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