We have seminars every Tuesday in the field of cosmology, gravitation, astrophysics and particle physics. If you are interested in giving a talk in the field of cosmology, gravitation and astrophysics, please contact harada_AT_rikkyo.ac.jp. Recent seminar talks in the field of relativity, cosmology and astrophysics are listed below.
2015: Tanabe, Kentaro (KEK); Itoh, Yousuke (RESCEU, U Tokyo); Ida, Daisuke (Gakushuin U); Kyutoku, Koutarou (KEK); Yoo, Chulmoon (Nagoya U); Vega, Ian (SISSA, Trieste) ; Masusa, Atsuki (Osaka City U); Shiromizu, Tetsuya (Nagoya U); Noda, Sosuke (Nagoya U); Tsukamoto Naoki (Rikkyo U); Aoki Katsuki (Waseda U); Nakayama, Kazunori (Tokyo U); Namba, Ryo (Kavli IPMU)
2014: Okuzumi, Satoshi (TIT); Saga, Shohei (Nagoya U); Tomizawa, Shin-ya (Tokyo University of Technology); Jhingan, Sanjay (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi); Nair, Remya (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi); Torii, Takashi (Osaka Institute of Technology); Okawa, Hirotada (Waseda U); Naruko, Atsushi (TIT); Hoshino, Masahiro (U Tokyo); Kuroyanagi, Sachiko (Nagoya U); Inutsuka, Shuichiro (Tokyo U of Science); Urakawa, Yuko (Nagoya U); Sakai, Nobuyuki (Yamaguchi U); Toma, Kenji (Tohoku U); Sekiguchi, Toyokazu (Helsinki U)
2013: Hayasaki, Kimitake (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea); Ohsuga, Ken (NAOJ); Tanahashi, Norihiro (IMPU); Tsutsui, Ryo (RESCEU, U Tokyo); Kunstatter, Gabor (Winnipeg U); Kimura, Masashi (YITP); Lin, Chia-Min (Chuo U); Konno, Kohkichi (Tomakomai National College of Technology); Yamamoto, Kazuhiro (Hiroshima U); Bhattacharya, Sourav (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad); Soumiya, Kentaro (TIT); Nishizawa, Atsushi (Kyoto U); Ishibashi, Akihiro (Kinki U); Musco, Ilia (U Oslo); Oyama, Yoshihiko (KEK); Shibata, Masaru (YITP); Yamashita, Shinji (Kumamoto U); Rugina, Christina (U Bucharest); Murata, Keiju (Keio U)
2012: Takei, Dai (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics); Kuroyanagi, Sachiko (RESCEU, U Tokyo); Sotani, Hajime (NAOJ); Shiraishi, Maresuke (Nagoya U); Sendouda, Yuuiti (Hirosaki U); Yokoyama, Shuichiro (U Tokyo); Itoh, Yousuke (RESEU, U Tokyo); Koiso, Miyuki (Kyushu U); Uchikata, Nami (Tohoku U); Watanabe, Yuki (RESCEU, U Tokyo); Makino, Junichiro (TIT); Kohri, Kazunori (KEK); Kinoshita, Shunichiro (Osaka City U); Kyutoku, Kotaro (KEK); Susa, Hajime (Konan U); Saikawa, Kenichi (ICRR, U Tokyo); Hotokezaka, Kenta (Kyoto U); Nakamura, Shin (Kyoto U)
2011:Yagi, Kent (Kyoto U); Tagoshi, Hideyuki (Osaka U); Wada, Tomohide (NAOJ); Kasai, Masumi (Hirosaki U); Matsubara, Takahiko (Nagoya U); Ioka, Kunihito (KEK); Kawai, Hikaru (Kyoto U); Asada, Hideki (Hirosaki U); Yoshida, Shijun (Tohoku U); Kotake, Kei (NAOJ); Iso, Satoshi (KEK); Mizuta, Akira (KEK); Kimura, Masashi (YITP); Takada, Masahiro (IPMU); Maeda, Hideki (CECs, Valdivia); Hayasaki, Kimitake (YITP); Yoshino Hirotaka (KEK); Yoo, Chul-Moon (YITP); Iguchi, Hideo (Nihon U); Chiba, Masashi (Tohoku U); Nagakura, Hiroki (YITP); Jhingan, Sanjay (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi); Iguchi, Satoru (NAOJ); Mineshige, Shin (Kyoto U); Kurita, Yasunari (Kanagawa Institute of Technology); Harada, Tomohiro (Rikkyo U)
