Boston Area Physics Calendar

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is on hold for the summer of 2026. You can send announcements directly to the mailing list subscribers by emailing bapc-late@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu. Starting fall 2026, the will be maintained by an automatic system hosted at Google using the interface below.

Posting notices

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is sent out each week on Thursday afternoon by e-mail. Each calendar contains listings for the week beginning the following Sunday. To submit an event, email bapc.submit@gmail.com with subject line "Create" and the details of the event in the message body. The automated system understands the following fields:
Date:
Time:
Location: 
Event: 
Speaker:
Title:
Abstract:
The "Event" header is for events are part of a series, e.g. "Colloquium". Unrecognized headers and any other text becomes a note to the event. You can use this for URLs, Zoom info, etc. Here is an example listing:
Date: January 1, 1970
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Erewhon
Event: Sample Talks
Speaker: John Q. Sample
Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Modifying notices

You can change or remove an event by email using the BAPC ID from your confirmation email in the subject line. To modify the event information, use the subject line Replace BAPC-##### (use your event's ID, e.g., Replace BAPC-m5x2k3a7b2) with the same information (including the parts that aren't changing) as above.

To delete the event from the calendar, use Delete BAPC-##### To cancel the event (mark as cancelled but leave on calendar), Cancel BAPC-#####. You can even uncancel a previously cancelled event with Uncancel BAPC-#####. If the that has already been distributed in the calendar, these commands will cause a message to be sent to the list telling people about the changes.

Note that it takes a few minutes for any of these commands to be processed.

In general you should use the commands above, but if you need to tell everyone something that doesn't fit into any these possibilities, you can directly email bapc@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and your message will go out to all subscribers.

For more details about communicating with the automated system see BAPC_USER_GUIDE.html.

Receiving the calendar

To subscribe to the e-mail list, or to stop getting messages, click here for the web interface or send a message to bapc-subscribe@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu to subscribe or bapc-unsubscribe@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu to unsubscribe.

If you subscribe to the bapc list, please do not use a vacation auto-reply program unless you configure it to respond only to messages sent to you, not those sent to mailing lists that you are on. Otherwise I get a notice every time something is sent to the list when you are on vacation. Email me for advice on how to configure such programs.

BAPC events are collected into a Google calendar.

There is an archive of previous calendars, notices, and other postings. Or click here for archives before Fall 2003.

BAPC maintainers

The mailing list and web pages are maintained by Ken Olum, kdo@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu. The automated system is maintained by Ben Lehmann.