BAPC Announcements: Week of - 04/16 - 20/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

April 16 - 20, 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, April 16, 2012


4:15 p.m.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming"
Brad Marston
Brown University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

2:00pm
Tuesday, April 17
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
TBA
Matt Reece
Harvard University

4:00pm
Tuesday, April 17
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Searching for Answers at The Large Hadron Collider"
Matthew Strassler
Rutgers University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm 

8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Harvard University
David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics Science Center, Hall C, 1 
Oxford St.
"A Century of Nuclear Physics: From Rutherford to QCD and to String Theory"
David Gross
UCSB
Reception follows at Putnam Gallery, Science Center 136 
www.physics.harvard.edu

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

1:00PM
Wednesday, Apr 18, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Persistent Patterns and Mixing in Mixed Phase Spaces"
Bala Sundaram
UMass Boston
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:30 PM
Wednesday, 18 April, 2012
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555  
Department of Physics
Brown University
"New SCFTs from M5-Branes"
Brian Wecht
Harvard

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Radiation-Induced Swelling in Oxide Pyrochlores"
Kurt E. Sickafus
University of Tennessee
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
UMass Lowell
OH 218
"Linear and nonlinear optics methods as applied for study of 
biomacromolecules in solution"
Andrzej J. Dobek
Adam Mickiewicz 
University, Poznaf, Poland
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. OH218

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"SciBooNE background constraints for MiniBooNE oscillation analyses"  
Camillo Mariani
Columbia University

5:00pm
Wednesday, April 18
Brandeis University
IGERT Seminar
Abelson 333
"Evolution and ecology in a feedback loop: consequences of social and 
antisocial behavior in microbial communities"
Dr. Alvaro Sanchez
MIT

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

3:30 PM
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Boston University
Special Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Left-right models confronting flavor constraints"
Monika Blake
Cornell University
Note: Special day and time

4:00pm
Thursday, April 19
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 126
"Helical swimming in complex fluid media"
Bin Liu
Brown University

4 PM
Thursday, April 19
Northeastern University
Colloquium
Dana Research Center Room 114
"ENGINEERING NANOPORES FOR SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION OF PROTEINS"
Liviu Movileanu
Syracuse University

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 34, Room 101
"Recent Progress in Applications of the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence"
Andreas Karch 
University of Washington 
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

4:15PM
Thursday, April 19, 2012 
New Joint Harvard/MIT Theory Seminar
Harvard Jefferson Lab , 453
"AdS/CFT Correlators and the Holographic S-Matrix"
Liam Fitzpatrick
Stanford
Refreshment served 4th floor Jefferson HET coffee area 3:45PM (organized 
by MIT-CTP held at Harvard)


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Friday, April 20, 2012

3:00 PM
Friday, April 20, 2012
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue, Medford
Robinson Hall, Rm. 253
"Searching for the Higgs Boson with the ATLAS Experiment"
Pierre Savard
University of Toronto & TRIUMF
Refreshments will be served at 2:30 in The Knipp Library, Robinson 251

3:00 p.m.
April 20
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Long-wavelength turbulence investigations in DIII-D"
George McKee
General Atomics

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Thank You,