BAPC Announcements: Week of - 03/26 - 30/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

March 26 - 30, 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 26, 2012

1:00 PM
March 26, 2012
Sponsored by ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, 
and by the Aspuru-Guzik Research Group,Department of Chemistry and 
Chemical Biology at Harvard. 
Joint Quantum Seminar
LISE 303, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 
"Recent Advances in Magnetic Resonance QIP"
Dr. Jonathan Baugh
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
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/

4:15 p.m.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Bacterial Growth Laws: Origins and Consequences"
Terry Hwa 
University of California, San Diego
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

2:00pm
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"4D Gravity as a Twistor Matrix Model"
Jonathan Heckman
(IAS)

2:00 pm
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Competing Phases of 2D Electrons at ν = 5/2 and 7/3"
Jing Xia 
University of California, Irvine
Refreshments served.
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:00pm
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Brandeis University
Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Lecture Series Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Light and Sound: An optical approach for illuminating the elusive 
mechanics of 
hearing in the mammalian cochlea"
Jonathan Fisher
The Rockefeller University
Refreshments 3:30pm outside Abelson 131

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

1:00PM
Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"A Bird's Eye View of Spin Coherence"
Ioannis Kominis, U Crete
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
UMass Lowell
OH 218
"Confocal microscopy of skin cancers: current topics in technology 
development and translational research"Milind Rajadhyaksha
Milind Rajadhyaksha
Sloan KetteringS
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

4:00  pm
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
Title - TBD
Joseph R. Lakowicz 
University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

1:30 PM
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Boston University
Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 
352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Influence of Topology on Sound Propagation in Granular Force Networks"
Mason Porter
University of Oxford, UK

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Friday, March 30, 2012

12 Noon
Friday, March 30, 2012
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"To Be Announced"
Vidya Madhaven
Boston College
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3 PM
Friday, March 30, 2012
Boston University
Physics Colloquium/ Joint with MSE
Photonics Building, Room 205
8 St. Mary's Street
The Benson T. Chertok Lecture
"Understanding the Columbia Shuttle Accident"
Douglass Osheroff
Stanford University
Refreshments served at 2:45 PM

4:00pm
Friday, March 30, 2012
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 126
"Experiments and theory of Undulatory Locomotion in Structured Media"
Trush Majmudar
Courant Institute, NYU

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Thank You,