BAPC Announcements: Week of - 10/01 - 05/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

October 1 - 5, 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, October 1, 2012

2:00 pm
Monday, October 1, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Next-to-Leading Order Vector+Jets at the LHC"
David Kosower, CEA, France
Refreshments served.

3:00 PM
Monday October 1, 2012
Boston University
Physics Research Building, Room PRB 595
3 Cummington Street, Boston
Particle Physics Seminar
"The New Experiment for Very Rare Kaon Decay (K->pi nu nu) at CERN"
Augusto Ceccucci
Spokesman NA62, CERN
Call Winna at 617 353 9320 for parking.

4:15 p.m.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Oscillations as a Tool to Crack the Mystery of Unconventional 
Superconductivity"
Suchitra Sebastian
Cambridge University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 PM
Monday, October 1, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
96 Laboratory for Nuclear Science 
Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 
"The LHC Confronts Supersymmetry"
Professor JoAnne Hewett
SLAC
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

2:30 pm
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"On`Nothing"
Alex Dahlen
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments served at 2:00pm

3:30 PM 
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"When the Beat Goes Off"
Holger Hennig
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

4pm
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Fundamental Aspects of Catalyst Design for Renewable Energy Applications"
Christine Thomas
Brandeis University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

1:00PM 
Wednesday, Oct 03, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Quantum Simulation with Superconducting Circuits"
Sara Mostame, Harvard U
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 pm
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Bose-Fermi duality and entanglement entropies"
Matthew Headrick
Brandeis
Refreshments served.

4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Resonant spin excitations in Iron Arsenide superconductors"
Stephan Rosenkranz 
Argonne National Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:15 pm
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Clark University 
Department of Physics - Colloquium
"Network Analysis of Patent Citations"
Jan Tobochnik
Kalamazoo College and Boston University
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/news/colloquium.cfm 
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Thursday, October 4, 2012

4pm
Thursday October 4, 2012
Brandeis Unversity
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 126
"Trapped at the surface: How a flagellated bacterium probes molecular 
absorption and viscosity at the air-liquid interface"
Jay Tang
Brown University
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Friday, October 5, 2012

10:30 a.m.
October 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"ITER Challenges"
Steven Lisgo
ITER

12 Noon 
Friday, October 5, 2012 
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
TBA
Mark Stockman
Georgia State University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM


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