BAPC Announcements: Week of - 11/05 - 09/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

November 5 - 9, 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, November 5, 2012

2:00 pm
Monday, November 5, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Hadronic contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment from lattice 
QCD"
Thomas Blum
University of Connecticut
Refreshments served.

4:15 PM
Monday, November 5, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at CDF"
Bodhitha Jaytilaka
Duke University
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"PT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics"
Carl M. Bender
Washington University in St. Louis
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu 

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

2:00 pm
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"The strange case of YBAl"
Piers Coleman 
Rutgers University
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

2:30 pm
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"The Static Quantum Multiverse and Emergent Time in Our Universe"
Yasunori Nomura
UC, Berkeley, MIT-CTP
Refreshments served at 2:00pm

3:30 PM 
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Graphene Mechanical Wonders"
J. Scott Bunch
University of Colorado
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

1:00PM 
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Reaching beond Plasmonics: Hybrid Optoplasmonic Structures through 
Template-Assisted Self-Assembly"
Bjoern Reinhard
Boston U
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00 pm
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Entanglement Entropy and RG Flow"
Tatsuma Nishioka, Princeton
Refreshments served.

2 PM 
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Mobile impurities in quantum systems"
Thierry Giamarchi
University of Geneva

4 pm
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"Precision Measurement of the W Boson Mass at CDF"
Bo Jayatilaka
Duke University

4pm
Wednesday, November 07 , 2012
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 126
"Flagella-like beating of connected, self-propelled, Brownian particles"
Raghunath Chelakkot
Brandeis University

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

2:00 pm
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Doping-evolution of spin excitations in single-layer cuprate high-Tc 
superconductors"
Masaki Fujita 
Tohoku University, Japan
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Order through Disorder: Entropy Driven Self-Assembly"
Zvonimir Dogic
Brandeis University
Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, November 9, 2012

2:00 pm
Friday, November 9, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Quantum Information Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Symmetric Garden Hose Constructions"
Mario Szegedy
Rutgers University

3:00 p.m.
November 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"LHCD systems at IPR and recent developments"
Pramod Sharma
Institute for Plasma Research, India

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Thank You,