BAPC Announcements: Week of - 04/09 - 13/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

March 9 - 13, 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 9, 2012

12 Noon
Monday, April 9, 2012
Boston University
Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar 
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Structure and Function in Complex Networks"
Lucian Costa
University of Sao Paulo
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

2:00PM
Monday, April 9, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Engineering Holographic Graphene"
Gordon Semenoff, University of British Columbia refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Monday, April 9, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
(Refreshments served at 3:45) 
"Project X Physics"
Brendan Casey
FermiLab

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Tuesday, March 10, 2012

12:00 PM
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Low Energy Neutron-Proton Interactions"
Brian Daub
MIT

2:00 pm
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Title - TBD"
Ashvin Vishwanath 
University of California, Berkely
Refreshments served.
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

2:30PM
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/ MIT Cosmology  Seminar
"Do Baryons Trace Dark Matter in the Early Universe?  Compensated 
Isocurvature Perturbations and the Cosmic Microwave Background"
Daniel Grin
IAS
refreshments will be served at 2:15PM

3:30 PM
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"What a Particle Physicist Can Learn from Graphene"
Gordon Semenoff
University of British Columbia, Canada
Refreshments served at 3:15 pm in 1st floor lounge

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Wednesday, March 11, 2012

1:00PM
Wednesday, Apr 11, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Extending the Flux Operator Using Husimi Projections"
Douglas Mason
Harvard U
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:15PM
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
String Theory Seminar
``Quantum-critical current noise in AdS/CDFT"
Julian Sonner, Trinity College, UK
refreshments will be served

2:30PM
Wednesday,  11 April 2012
Brown University
Department of Physics
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555  
"Algorithmic String Geometry"

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Title - TBD"
Isaac F. Silvera 
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4 pm
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"Results from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment"
Pedro Ochoa
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
UMass Lowell
OH 218
"Geometric Physics"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

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Thursday, March 12, 2012

Noon
April 12, 2012
Tufts University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Science and Technology Center
4 Colby Street, Room 132
Medford Campus
"Development of Integrated Devices for Rapid Identification and Treatment 
of Sepsis"
Mike Super
Wyss Institute
Harvard University  

1:00 PM
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Topological Transitions for Lattice Bosons in a Magnetic Field"
Netanel Lindner
Cal Tech

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Using graphene to study superconductivity (new tricks for an old dog)"
Nadya Mason
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, March 13, 2012

12 Noon
Friday, April 13, 2012
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"TBA"
Christian Batista
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 PM
Friday, April 13, 2012
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue, Medford
Robinson Hall, Room 253
"The Question of Mass in Newton's Law of Gravity"
George Smith
Tufts University, Department of Philosophy
Refreshments will be served at 2:30 in The Knipp Library, Robinson 251

3:00 p.m.
April 13
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Origin of the Greenwald density limit"
David Gates
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory


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Thank You,