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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 02/20 - 24/12



 

February 20 - 24, 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

 


 

Monday, February 20, 2011

 

N/A

 


 

Tuesday, February 21, 2011

 

12 PM

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunch Time Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"The search for neutrinoless double beta decay with the EXO experiment"

Jesse Wodin

SLAC

 

2:00 pm

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson 250

"Dynamical systems of eternal inflation"

Vitaly Vanchurin

Stanford

Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

2:00PM

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center of Theoretical Physics

Cosman Seminar room 6c-442

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

“Cosmic clues for dark matter and their implications for a dark matter asymmetry"

Kathryn Zurek, University of Michigan

refreshments will be served

 

2:30pm

Tuesday, February 21, 2011

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson 250

"Dynamical systems of eternal inflation"

Vitaly Vanchurin

Stanford

Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

 


 

Wednesday, February 22, 2011

 

2:15PM

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center of Theoretical Physics

Cosman Seminar room 6c-442

String Theory Seminar

“(2,0) theory and D=5 super Yang-Mills"

Michael Douglas

Simon Center, Stony Brook

refreshments will be served

 

4pm

Wednesday, February 22

Northeastern University

Colloquium

Dana Research Center, Room 114

“Guessing the Rules for Nature’s Glue in Physics, Chemistry and Biology.”

John Perdew

Tulane University

 

4:00 P.M.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

UMass Lowell

OH 218

“Literally strangling cancer with the help of gold nanoparticles (and the photoelectric effect)”

Wilfred F. Ngwa

Harvard Medical School

Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

 


 

Thursday, February 23, 2011

 

1:00 PM

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Harvard University

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Lyman 425

"Anisotropy of the Energy Gap in Fe-based Superconductors"

Ruslan Prozorov

Ames Laboratory and Physics and Astronomy Department, Iowa State University

 

3:00PM

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center of Theoretical Physics

Cosman Seminar room 6c-442

Quantum Information Theory Seminar

“Verification and Characterization of Quantum States and Processes"

Steven Flammia

University of Washington

refreshments will be served

 

4 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 126
"Coupled Oscillations ina 1D emulsion of Belousov-Zhabotinsky droplets"
Ning Li
Brandeis University

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Topological Order and Quantum Entanglements - from New Quantum Matter to a Unification of Light and Electrons"

Xiao-Gang Wen

MIT

Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349

http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 

4:00 pm

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge

"The formation of planetesimals--an experimentalist's view"

Jurgen Blum

IGEP Braunschweig

tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

 


 

Friday, February 24, 2011

 

11:00 AM

Friday, February 24, 2012

Harvard University

Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Lyman 425

"Conductivity of Hard Core Bosons"

Assa Auerbach

Technion, Israel

 

12 Noon

Friday, February 24, 2012

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Statistical mechanics of classical and quantum computational complexity"

Roderich Moessner

Max Planck Institute, Dresden

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

2 PM

Friday, February 24, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Special Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"ReVolution: Neutrino Oscillation and Beyond"

Lindley Winslow

MIT

 

3:00 p.m.

Friday, February 24
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Plasma-surface interactions in thrusters and tokamaks"
Regina Sullivan
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

 

3:00 PM

Friday, February 24, 2012

Tufts University

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue

Robinson Hall, Rm. 253

Medford Campus

"Design and understanding of new functional materials using quantum mechanics simulations"

Oswaldo Dieguez

Institute of Materials Science Barcelona, ICMAB

Refreshments will be served at 2:30pm in The Knipp Library, Robinson 251

 

4pm

Friday, February 24

Northeastern University

Colloquium

Dana Research Center, Room 114

“Improving Density Functionals For Atoms, Molecules And Solids”

Adrienn Ruzsinszky

Tulane University

 

5:00pm

Friday, February 24, 2012
Brandeis University
IGERT Seminar
Abelson 333
TBA
David Sivak
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 


 

 

Thank You,

 

Gisele Byda

Boston College - Physics

617) 552-0968