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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 2/4 - 8/13



 

February 4 – 8, 2013

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, February 4, 2012

 

11:00 AM

Monday, February 4, 2013

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

AMP Division Seminar

Phillips Auditorium

“Matter-wave clocks”

Holger Müller

UC Berkeley

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/amp/events.html

 

4:15 p.m.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250

“Connectomics: What, Why and How”

Jeffrey Lichtman

Harvard University

tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 


 

Tuesday, February 5, 2012

 

11:00am

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar

Abelson 307

"Quantum Computation vs. Firewalls"

Daniel Harlow

Princeton University

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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

 

3:00pm

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Northeastern University

Center for Complex Network Research Seminar

5th floor Dana Research Center

110 Forsyth Street

"Critical dynamics in balanced excitable networks: neuronal avalanches, dynamic range, and ceaseless activity"

Daniel B. Larremore

Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Department of Epidemiology

Harvard School of Public Health

 

3:30 PM

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Future Prospects for Nuclear Power after Fukushima"

Jacopo Buongiorno

MIT

Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Brandeis University

Martin Weiner Lecture Series - Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131

"The physical nature of cellular decision making"

Jane' Kondev

Brandeis University

 


 

Wednesday, February 6, 2012

 

2:00PM

Wednesday, Feb 6, 2013

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

"The energy cost of measurement is the work value of the acquired information"

Kurt Jacobs

UMass Boston

Refreshments served at 12:45

Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

 

4:15 pm

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Clark University

Department of Physics Colloquium

“Equilibrium and stability analysis of slender elastic rods”

Arnaud Lazarus

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT

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

4:30 pm

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic,

Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)

Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar

Jefferson 250

“Coherent Ising Machine based on Laser/OPO Network”

Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Stanford University

Tea served at 4:00 after short student talk.

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html

 


 

Thursday, February 7, 2012

 

3:00 p.m.

February 7

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

"Overcoming the Construction Challenges of the ITER Magnet"

N. Mitchell

ITER IO, St. Paul-lez-Durance

 

4:00pm

Thursday, February 07 , 2013

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar

"Repelling invasion: cell motility and the immune defenses"

Abelson 229

Ed Banigan

University of Pennsylvania

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 34, Room 101

“Variations on a theme of Aharonov and Bohm”

Michael Berry

Bristol University, UK

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

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

 


 

Friday, February 8, 2012

 

2 PM

Friday, February 8, 2013

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington St., Room 595

TBA

Andrew Larkoski

MIT

 

3:00 PM

Friday, February 8, 2013

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“DNA folding in cells”

Jane Kondev

Department of Physics, Brandeis University

Refreshments will be served at 2:30 pm in Knipp Library, Robinson 251

 


 

 

Thank You,

 

Gisele Byda

Boston College - Physics

617) 552-3575