2010: Kiuchi, Kenta (YITP); Yasutake, Nobutoshi (NAOJ); Yokoyama, Jun'ichi (RESCEU, U Tokyo); Ishibashi, Akihiko (KEK); Sago, Norichika (YITP); Abe, Fumio (Nagoya U); Itoh, Yousuke (Tohoku U); Novak, Jerome (Observatoire de Paris); Fujisawa, Kotaro (U Tokyo); Kimura, Masashi (Osaka City U); Tsuchiya, Shunji (Keio U); Maeda, Hideki (CECS, Valdivia); Takahashi, Rohta (RIKEN); Shibata, Shinpei (Yamagata U); Jhingan, Sanjay (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi); Nozawa, Masato (Waseda U); Kawanaka, Norita (KEK); Taruya, Atsushi (RESCEU, U Tokyo); Tavakol, Reza (Queen Mary U of London); Izumi, Keisuke (IPMU)
2009: Yoshida, Shin-Ichiro (U Tokyo); Carr, Bernard J (Queen Mary U of London/RESCEU, U Tokyo); Soda, Jiro (Kyoto U); Siino, Masaru (TIT); Bamba, Aya (JAXA/ISAS); Ohsuga, Ken (NAOJ); Maeda, Hideki (CECS, Valdivia); Nakao, Ken-ichi (Osaka City U); Bambi, Cosimo (IPMU); Yamaguchi, Masahide (Aoyama Gakuin U); Kobayashi, Tsutomu (Waseda U); Barack, Leor (U Southampton); Saijo, Motoyuki (Rikkyo U); Chiba, Takeshi (Nihon U); Torii, Shoji (Waseda U)
2008: Uchiyama, Yasunobu (JAXA/ISAS); Mueller, Ewald (Max-Planck Institute (Garching)); Nolan, Brien C (Dublin City U); Ioka, Kunihito (KEK); Suyama, Teruaki (ICRR, U Tokyo); Baiotti, Luca (U Tokyo); Tamaki, Takashi (Waseda U/Rikkyo U); Taruya, Atsushi (U Tokyo); Horiuchi, Shunsaku (U Tokyo); Asano, Katsuaki (TIT); Sasaki, Misao (YITP); Hansen, Jakob (Waseda U); Miyamoto, Umpei (Hebrew U, Israel); Sugawara, Yasuharu (Chuo U)
2007: Kawai, Nobuyuki (TIT); Shiromizu, Tetsuya (TIT); Ohashi, Takaya (Tokyo Metropolitan U); Seto, Naoki (NAOJ); Miyamoto, Umpei (Waseda U); Tsujikawa, Shinji (Gunma National College of Technology); Tomisaka, Koji (NAOJ); Sotani, Hajime (Aristotle U of Thessaloniki); Hayward, Sean A. (Shanghai Normal U); Masai, Kuniaki (TMU); Tavakol, Reza (Queen Mary, U of London); Kiuchi, Kenta (Waseda U); Yamazaki, Dai G. (NAOJ); Mizuno, Shuntaro (RESCEU); Tomimatsu, Akira (Nagoya U); Tamaki, Takashi (Waseda U)
2006: Hanayama, Hidekazu (NAOJ); Sekiguchi, Yuichiro (U Tokyo); Mukohyama, Shinji (U Tokyo); Nagakura, Takanobu (NAOJ); Siino, Masaru (Tokyo Institute of Technology); Suzuki, Takeru (U Tokyo); Yamamoto, Akira (KEK); Sharif, M. (U Punjab); Saida, Hiromi (Daido Institute of Technology); Yamada, Shoichi (Waseda U); Takiwaki, Tomoya (U Tokyo); Narita, Makoto (National Taiwan U); Kobayashi, Chiaki (NAOJ); Enoki, Motohiro (NAOJ); Hirotani, Kouichi (TIARA, Taipei)
Intensive course
Our department is known with its intensive courses by distinguished invited lecturers. Recent intensive courses in our fields are following:
2016: Kohri, Kazunori (KEK); Suto, Yasushi (U Tokyo)
2015: Itoh, Yousuke (RESCEU, U Tokyo); Shiromizu, Testuya (Nagoya U)
2014: Hoshino, Masahiro (U Tokyo); Inutsuka, Shuichiro (Nagoya U)
2013: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro (Hiroshima U); Shibata, Masaru (YITP)
2012: Makino, Junichiro (TIT); Susa, Hajime (Konan U)
2011: Mineshige, Shin (Kyoto U); Chiba, Masashi (Tohoku U); Matsubara, Takahiko (Nagoya U)
2010: Shibata, Shinpei (Yamagata U); Kodama, Hideo (KEK)
2009: Soda, Jiro (Kyoto U); Nakao, Ken-ichi (Osaka City U); Terasawa, Toshio (TIT)
2008: Sasaki, Misao (YITP); Ioka, Kunihito (KEK)
2007: Tomimatsu, Akira (Nagoya U.); Masai, Kuniaki (TMU); Tomisaka, Koji (NAOJ)
2006: Yamada, Shoichi (Waseda U); Wada, Keiichi (NAOJ)
Discussion group
We meet and discuss topics in all fields related to relativity, gravity and cosmology usually every Friday.
