October 31 – November 4, 2011 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 31, 2011 2:00PM Monday, October 31 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 "The QCD phase diagram in T-mu-Nc space" Giorgio Torrieri Columbia Refreshments to be served. 3:45 PM Monday, October 31, 2011 Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Laboratory for Nuclear Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kolker Room, 26-414 "Particle Physics in a Season of Change" Chris Quigg FNAL (3:45 Refreshments / 4:15 Lecture) 4:00 p.m. Monday, October 31, 2011 Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Dots for Dummies" Ramamurti Shankar Yale University Refreshments begin at 3:30 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ Tuesday, November 1, 2011 11am Tuesday, November 1, 2011 String Theory Seminar Abelson 307 Exact one-loop strong coupling results for string spectrum in AdS4 x CP3 versus the all-loop Bethe Ansatz Dr. Andrew Zayakin LMU-Garching 12 Noon Tuesday, November 1, 2011 LNS Lunch Time Seminar Laboratory for Nuclear Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kolker Room, 26-414 "CDMS nears the zeptobarn" Scott Hertel MIT 2:00 pm Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Boston College, Physics Seminar Higgins 235 "Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory" Ho Nyung Lee Oak Ridge national Laboratory For more information please see: http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 3:30 PM Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Physics Colloquium Joint Colloquium with Materials Science Engineering Boston University Metcalf Science Center, Room 109 590 Commonwealth Ave. "High-Temperature Superconductivity: Taming Serendipity" Laura Greene University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge http://physics.bu.edu/events/show/827 4 p.m. Tuesday, November 1st Northeastern University seminar Dana Research Center Room 114 A multi-scale experimental approach to cardiac arrhythmias: from molecule to organ Gideon Koren Brown University 4pm Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 Neutrino Oscillations, Present and Future Gary Feldman Harvard University Wednesday, November 2, 2011 1:00PM Wednesday, Nov 2, 2011 University of Massachusetts Boston Physics colloquium series Science building, room 3-126 "TBA" Charles Keese, Applied BioPhysics, Inc. Refreshments served at 12:45 Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu 2:15PM Wednesday, November 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 "Counting Degrees of Freedom in 3-d CFT" Igor Klebanov Princeton Refreshments to be served. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 2, 2011 HET Seminar Brown University Physics Department BH555 "Scattering Amplitudes and Grassmannian Polytopes" Jacob Bourjaily Princeton 4:00 pm Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Boston College, Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "A Little Big Bang: Ultracold Fermi Gases at the Quantum Limit" Martin Zwierlein Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230 For more information please see: http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics.html Thursday, November 3, 2011 1:30pm November 3, 2011 Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Tufts University Dept. of Physics and Astronomy 212 College Ave., Robinson Hall, Room 250 Medford Campus "Spatially Covariant Theories of a Transverse, Traceless Graviton" Godfrey Miller University of Pennsylvania 2:00 p.m. Thursday, November 3, 2011 Solid Earth Physics Seminar Hoffman 4th Floor Faculty Lounge 20 Oxford Street "Modeling Time-Dependent Dike Propagation From Seismicity and Deformation Data" Andrea Llenos U. 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Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA Solid Earth Physics website: http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEMINAR.html 4:00 pm Thursday, November 3, 2011 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Globular Clusters and Halo Stars: Chemodynamical tracers of galaxy assembly beyond the Local Group" Jean Brodie UC Santa Cruz tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia 4 p.m. Thursday, November 3rd Northeastern University Seminar Dana Research Center Room 114 A Paradise Island for Deformed GravityGuest Dr. Florian Kühnel LMU Munich, Arnold Sommerfeld Center, Germany 4:15 p.m. Thursday, November 3, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Physics in the Interest of Society" Richard Garwin IBM Fellow Emeritus Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html Friday, November 4, 2011 12 Noon Friday, November 4, 2001 Boston University Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Communication and collective behavior in unicellular organisms" Pankaj Mehta Boston University Pizza served at 11:45AM 3:00 p.m. November 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 "The fast and the furious: energetic ion transport in tokamaks" David Pace Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education 3:00 PM Friday, November 4th, 2011 Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Science and Technology Center 4 Colby St., Room 136 "The NOvA Experiment" Mark Messier University of Indiana Refreshments served at 2:30 in The Science and Technology Center, Room 124 Thank You, Gisele Byda Boston College - Physics 617) 552-0968 |