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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 10/17 - 21/11



October 17 - 21, 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, October 17, 2011

 

12:30 PM

Monday, October 17, 2011

Boston University

Particles and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington St., room 595

"Nonstandard Dark Matter Signatures at the LHC"

Yang Bai

SLAC

 

3:45 PM

Monday, October 17, 2011

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kolker Room, 26-414

“Dark matter: a status report, including the DarkLight experiment"

Prof. Peter Fisher, MIT

3:45 Refreshments / 4:15 Lecture)

 

4:15 p.m.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250

“The Emergence of Jets at the Large Hadron Collider”

Matthew Schwartz

Harvard University

tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 


 

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

 

12:00 Noon

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

LNS Lunch Time Seminar

Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Status of Accelerator Designs for DAEdALUS"

Jose Alonso, LBL

 

1:30pm

Tuesday, October 18

Brandeis University

Abelson 307

"Geometry of perturbative heterotic vacua"

Ronen Plesser

Duke University

 

2:00 pm

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Boston College, Physics Seminar

Higgins 235

"The Physics of Extreme Correlations in Cuprates and its implications for ARPES"

Sriram Shastry

University of California, Santa Cruz

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

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, October 18

Brandeis University

MRSEC/Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131

"Specific and non-specific interactions of proteins: from networks to function"

Gerhard Hummer

Laboratory of Chemical Physics at NIH

Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131

 

4:15 PM

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Special Joint Colloquium

Laboratory for Nuclear Science &

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Project-X: A Multi-Megawatt, Multi-GeV Proton Accelerator Facility for Particle Physics and Beyond"

Dr. Stuart Henderson, FermiLab

 


 

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

 

11:00am

Wednesday, October 19

Brandeis University

Abelson 307

"Advances in maximally supersymmetric scattering amplitudes

Lecture 2: AdS/CFT and applications"

Horatiu Nastase

Instituto de Fisica Teorica, UNESP, Brazil

 

1:00PM

Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

"TBA"

Martin ZWIERLEIN, MIT

Refreshments served at 12:45

Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

 

2:15PM

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

String/Gravity Theory seminar

Center of Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

"Disordered Holographic Systems"

Sho Yaida

MIT-CTP

Refreshments to be served

http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/seminars.html

 

2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

HET Seminar BH555

Brown University

Physics Department

“The Universe After Inflation''

Richard Easther

Yale University

 

3:00 p.m.

October 19

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

"MSE imaging on the KSTAR tokamak, and future prospects"

John Howard

The Australian National University

 

4:00 P.M.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

UMass Lowell

OH 218

“Nanoscale Optics with negative Metamaterials”

Srinivas Sridhar

Northeastern University

Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Boston College, Physics Colloquium

Higgins 310

"Nucleation and Growth of Nanoscale Epitaxial Silicides by Point Contact Reactions"

Yi-Chia Chou

IBM Yorktown

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230

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

 


 

Thursday, October 20, 2011

 

2:00 pm

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Boston College, Physics Seminar

Higgins 235

"TBD"

Rahul Mahajan Nandkishore

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

 

4:15 p.m.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Distinguished Pappalardo Lecture in Physics

Building 10, Room 250

"Expansion and Dark Energy"

Adam Riess

Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute

Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349

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

 


 

Friday, October 21, 2011

 

12 Noon

Friday, October 21, 2011

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Shape Shifting: the statistical physics of protein conformational change"

Jeremy England

MIT

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

3:00 p.m.

October 21

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

"Lithium wall conditioning experiments in LTX"

Dick Majeski

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

 


 

 

 

 

 

Thank You,

 

Gisele Byda

Boston College - Physics

617) 552-0968