EIICHIRO KOMATSU Talks 2009

[Talks (21)]

Talks 2009

Title: SPT and ACT: Prospects for Inflation
Date: January 6, 2009
Place: Special Session: Cosmic Microwave Background, AAS 213th meeting at Long Beach, CA
Presentation: zipped keynote (880KB) pdf (912KB)

Title: The 5-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
Date: January 23, 2009
Place: Colloquium, Baylor Colledge, Waco, TX
Presentation: zipped keynote (47.9MB) pdf (7.3MB)

Title: Frontiers in Cosmology
Date: February 7, 2009
Place: Great Lecture at the Board of Visitor Meeting, the University of Texas at Austin
Presentation: zipped keynote (134.5MB) pdf (13.1MB)

Title: 宇宙マイクロ波背景輻射：音波で探る初期宇宙
Date: February 17, 2009
Place: GCOEオープニングシンポジウム普遍性と創発性から紡ぐ次世代物理学
Presentation: zipped keynote (83.4MB) pdf (5.2MB)

Title: Testing Physics of the Early Universe Observationally: Are Primordial Fluctuations Gaussian, or Non-Gaussian?
Date: February 26, 2009
Place: Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley
Presentation: zipped keynote (5.2MB) pdf (5.9MB)

Title: The 5-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
Date: March 12, 2009
Place: Particle Physics Seminar, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Presentation: zipped keynote (47.4MB) pdf (7MB)
Title: Primordial Non-Gaussianity and the Galaxy Bispectrum, and Conference Summary
Date: April 10, 2009
Place: Focus week on non-Gaussianities in CMB, IPMU, Japan
Presentation: zipped keynote (2MB) pdf (1.9MB)
Title: Testing Physics of the Early Universe Observationally: Are Primordial Fluctuations Gaussian, or Non-Gaussian? (new version!)
Date: April 13, 2009
Place: Tufts/MIT/CfA Joint Cosmology Seminar, Tufts University, MA
Presentation: zipped keynote (3.2MB) pdf (3.4MB)

Title: Texas Cosmology Center
Date: April 17, 2009
Place: Presentation at the Foundation Advisory Council Meeting of the College of Natural Science at the University of Texas at Austin
Presentation: zipped keynote (130.7MB) pdf (12MB)

Title: The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect as a probe of violent cluster mergers
Date: April 29, 2009
Place: Sunyaev-Zeldovich Universe and the Future of Cluster Cosmology, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada
Presentation: zipped keynote (1.9MB) pdf (4MB) video

Title: The 5-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
Date: May 6, 2009
Place: Colloquium, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Presentation: zipped keynote (47.8MB) pdf (8.7MB)

Title: The Cosmic Microwave Background as a Probe of the Very Early Universe
Date: May 12, 2009
Place: Solvay Colloquium, Solvay Institute, Bruxelles, Belgium
Presentation: zipped keynote (87.3MB) pdf (10.5MB)

Title: Non-Gaussianity as a Probe of the Physics of the Primordial Universe
Date: May 13, 2009
Place: Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics, Solvay Institute, Bruxelles, Belgium
Presentation: zipped keynote (2.4MB) pdf (2MB)

Title: (Personal) Summary of the Sovay Workshop on 'Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics'
Date: May 19, 2009
Place: Weinberg Theory Seminar, the University of Texas at Austin
Presentation: zipped keynote (11.5MB) pdf (12.1MB)

Title: B-mode Polarization
Date: June 1, 2009
Place: Astronomy Colloquium, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Presentation: pdf (0.444MB; updated on June 1)

Title: Primordial non-Gaussianity
Date: June 4, 2009
Place: High-energy Group Seminar, Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Presentation: pdf (0.588MB; updated on June 2)

Title: Lecture on B-mode polarization and Primordial non-Gaussianity: Two big things to expect from the Planck data
Date: June 17, 2009
Place: Lecture at IPMU
Presentation: pdf (7.2MB)

Title: 宇宙論はどこまでわかったか、そしてこれからの宇宙論 (in Japanese)
Date: July 3, 2009
Place: Colloquium, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
Presentation: zipped keynote (89.2MB) pdf (10.3MB)

Title: The Cosmic Microwave Background as a Probe of the Very Early Universe
Date: July 8, 2009
Place: KEK Physics Seminar, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Presentation: zipped keynote (87.4MB) pdf (11.9MB)

Title: How WMAP Helps Constrain the Nature of Dark Energy
Date: July 23, 2009
Place: The 12th Paris Cosmology Colloquium 2008, "The Standard Model of the Universe: From Inflation to Today Dark Energy," Observatoire de Paris, Paris
Presentation: zipped keynote (6.5MB) pdf (9.2MB)

Title: B-mode Polarization (in Japanese)「Bモード偏光とは何か」
Date: October 7, 2009
Place: 新学術領域「背景放射で拓く宇宙創成の物理」立ち上げシンポジウム, 東京ステーションコンファレンス
Presentation: zipped keynote (25.8MB) pdf (4.8MB)