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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 9/26 - 30/11



 

September 26 - 30, 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 26, 2011

 

2:00PM

Monday, September 26th

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar

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

"Statistical mechanics of Classical and Quantum SAT"

Antonello Scardicchio, ICTP, Trieste

 

3:45 PM

Monday, September 26, 2011

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kolker Room, 26-414

(3:45 Refresh. / 4:15 Lecture)

"Exploring Strangeness with Mirror Symmetry in Electron Scattering"

Kent Paschke

University of Virginia

 

4:00 p.m

Monday, September 26, 2011

Brown University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Barus & Holley 168

"Seeking the Origin of Mass: Higgs Searches at Colliders"

Wade Fisher

Michigan State University

Refreshments begin at 3:30 p.m.

http://physics.brown.edu/

 

5:00 pm

Monday, September 26, 2011

2011 Collins Lecture, MGH Radiation Oncology

MGH Ether Dome Auditorium, Bulfinch Building

"Confessions of a Converted Lecturer"

(evidence based physics teaching of undergrads)

Eric Mazur

Harvard University

Relevant links:

http://mazur.harvard.edu/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI

http://mazur.harvard.edu/education/educationmenu.php

 


 

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

 

11:00am

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar

Abelson 307

"Viable gravity mediation"

Takemichi Okui

Florida State University

 

12 Noon

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

LNS Lunch Time Seminar

Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Optical Pumping of 3He at High Magnetic Fields"

Guilhem Collier

Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

 

4pm

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Brandeis University

Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131

"Street-fighting mathematics and science: The art of opportunistic problem solving"

Sanjoy Mahajan

Olin College of Engineering

Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

 


 

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

 

2:00 pm

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Solid Earth Physics Seminar

Hoffman Lounge, 4th Floor Faculty Lounge

20 Oxford Street

"Extracurricular Geophysics or, when instruments record what they were not designed for"

Emile Okal

Harvard University

Northwestern University

 

2:30pm

Wednesday, September 28

BH555

Brown University

HET Seminar

Department of Physics

“From Petrov-Einstein to Navier-Stokes"

Vyacheslav Lysov

Harvard U

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Harvard University

Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)

"Is SUSY still alive? A CMS perspective."

Sanjay Padhi

UCSD

 

4:00 P.M.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

UMass Lowell

OH 218

“The development of proton radiography imaging for in-room real-time tumor

tracking”

Joao C Seco

Harvard Medical School

Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

 

4:30 PM

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Institute for Theoretical Atomic

Molecular and Optical Physics Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 356, Tea begins at 4:00

“Ultracod Atoms in Synthetic Gauge Fields: From topological insulators to frustrated antiferromagnetism”

Maciej Lewenstein

ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia

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 29, 2011

 

11:00 AM

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Special Seminar Series

Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Test of Lorentz and CPT violation with MiniBooNE excesses"

Teppei Katori

MIT

 

4:15 p.m.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas; a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory"

Jan Egedal-Pedersen

MIT

Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349

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

 


 

Friday, September 30, 2011

 

3:00 p.m.

September 30

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

"Transport scalings for critically-balanced ITG turbulence in tokamaks"

Michael Barnes

MIT

 


 

 

Thank You,

 

Gisele Byda

Boston College - Physics

617) 552-0968