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September 20, 2010 to September
24, 2010 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University. Entries should reach us no later than 2:00 pm the Wednesday of the week proceeding the week of the actual event. NOTE: Entries that are past the deadline will have to be sent by you to the BAPC late entry email address listed below. On time entries send to: bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu. Late entries send to: bapc-late cosmos phy tufts edu To subscribe or unsubscribe from bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html _____________________________________________________________________ Monday, September 20, 2010 12:30 pm Monday, September 20, 2010 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Higgs Decay to two Neutralinos in GMSB" John Mason Harvard University 2:00 pm Monday, September 20, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar “Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders" C.P. Yuan, Michigan State University Refreshments will be served 4:00 PM Monday, September 20, 2010 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Building 26-414, Kolker Room Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium "The Upgrade Path for the LHC and the Role of US Collaboration" Eric Prebys, FNAL Refreshments will be served. 4:15 pm Monday, September 20, 2010 @ 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Superconductivity in the Iron Age" Zlatko Tesanovic, Institute for Quantum Matter Johns Hopkins University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu ____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:00 pm Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 "Is evolution reversible?" Jeff Gore MIT Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm 3:30 pm Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107 "The Birth of Topological Insulators" Joel Moore University of California, Berkeley Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:00 pm Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room String/Gravity Theory Seminar “N=2 Sypersymmetric theories and 4d/2d correspondences" Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University Refreshments will be served 2:30 pm Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Harvard University Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge) "Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders" C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State) coffee and cookies served ~2:30 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 22, 2010 UMass Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218 Refreshments served at 3:30 pm "Efficient energy conversions using nanomaterials” Zhifeng Ren Boston College 4:00 pm Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Boston College, Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "High-energy neutron scattering from hydrogen using a direct geometry spectrometer" Christopher Stock NIST Center for Neutron Research/Indiana University Cyclotron Facility Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230 For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu ____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:15 p.m. Thursday, September 23, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Fundamental Measurements of the Proton’s Sub-Structure Using High-Energy Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions” Bernd Surrow MIT Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, September 24, 2010 Friday, September 24, 2010, Noon Boston University Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 352 "Quantum Mechanical and Information Theoretic View on Classical Glass Transitions" Claudio Chamon Boston University Pizza served at 11:45 AM <http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/666> 3:00 pm Friday, September 24, 2010 Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Science and Technology Center 4 Colby St., Room 136, Medford Campus “The Effect of Confinement on Molecular Mechanism Inside Bio-Nanosensors Matteo Castronovo Temple University Coffee served in Science and Technology Center, Room 124 at 2:30 pm. ___________________________________________________ |