BAPC Announcements: Week of - 11/7 - 11/11

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

November 7 - 11, 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

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Monday, November 7, 2011

11:00AM
Monday, November 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Club
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Renormalization Group Flows in Four (and Two) Dimensions"
Zohar Komargodski
Weizmann Institute of Science

12 noon
Monday, November 7
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Algebraic Geometry Methods to find Potential Energy Landscape"
Dhagah Mehta
Syracuse University

12:30 PM
Monday, November 7, 2011
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
TBA
Tim Tait
University of California, Irvine

2:00PM
Monday, November 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442"
Scale without Conformal Invariance in Quantum Field Theory"
Ben Grinstein
UCSD
Refreshments to be served.

3:45 
Monday, November 7, 2011
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Baryon Number and Lepton Number in the Standard Model and Beyond"
Mark Wise
CalTech
(3:45 Refreshments / 4:15 Lecture) 

4:15 PM 
Monday, November 7, 2011
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Baryon Number and Lepton Number in the Standard Model and Beyond"
Mark Wise
CalTech
(3:45 Refreshments)

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

11am
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"TBA"
Dr. Ben Freivogel
MIT

12 Noon
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Particle correlations in hot QCD matter"
Wei Lie
MIT

2:00 pm
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Ultrafast Probing of Dynamical Spin-Charge Coupling in Topological 
Insulators"
Nuh Gedik 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For more information please see: www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

2:30PM
Tuesday, November 8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical 
Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Flavour Symmetric Sectors and Collider Physics"
Michael Trott
CERN
Refreshments to be served.

2:30pm
Tuesday, November 8, 2010
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Kinetic theory of strings"
Vitaly Vanchurin
Stanford
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

4pm
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The self organized beating of cilia and their control"
Kenneth Foster
Syracuse University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

2:15PM
Wednesday, November 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Open-Closed String Correspondence and Homotopy Algebras"
Ivo Sachs
Harvard
Refreshments to be served.

2:30 pm
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"No GUTs, no glory": a search for high-mass dilepton resonances in the 
context of Grand Unified Theories
Rozmin Daya
Brandeis University

2:30 p.m
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Brown University
Physics Department
HET Semeinar - Room 555
"Exact one-loop strong coupling results for string spectrum in AdS4 x CP3 
versus the all-loop Bethe Ansatz"
Andrey Zayakin  
LMU in Munich

3:30 PM
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Boston University
Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 
328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Reorganization of columnar architecture in the growing visual cortex"
Wolfgang Keil
Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Refreshments 
served *Note special day, time, place*

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, Nov 9,2011
UMass Lowell
OH 218
"Traveling-Wave MRI: From Ultra-High to Low Fields"
Alexey Tonyushkin 
Harvard University and Mass General Hospital
Refreshments at 3:30P.M. OH218

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
UMass Lowell
OH 218
"Cold atom interferometry and coherent quasi-optical effects in high-field 
NMR. "
Alexey Tonyushkin
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

4:00 pm
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Dirac materials"
Sasha Balatsky
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

4:30 PM
Wednesday, Nov. 9
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Harvard Physics Jefferson 356
"Prospects for scaling trapped-ion quantum information processing"
David Wineland
NIST
Tea begins at 4:00
ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu)

5pm
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Brandeis University
Theory IGERTS Seminar
Abelson 333
"How we think together: the role of networks in collective problem solving"
David Lazer
College of Computer and Information Science and Dept. of Political Science 
at Northeastern.

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

12 noon
Thursday, November 10
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductors"
Anton Akhermov
Leiden University

3:00 p.m.
November 10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"First results on the JET ITER-like wall project"
Guy Matthews
Euratom / CCFE Fusion Association

3:00 p.m.
November 10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"First results on the JET ITER-like wall project"
Guy Matthews
Euratom / CCFE Fusion Association

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces"
Harold Hwang
Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

5pm
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Dynamics of Interfaces"
Prerna Sharma
Brandeis University

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Friday, November 11, 2011

12 Noon
Friday, November 11, 2011
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Magnetic properties and ultra-fast relaxation in systems of molecular 
nanomagnets"
Victor Henner
Perm State University, Perm, Russia and
University of Louisville, KY
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

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