Hitoshi Fest @ Kavli IPMU

16 Dec 2024, 08:00 → 20 Dec 2024, 18:00 Asia/Tokyo

Lecture Hall (Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan)

This is a conference to celebrate Hitoshi's 60th birthday this year. Hitoshi is the founding director of Kavli IPMU. The conference will cover a broad range of topics, reflecting Hitoshi's diverse achievements in fields such as particle physics, astrophysics, instrumentation (fostering projects), social sciences, public outreach, etc. 

This conference is also a great opportunity to recall how the launch of IPMU was like and discuss the current status of our science and the future of Kavli IPMU. 

Let's all enjoy discussing physics with Hitoshi! Please join us for Hitoshi　Fest. 

 

Dates:  December 16-20, 2024
Venue: Kavli IPMU Lecture Hall, Kashiwa Campus (access) 

Invited speakers:

Hitoshi Murayama (Kavli IPMU/UC Berkeley/LBNL)

Hiro Aihara (U. Tokyo)

Hajime Fukuda (U. Tokyo)

Kaoru Hagihara (KEK)

Miho Ishigaki (NAOJ)

Ayuki Kamada (U. Warsaw)

Alex Kusenko (UCLA/Kavli IPMU)

Hironao Miyatake (Nagoya U.)

Shinji Mukohyama (YITP)

Mihoko Nojiri (KEK/Kavli IPMU)

Yasunori Nomura (UC Berkeley/Kavli IPMU/iTHEMS)

Sadanori Okamura (U. Tokyo)

Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech/Kavli IPMU)

Yuki Sakakihara (Yamagata U.)

Jing Shu (Peking U.)

David Spergel (Simons Foundation)

Tadashi Takayanagi (YITP)

Naoyuki Tamura (NAOJ)

Kohsaku Tobioka (Florida State U.)

Haruki Watanabe (U. Tokyo)

Lindley Winslow (MIT)

Tsutomu T. Yanagida (Kavli IPMU)

Jun'ichi Yokoyama (Kavli IPMU)

 

Organizing Committee:

Koichi Hamaguchi (U. Tokyo)

Junji Hisano (Nagoya U.)

Masahiro Ibe (U. Tokyo)

Ryuichiro Kitano (KEK)

Khee-Gan Lee (Kavli IPMU)

Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU)

Tom Melia (Kavli IPMU)

Takeo Moroi (U. Tokyo)

John Silverman (Kavli IPMU)

Satoshi Shirai (Kavli IPMU)

Masahiro Takada (Kavli IPMU)

Naoki Yoshida (U. Tokyo/Kavli IPMU)

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU),
the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8583, Japan

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Monday 16 December

09:30 → 09:50 Coffee

09:50 → 11:45 Day 1 morning session

09:50 Opening remarks and the future direction of Kavli IPMU

Speaker: Prof. Jun'ichi Yokoyama (Kavli IPMU/RESCEU)

10:20 On Hitoshi at the launch of IPMU

Speaker: Prof. Hiro Aihara (U. Tokyo/Kavli IPMU)

10:35 Story behind the launch of IPMU

Speaker: Prof. Sadanori Okamura (U. Tokyo)

11:05 Hitoshi's vision and passion: from diversity to international peace

Speaker: Prof. Hiromi Yokoyama (Kavli IPMU)

11:25 Will we be replaced by AI?

Speaker: Prof. Jia Liu (Kavli IPMU)

11:45 → 11:50 Group photo

11:50 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:50 Day 1 afternoon session 1

13:30 Swampland - Myth, Fact, and Truth

Speaker: Prof. Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech/Kavli IPMU)

14:00 Big Present from Hitoshi ---- Beyond the Seesaw ----

Speaker: Prof. Tsutomu Yanagida (Kavli IPMU)

14:20 Emergence of Gravitational Spacetime from Quantum Information

Speaker: Prof. Tadashi Takayanagi (YITP)

14:50 → 15:30 Tea Time @ Fujiwara Hall on 3F

15:30 → 17:30 Day 1 afternoon session 2

15:30 Spontaneous symmetry breaking & low-energy excitations in gapless frustration free systems

Speaker: Prof. Haruki Watanabe (U. Tokyo)

16:00 Singularity

Speaker: Prof. Yukari Ito (Kavli IPMU)

16:30 Secret story about Hitoshi/Kavli IPMU (TBA)

Speaker: Prof. Tom Haruyama (Kavli IPMU)

17:00 TBA

Speaker: Mrs Midori Ozawa (U. Tokyo)

Tuesday 17 December

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 12:00 Day 2 morning session

10:00 Gravity beyond General Relativity

Speaker: Prof. Shinji Mukohyama (YITP)

10:30 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Kohsaku Tobioka (Florida State U.)

