BAPC Announcements: Week of - 02/27 - 03/02/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

February 27 - March 2, 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 27, 2012

12:30 PM
Monday, February 27, 2012
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington Street, Room 595
TBA
Francesco De'Armo
MIT

2:00PM
Monday, February 27, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Ab initio nuclear physics"
William Detmold, College of William & Mary
refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Monday, February 27, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium 
Kolker Room, 26-414
(Refreshments at 3:45 PM)
"The Jefferson Lab Science Program - Highlights and Outlook"
Rolf Ent 
JLab

4:15 p.m.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Juggling with Photons in a Box to Explore the Quantum World"
Serge Haroche
College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

12 PM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Little big bang: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions"
Yen-Jie Lee
CERN

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

2:15PM
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
String Theory Seminar
"Nonabelian gauge theories for Calabi-Yau manifolds"
David Morrison
UCSB
refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, 29, February 2012
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555
Department of Physics
Brown University
"Emergent IR CFTs in black hole physics"
Joan Simon 
U Edinburgh

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
UMass Lowell
OH 218
Dark matter in the black hills
Simon Fiorucci
Brown University
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

4:00 pm
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips 
Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Atmospheric Evolution on 
Water-Worlds"
Raymond Pierrehumbert
U. of Chicago
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Faster than Light?"
Robert Geroch
University of Chicago
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, March 2, 2012

2 PM
Friday, March 2, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science 
LNS Special Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Photons as a Probe for Discovery with the CMS Detector"
Toyoko Jennifer Orimoto
CERN

3:00 p.m.
March 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Experimental changes in particle transport from resonant magnetic 
perturbations (RMPs) in DIII-D"
Saskia Mordijck
College of William and Mary

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