BAPC Announcements: Week of - 10/08 - 12/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

October 8 - 12, 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 8, 2012

none

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

2:00 pm
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Forging a Theory of Iron-based Superconductors"
Peter Hirschfeld
University of Florida
Refreshments served
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:00 pm
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Northeastern University
Department of Physics
High Energy Theory Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
"Worldsheet T-duality and Massive States in Closed String Theory"
Jnan Maharana
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

10:00 am
Tuesday, October 10, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Probing and Manipulating the Surface of Topological Insulators"
Kenneth Burch
University of Toronto
Refreshments served
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

1:00PM
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"One-dimensional physics" (Part I of a two-lecture miniseries) 
Thierry Giamarchi
U of Geneva 
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00 pm
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"The Higher Spin/Vector Model Duality"
Xi Yin
Harvard
Refreshments served.

4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Excitons and Photoluminescence in Quantum Hall Systems"
John J. Quinn 
University of Tennessee
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4 pm
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"Dark Matter in the Black Hills"
Simon Fiorucci
Brown University

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"At a Physics/InfoSci Intersection"
Paul Ginsparg 
Cornell University
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, October 12, 2012

12 Noon 
Friday, October 12, 2012 
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Scotch Tape and Spectroscopy: an excellent combination for Topological 
Insulators"
Ken Burch
University of Toronto
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

2:00 PM
Friday, October 12, 2012
Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and 
Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Chemistry & Chemical Biology 
ITAMP/CCB Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar 
Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford Street 
"Quantum control of open quantum systems: from dissipation-protected to 
dissipation-driven quantum dynamics"
Lorenza Viola
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College 
Refreshments served at 1:45

3:00 PM
Friday, October 12, 2012
Tufts University
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue, Medford
Robinson Hall, Room 253
"The mysterious intertwined life-cycle of galaxies and their supermassive 
black holes"
Rachel Somerville
Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served at 2:30 in The Knipp Library, Robinson 251.

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Thank You,

Gisele Byda
Boston College 
(617) 552-3575