11:00 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Lindley Winslow (MIT)

11:30 How to discover SUSY

Speaker: Prof. Junji Hisano (Nagoya U.)

12:00 → 13:25 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Day 2 afternoon session 1

13:30 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Tom Melia (Kavli IPMU)

14:00 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Kai Martens (Kavli IPMU)

14:30 SRF Cavity Searches for New Physics

Speaker: Prof. Jing Shu (Peking U.)

15:00 → 15:45 Tea Time @ Fujiwara Hall on 3F

15:45 → 17:15 Day 2 afternoon session 2

15:45 TBA

Speaker: Mr Shota Saito (Kavli IPMU)

16:05 Axion detection via superfluid Helium-3

Speaker: Mr Risshin Okabe (Kavli IPMU)

16:25 First High-Throughput Search for Dark Matter Detector Materials

Speakers: Bethany Suter (UC Berkeley), Mr Dan Kondo (Kavli IPMU)

Wednesday 18 December

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 12:00 Day 3 morning session

10:00 Subaru PFS

Speaker: Prof. Naoyuki Tamura (NAOJ)

10:30 Galactic Archaeology with PFS

Speaker: Dr Miho Ishigaki (NAOJ)

11:00 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Elisa Ferreira (Kavli IPMU)

11:30 Dark matter content of quasar hosts in the early universe

Speaker: Prof. John Silverman (Kavli IPMU)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Day 3 afternoon session 1

13:30 Imprints of dark matter interaction with plasma in the early Universe

Speaker: Prof. Ayuki Kamada (University of Warsaw)

14:00 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU)

14:30 Subaru HSC cosmology

Speaker: Prof. Hironao Miyatake (Nagoya U.)

15:00 → 15:45 Tea Time @ Fujiwara Hall on 3F

15:45 → 17:45 Day 3 afternoon session 2

15:45 Early Universe Cosmology: future prospects from a personal perspective

Speaker: Prof. Misao Sasaki (Kavli IPMU)

16:15 Understanding Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories with AMSB

Speaker: Bea Noether (UC Berkeley)

16:35 Bridge for understanding from SQCD to QCD

Speaker: Dan Kondo (Kavli IPMU)

Thursday 19 December

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee

10:00 → 12:00 Day 4 morning session

10:00 Dark matter and black holes

Speaker: Prof. Alex Kusenko (UCLA/Kavli IPMU)

10:30 TBA

Speaker: Dr Hajime Fukuda (U. Tokyo)

11:00 Exploring Physics Beyond the Standard Model via Temperature Observations of Neutron Stars

Speaker: Prof. Koichi Hamaguchi (U. Tokyo)

11:30 Ensemble Averaging in Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Prof. Masahito Yamazaki (U. Tokyo/Kavli IPMU)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Day 4 afternoon session 1

13:30 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Ryuichiro Kitano (KEK)

14:00 TBA

Speaker: Prof. David Spergel (Simons Foundation)

14:30 String-wall composites from scalar dark matter motivated by gauged U(1)_{B-L} and grand unification

Speaker: Dr Yuki Sakakihara (Yamagata U.)

15:00 → 15:45 Tea Time @ Fujiwara Hall on 3F

15:45 → 17:45 Day 4 afternoon session 2

15:45 LiteBIRD

Speaker: Prof. Tomo Matsumura (Kavli IPMU)

18:00 → 20:00 Banquet

The Meat Dutch: https://www.the-meat-dutch.com
JPY7000 for non students, JPY4000 for students

18:00 Banquet @ The Meat Dutch

The Meat Dutch (about 20min walk from Kavli IPMU)
https://www.the-meat-dutch.com

JPY7,000
JPY4,000 for students

Friday 20 December

10:00 → 12:00 Coffee and free discussion

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Day 5 afternoon session

13:30 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Mihoko Nojiri (KEK/Kavli IPMU)

14:00 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Yasunori Nomura (UC Berkeley/Kavli IPMU/iTHEMS)

14:30 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Kaoru Hagihara (KEK)

15:00 → 15:45 Tea Time @ Fujiwara Hall on 3F

15:45 → 17:45 Main session

15:45 Hitoshi Murayama 60 or rebirth

Speaker: Prof. Hitoshi Murayama (Kavli IPMU/UC Berkeley/LBNL)