BAPC Announcements: Week of - 05/07 - 11/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

May 7 - 11, 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, May 7, 2012

2:00PM
Monday, May 7, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Quark masses, scale setting and lattice thermodynamics"
Zoltan Fodor
University of Wuppertal & Perimeter Institute
refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Monday, May 7, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Perturbative QCD and the LHC physics"
Kirill Melnikov
John Hopkins University
(Refreshments served at 3:45 PM)

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

12 PM
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Jet-hadron correlations in STAR"
Alice Ohlson
Yale

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

11 AM
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in 
an Optical Lattice"
Jonathan Simon
Harvard University

1:00PM
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"The Influence of Lagrangian Structures on Fluid Mixing"
Christopher Amey
UMass Boston
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:15PM
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
String Theory Seminar
"Hot Glassy Galaxies"
Dionysios Anninos
Stanford
refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
ANITA and ARA: Hunting for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos in Antarctica
Ryan Nichol
University College London

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

4:00 pm
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge 
"Intracluster Light and the Hierarchical Assembly of Cluster Galaxies"
Chris Mihos
Case Western
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

4pm
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 126
"Dynamic behavior of pulse-coupled chemical oscillators"
Viktor Horvath
Brandeis University

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"The quantum Goldilocks effect: optimal design for quantum transport"
Seth Lloyd 
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, May 11, 2012

12 Noon
Friday, May 11, 2012
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
TBA
Onuttom Narayan
University of California, Santa Cruz
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 p.m.
May 11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Steady-state scenario development on DIII-D with off-axis neutral beam 
injection"
Chris Holcomb
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Thank You,