BAPC Announcements: Week of - 12/03 - 07/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

December 3 - 7, 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, December 3, 2012

2:00 pm
Monday, December 3, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Recent evidence for Gamma-ray Line Emission from Fermi-LAT: A Closer 
Look."
Meng Su
MIT
Refreshments served.

4:15 p.m.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons"
Martin Weitz
Bonn University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 PM
Monday, December 3, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Neutrinos: What's New and Where Are We Going"
Professor Michael Shaevitz
Columbia University
Refreshments served at 3:45 PM
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

12:00 PM
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Electroweak processes in Nuclei"
Oscar Moreno Diaz 
MIT
Pizza lunch is provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/lunchtime.html

2:00 pm
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Polaronic transport and current blockades in epitaxial silicide nanowires 
and nanowire arrays"
Hanno H. Weitering
The University of Tennessee
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

2:30 pm
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Effective Field Theory in Inflation"
Mark Jackson
APC, University of Paris
Refreshments served at 2:00pm

3:30 PM
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"XENON Detector for Dark Matter"
Elena Aprile
Columbia University
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

5:00 pm
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Massachusetts General Hospital
2012 Collins Lecture
Ether Dome, Bulfinch Building
"The Discovery of the Higgs Boson...what does it all mean?"
Larry Sulak
Boston University
Gontact: George Chen gchen partners org

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

4:00 pm
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Spin dynamics and transport in nanoscale volumes"
Christopher Hammel 
Ohio State University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:00 PM
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Harvard University
HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar 
Jefferson Laboratory, 250 
"Quantum Networks"
Gerhard Rempe
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

none

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Friday, December 7, 2012

2:00 pm
Friday, December 7, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Quantum Information Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Algebraic information theory"
Keye Martin
NRL

2:00 PM
Friday, December 7th, 2012
Harvard University, Institute of Theoretical Atomic, 
Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Chemistry and Chemical 
Biology ITAMP/CCB Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar 
Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford Street 
"Anatomy of competing quantum effects in liquid water"
Marivi Fernandez-Serra
Department of Chemistry, SUNY- Stony Brook 
Refreshments served at 1:45 PM

3:00 p.m.
December 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Progress and plans for NSTX Upgrade"
Jon Menard
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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Thank You,