April 2 - 6, 2012 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 Monday, April 2, 2012 2:00PM Monday, April 2, 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar "But what if it's not a WIMP? Direct detection down to the MeV scale" Jeremy Mardon Stanford refreshments will be served 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 2, 2012 Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Mechanical Resonators in the Quantum Regime" Andrew Cleland UC, Santa Barbara Refreshments begin at 3:30 p.m. 4:15 PM Monday, April 2, 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "An update from ATLAS: Recent results an the road ahead" Ayana Arce Duke Refreshments served at 3:45 PM 4:15 p.m. Monday, April 2, 2012 Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles at Liquid Interfaces” Vinothan Manoharan Harvard University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm http://www.physics.harvard.edu Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12 Noon Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS Lunch Time Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "Lorentz symmetry and neutrinos" Jorge Diaz Indiana University 2:00pm Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Brandeis University String Theory Seminar Abelson 307 New Horizons in Holography Shamit Kachru Stanford 2:30pm Tuesday, April 3, 2011 Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Scalar Particle Radiation from Cosmic String Kinks" Eray Sabancilar Arizona State Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 4:00pm Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Brandeis University Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 Biological Flows and Mechanics Michael Shelley NYU Wednesday, April 4, 2012 1:00PM Wednesday, Apr 4, 2012 University of Massachusetts Boston Physics colloquium series Science building, room 3-126 "Noisy quantum phase transitions: an intuitive approach" Emanuele Dalla Torre Harvard U Refreshments served at 12:45 Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu 2:15PM Wednesday, April 4, 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 String Theory Seminar “New SCFTs from M5-branes" Brian Wecht Harvard refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Wednesday, April 4, 2012 Boston College Physics Colloquium Higgins 310 "Exploring the potential of mineral biosignatures in Precambrian sedimentary rocks for exobiology" Dominic Papineau Boston College Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230 http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 4:00 p.m. Thursday, April 5, 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Seeing Electrons in Graphene: A Model 2-Dimensional Material" Tony Heinz Columbia University Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html 4 pm Wednesday, April 4, 2012 Harvard University Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge) "Dark Matter: the state of play" Peter Fisher MIT Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:30 PM Thursday, April 5, 2012 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "But what if it's not a WIMP? DM direct detection down to the MeV scale" Jeremy Mardon Stanford University 4:00pm Thursday, April 5 Brandeis University MRSEC Seminar Abelson 126 Active Glasses: Self-propelled particles at high density Silke Henkes Syracuse University 4:00 pm Thursday, April 5, 2012 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Supernova Forensics" Alicia Soderberg Harvard tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia Friday, April 6, 2012 none Thank You, Gisele Byda Boston College - Physics 617) 552-0968 |