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February 7, 2011 to February 11, 2011 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, February 7, 2011 12:00 pm (noon) Monday, February 7, 2011, 12 Noon Boston University Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Complex Networks and Biological Physics" Roberto Andrade University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil Pizza served at 11:45 AM 12:30 pm Monday, February 7, 2011 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Model Independent Approaches to Constraining Dark Matter" Can Kilic Rutgers University 2:00 pm Monday, February 7, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman seminar room 6c-442 Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar ``Atomic Dark Matter" Keith Rehermann, MIT-CTP Refreshments will be served 3:45 PM Monday, February 7, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 Lawrence S. Cardman, University of Virginia Building Nucleons and Nuclei from Quarks and Glue: Nuclear Physics Research at Jefferson Lab, Now and in the 12 GeV Era 4:00 pm Monday, February 7, 2011 Tufts University Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 250 “Controlling Self-Organization of Liquid Crystals with Surface Patterning” Dr. Tim Atherton Case Western Reserve University Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 3:30 pm 4:15 pm Monday, February 7, 2011 Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250 "Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale" Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:30 PM Monday February 7th 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics Cambridge, MA 02139 Building 2, Room 105 APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM Atomistic-to-Continuum Coupling Methods for Solids Prof. Mitchell Luskin University of Minnesota Math Department: http://math.mit.edu ____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 8, 2011 12:00 PM (noon) Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS Lunch Time Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 Christopher Jones, MIT "Reactor Simulations With DRAGON For Antineutrino Experiments and Nonproliferation" 2:00 pm Tuesday, February 8, 2010 Boston College, Physics Seminar Higgins 235 On the Origin of Pseudogaps and Fermi Arcs in Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors Daniel S. Dessau University of Colorado, Boulder For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu 3:30 pm Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 3:30 PM Boston University Joint Physics and Chemistry Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Some Surprises in the Biophysics of Protein Dynamics" Vijay Pande Stanford University Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 pm Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Brandeis University Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 "Self-Assembly of Photonic Nanostructures: Beyond Crystalline Sphere Packings" Eric Dufresne Yale University ____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 9, 2011 1:00 pm Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011 University of Massachusetts Boston Physics colloquium series Science building, room 3-126 Title: "TBA" Beniamino Barbieri, Iss Medical Inc. Refreshments served at 12:45 Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu> 2:00 pm Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman seminar room 6c-442 String/Gravity Theory Seminar “Visible and Hidden Sectors of F-theory GUTs" Jonathan Heckman, IAS 4:00 pm Wednesday, February 9, 2010 Boston College, Physics Colloquium Higgins 310 "Superfluidity in 3He: The Story Behind the Discovery" Douglas D. Osheroff Stanford University Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230 For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 9, 2011 UMass Lowell, Physics Colloquium OH218 "Solving the mysteries of life with single molecule biophysics" Mara Prentiss Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, OH218 Colloquia Coordinator Albert Altman 978-934-3781 4:30 PM Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Lyman 425, Tea begins at 4:00 Radiation pressure at the nanoscale: classical- and quantum-optical applications Prof. Oskar Painter CalTech Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department (http://www.physics.harvard.edu) ____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, February 10, 2011 4:15 p.m. Thursday, February 10, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Nuclei from the “Island of Stability” of Super Heavy Elements" Yuri Oganessian Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 11, 2011 12:00 pm (noon) Friday, February 11, 2011 Boston University Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Local Structure Determination in Strain-Engineered Electronic Thin Films" Dr. Joe Woicik NIST Pizza served at 11:45 AM 3:00 pm Friday, February 11, 2011 Tufts University Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 253 “Base-By-Base Ratcheting of Single-Stranded DNA through a Solid-State Nanopore: Toward Low-cost and High-throughput Sequencing of the Human Genome” Binquan Luan IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, NY Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 2:30 pm ____________________________________________________ |