– Frontiers in Gravity and Fundamental Physics – (YU Workshop 2022) | 26th November, 2022 to 27th November, 2022, Yonezawa, Yamagata

Purpose

In 2016, LIGO confirmed the existence of gravitational waves. Since then, gravitational waves became a useful tool to explore the early universe and even fundamental physics. A variety of the ways to detect gravitational waves are on-going and proposed, covering vast range of the gravitational wave frequency bands.

One of the observable gravitational wave sources is a phase transition in the early universe, leading to bubbles and/or topological defects. Axion, one of the dark matter candidates, also predicts hybrid type topological defects. Therefore, now will be a high time to understand the basic properties of topological defects originating in the fundamental physics. Topological defects are also important in low energy physics such as superconducters.

Our purpose of this workshop is to share and discuss recent progress and new ideas on frontiers in gravity and fundamental physics and to trigger the interplay between fundamental physicists and cosmologists.

This workshop is basically on-site. We lively broadcast the workshop through Zoom for online participants.
This year, the talks are given in Japanese.

Keywords

Gravitational waves
Topological defects
Dark matter
Axions

Invited Speakers

Yu Hamada (KEK)
Masahiro Ibe (ICRR, University of Tokyo)
Asuka Ito (QUP, KEK)
Ryuichiro Kitano (KEK)
Ryo Namba (RIKEN)
Muneto Nitta (Keio University)
Toshifumi Noumi (Kobe University)
Ken’ichi Saikawa (Kanazawa University)
Jiro Soda (Kobe University)
Fuminobu Takahashi (Tohoku University)
Kazuya Yonekura (Tohoku University)

Student Speakers

Ann Nakato (Kobe University)
Yuito Suzuki (Yamagata University)
Takuya Takahashi (Kyoto University)

Program

Participants

Photo

Registration closed (Deadline: 18th November, 2022)

Both of the registrations for on-site participation and for online participation have been closed.

Important Dates

Registration Deadline for on-site participants: 28th October, 2022

Registration Deadline for online participants: 18th November, 2022

Schedule

From 26th November, 2022 to 27th November, 2022

We have invited sessions and a student session. No contributed talks.

Venue

Centennial Hall, Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16, Jonan, Yonezawa, 992-8510, Yamagata

8min from Yonezawa Station by taxi
- Yonezawa Station (130min from Tokyo Station, 70min from Sendai Station by Shinkansen)
10min from Minami-Yonezawa Station on foot
- Minami-Yonezawa Station (6min from Yonezawa Station by Yonesaka line)
12min from Uesugi Jinja Mae Bus Stop on foot
- Uesugi Jinja Mae Bus Stop (2 hours from Sendai Station by highway bus)

Information

Guest house in the campus: Guest House YU (4MB pdf file) (5min on foot from the venue)
Hotels: Yonezawa Excel Hotel Tokyu (5min by taxi from the campus)
Local Buses: City Bus (Get off at Yamadai-Seimon)
Local Buses: Yamako Bus (Get off at Johnan-Nichome)

Organizers

Masato Arai (Yamagata University)
Minoru Eto (Yamagata University)
Yuki Sakakihara (Yamagata University, Chief organizer)
Kazufumi Takahashi (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

-- Frontiers in Gravity and Fundamental Physics -- (YU Workshop 2022)

26th November, 2022 to 27th November, 2022, Yonezawa, Yamagata