BAPC Announcements: Week of - 09/24 - 28/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

September 24 - 28, 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 24, 2012

11:00 AM 
Monday, September 24, 2012
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Atomic and Molecular Physics Division Seminar
Phillips Auditorium
"Novel phenomena in light matter interactions based on universal control 
of asymmetric pathways of quantum states"
Nimrod Moiseyev
Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and Faculty of Physics, Technion-Israel 
Institute of Technology
and ITAMP (visiting Fall 2012)
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/amp/events.html

2:00 pm
Monday, September 24, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"The Effective Field Theory of Dark Matter and Structure Formation"
Mark Hertzberg
MIT-CTP
Refreshments served.

4:15 PM
Monday, September 24, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Observation of a new boson with mass near 125 GeV with CMS"
Professor Markus Klute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

12:00 PM
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Next generation Higgs-factories"
Dr. Marco Zanetti
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pizza lunch is provided

2:30 pm
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?"
Joseph Polchinski
Santa Barbara
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

4pm
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Brandeis University
Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Dynamically Jammed Liquids: A New Perspective on Shear Thickening of 
Dense Suspensions"
Heinrich Jaeger
University of Chicago

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

11:00am
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Membranes"
Heinrich Jaeger
University of Chicago

1:00PM 
Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"The nature of fluctuations in human musical rhythms"
Holger Hennig
Harvard U
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

4:00 pm
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Silicon Micro-Machines for Fun and Profit"
David Bishop 
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday September 26, 2012
UMass Lowell
Physics colloquia 
OH218
"Growth of strained semiconductors from self-assembled quantum dots to 
metamorphic solar cells"
Minjoo Larry Lee 
Yale University 
refreshments 3:30P.M.

4:15 pm
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Clark University - Department of Physics
Active Matter Group Colloquium
"Shape and flow in biological and geophysical fluid dynamics"
Leif Ristroph
Applied Math Lab
Courant Institute
New York University
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/news/colloquium.cfm

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Strong Correlations with String Theory"
John McGreevy 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, September 28, 2012

12 Noon 
Friday, September 28, 2012
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy and Photonics"
David Cooke
McGill University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

1:00PM 
Friday, Sep 28, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Finite-size scaling analysis of ETH in Lieb-Liniger gas and related 
studies"
Tatsuhiko Ikeda, 
Ueda group, University of Tokyo 
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

3:00 p.m.
September 28
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Turbulent transport and heating of trace heavy ions in hot, magnetized 
plasmas"
Felix I. Parra
MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering

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Thank You,

Gisele Byda
Boston College
(617) 552-3575