BAPC Announcements: Week of - 12/10 - 14/12

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

December 10 - 14, 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 10, 2012

2:00 pm
Monday, December 10, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"AdS Field Theory from Conformal Field Theory"
Liam Fitzpatrick, Stanford
Refreshments served.

4:15 PM
Monday, December 10, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Everything Flows"
Gunther Roland
Refreshments served at 3:45 PM
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

2:00 pm
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"The density-response function and related physics: Neutral electronic 
excitations and downfolded Hamiltonians for complex transition-metal 
oxides"
Adolfo G. Eguiluz 
University of Tennessee
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

3:30 PM 
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Unifying Theory for Universal Quake Statics: from Compressed Nanopillars 
to Earthquakes"
Karin Dahmen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

4 p.m.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--
Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Black Holes, Jets, and Gamma Rays in Active Galactic Nuclei"
Alan Marscher
Boston University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

12:00 PM
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Harvard University
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences/Department of Earth and 
Planetary Sciences
Solid Earth Physics Seminar
Hoffman 4th Floor Faculty Lounge
20 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138
"Ab Initio Lower Mantle Model"
Taku Tsuchiya
Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Japan

2 PM 
Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Avalanches, Disorder, and Universality in Condensed Matter"
Karin Dahmen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2:00 pm
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Inhomogeneous Holography"
Moshe Rozali, UBC, Vancouver
Refreshments served.

4 pm
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"IceCube-DeepCore-PINGU: Neutrino Physics at the South Pole"
Jason Koskinen
Penn State

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

4 p.m.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 126
TBA
Christian Santangelo
UMass Amherst

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Friday, December 14, 2012

none

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Thank You,