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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 11/12 - 16/12



November 12 - 16, 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

 


 

Monday, November 12, 2012

 

none

 


 

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Searching for new physics with neutrinos"

Joshua Spitz

MIT

Pizza lunch is provided

http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/lunchtime.html

 

1:30pm

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar

Abelson 307

“Mirror symmetry of determinantal quintics in P4”

Shinobu Hosono

University of Tokyo

 

2:00 pm

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Boston College

Physics Seminar

Higgins 235

"Phonon Scattering in Thermoelectric Materials"

Olivier Delaire

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"From AdS to dS Through the Quantum State of the Universe"

Jim Hartle

Santa Barbara

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Brandeis University

Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131

“Interactions, directed assembly and transformations of colloids using DNA handshaking”

John Crocker

University of Pennsylvania

Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

 


 

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

 

1:00PM

Wednesday, Nov 14, 2012

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

"Low Temperature Properties of Metals and Semiconductors in High Magnetic Fields: New Relativistic Quantum Effects"

Ayo Awobode

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Refreshments served at 12:45

Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

 

2:00 pm

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Joint Harvard/MIT Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-44

“Complementarity vs. Firewalls:  Are there surprising quantum effects near black holes?"

Donald Marolf

UCSB

Refreshments served.

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Boston College

Physics Colloquium

Higgins 310

"Origin of Rigidity of granular solids"

Bulbul Chakraborty

Brandeis University

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

 

4:00 P.M.

Wednesday November 14, 2012

UMass Lowell

Physics colloquia

OH218

“Resonance superfluidity in ultra-cold atomic gases”

John Dawson

University of New Hampshire

refreshments 3:30P.M.

 

4:00 PM Wednesday, November 14, 2013

Harvard University

HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar

Jefferson 250

"Molecules as Quantum Processors: Ultrafast quantum process tomography to study excitonic coherence in molecule systems"

Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Student presentation starts at 4:00 PM, Refreshments served at 4:10 PM.

 

4:15 pm

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Clark University

Active Matter Group Colloquium

“What we do and what we say: Observing faculty practice through multiple research lenses”

Scott Franklin

Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology

http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/news/colloquium.cfm

 


 

Thursday, November 15, 2012

 

2:00 pm

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Boston College

Physics Seminar

Higgins 235

"Differential Fluid Mechanics:  From “Diffusion Fish” to Sound Emission in Drop Impact"

Yuli D. Chashechkin

Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Science

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

 

4:00pm

Thursday, November 15 , 2012

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar

Abelson 126

“Atypical growth behavior of DNA multilayer thin films”

Raymond Samuel

Hampton University

 

4:00 pm

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

Dana Research Center, Room 113

“Lessons from Nature on Molecular Engineering”

Gevorg Grigoryan

Dartmouth College

Refreshments served at event.

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

“Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors”

Timothy Swager

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Refreshments @ 3:30PM in 4-349

http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 


 

Friday, November 16, 2012

 

12 Noon

Friday, November 16, 2012

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Nonlinear Optical Probing of Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics"

Venkatraman Gopalan

The Pennsylvania State University

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

3:00 p.m.

November 16

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

"Progress in the characterization of the pedestal structure, stability, and fluctuations during ELM cycle"

Ahmed Diallo

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

 


 

Thank You,

 

Gisele Byda

Boston College - Physics

617) 552-3575