BAPC Announcements: Week of - 2/25 - 3/1/13

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

February 25 - March 1, 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

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Monday, February 25, 2012

2:00 pm
Monday, February 25
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Multi-Jet Resonances and New Color-Flow Variables"
David Curtin
Stonybrook
Refreshments served.

4:15 PM
Monday, February 25, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"TBA"
Andre Walk-Loud
LBNL
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html

4:15 p.m.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"Experimental Quantum Error Correction"
Raymond LaFlamme
Waterloo University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, February 26, 2012

11:00am
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Curiosities and Coincidences in Black Hole Physics"
Alejandra Castro
Harvard University

12:00 PM
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"The Event Horizon Telescope: Observing Black Holes with Schwarzschild 
Radius Resolution"
Shep Dolman
MIT
Pizza Lunch provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/new/lunchtime.html

2:30pm
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Probability Distributions for Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations"
Larry Ford
Tufts University
Refreshments served.

4:00pm
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The making of GeckskinTM: A story of accidental science"
Duncan J. Irschick
UMass Amherst

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Wednesday, February 27, 2012

3:00 pm
Wednesday, February 27
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Zero-temperature holographic phases with (un)broken U (1) symmetry"
Blaise Gouteraux
Norditka
Refreshments served.

4:00pm
Wednesday, February 27
Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell
colloquium
Olney Science Center Room 218
"Spectroscopy and imaging with terahertz quantum cascade lasers"
Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers
Technische Universität Berlin
3:30 refreshments

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Thursday, February 28, 2012

4:00pm
Thursday, February 28 , 2013
Brandeis University
Abelson 229
MRSEC Seminar
"Understanding chemical interactions at the bio-nanomaterial interface - 
progress towards the development of new materials"
Carole Perry
Nottingham Trent University

4:00pm
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center Room 114
"Graphene: A Physicist View of the "Wonder Material"
Eva Andrei
Rutgers University
Refreshments served at event.

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Restless Universe (Palomar Transient Factory)"
Shrinivas Kulkarni
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 8-329
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, March 1, 2012

11:00 a.m.
March 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Fully implicit particle-in-cell algorithms for kinetic plasma simulation"
Luis Chacon
Los Alamos National Laboratory

2:30 PM
Friday, 1, March 2013
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555  
Department of Physics
Brown University
"AdS/Ricci-flat Correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme iInstability"
Blaise Gouteraux
Royal Institute of Technology

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Thank You,