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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 10/24 - 28/11



October 24 - 28, 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 24, 2011

 

2:00PM

Monday, October 24

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

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

"R-symmetry at the TeV Scale?"

Matthew McCullough

MIT-CTP

Refreshments to be served.

 

4:15 p.m.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250

"Certainty and Uncertainty in Dark Matter Searches"

Juan Collar

University of Chicago

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

http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 


 

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

 

2:30PM

Tuesday, October 25

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joint Tufts/CfA/ MIT Cosmology Seminar

Center for Theoretical Physics

Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 

"Observing the Multiverse with Cosmic Wakes"

Matthew Kleban

NYU

Refreshments to be served to 2:15PM

 

4pm

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Brandeis University

Quantitative Biology/Martin Weiner Lecture Series

Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131

"Computational Studies of Biomolecular Systems: Simulation Methods, Force Fields, and Applications"

Benoit Roux

University of Chicago

Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

 


 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

 

2:15PM

Wednesday, October 26

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joint Harvard/MIT String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics

Cosman Seminar room 6c-442

"Prying the CFT from the AdS boundary"

Idse Heemskerk

UCSB

Refreshments to be served.

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Harvard University

Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar

Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)

"Tevatron Highlights"

Amnon Harel

University of Rochester

 

2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Brown University

Physics Department

HET Seminar

BH555

“Flux Tubes, Integrability and the S-matrix of N=4 SYM”

Amit Sever

Perimeter Institute

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Boston College, Physics Colloquium

Higgins 310

"Probing Materials with Muons: From Novel Superconductors to Magnetic Monopoles"

Graeme Luke

McMaster University

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, October 26, 2011

UMass Lowell

OH 218

"High-resolution optical coherence tomography imaging and its potential applications to clinical care"

Nicursor Iftimia

Physical Sciences, Inc

Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

 

4:30 PM

Wednesday, Oct 26, 2011

Institute for Theoretical Atomic

Molecular and Optical Physics Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 356

"Hybrid Quantum Computing"

Klaus Mølmer

Aarhus University

Tea begins at 4:00

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, October 27, 2011

 

12:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 27

Harvard University

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Lyman 425

"Spin-Charge Interplay in Quantum Dots: the role of Berry Phase"

Arijit Saha

Weizmann Institute, Israel

 

4:00 pm

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

CfA Colloquium Series

Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge

"Precision Cosmology with a Combination of Galaxy Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing"

Frank van den Bosch

Yale

tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

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

 

4:15 p.m.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Spin-Orbit Interactions for Exoplanetary Systems"

Josh Winn

MIT

Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349

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

 


 

Friday, October 28, 2011

 

 

2:00 pm

Friday, October 28, 2011

Boston College, Physics Seminar

Higgins 235

"Fractional topological insulators"

Christopher Mudry

Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

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

 

3:00 p.m.

October 28

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

"Physics of tokamak disruption simulations"

Allen Boozer

Columbia University

 

3:00 PM

Friday, October 28, 2011

Tufts University

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Science and Technology Center

4 Colby St., Room 136

"Nuclear Physics in a SUSY Universe"

Louis Clavelli

University of Alabama

Refreshments served at 2:30 in The Science and Technology Center, Room 124.

 


 

 

 

 

 

Thank You,

 

Gisele Byda

Boston College - Physics

617) 552-0968