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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 10/22 - 26/12
October 22 - 26, 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 22, 2012
11:00 am
Monday, October 22, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Detecting WIMPs using molecular biology methods"
Andrzej K. Drukier
BioTraces, Inc.
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/
2:00 pm
Monday, October 22, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"The Higgs Cross Section with a Jet Veto"
Jonathan Walsh, LBL
Refreshments served.
4:15 PM
Monday, October 22, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Nuclear and Particle Physics Using Cold Neutrons"
Nadia Fomin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
9:00am to 4:30pm - Tuesday, October 23, 2012
9:00am to 5:00pm Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Einstein Fellowship Symposium
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St, Cambridge
Einstein Fellows will present highlights of their recent work on X-ray
related topics such as black holes, X-ray binaries, supernovae, star
clusters, AGN, and galaxy clusters.
The detailed program and list of Speakers can be found at:
http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2012.html
Light refreshments will be available.
12:00 PM
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Recent MiniBooNE Results and the Status of Sterile Neutrinos"
Christina Ignarra
MIT
Pizza lunch is provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/lunchtime.html
2:00 pm
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates"
Gang Cao
University of Kentucky
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/
2 pm
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"Exploring Majorana landscape: the NEXT generation"
Juan Jose Gomez-Cadenas
IFIC, U. Valencia
2:30 pm
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Many Worlds. the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty"
Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 2:00pm
3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Using Graphene to Study Superconductivity (New Tricks for an Old Dog)"
Nadya Mason
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Refreshments served at 3:00 PM in 1st floor lounge
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
9:00am to 4:30pm - Tuesday, October 23, 2012
9:00am to 5:00pm Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Einstein Fellowship Symposium
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St, Cambridge
Einstein Fellows will present highlights of their recent work on X-ray
related topics such as black holes, X-ray binaries, supernovae, star
clusters, AGN, and galaxy clusters.
The detailed program and list of Speakers can be found at:
http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2012.html
Light refreshments will be available.
12 Noon
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Phase Transition between A and B forms of DNA"
Devashish Sanyal
Gandhi Engineering College, Bhubaneswar, India
12:00 pm NOTE: SPECIAL TIME
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and
Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Jefferson 250
"Precision metrology and many-body quantum physics"
Jun Ye
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of
Colorado Boulder
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html
12:00 - 1:00 PM
October 24, 2012
Harvard University
Special Event - ITAMP/HQOC Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Jefferson 250
"Clocks, Molecules, and/or Many-body Physics"
Jun Ye
JILA, University of Colorado
Light Refreshments will be served.
1:00PM
Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Quantifying Waddington's Landscape: Modeling the gene networks that
underlie cellular identity"
Pankaj Mehta
Boston U
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu
2:00 PM
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Toward a unified description of spin incoherent behavior at zero and
finite temperatures"
Adrian Feiguin
Northeastern University
2:00 pm
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
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Jaume Gomis
Perimeter Institute
Refreshments served.
3:00 p.m.
October 24
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Experience on tokamak operation with all-metal walls and their limits"
Jan Coenen
JET
4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Materials Morphogenesis"
Seth Fraden
Brandeis University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/
4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and
Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Jefferson 250
"Precision metrology and many-body quantum physics"
Jun Ye
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of
Colorado Boulder
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html
4:00 P.M.
Wednesday October 24 , 2012
UMass Lowell
Physics colloquia OH218
"Structured light in nanostructured materials"
Natalia M. Litchinitser
University at Buffalo
refreshments 3:30P.M.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Brave Nu World"
André de Gouvêa
Northwestern University
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
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Friday, October 26, 2012
12 Noon
Friday, October 26, 2012
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Survival of the Weakest? Lesson from studies of four or more competing
species"
Royce Zia
Virginia Tech
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
2:00 pm
Friday, October 26, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Quantum Information Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"General Principles of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation"
Daniel Gottesman
Perimeter Institute
3:OO PM
Friday, October 26, 2012
Tufts University
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue, Medford
Robinson Hall, Room 253
"New Physics from Flavor"
Sheldon Stone
Syracuse University
Refreshments will be served at 2:30 in The Knipp Library, Room 251
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Thank You,