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February 13 - 17, 2012

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, February 13, 2012

12 Noon
Monday, February 13, 2012
Boston University
Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Joint with MSE Metcalf Science 
Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Detection of Orbital Fluctuations Above the Structural Transition 
Temperature in the Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides"
Laura H. Greene
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

12:30 PM
Monday, February 13, 2012
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
TBA
Jared Kaplan
Stanford University, SLAC

2:00PM
Monday, February 13, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Signatures of Energy Injection in the Cosmic MIcrowave Background"
Tracy Slatyer, IAS
refreshments will be served

4:00 PM
Monday, February 13, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Future Prospects for Nuclear Power after Fukushima"
Jacopo Buongiorno
MIT

4:00 p.m.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168, 184 Hope Street, Providence RI
"The Second Copernican Revolution: Our Changing View of Our Place in the 
Universe"
Dr. John Callas
Project Manager of the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Project
Refreshments begin at 3:30 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

4:15 p.m.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Bombs, Math and X-rays"
Andrew Foland
L-3 Communications
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 PM
Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 
Joint Quantum Seminar
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 
"Probing molecules with laser-cooled atomic ions" 
Prof. Kenneth Brown
Georgia Institute of Technology 
Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical 
Physics (ITAMP) and the Harvard Chemistry Department
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

12:00 PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"An excess of needles in the haystack? The hunt for new physics at ATLAS"
Jahred Adelman
Yale University

2:00pm
Tuesday, February 14
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 207
TBA
Brian Shuve
Harvard University

3:30 PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest"
David Nelson
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00pm
Tuesday, February 14
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
TBA
David Weitz
Harvard University

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

1:00PM 
Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012, 
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
1. "Origins of bright soliton transparency to Bogoliubov quasi-particles"
Zaijong Hwang, UMassBoston
2. "Integrability versus Thermalizability in Isolated Quantum Systems"
Maxim Olshanii, UMassBoston
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00PM
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Quantum Information Theory Seminar
"Quantum Algorithms for Quantum Field Theories"
Stephen Jordan
NIS&T
refreshments will be served

2:20PM
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Theoretical Seminar:  BH555 
Department of Physics
Brown University
"Aspects of Supersymmetry breaking and Flux Backgrounds"
Nick Halmagy
Harvard

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
UMass Lowell
OH 218
"Lighting up the localized photon modes with a focused electron beam"
Nicholas X Fang
MIT
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

3:00PM
Thursday, February 16 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Joint Harvard/MIT String seminar
"Superconformal index with line and surface operstors"
Sergei Gukov, California Institute of Technology
refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series 
Phillips Auditorium, 
60 Garden Street, Cambridge 
"The Milky Way as a Grand Design Spiral"
Tom Dame
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases "
Martin Zwierlein
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, February 17, 2012

12 Noon
Friday, February 17, 2012
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Femtosecond Coherent Optical Control of Electronic and Magnetic Order"
Ilias Perakis
University of Crete
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

2:00 PM
Friday, February 17, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Special Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"The Precision vs. the Energy Frontier - Testing the Standard Model at 
Jefferson Lab"
Juliette Mammei
University of Massachusetts

3:00 p.m.
Friday, February 17
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Turbulence and transport in scrape-off layer plasmas"
Odd Eric Garcia
MIT

3:00 PM
Friday, February 17, 2012
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue
Robinson Hall, Rm. 253
Medford Campus
"A Digital Zoetrope and Early Computer Generated Films for Physics 
Education"
Judah Schwartz
Senior Lecturer in Education & Research Professor of Physics & Astronomy, 
Tufts University Professor of Engineering Science & Education, MIT 
[retired] Professor of Education, Harvard University [retired] 
Refreshments will be served at 2:30 pm in The Knipp Library, Robinson 251

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