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FW: BAPC Announcements: Week of - 03/19 - 23/12




March 19 - 23, 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<mailto:bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu>
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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 19, 2012

2:00PM
Monday, March 19, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
“Factorizing Soft Recoil Sensitive Observables"
Ambar Jain, Carnegie Mellon University
refreshments will be served
 
4:15 p.m.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Colloquium
"The Ubiquitous SQUID:  Then and Now"
John Clarke
University of California, Berkeley
Jefferson 250; Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 http://www.physics.harvard.edu
 
4:15 PM
Monday, March 19, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium 
Kolker Room, 26-414
"A Practical Guide to Scattering Amplitudes: Previously Impossible 
Calculations Made Trivial"
Marcus Spradlin
Brown University
(Refreshments served at 3:45) 

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

12 PM
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Probing the neutrino with liquid argon"
Joshua Spitz
MIT

1:30 PM
Tuesday, March 20, 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
“Controls on the Earthquake Source and the Ongoing Controversy of 
Earthquake Self-Similarity”
Rachel Abercrombie
Boston University
http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/SOLID.EARTH.SEMINAR.html

2:00 pm
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Spontaneous quantum Hall effect and fractionalization in itinerant chiral 
Magnets"
Ivar Martin
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Harvard University
Refreshments served.
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/
 
2:30PM
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar
“Cosmological Bubbles and Solitons: A Classic(al) Effect"
John T. Giblin, Kenyon College/CWRU
refreshments will be served

3:00 p.m
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Lecture I
"Magnetic Flux 1/f Noise: A 30-Year Saga"
John Clarke
University of California, Berkeley
Jefferson 250
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
 
3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Synthetic Quantum Matter under the Microscope"
Markus Greiner
Harvard Unversity
Refreshments served at 3:15 pm in 1st floor lounge

4:00pm

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Brandeis University

Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131

“The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer:
New 
theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches”

Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Harvard University

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

2:30 pm
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555  
Physics Department
Brown University
“Comparing the Energy flow of decays in weak and strong coupling."
Alfred Mueller
 
4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Title - TBD"
Madappa Prakash
Ohio University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/
 
4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, March 21, 2011
UMass Lowell
OH 218
"Active Fluids: applying the tools of soft materials theory to biological 
systems”
Aparna Baskaran
Brandeis University
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

5:00pm

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Brandeis University

Theory IGERT Seminar

Abelson 333

“Quantum random walks of interacting particles and the graph isomorphism 
problem”

Susan Coppersmith

U. of Wisconsin, Madison
 
5:30 PM 
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Center for Complex Network Research
Department of Physics
Open Seminar & Class on Network Science (PHYS 5116)
"Economic complexity and the wealth of nations" 
César A. Hidalgo
MIT Media Laboratory
http://www.chidalgo.com/
ADDRESS
*110 Forsyth St., Boston, MA 02115 (on GPS key in 100 Forsyth)
*Dana Bldg. *57 on 5th Floor
*Enter main doors, turn left take the LARGE FREIGHT elevator to the 5th 
Floor.
PARKING
Renaissance Garage #62
835 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

1:00 PM
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Rings, boxes and spins in dissipative environments"
Baruch Horovitz
Ben Gurion University and Harvard University

3:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Lecture II
"Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Microtesla Fields: A New Clinical Modality?"
John Clarke
University of California, Berkeley
Jefferson 250
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
 
4:00pm

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar

Abelson 126

“Between a Rock and a Pore Space: Imaging Multiphase Flow in 3D Porous 
Media”

Sujit Datta

Harvard University
 
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250

"Bose-Einstein Condensates Subject to Synthetic Gauge Fields"
Ian Spielman
NIST and the University of Maryland
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, March 23, 2012

3:00 p.m.
March 23
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Latest results from JET_and the Integrated Operation Scenario Topical 
Group"
George Sips
JET

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Thank You,

Gisele Byda
Boston College - Physics
617) 552-0968