BAPC Announcements: Week of - 03/12 - 16/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

March 12 - 16, 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 12, 2012

2:00PM
Monday, March 12, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Qjets: A Non-Deterministic Approach to Tree-Based Jet Substructure"
David Krohn
Harvard
refreshments will be served

4pm
Monday, March 12
Northeastern University
Colloquium
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"Crystal Structure Prediction from First Principles"
Aleksey Kolmogorov
Oxford, UK

4:15 PM
Monday, March 12, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"A Noble Attach on Dark Matter"
Andrew Hime
LANL
Refreshments served at 3:45

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012


1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Boston University
Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 
352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"DNA sequence analysis using methods of statistical physics"
Ivo Grosse
Luther University, Halle, Germany
Pizza served at 1:15 pm
Note: different day/time from usual

2:30pm
Tuesday, March 13, 2011
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"The black hole information paradox and its resolution"
Samir Mathur
Ohio State
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

2:15PM
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Fearless orientifolds"
Mboyo Esole
Harvard
refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Emergence of superconductivity from magnetic order in correlated electron 
materials"
M. Brian Maple 
University of California, San Diego
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:30 PM
March 14, 2012
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & 
Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics Colloquium (JAQuOC)
Jefferson 250 , Harvard Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 
Photon interactions and photon condensation in optomechanical and circuit 
QED systems
Dr. Peter Rabl        
University of Innsbruck
Wenqi Zhu, Lithographically fabricated optical antennas with sub-10nm gaps.
Tea begins at 4:00
ITAMP http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html
The Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/ 
Harvard Quantum Optics Center
http://hqoc.harvard.edu/ 

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

1:00 PM
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Visualizing Heavy Fermions Emerging in a Quantum Critical Kondo Lattice"
Ali Yazdani
Princeton University

1:30 pm
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
212 College Ave., Robinson Hall, Room 250 
"Nonlinear Electrodynamics and its Supersymmetric Generalization"
Steven Duplij
Kharkov University

2:30 pm
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555   
Physics Department
"Gone with the Wind?
The Cosmological Constant and Black Hole Thermodynamics"
Jennie Traschen
U Mass

4:00 pm
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series 
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge 
"Through a Glass Darkly: Galaxy Clusters and Strong Lensing"
Mike Gladders
U. Chicago
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

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Friday, March 16, 2012

3:00 p.m.
March 16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Modeling of high-current electron beam lithography systems"
Serguie Ovtchinnikov
SAIC

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