What's New in 2017

2017

December 27–January 1

Takarazuka. Will not be opening a laptop, or reading emails!!

  • 12/27-28: MUC(15:35)-HND-ITM(14:05)

December 3–8

UC Berkeley

November 25–30

PFS collaboration meeting at IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan

November 19–22

SISSA at Trieste, Italy for the International Advisory Committee 

  • 11/19: MUC(15:35)-TRS(16:30)
  • 11/22: TRS(17:05)-MUC(18:05)

November 12–17

“CMB from A to Z”, IESC (Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse), Cargèse, Corcia

  • 11/12: MUC(9:40)-CDG(11:25); ORY(16:55)-AJA(18:30)
    • See here for the lecture notes
    • 11/13: Two lectures (8:30-9:15; 14:00-14:45)
    • 11/14: Two lectures (8:30-9:15; 14:00-14:45)
    • 11/15: Last lecture (8:30-9:15)
  • 11/17: AJA(11:00)-CDG(12:50); CDG(15:45)-MUC(17:15)

November 1

ESTEC

  • 11/1: MUC(6:40)-AMS(8:15)
  • 11/1: AMS(17:25)-MUC(18:50)

October 26,27

CPTS Sektionssitzung, Harnackhaus, Berlin-Dahlem

  • 10/26: MUC(11:00)-TXL(12:05)
  • 10/27: TXL(16:00)-MUC(17:05)

October 25

Public lecture at Japanische Internationale Schule München

October 10

After-reception-talk on “Finding Cosmic Inflation” (45 min from 18:30) for the 100th anniversary of the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik

September 21

Perspektivenkommission, Harnackhaus, Berlin-Dahlem

  • 9/21: MUC(8:00)-TXL(9:05); TXL(19:00)-MUC(20:05)

September 11–15

Spain

September 7,8

“Towards the European Coordination of the CMB”, Firenze, Italy

  • 9/8: FLR(16:40)-MUC(17:55)

September 4–6

Simons Foundation, NY

  • 9/4: MUC(15:40)-EWR(18:40)
  • 9/6: External Advisory Committee meeting for Simons Observatory
  • 9/6-7: EWR(19:40)-FRA-FLR(12:55)

August 24–27

UCLA

  • 8/24: MUC(12:00)-LAX(15:15)
  • 8/25,26: Nedfest-2017, UCLA. Talk on the 26th [9:30-10:00]
    • Title: LiteBIRD - a satellite to find primordial gravitational waves from inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background
    • Abstract: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) research told us a remarkable story: the structure we see in our Universe such as galaxies, stars, planets, and eventually ourselves originated from tiny quantum fluctuations generated in the early Universe. With the WMAP we have confirmed many of the key predictions of inflation including flatness and statistical homogeneity of our Universe, Gaussianity and adiabaticity of primordial density fluctuations, and a small but non-zero deviation from the scale-invariant spectrum of density fluctuations. Yet, the extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence. The last prediction of inflation that is yet to be confirmed is the existence of primordial gravitational waves whose wavelength can be as big as billions of light years. To this end we have proposed to JAXA a new satellite mission called "LiteBIRD", whose primary scientific goal is to find signatures of gravitational waves in the polarisation of the CMB. In this presentation we describe the current state of affairs regarding our understanding of the early Universe, physics of polarisation of CMB, and the LiteBIRD proposal.
  • 8/26-27: LAX(17:05)-MUC(13:35)

August 11–23

Vacation. Will not be reading emails!!

August 7–10

PFS collaboration meeting at MPA 

July 30–August 4

Benasque, Spain

July 24–25

Milano

  • 7/24: MUC(9:00)-FRA-LIN(12:05); PhD exam of Antonino Troja (14:00)
  • 7/25: LIN(12:55)-FRA-MUC(16:10)

July 16–22

NORDITA, Stockholm.

July 2–5

Cambridge, UK, to attend a conference on “Gravity and Black Holes”, celebrating Stephen Hawking’s 75th birthday

  • 7/2: MUC(17:50)-STN(18:40)
  • 7/3: Give a talk at the beginning of the conference on “Finding Cosmic Inflation” [35+5 min; 9:30-10:10] video youtube
  • 7/5: STN(16:30)-CGN-MUC(21:00)

June 20–22

Weimar

  • 6/20: München Hbf(13:17) - Naumburg - Weimar Hbf(18:06)
  • 6/21: CPTS Sektionssitzung
  • 6/22: Weimar Hbf(11:51) - Naumburg - München Hbf(16:38)

June 14–16

Paris

  • 6/14: MUC(12:25)-CDG(13:55)
  • 6/16: CDG(14:40)-MUC(16:05)

May 23–25

Universität Tübingen

  • 5/23: München Hbf(12:47) - Plochingen - Tübungen Hbf(15:53)
  • 5/24: Give a physics colloquium on “Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background”
  • 5/25: Tübungen Hbf(12:13) - Plochingen - München Hbf(15:11)

May 11,12

Trieste, for an editorial board meeting of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Review

  • 5/11: MUC(15:10)-TRS(16:05)
  • 5/12: TRS(16:40)-MUC(17:35)

April 3–7

IMPRS course on the “Cosmic Microwave Background”

February 27-March 17

Japan

February 23,24

CPT Sektionssitzung, Berlin-Dahlem

  • 2/23: MUC(12:00)-TXL(13:10)
  • 2/24: TXL(14:00)-MUC(15:10)

February 12–18

Stockholm, Sweden

February 6–11

Japan

  • 2/6-7: MUC(20:00)-HND(15:40)
  • 2/8-10: Recording of a planetarium program “HORIZON” 
  • 2/11: HND(12:45)-MUC(17:00)

February 3

MPI für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, for “The 2nd Physics and Applied Physics Seminar in Germany for Japanese Researchers”

January 22–26

Workshop on “B-mode from Space” at McGill University, Canada

  • 1/22: MUC(15:40)-YUL(18:30)
  • 1/25-26: YUL(20:10)-CDG-MUC(13:15)

January 10–13

“New Directions in Theoretical Physics 2” Symposium, the Higgs Center for Theoretical Physics, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

  • 1/10: MUC(8:00)-FRA-EDI(11:40)
  • 1/12: Give a talk on “Position-dependent Power Spectrum” [15:00-15:50] video
    • Abstract: How does the large-scale environment affect the growth of the small-scale structure? This seemingly simple question is connected directly to the three-point statistics, and we use cosmology as an example. Mode coupling of large and small scales contains information on non-linear gravitational evolution of cosmic density fluctuations, and the physics of the early universe that may generate such a coupling. Despite its importance in cosmology, progress on understanding mode coupling in the large-scale structure of the universe has been slow. In this talk, we present a novel idea called the "position-dependent power spectrum" and the associated "integrated bispectrum" to address the issue of mode coupling. Coupling of large and small scales makes two-point function of density depend on the environment, i.e., the long-wavelength perturbation. Correlating this locally-measured two-point function and the long-wavelength perturbation, we can measure the relevant three-point function without counting triplets, thereby greatly simplifying the analysis of the three-point function. Moreover, theoretical interpretation of these new statistics is straightforward, and can be cast in an elegant formalism called "separate universe picture". We present the basic idea, formulation, and its first application to the real observational data, reporting 7.4 sigma detection of the integrated bispectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III.
  • 1/13: EDI(12:40)-FRA-MUC(18:15)
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