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February 14,
2011 to February 18, 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 14, 2011 Noon (12:00 pm) Monday, February 14, 2011 Boston University Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Electronic Correlations in Solids: From Models to Materials" Dieter Vollhardt Center Fro Electronic Correlations and Magnetism University of Augsburg Pizza served at 11:45 AM 12:30 pm Monday, February 14, 2011 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes" Nima Arkani-Hamed Institute for Advanced Study 2:00 pm Monday, February 14, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman seminar room 6c-442 Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar “Universal Thermodynamics and Spin Transport in a STrongly Interacting Fermi Gas” Martin Zwierlein, MIT refreshments will be served 3:45 PM Monday, February 14, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 Bradley Plaster, University of Kentucky "Precision Tests of Fundamental Symmetries with Neutrons" Refreshments will be served. 4:00 pm Monday, February 14, 2011 Tufts University Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 250 “Search for Exotic Phenomena at the LHC Energy” Georgios Choudalakis University of Chicago Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 3:30 pm 4:15 pm Monday, February 14, 2011 Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250 "Beauty for Valentine's Day: From B Factories to the Large Hadron Collider" Zoltan Ligeti, University of California, Berkeley Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu ____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 15, 2011 2:30 pm Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman seminar room 6c-442 Joint MIT/Tufts/CfA Cosmology seminar “The Fastest Decay in the Landscape" Adam Brown, Princeton Refreshments will be served 3:30 pm Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Interaction Induced Delocalization in Bose Gas" Valery Pokrovsky Texas A & M University and Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 pm Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 "Towards physical applications of holographic duality" John McGreevy MIT Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm ____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:00 pm Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011 University of Massachusetts Boston Physics colloquium series Science building, room 3-126 "Analysis of Cold-atom Interferometer with Optical Beam Splitting and Recombination" Ebubechukwu Ilo-Okeke, WPI Refreshments served at 12:45 Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu> 2:00 pm Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman seminar room 6c-442 String/Gravity Theory Seminar “Symmetries and Strings in Field Theory and Gravity" Nathan Seiberg, IAS Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Wednesday, February 16, 2011 UMass Lowell, Physics Colloquium OH218 "Directional Dark Matter Detection and Recent Progress with the DMTPC detector" Jocelyn Monroe MIT Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, OH218 Colloquia Coordinator Albert Altman 978-934-3781 4:00 pm Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Tufts University Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 250 “Coupling Molecular and Field Mechanics for Multiscale Modeling of Soft Matter” Nikolaos K. Voulgarakis University of California, Berkeley Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 3:30 pm ____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:00 PM Thursday, February 17, 2011 Northeastern University 110 Forsyth St, 114 Dana Research Center Physics Colloquium “The Effective Fine Structure Constant of Graphene Measured With Attosecond X-Ray Imaging” Peter Abbamonte Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 4:00 pm Thursday, February 17, 2011 Tufts University Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 250 “Neutrino Mixing: What MINOS Can Say About θ¬13, the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy, and CP Violation in the Lepton Sector” Dr. Gregory Pawloski Fermilab Stanford University Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 3:30 pm 4:15 p.m. Thursday, February 17, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Diatomic Molecules as Quantum Tools" David DeMille Yale University Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 18, 2011 12:00 pm (Noon) Friday, February 18, 2011 Boston University Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Correlated Percolation" Jennifer Schwarz Syracuse University Pizza served at 11:45 AM 3:00 pm February 18, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 "Inverse compton scattering for a bright and compact X-ray source" William Graves MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab ____________________________________________________ |