BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF APRIL 11, 2011 THROUGH APRIL 15, 2011

["Grant, Gayle" <Gayle Grant tufts edu>]

April 11, 2011 to April 15, 2011

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, April 11, 2011

12:30 pm
Monday, April 11, 2011
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"N=1 SQCD and the Transverse Field Ising Model"
David Simmons-Duffin
Harvard University

2:00 pm
Monday, April 11, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Boosting Higgs Discovery with Supersymmetry"
Graham Kribs, University of Oregon
Refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Monday, April 11, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Top Quark Physics at the LHC"
Julia Thom, CERN
*Refreshments served at 3:45

4:15 pm
Monday, April 11, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Large Hadron Collider LHC: Entering a New Era of Fundamental Science"
Rolf Heuer, Director General, CERN, Geneva
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 PM
Monday April 11th, 2011
MIT
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT, Building 2, Room 105
"Computational Complexity in Differential Privacy"
Prof. Salil Vadhan
Harvard University
Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring11 
Applied Math Colloquium poster: 
http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring11/S_Vadhan.pdf
To sign up for Applied Mathematics Colloquium announcements, please 
contact avisha math mit edu
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

12 Noon
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"First Higgs Physics Results from CMS"
Markus Klute
MIT

2:00 pm
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Bilayer quantum Hall effect at nu=1 in a periodic potential"
Ganpathy Murthy
University of Kentucky
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

3:30 pm
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Understanding Liquid Silicon"
Srikanth Sastry
Jawaharlal Nehru
Centre for Applied Scientific Research
Bangalore, India Boston
University Ph. D graduate

4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars"
David Kaplan
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

4:15 pm
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 
Harvard University
HETG Particle Seminar
Jefferson 453
"The Theory of R-parity at the LHC" 
Pavel Fileviez
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Refreshments at 3:45 in the HETG Coffee Area

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

1:00 pm
Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Healey Library, Lower Level, room HLL-3507 "TBA"
Bennett Goldberg, Boston University
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 pm
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
String Gravity Theory Seminar
"Quantum phase transitions in holographic models of strongly correlated 
systems"
Thomas Faulkner, KITP
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"From the Death of an Icon to the Birth of a Physical Principle for 
ultra-sensitive label-free Bio-sensing"
Stephen Arnold 
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
UMass Lowell, Physics Colloquium
Special University Professor Lecture
Alumni Hall
"Terahertz imaging technologies; investigating the applications"
Robert Giles
UMass Lowell
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Alumni Hall
Colloquia Coordinator Albert Altman 978-934-3781

4:30 PM
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356, Harvard Physics, Tea begins at 4:00
"Strongly Interacting Rydberg Atoms"
Prof. Hans. Peter Büchler
University of Stuttgart
Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical 
Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department
(http://www.physics.harvard.edu)

7:00 PM 
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 
IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA
"Synthetic Aperture Imaging"
Dr. Tyler S. Ralston
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Refreshments served at 6:30 PM 
Questions: http://www.bostonphotonics.org

8:15 PM 
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 
IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA
?Optical Coherence Tomography?
Dr. Joseph Schmitt
LightLab Imaging, Inc., Westford, MA
Refreshments served at 8:00 PM 
Questions: http://www.bostonphotonics.org
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

1:30 pm
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Magnetogenesis"
Andrei Gruzinov
New York University

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250 
"The Neutrino Portal into Physics Beyond the Standard Model"
Ann Nelson
University of Washington
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

5:00 pm
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Membranes, curvature, and ER"
Greg Huber
University of Connecticut Health Center
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Friday, April 15, 2011

3:00 pm
April 15, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 
"Spontaneously-Generated, Dynamic Electric and Magnetic Fields in 
Laser-Produced High-Energy-Density Plasmas"
Chikang Li
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

3:00 pm
Friday, April 15, 2011
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
"A superconducting circuit analogue of a black hole Miles Blencowe"
Darmouth
Refreshments served at 2:30 in Robinson Hall, Room 251
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