BAPC Announcements: Week of - 05/14/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

May 14 - 18, 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 14, 2012

9:10am - 1:00pm
Monday, May 14, 2012
Brandeis University
Berko Symposium--21st Annual Student Research Symposium
in Memory of Professor Stephan Berko
Abelson 131
Schedule with titles and speakers:
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/physics/undergraduate/files/schedule21st.pdf

2:00PM
Monday, May 14, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"The Hagedorn Spectrum Revisited"
Thomas Cohen
University of Maryland
refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Monday, May 14, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
Refreshments Served at 3:45 PM
"New Forces at the GeV Scale? Motivation, Search Prospects, and Status"
Natalia Toro 
Perimeter Institute

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

12 PM (Noon)
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Times Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Searching for Massive, Charged Particles at CMS"
Todd Adams 
Florida State University

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

4:00 PM
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & 
Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics Colloquium (JAQuOC) 
Jefferson 250, Harvard Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 
"Attosecond streaking: probing time-dependent electronic dynamics in 
atoms, molecules, and solids"
Joachim Burgdorfer
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology 
"Quantum dot devices in gallium nitride optical cavities"
Student presentation by Alex Woolf
Harvard University (Hu group)  will begin promptly at 4:00.
Tea served at 4:00
ITAMP http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html

4 pm
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"Top quark physics, an experimental perspective"
Emanuela Barberis
Northeastern University

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

1:00 PM
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Quantum Interface Unbinding Transitions"
Pawel Jakubczyk
University of Warsaw

2 PM
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Special Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Low-energy QCD in Compton scattering off nucleons"
Vladimir Pascalutsa
Institute für Kernphysik
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

4:00 pm
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
CfA Colloquium Series 
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Asteroseismology: A New Keplerian Revolution"
Donald Kurtz
U. Central Lancashire
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"The Make-Believe World of Real-World Physics"
Eric Mazur 
Harvard University
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, May 18, 2012

N/A

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Thank You,
Gisele Byda
Boston College
(617) 552-3575