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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 2/18 - 22/13



February 18 - 22, 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 18, 2012

 

none

 


 

Tuesday, February 19, 2012

 

2:00 pm

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 (note different day due to holiday)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

“Two Tales of Composite Dark Matter"

Ethan Neil

Fermilab

Refreshments served.

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"Unwinding Inflation"

Matt Kleban

NYU

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

3:30pm

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids"

Amir Yacoby

Harvard University

Refreshments served at 3 pm in 1st floor lounge

 


 

Wednesday, February 20, 2012

 

3:00 PM

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Northeastern University

Physic Department - Colloquium

Center for Complex Network Research

114 Dana Research Center

"TBA"

Elizabeth A. Leicht

University of Oxford, UK

*110 Forsyth Street (108 Forsyth GPS), Boston, MA 02115

http://www.northeastern.edu/physics/news-events/colloquia-and-seminars/

 

4:00pm

Wednesday, February 20

Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell

colloquium

Olney Science Center Room 218

"Early Science Results From the NASA Van Allen Probes Mission RBSP-ECT Instrument Suite"

Harlan Spence

University of New Hampshire

3:30 refreshments

 

4:30 pm

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)

Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar Jefferson 250

“Quantum back-action in recent cavity-optomechanics experiments”

Oskar Painter

Caltech

Tea served at 4:00 after short student talk by Mike Burek.

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

 


 

Thursday, February 21, 2012

 

4:00 pm

Thursday, February 21 , 2013

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar

Abelson 229

"How to move: The dynamics and kinematics of swimming"

Lisa Burton

MIT

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

“Physicists and Nuclear Arms Control: Still Plenty of Work to be Done”

Frank von Hippel

Princeton University

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

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

 

4:00pm

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

Dana Research Center Room 114

“The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene”

Pablo Jarillo-Hererro

MIT

Refreshments served at event.

 


 

Friday, February 22, 2012

 

2:00 pm

Friday, February 22, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Quantum Information Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

“Why quantum computers cannot work, and how"

Gil Kalai

Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Yale University

Refreshments served.

 

2:00PM

Friday, Feb 22, 2013

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

"Cascading failures of interdependent networks"

Sergey Buldyrev

Yeshiva University

Refreshments served at 1:45

Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

 

3:00 PM

Friday, February 22, 2013

Northeastern University

Physic Department - Colloquium

Center for Complex Network Research

114 Dana Research Center

"Universal properties of citation distributions"

Filippo Radicchi

University Rovira i Virgili, Spain

*110 Forsyth Street (108 Forsyth GPS), Boston, MA 02115

http://www.northeastern.edu/physics/news-events/colloquia-and-seminars/

 

3:00 PM

Friday, February 22, 2013

Northeastern University

Physic Department - Colloquium

Center for Complex Network Research

114 Dana Research Center

"Physics and geometry of large networks"

Dimitri Krioukuv

Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)

University of California San Diego (UCSD)

*110 Forsyth Street (108 Forsyth GPS), Boston, MA 02115

http://www.northeastern.edu/physics/news-events/colloquia-and-seminars/

 

3:00 PM

Friday, February 22, 2013

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“Self-Perpetuating Spiral Arms in Disk Galaxies”

Elena D’Onghia

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

 

3:00 p.m.

February 22

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

“CO2 laser diagnostics and transport study in Large Helical Device”

Kenji Tanaka

NIFS, Japan

 


 

 

 

Thank You,

 

Gisele Byda

Boston College - Physics

617) 552-3575