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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 03/05 - 09/12
March 5 - 9, 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, March 5, 2012
1:00PM
Monday, Mar 5, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Stochastic modeling of gene expression and its regulation by small RNAs"
Rahul Kulkarni
Virginia Polytechnic
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu
2:00PM
Monday, March 5, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Carving out the space of Conformal Field Theories"
Alessandro Vichi
UC Berkeley
refreshments will be served
4:00 p.m.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
IMNI Distinguished Lecture in Nanoscience
Barus & Holley 166 (184 Hope Street, Providence, RI)
"A Step Up to Self-Assembly"
Provost Enge Wang
Peking University, China
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
4:15 p.m.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen"
Theodor W. Hänsch
University of Munich, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www/physics.harvard.edu
4:15 PM
Monday, March 5, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Flow and Fluctuations of the Little Bang at RHIC and LHC"
Ulrich Heinz
Ohio State University
5:00pm
Monday, March 5, 2012
Brandeis University
Theory IGERT seminar
Abelson 333
"The 99%: Who is to blame"
Takashi Odagaki
Tokyo Denki University
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
2:00pm
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Entanglement entropy after a local quench: A holographic story"
Matthew Roberts
NYU
2:00 pm
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Quantum criticality in graphene"
Vladimir Juricic
Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, The
Netherlands
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/
3:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I
Jefferson 250
"The Proton Size Puzzle"
Theodor W. Hänsch
University of Munich, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
http:www.physics.harvard.edu
3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Quantum entanglement and the phases of matter"
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM
4:00pm
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"A bacterium's perspective on chemosensing and exploration"
Thierry Emonet
Yale University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
1:00PM
Wednesday, Mar 7, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Taming Complexity --- The mathematics of network control"
Yang-Yu Liu
Northeastern U
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu
2:15PM
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
String Theory Seminar
"Massive phases of gauge theories and TQFT"
Anton Kapustin
California Institute of Technology
refreshments will be served
2:30 pm
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Department of Physics
Brown University
"3d Higher Spin Gauge Theory and Holography."
Chi-Mng Chang
Harvard U
2:30 PM
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Harvard University
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences/Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences
Solid Earth Physics Seminar
Hoffman 4th Floor Faculty Lounge
20 Oxford Street
Seismology at Active Hawaiian Volcanoes
Paul Okubo
U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
1:00 PM
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Quantum Ice: A Quantum Monte Carol Study"
Frank Pollmann
Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden
1:30pm
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
212 College Ave.
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Non-Singular Origin of the Universe and its Present Vacuum Energy
Density"
Eduardo Guendelman
Ben Gurion University, Israel
3:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II
Jefferson 250
"Laser Frequency Combs"
Theodor W. Hänsch
University of Munich, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
http:www.physics.harvard.edu
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Ultracold Polar Molecules"
Deborah Jin
NIST and University of Chicago
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
4pm
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 126
TBA
Homin Shin
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
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Friday, March 9, 2012
12 Noon
Friday, March 9, 2012
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Spontaneous quantum Hall effect and fractionalization in itinerant chiral
magnets"
Ivar Martin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
1:00PM
Friday, Mar 9, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"NON-LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING AS A MODEL OF EARLY SENSORY PROCESSING"
Tao Hu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu
3:00 p.m.
March 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Turbulence and relaxation studies in an MHD wind tunnel"
Michael Brown
Swarthmore College
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Thank You,