BAPC Announcements: Week of - 12/5 - 9/11

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

December 5 - 19, 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, December 5, 2011

12:30 PM
Monday, December 5, 2011
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Jet Physics from Static Charges in AdS"
Matthew Schwartz
Harvard University

2:00PM
Monday, December 5 ,  2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 ``Fishing 
Lessons at the LHC"
Eder Izaguirre, Stanford
Refreshments to be served.

4pm
Monday, December 5
Northeastern University
Colloquium
Dana Research Center 114
"High-Temperature Superconductivity: Taming Serendipity
Laura Greene
Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, 
Center for Emergent Superconductivity, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign

4:00 p.m.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Bacterial growth laws: origins and consequences"
Terry Hwa (UCSD)
Refreshments begin at 3:30 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

4:15 p.m.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Bridging the Gap in High Temperature Superconductor"
Zhi-Xun Shen
Stanford University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

2:30PM
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Duboc Seminar room 4-331 TBA I-Sheng Yang, 
Columbia Refreshments to be served at 2:15PM

2:00 pm
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins 310
"Marriage of DNA and Histones Under Tension"
Christopher McAndrew
The Catholic University of America
Refreshments served.
For more information please see: http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

2:30pm
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555  
Department of Physics
"3-manifolds and 3d gauge theories"
Masahito Yamazaki 
Princeton U

2:30 pm
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
The Empirical Case For 10 GeV Dark Matter
Dan Hooper
University of Chicago

4:00 pm
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"From black holes to strange metals:  many-body physics through a 
gravitational lens"
Hong Liu
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/

4:30 PM
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & 
Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics Colloquium (JAQuOC)
Harvard Physics Jefferson 356,
Universal few-body physics with ultracold atoms  
Francesca Ferlaino
University of Innsbruck, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Tea begins at 4:00
ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu)
The Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/
Harvard Quantum Optics Center
http://hqoc.harvard.edu/

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

1:30 pm
December 8, 2011 
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Tufts University
212 College Ave., Robinson 250
Medford Campus
"Non-Gaussianities from Cosmic Magnetic Fields" 
Leo Motta Dartmouth

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Where art thou, O Higgs?"
Steve Nahn
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, December 9, 2011

12 Noon
Friday, December 9, 2011
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Time and space in the mind and brain"
Marc Howard
Boston University, Psychology Dept.
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 p.m.
December 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Reducing turbulent transport in stellarators & tokamaks through shaping"
Harry Mynick
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

3:00 PM
Friday, December 9, 2011
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Science and Technology Center
4 Colby St., Room 136
"Soft Condensed Matter"
Christian Santangelo
U. Mass Amherst


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Thank You,