BAPC Announcements: Week of - 09/17 - 21/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

September 17 - 21, 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, September 17, 2012

2:00 pm
Monday, September 17, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"From Jet Fragmentation to Jet Charge"
Wouter Waalewijn
UCSD
Refreshments served.

4:15 PM
Monday, September 17, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Observation of a new boson with mass near 125 GeV with CMS"
Markus Klute
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:45 PM

4:15 p.m.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Search for the Higgs Boson: Results"
John Huth
Harvard University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

3:30 PM 
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"On Growth and Form: Geometry, Physics and Biology"
L. Mahadevan
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

1:00PM 
Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Non-equilibrium dynamic critical scaling of the transverse-field Ising 
chain"
Michael Kolodrubetz
Princeton U
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00 pm
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String Theory Seminar
"Non-geometric fluxes and double field theory"
Olaf Hohm
University of Munich
Refreshments served.

4:00 pm
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Can that really be so?  A light-hearted look at the concept of force in 
classical, quantum, and statistical mechanics"
Philip L. Taylor 
Case Western University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday September 19, 2012
UMass Lowell; Physics colloquia  OH218
Dark matter in the black hills
Simon Fiorucci            
Brown University
refreshments 3:30P.M.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Exploring the Universe with WISE"
Edward Wright
University of California, Los Angeles
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

4:00pm
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333 (note room change)
"Deformable Surfaces as a Platform for Particle Self-assembly"
Andela Saric
Columbia University

4:00 pm
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
CfA Colloquium Series 
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge 
"Beyond Hot Jupiters: Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanetary Atmospheres"
Heather Knutson
Caltech
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

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Friday, September 21, 2012

11:00 AM 
Friday, Sept. 21, 2012  
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Synchronization of Eukaryotic Flagella"
Ray Goldstein
DAMTP, Cambridge University, UK

2:00 PM 
Friday, Sept. 21 2012 
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington Mall, Room 595
TBA
Sean Tulin
University of Michigan

3:00 PM
Friday, September 21, 2012
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue, Medford
Robinson Hall, Rm. 253
"Soft Matter Under High Magnetic Fields - Phase Behavior, Alignment 
Dynamics and Designing Functional Materials"
Chinedum O. Osuji
Yale University
Refreshments will be served at 2:30 in The Knipp Library, Robinson 251


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