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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 9/19 - 23/11



September 19 - 23, 2011

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics, Boston College.  Entries should reach us no later than 2:00 pm on the Wednesday 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 submissions:  Send to bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu

LATE submissions:  Send to bapc-late cosmos phy tufts edu

SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to/from the BAPC calendar:  http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html

 


 

Monday, September 19, 2011

 

12:30

Monday, Sept. 19, 2011

Boston University

Particles and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington St., Room 595

TBA

Nathaniel Craig

Rutgers University/IAS

 

2:00PM

Monday, September 19th

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar

Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442

"Partition Functions for Two Dimensional Systems with Compact Boundaries: CFT or EFT?"

Ira Rothstein

Carnegie Mellon University

 

4:00 p.m.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Brown University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Barus & Holley 168

“Physics of the Intensity Frontier”

Milind Diwan

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Refreshments begin at 3:30 p.m.

http://physics.brown.edu/

 

4:15

Monday, September 19, 2011

3:45 Refreshments / 4:15 Lecture

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kolker Room, 26-414

"TeV Physics and Conformality"

Tom Appelquist

Yale

 

4:15 pm

Monday, September 19, 2011

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250

"Searching for Answers at The Large Hadron Collider"

Matthew Strassler

Rutgers University

Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.

http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 


 

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

 

12 Noon

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

LNS Lunch Time Seminar

Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kolker Room, 26-414

"The MINERvA Experiment: Where we are, where we are going"

Deborah Harris

FNAL

 

1:30pm

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar

Abelson 307

"TBA"

Brian Wecht

Harvard and Queen Mary

 

2:00 pm

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Boston College, Physics Seminar

Higgins 235

"TBA"

Luiz Santos

Harvard University

For more information please see: http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

 

3:30 PM

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 

Boston University

Physics Department Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 113

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Silicon Micromachines for Science and Technology"

David Bishop

Boston University

Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge

 

4pm

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Brandeis University

Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131

"Non-equilibrium Dynamics in two-dimensional liquid crystals"

Yuka Tabe

Waseda University

Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131

 


 

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

 

1:00PM

Wednesday, Sep 21, 2011

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

"TBA"

Mikhail Zvonarev, Harvard U

Refreshments served at 12:45

Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

 

2:30pm

Wednesday, September 21

BH 555

Brown University

HET Seminar

Department of Physics

"Matrix models, Einstein spaces, and the F-theorem"

Silviu Pufu

Princeton U

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Boston College, Physics Colloquium

Higgins 310

"Spin liquid and spin glass states of geometrically frustrated magnets"

Seung-Hun Lee

University of Virginia

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230

For more information please see: http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

 

4:00 P.M.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 4:00

UMass Lowell

OH 218

"Nanoscale Mechanical Resonators for Probing Physical Phenomena: Fluid Dynamics and Beyond"

Kamil L. Ekinci

Boston University

Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

 

4:30 PM

Wednesday, September 21

Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 356, Tea begins at 4:00

Molecules - Ultracold samples of ground-state molecules near quantum degeneracy

Hanns-Christoph Nägerl

University of Innsbruck

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, September 22, 2011

 

4:00 pm

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

CfA Colloquium Series

Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge

"WFIRST: an unobscured 3 mirror anastigmat with an HgCdTe focal plane"

Paul Schechter

MIT

tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

 

4:15 p.m.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 34, Room 101

"Doing Science in the Open"

Michael Nielsen

Independent Scientist

Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 8-329

http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 


 

Friday, September 23, 2011

 

3:00 p.m.

September 23

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

"Advanced magnet technologies for nuclear fusion"

Leslie Bromberg

MIT

 


 

 

 

 

 

Thank You,

 

Gisele Byda

Boston College - Physics

617) 552-0968