We have recently organised the following workshops and lectures in Rikkyo University.
Gmunu100: Public Lectures by Profs. Hideki Ishihara (Osaka City U) and Nobuyuki Kanda (Osaka City U) (22nd of Oct, 2015), Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Public Lecture: "The Story of Space and Time: From Myths to Reality" by Professor Sanjay Jhingan (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi) (Friday, 30th of May, 2014), Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
HC13: The 13th Hayashi Chushiro Memorial Lectures by Profs. Humitaka Sato and Katsuhiko Sato, the 18th of December 2012, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Public Lecture: “Black holes, wormholes and time machines” by Professors Fumio Abe (Nagoya U) and Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington), the 27th of October 2012, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Wormholes: The workshop on theories and possibilities of observations of wormholes, Saturday the 27th and Sunday the 28th of October 2012, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
JGRG19: The Nineteenth Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan, Monday the 30th of November to Friday the 4th of December 2009, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Singularity9: The Ninth Workshop on Singularities, Spacetimes and Related Physics, Saturday the 12th to Monday the 14th of January 2008, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Rironkon19: The "Rironkon" Symposium on Theoretical Astronomy and Astrophysics, the 25th to the 27th of December 2006, Rikkyo University, Tokyo
Researcher who belongs or belonged to our group
Tanaka, Tomo (4/2014-3/2015, 10/2015-)
Tsukamoto, Naoki (4/2008-9/2013, 10/2015-)
Uchikata, Nami (10/2015-)
Igata, Takahisa (4/2015-)
Patil, Mandar (4/2015-)
Yokoyama, Shuichiro (9/2014-)
Maeda, Hideki (4/2006-3/2007, 4/2013-3/2014, currently in Hokkai-Gakuen U)
Houri, Tsuyoshi (4/2013-3/2014, currently in Kobe U)
Miyamoto, Umpei (10/2009-3/2013, currently in Akita Prefectural U)
Saijo, Motoyuki (4/2008-5/2013, currently in Waseda U)
Tamaki, Takashi (4/2008-3/2009, currently in Nihon U)
Shimano, Masahiro (4/2007-3/2011, currently in Jumonji High School)
Visitors
We have recently had the following visitors for the period longer than three days:
2015: Kimura, Masashi (U Cambridge), Jhingan, Sanjay (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi)
2014: Jhingan, Sanjay (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi)
2013: Kunstatter, Gabor (U Winnipeg); Bhattacharya, Sourav (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad); Kimura, Masashi (YITP); Musco, Ilia (U Oslo)
2012: Maeda, Hideki (CECs, Valdivia); Visser, Matt (Victoria University of Wellington); Hayward, Sean A. (Shanghai Normal U)
2011: Jhingan, Sanjay (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi); Kimura, Masashi (YITP)
2010: Novak, Jerome (Observatoire de Paris)
2009: Bojowald, Martin (Penn State U , USA); Coley, Alan (Dalhousie U., Halifax , Canada); Craps, Ben (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Huang, Qing-Guo (KIAS , Korea); Hughes, Scott (MIT , USA); Razzaque, Soebur (Naval Research Lab., USA)
2008: Nolan, Brien C. (Dublin City U)
2007: Tavakol, Reza (Queen Mary, U London); Narita, Makoto (National Taiwan U)