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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 10/15 - 19/12



October 15 - 19, 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 15, 2012

9:00am - 5:30pm
Monday, October 15
The Center for Philosophy & History of Science and the Center for Einstein 
Studies at Boston University invite you to attend the upcoming colloquium:
40th Anniversary of the First Osgood Hill Conference on Quantum Gravity
Barristers Hall, Law School
765 Commonwealth Ave
9:00am-12:00pm
1. "Introduction: Forty Years After"
John Stachel 
Boston University
2. With a special pre-recorded presentation:
"Quantum Gravity? Or Quantum and Gravity from New Physics?"
Roger Penrose 
University of Oxford 
3. "The Meaning of Background Independence"
Tian Yu Cao 
Boston University
4. "Quantum or Emergent Gravity?-Key Issues"
Bei-Lok Hu
University of Maryland
5. "Simplicial Gravity and Strings"
John Swain 
Northeastern University 
2:00pm-5:30pm
1. "Some Features of a Good Quantum Gravity Theory"
George Ellis 
University of Capetown
2. "The Problem of Space in Quantum Gravity"
Christian Wüthrich 
UC San Diego
3. "Quantum Gravity Phenomenology"
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia 
University of Rome La Sapienza
4. "Meaning and Measurement in Quantum Gravity"
John Stachel 
Boston University
5. "Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity"
Kaća Bradonjić 
Wellesley College
Attendance is free, and no registration is required. See 
http://www.bu.edu/cphs.

11:00am (note unusual day and time)
Monday, October 15, 2012
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
TBA
Alessandro Tomasiello (Milan)

2:00 pm
Monday, October 15, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"The effective field theory approach to gravitational dynamics: from black 
holes to cosmology"
Rafael Porto, IAS
Refreshments served.
 
4pm
Monday, October 15, 2012
Northeastern University
High Energy Seminar
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"Space, Time, Matter: from Einstein, Weyl and Pauli to Superstrings"
Gabriele Veneziano
College de France/CERN/New York University
Refreshments served at event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Veneziano

4:00 pm
Monday, October 15, 2012
Northeastern University
Department of Physics
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Space, Time, Matter: from Einstein, Weyl and Pauli to Superstrings"
Gabriele Veneziano
College de France

4:15 p.m.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"How Teaching Earth, Astronomy, and Space Science can Reshape Our Nation's 
Understanding of the Role of Science in Society"
Edward E. Prather
University of Arizona
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 PM
Monday, October 15, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"The Top Quark as a Window to New Physics at ATLAS"
Tobias Golling
Yale University
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

12:00 PM
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"TBA"
Elliot Lipeles
University of Pennsylvania
Pizza lunch is provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/lunchtime.html

2:00 pm
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Quantum Transport and Optoelectronics in Graphene on hBN devices"
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served.
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

2pm
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Northeastern University
CIRCS Sponsored Talk
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"Effect of the Electrostatic Interactions on Friction and Lubrication in 
Polymeric and Biological Systems"
Andrey Dobrynin
University of Connecticut
Refreshments served at event

2:30 pm
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"The Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Structure Formation"
Mark Hertzberg
MIT
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Theoretical Physics in Cellular Biology: Some Illustrative Case Studies"
Curtis Callan
Princeton University
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00pm
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 131
Lecture I: "Integrable Systems, Operator Determinants and Probabilistic 
Models"
Craig A. Tracy
University of California at Davis
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

1:00PM
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"One-dimensional physics" (Part II 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 17, 2012 
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Universally slow: Aging in glassy systems"
Dr. Ariel Amir
Harvard University

2:00 pm
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity  Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Warped Conformal Field Theory "
Tom Hartman
IAS
Refreshments served.

4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
TBA
Karen Hallberg 
Centro Atomico Bariloche, Instituto Balseiro
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday October 17 , 2012
UMass Lowell
Physics colloquia
OH218
"Standoff-off radiation detection"
Bernard Phlips
Naval Research Laboratory
refreshments 3:30P.M.

4:00pm
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 131
Lecture II: "Integrable Systems, Operator Determinants and Probabilistic 
Models"
Craig A. Tracy 
University of California at Davis
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

4:15 pm
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
"Levitation by Casimir forces in and out of equilibrium"
Mehran Kardar
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/news/colloquium.cfm

4:30 pm
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and 
Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Jefferson 250
"Ultracold Atomic Fermions in Optical Lattices"
Randall Hulet
Rice University
Tea served at 4:00 after short talk "Imaging and Manipulating a Bilayer 
Quantum Gas" by Philip Preiss, Greiner Lab.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html 

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Pollution of the Early Universe by the First Stars and Galaxies"
Robert Simcoe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

4:30pm
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 131
Lecture III: "Integrable Systems, Operator Determinants and Probabilistic 
Models"
Craig A. Tracy 
University of California at Davis

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Friday, October 19, 2012

1:30 pm
Friday, October 19, 2012
Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and 
Optical Physics (ITAMP) 
Special ITAMP Colloquium
Harvard Physics Department, Jefferson 250
"VIRTUAL PHOTONS: From Lamb's shift and Unruh's radiation to superradiance 
and solar cells"
Marlan O. Scully
Texas A&M University 
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html

2:00 pm
Friday, October 19, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Quantum Information Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Entanglement and atomic clocks below the standard quantum limit "
Vladan Vuletic
MIT

3:00 p.m.
October 19
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Physics-based real-time estimation of tokamak plasma profiles"
Federico Felici
Eindhoven University of Technology

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Thank You,