CORRECTION: BAPC Announcements: Week of - 10/29 - 11/2/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

October 29 - November 2, 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 29, 2012

2:00 pm
Monday, October 29, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"The Physics of Continuous-Spin Particles: An Introduction"
Philip Schuster
Perimeter Institute
Refreshments served.

4:15 PM
Monday, October 29, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS 
Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Gluonic Excitations in QCD"
Jozef Dudek
Old Dominion University & Jefferson Lab
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Role of Gauge Symmetries in the Discovery of Novel States of 
Condensed Matter"
Juerg Froehlich
ETH, Zurich
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

12:00 PM
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS 
Lunchtime Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "TBA"
Justin Stevens
MIT
Pizza lunch is provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/lunchtime.html

1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Special Seminar
Science Center 507
"What is it that is confusing about Quantum Mechanics?"
Juerg Froehlich
ETH-Honggerberg, Switzerland
If you have any questions about this notice, please contact me, Barbara 
Drauschke, at 617-495-4320

2:00 pm
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"TBA"
Kirill Shtengel
University of California, Riverside
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

2pm
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Northeastern University
CIRCS Sponsored Talk
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"Neurons in Networks: Stochastic Dynamics, Synchronization, Oscillations 
and Waves"
Vincent Hakim
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Refreshments served at event

2:30 pm
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"An extension of the inflationary scenario to the Planck regime"
Abhay Ashtekar
Pennsylvania State
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Two-Slit Diffraction with Highly Charged Particles: Niels Bohr's 
Consistency Argument that the Electromagnetic Field Must Be Quantized"
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne Refreshments served at 3 PM in 
1st floor lounge

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

1:00PM
Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Experimental characterization of interactions in biological networks: 
From genes to ecosystems"
Alvaro Sanchez
MIT
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 PM
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Landau criterion for superfluidity is neither necessary nor 
sufficient"
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne 

2:00 pm
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Exploring the Moduli Space of Heterotic Standard Models"
Lara Anderson
Harvard
Refreshments served.

4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"TBA"
Joseph G. Tischler
Naval Research Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230 
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:00 P.M.
Wednesday, October 31 , 2012
UMass Lowell
Physics colloquia
OH218
"Nanoparticle enhanced radiotherapy of cancer"
Piotr Zygmanski
Harvard  Medical School and Brigham and Womens Hospital refreshments 
3:30P.M.

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 
"Inflationary Cosmology, the Origin of Density Perturbations, and the Door 
to the Multiverse"
Alan Guth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Special Physics Seminar
Brown University Physics Department
Barus & Holley - Room 190
182 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02912
"Science and a Journey of Extremes"
Francis Slakey
Associate Director of Public Affairs for the APS

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Friday, November 2, 2012

10:00AM (NOTE: FRIDAY, UNUSUAL DAY, UNUSUAL TIME) Friday, Nov 2, 2012 
University of Massachusetts Boston Physics colloquium series Science 
building, room 3-126 "Fusion Power: The Best Renewable Energy of All!"
Francis F. Chen
UCLA
Refreshments served at 9:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

12 Noon
Friday, November 2, 2012
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Neuronal Dynamics of Attentional Control: Switching and Decision Making"
Mikhail Rabinovich
University of California, San Diego
Pizza served at 11:45 AM 

2:00 PM
Friday, November 2, 2012
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington Mall, Room 595
"TBA"
David Shih
Rutgers University 

2:00 pm
Friday, November 2, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Quantum Information Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Algebraic information theory"
Keye Martin
Naval Research Laboratory
Refreshments served.

3:00 PM 
Friday, November 2, 2012
Tufts University
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue, Medford
Robinson Hall, Room 253
"The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time"
Sean Carroll
Caltech
Refreshments will be served at 2:30pm in The Knipp Library, Room 251.

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Thank You,