BAPC Announcements: Week of - 04/30 - 05/04/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

April 30 - May 4, 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 30, 2012

2:00PM
Monday, April 30, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Constraining the initial state granularity in heavy ion collisions"
Hannah Peterson
Duke
refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Monday, April 30, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the LHCb Experiment"
Michael Williams
Imperial College
Refreshments served at 3:45 PM)

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

12:00 PM
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"A search for short-baseline muon neutrino disappearance with MiniBooNE 
and SciBooNE"
Kendall Mahn
TRIUMF

2:30PM
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Ayasli Conference Room 6-310 (this week only) Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT 
Cosmology seminar "Equivalence principle and cosmic acceleration"
Lam Hui
Columbia
refreshments will be served at 2:15pm

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

2:15PM
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
String Theory Seminar
"Finite N phenomena in higher spin theories"
Alejandra Castro
McGill University
refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Quantum Criticality: an Organizing Principle for Strongly Correlated 
Metals?"
Meigan Aronson 
Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory 
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

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Thursday, May 3, 2012

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Trillion Degree Matter"
Gunther Roland
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

4:00 pm
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge 
"pH Lecture: The astrochemical origins of prebiotic molecules"
Karin Oberg
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

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Friday, May 4, 2012

12 Noon
May 4, 2012
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Structural Polymorphisms of misfolded proteins and its implication for 
Alzheimer's and other neurodegenrative diseases"
Ratnesh Lal
UCSD, Dept. of Engineering
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

May 4
3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"The heliosheath as a giant reconnection laboratory"
Merav Opher
Boston University

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Thank You,

Gisele Byda
Boston College - Physics
(617) 552-3575