和 英 Activities of the Group
Activities
The following are some of the activities in our group throughout the year.
| Name | Participants | Date and time | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group lunch meeting | Everyone | Wednesdays 12:00 ~ 13:30 | Various announcements and discussions regarding our group and group activities |
| Joint lunch meeting | Theoretical Astrophysics Group + Observational Astrophysics Group | Every third Tuesday of the month 11:30 ~ 13:30 | Various announcements and discussions, including reports of conferences and workshops |
| Colloquium | Postgrads, postdocs, and external guest speakers | Wednesdays 13:30 ~ 15:30 | Presentation on research |
| Uchu Forum | Theoretical Astrophysics Group staff and external guest speakers | Every third Tuesday of the month 13:30 ~ 15:30 | Presentation on research |
| Journal Club (detailed report) | Presented by M1 and above | Wednesdays 12:30 ~ 13:00 | A detailed presentation of a journal paper in English. |
| Journal Club (flash report) | Presented by M1 and above + volunteers | Wednesdays 13:00 ~ 13:30 | A quick overview of a recent journal paper, e.g. from arXiv, in English |
| Journal Club (Benty Fields) | Theoretical Astrophysics Group and possibly some external participants | Every Friday 12:00 ~ 13:00 | Informal discussion on recent papers. See our Benty Fields group. |
| Workshop: Formation of Astrophysical Objects (hybrid) | Theoretical Astrophysics Group + Observational Astrophysics Group, external participants and invited speakers | Around October | A workshop organized by M1 students in our group. Talks on a variety of subjects by internal and external undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and invited staff. |
| Farewell talks (Online) | Everyone | Around March | M2, D3, and anyone leaving our group give talks on anything they like, incuding hobbies. |
| Crossover seminar (on hiatus) | Lectures by staff and post docs | Every second Thursday of the month 13:30 ~ 17:00 | A review lecture on the history, status, progress, and open problems of major topics in astrophysics |
| Coffee English (on hiatus) | Undergraduate and graduate students + A. Wagner | Weekly | Informal conversations over coffee or tea on research, papers, etc. Recommended for rehearsing Journal club presentations. |
| Welcome barbeque (on hiatus) | Everyone | Around May | An opportunity to get to know each other over a barbeque |
| Social gatherings (on hiatus, online) | Everyone | Dinner and drinks after workshops, farewell talks, invited talks, etc. |
Seminars
The following are seminars conducted in our group.
Attendance and participation in the weekly colloquia is required for all graduate students. Participating in least one other seminar is also required to obtain credits for the Astrophysics Seminar and Special Studies in Astrophysics courses.
Attendance and participation in the weekly colloquia and the basic astrophysics seminar are required for all fourth year students. These will be credited toward your graduation research. Fourth year students are free to attend other seminars as well.
| Name | Advisor(s) | Date and time | Textbook, notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colloquium (required) | Research group staff | Wednesdays, 13:30 ~ 15:30 | Presentation on research |
| 2 | Physics for astrophysics seminar (Fluid dynamics, radiative transfer) | Ohsuga | Weekly | Radiative Processes in Astrophysics Wiley-VCH, Rybicki and Lightman 「宇宙流体力学の基礎」日本評論社，シリーズ宇宙物理学の基礎１，Fukue, Umemura, and Wada |
| 3 | Galaxy seminar | Mori | Weekly | Galactic Dynamics (second edition), James Binney and Scott Tremaine |
| 4 | Cosmology seminar | Yoshikawa | Weekly | Modern Cosmology, S. Dodelson 宇宙論の物理，Matsubara T. Formation of Cosmological Large-scale Structure (lecture notes by Yoshikawa) |
| 5 | Black hole seminar | Ohsuga | Weekly | Accretion Power in Astrophysics, Cambridge University Press, Frank, King, Raine Black‐Hole Accretion Disks: Towards a New Paradigm, Kato, Fukue, Mineshige 「一般相対論入門」日本評論社，Suto |
| 6 | Interstellar medium seminar | Yajima，Wagner | Weekly | Physics of Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium, Bruce T. Draine Stellar Structure and Evolution, Rudolf Kippenhahn |
| 7 | Intensive lecture | External lecturer | Once a year |
Other meetings
The following are seminars / meetings regularly held in our group that do not yield credits for undergraduate research or graduate courses, but in which students are invited to participate if the topic is related to their research.
| Name | Advisor(s) | Date and time | Textbook, notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computational Astrobiology seminar | Umemura, Ohsuga, Yajima, Fukushima, CCS Life sciences group, etc | Weekly | Research progress report, journal club |
| 2 | Light-Bioimaging seminar | Umemura, Yajima, Abe, Takamizu | Weekly | Research progress report, journal club |