BAPC Announcements: Week of - 11/14 - 18/11

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

November 14 - 18, 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 14, 2011

12noon
Monday, November 14, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar 
Ayasli Conference Room 6-310 
"CP Violation in Kaon Decays from Lattice QCD"
Qi Liu
Columbia University

12:30 PM
Monday, November 14, 2011
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Phenomenology with sterile neutrinos - From neutrino oscillations to dark 
matter searches"
Joachim Kopp
Fermilab

4:15 p.m.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Maximum Caliber: An Approach To Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of 
Few-Particle Systems"
Kenneth Dill, Stony Brook University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 PM
Monday, November 14, 2011
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Direct Searches for Dark Matter"
Raphael Lang
Purdue
(3:45 Refreshments)

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

12 Noon
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Two bumps, or not two bumps, that is the question: W + 2 jet events at 
DZero"
Joe Healey
Northeastern University 

2:00 pm
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Telomere Dynamics in Aging and Cancer"
Krastan B. Blagoev 
National Science Foundation, USA and University of Cambridge, UK
Refreshments served at 2:00 pm, Higgins Hall 235
For more information please see: http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

2:30PM
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/MIT/CfA Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 
"UV Sensitivity of Dark Matter"
Scott Watson
Syracuse
Refreshments to be served at 2:15

3:30 PM
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Accelerating Moment Release Before Large Earthquakes: Life and Death (and 
Rebirth?) of an Earthquake Prediction Scheme"
David Bowman
California State University, Fullerton
*Joint Colloquium with Earth Sciences
***Refreshments will be served at 3:15 in the 1st Floor Lounge.

4pm
Tuesday, November 15th 
Northeastern University
seminar
Dana Research Center Room 114
Force in nanoscale biology: from hemostasis to single-molecule 
centrifugation
Wesley Wong
Harvard Medical School

4:00PM
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 
"Collider limits on dark matter"
Joachim Kopp
Fermilab
Refreshments to be served.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

1:00PM
Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Transport in Graphene: Ballistic, Anomalous, or Diffusive?"
Mario F. Borunda, Harvard U
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:15PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 
"Thermodynamics and Instabilities of a Strongly Coupled Anisotropic Plasma"
David Mateos
ICDR
Refreshments to be served.

2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Brown University
Physics Department
BH  Room 555
"All possible symmetries of CFTs"
Alexander Zhiboedov 
Princeton Univ

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
UMass Lowell
OH 218
"Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science"
Mikhail Lukin
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

4:00 pm
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"TBD"
Giovanni Fazio
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

12 noon
Thursday, November 17
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Universal Dynamic Decoupling and Quantum Walks in Functional Spaces"
Adilet Imambekov
Rice University

3pm
Thursday, November 17th
Northeastern University 
Colloquium
Dana Research Center Room 114
TBD
Sergei Gukov

4:00 pm
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series 
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge 
"Clay Fellowship Lecture: The Lifecycles of Massive Galaxies"
Mariska Kriek
CfA / Clay Fellow
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia 

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Quantum Dots in Optical Nanocavities: from Cavity QED to Device 
Applications"
Jelena Vuckovic
Stanford University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, November 18, 2011

12 Noon
Friday, November 18, 2011
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Imaging Voltage: From /E. coli/****to neurons"
Dr. Joel Kralj
Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 PM
Friday, November 18, 2011
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Science and Technology Center
4 Colby St., Room 136
"Puzzles in Galaxy Scaling Relations"
Stephane Courteau
Queens University

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Thank You,