaker: Ken Chen (NAOJ) Speaker: Alexey Bondal (Kavli IPMU) 25“. Indirect searches for WIMP dark Date: Nov 12, 2015 Date: Oct 15, 2015 matter: Some signal candidates and 35“. Construction of Compact Special 15“. Introduction to BV quantization” many” Lagrangian T2-conifolds” Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC Speaker: Christoph Weniger (U Speaker: Yohsuke Imagi (Kavli IPMU) Berkeley) Amsterdam) Date: Nov 12, 2015 Date: Oct 16, 2015 Date: Nov 04, 2015 36“. Localization on twisted spheres 16“. IceCube Events from Dark Matter 26“. Quantum Hydrodynamics from and supersymmetric GLSM in 2d” through Right-handed Neutrino Large-n Supersymmetric Gauge Speaker: Cyril Closset (Simons Portal” Theories” Center for Geometry and Physics) Speaker: Yong Tang (KIAS) Speaker: Peter Koroteev (Perimeter Date: Nov 13, 2015 Date: Oct 21, 2015 Inst for Theoretical Physics) 37“. Stability in the Landscape” 17“. Close binary progenitors of Date: Nov 04, 2015 Speaker: Michael Dine (SCIPP) gamma-ray bursts and hypernovae” 27“. Running Non-Minimal In ation Date: Nov 16, 2015 Speaker: Maxim Barkov (RIKEN) with Stabilized In aton Potential” 38“. Star/Galaxy Separation and Date: Oct 22, 2015 Speaker: Nobuchika Okada (U Mapping the Milky Way Halo in 18“. Scalar dark matter with coloured Alabama) HSC” partner” Date: Nov 05, 2015 Speaker: Jose Garmilla (Princeton U) Speaker: Laura Lopez Honorez 28“. The origin of the elements: direct Date: Nov 16, 2015 (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) nucleosynthesis constraints from 39“. Integrable Boostrap for Structure

30 Kavli IPMU News No. 32 January 2016 Constants in N=4 SYM” 50“. Characterising the baryon content 61“. Little string theories via F-theory” Speaker: Shota Komatsu (Perimeter of galaxy halos through stacking Speaker: David Morrison (UCSB) Inst) analyses” Date: Dec 10, 2015 Date: Nov 18, 2015 Speaker: Simon White (Max-Planck- 62“. 2D and 3D Mass mapping from 40“. A Zm graded generalization Inst für Astrophysik) weak lensing data” of the Witt algebra and its Date: Nov 26, 2015 Speaker: Jean-Luc Starck (CEA Saclay) representations” 51“. Discussion meeting on cosmogony Date: Dec 10, 2015 Speaker: Kenji Iohara (U Lyon1) in the ΛCDM universe” 63“. Weighted Compactifications of Date: Nov 18, 2015 Speaker: Kavli IPMU astro group Conguration Spaces” 41“. Detecting dark matter Date: Nov 27, 2015 Speaker: Evangelos Routis (Kavli substructure using dusty galaxies” 52“. Resurgence and Non-perturbative IPMU) Speaker: Neal Dalal (Illinois U) Physics: Decoding the Path Integral” Date: Dec 10, 2015 Date: Nov 19, 2015 Speaker: Gerald Dunne (U 64“. Gauge Theory in 2 and 3 42“. Categorical approach to Connecticut) dimensions and categorical deformation theory” Date: Nov 30, 2015 representations” Speaker: Agnieszka Bodzenta (U 53“. 5d/6d SCFTs and 5-brane (Tao) Speaker: Constantin Teleman (UC Edinburgh) web diagrams” Berkeley) Date: Nov 24, 2015 Speaker: Sung-Soo Kim (KIAS) Date: Dec 14, 2015 43“. Preamble to CDM cosmogony: Date: Dec 01, 2015 Theoretical overview” 54“. The Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism Personnel Changes Speaker: Simon White (Max-Planck- of the spinning particle” Inst für Astrophysik) Speaker: Ezra Getzler Promotion Date: Nov 24, 2015 (Northwestern U) Kavli IPMU 44“. On Holomorphic Chern-Simons Date: Dec 01, 2015 Assistant Professor Theory in Twistor Space” 55“. Gluino Coannihilation” Tomoyuki Abe Speaker: Alexei Rosly (ITEP / HSE, Speaker: Feng Luo (Kavli IPMU) became an Associate Moscow) Date: Dec 02, 2015 Professor on January : , “. , Date Nov 24 2015 56 Galaxy Formation in Dark Matter 1 2016 Tomoyuki Abe 45“. Higher Derivative Terms in Halos from z=15 to z=0” M-Theory Reductions” Speaker: Peter Behroozi (Space Moving out Speaker: Matthias Weissenbacher Telescope Science Inst) The following people left the Kavli (Kavli IPMU) Date: Dec 03, 2015 IPMU to work at other institutes.Their Date: Nov 25, 2015 57“. The top off shell effects on new time at the Kavli IPMU is shown in 46“. An elementary Goldstone Higgs” physics search” square brackets. Speaker: Aurora Meroni (U Speaker: Chengcheng Han (Kavli Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow Southern Denmark ) IPMU) Tanmay Deshpande [November 1, 2012 Date: Nov 25, 2015 Date: Dec 03, 2015 – November 30, 2015] moved to the 47“. The formation and evolution of 58“. Local and Large-Scale Tata Fundamental Research Institute as the galaxy population” Environmental In uences on Galaxy a Leader of Mathematics. Speaker: Simon White (Max-Planck- Gas Content” Kali IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow Inst für Astrophysik) Speaker: David Stark (Kavli IPMU) Kai Schmiz [November 1, 2012 – Date: Nov 25, 2015 Date: Dec 08, 2015 October 31, 2015] moved to the Max 48“. Searching for Strong Lenses to 59“. Accidental symmetries and the Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Probe Dark Matter Substructures” conformal bootstrap” Heidelberg as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Speaker: James Chan (ASIAA) Speaker: Silviu Pufu (Princeton U) Kavli IPMU Postdoctoral Fellow Date: Nov 26, 2015 Date: Dec 08, 2015 Benedetta Vulcani [October 16, 49“. Non-linear structure formation: 60“. Quasiphantom categories in 2012 – November, 30, 2015] moved LCDM challenges and successes” derived categories of surfaces to Melbourne University Physics Speaker: Simon White (Max-Planck- isogenous to a higher product” Department as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Inst für Astrophysik) Speaker: Kyoung-Seog Lee (KIAS) News Date: Nov 26, 2015 Date: Dec 08, 2015

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