EIICHIRO KOMATSU

2012 [26]

1. Title: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)

• Date: January 27, 2012
• Place: "Coming Opportunities in Physical Cosmology" Workshop, Arizona State University
• Presentation: zipped keynote (6.1MB) pdf (5.5MB)

2. Title: Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background [pedagogical]

• Date: February 23, 2012
• Place: Colloquium at Texas A&M University
• Presentation: zipped keynote (95.3MB) pdf (9.6MB) video

3. Title: What Does Cosmology Tell Us About Particle Physics Beyond Standard Model?

• Date: March 17, 2012
• Place: GUT2012: International Workshop on Grand Unified Theories, Kyoto University
• Presentation: zipped keynote (84.1MB) pdf (3.4MB)

4. Title: Squeezed-limit Bispectrum, Non-Bunch-Davies Vacuum, Scale-dependent Bias, and Multi-field Consistency Relation

• Date: March 23, 2012
• Place: Cook's Branch
• Presentation: zipped keynote (0.999MB) pdf (2.2MB)

5. Title: Hunting for Dark Matter in Anisotropies of the Gamma-ray Sky: Predictions and First Observational Results from Fermi-LAT

• Date: April 3, 2012
• Place: Astrophysics Colloquium, Institute for Advanced Study
• Presentation: zipped keynote (7.2MB) pdf (5.9MB)

6. Title: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)

• Date: April 14, 2012
• Place: "Supernova cosmology and looking to the future" workshop, Cook's Branch
• Presentation: zipped keynote (7.7MB) pdf (6.6MB)

7. Title: New Probes of Initial State of Quantum Fluctuations During Inflation

• Date: May 22, 2012
• Place: Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada
• Presentation: zipped keynote (4MB) pdf (3.1MB) video

8. Title: Hunting for Dark Matter in Anisotropies of the Gamma-ray Sky: Predictions and First Observational Results from Fermi-LAT

• Date: April 3, 2012
• Place: Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Presentation: zipped keynote (7.2MB) pdf (5.9MB) video

9. Title: New Probes of Initial State of Quantum Fluctuations During Inflation

• Date: June 25, 2012
• Place: WKYC 2012 at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, Korea
• Presentation: zipped keynote (4MB) pdf (3.1MB)

10. Title: New Probes of Initial State of Quantum Fluctuations During Inflation

• Date: July 5, 2012
• Place: UTAP Seminar, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Presentation: zipped keynote (4MB) pdf (3.1MB)

11. Title: New Probes of Initial State of Quantum Fluctuations During Inflation

• Date: July 13, 2012
• Place: ACP Seminar, Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)
• Presentation: zipped keynote (4.2MB) pdf (5.2MB)

12. Title: Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background [pedagogical]

• Date: July 16, 2012
• Place: Colloquium at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
• Presentation: zipped keynote (95.3MB) pdf (9.6MB)

13. Title: New Probes of Initial State of Quantum Fluctuations During Inflation

• Date: July 18, 2012
• Place: LeCosPA Seminar, Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
• Presentation: zipped keynote (4.2MB) pdf (5.2MB)

14. Title: New Probes of Initial State of Quantum Fluctuations During Inflation

• Date: July 23, 2012
• Place: Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
• Presentation: zipped keynote (4.2MB) pdf (5.2MB)

15. Title: New Probes of Initial State of Quantum Fluctuations During Inflation

• Date: July 24, 2012
• Place: Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
• Presentation: zipped keynote (4MB) pdf (4.7MB)

16. Title: 赤外背景放射の科学解釈（+Austin研究会報告） 

• Date: July 27, 2012
• Place: 「背景放射で拓く宇宙創世の物理～インフレーションからダークエイジまで～」シンポジウム2012, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan 
• Presentation: zipped keynote (2.3MB) pdf (2.5MB)

17. Title: 現代宇宙論の最前線

• Date: July 28, 2012
• Place: Outreach Activity at the Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan 
• Presentation: zipped keynote (148.5MB) pdf (13.5MB)

18. Title: Simple Foreground Cleaning Algorithm for Detecting Primordial B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

• Date: September 20, 2012
• Place: "Big Bang, Big Data, Big Computers" (Big3) on the computer science and statistics of contemporary Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC) Laboratory at the Paris Rive Gauche Campus of the Universite Paris Diderot
• Presentation: zipped keynote (19.5MB) pdf (15.1MB)

19. Title: What Has Been And What Can Be Learnt From the CMB [pedagogical]

• Date: September 26, 2012
• Place: Astronomische Gesellschaft in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• Presentation: zipped keynote (94.9MB) pdf (9MB)

20. Title: Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background [pedagogical]

• Date: October 9, 2012
• Place: From Quantum to Cosmos 5, Cologne, Germany
• Presentation: zipped keynote (111.6MB) pdf (22.2MB)

21. Title: Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background [pedagogical]

• Date: November 9, 2012
• Place: Colloquium at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Paris, France
• Presentation: zipped keynote (94.6MB) pdf (8.4MB)

22. Title: The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect as a Probe of Violent Cluster Mergers

• Date: November 22, 2012
• Place: International Workshop at Schloss Ringberg on "Galaxy Cluster Cosmology in the Real and Simulated Universe"
• Presentation: zipped keynote (6.6MB) pdf (6.7MB)

23. Title: The Big Bang and the Cosmic Microwave Background [pedagogical]

• Date: November 22, 2012
• Place: Deutsches Museum
• Presentation: zipped keynote (113MB) pdf (22.1MB)

24. Title: Simple Foreground Cleaning Algorithm for Detecting Primordial B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

• Date: November 27, 2012
• Place: Workshop on "Polarized Foreground for Cosmic Microwave Background" at Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Garching, Germany
• Presentation: zipped keynote (4MB) pdf (3.6MB)

25. Title: 現代宇宙論の最前線 

• Date: December 2, 2012
• Place: 学術講演会「暗黒宇宙の謎に迫る－宇宙創成、そして惑星・生命誕生」日本科学未来館
• Presentation: zipped keynote (140MB) pdf (12.3MB)

26. Title: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: The Final Results

• Date: December 21, 2012
• Place: "Gravity and Cosmology 2012," Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan
• Presentation: zipped keynote (2.8MB) pdf (4.6MB)