REVISED: 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

4:15 PM
Monday, December 5, 2011
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Looking for Dark Matter here, there and everywhere"
Patrick Fox
FERMI Lab
REFRESHMENTS @ 3:45

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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/

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

4pm
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Granular drag at the limit of pushing through boulders"
Stephan Koehler
WPI
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

1:00PM
Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Effect of hydrophobic confinement on the hypothesized liquid-liquid 
critical point of water"
Elena G Strekalova, Boston U
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

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/

5pm
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Brandeis University
Theory IGERT seminar
Abelson 333
"The statistical mechanics of granular matter"
Max Bi
Brandeis University
Open to IGERT staff, faculty and students only

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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

5pm
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Microdroplets as confined systems: unusual access to nucleation"
Romain Grossier
Dept of Matl. Science and Engineering, MIT

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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

4pm
Friday, December 9, 2011
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Computational Molecular Modeling of Membranes and Membrane Proteins"
Jason Perlmutter
Dept. of Biomedical Eng., Univ. of Minnesota
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Thank You,