BAPC Announcements: Week of - 3/4 - 8/13

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

March 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


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Monday, March 4, 2012

11:00am
Monday, March 4
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Curiosities and Coincidences in Black Hole Physics"
Alejandro Castro
Harvard University

2:00 pm
Monday, March 4, 2013 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
``Compact supersymmetry in (N)MSSM"
Kohsaku Tabioka, UC Berkeley
Refreshments served.

4:15 p.m.
Monday, March 04, 2013
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"Physics and Presidential Politics: The Role of Data on the Obama Campaign"
Michelangelo D'Agostino
Braintree Payments Company
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 PM
Monday, March 4, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Gravitational Wave Detection with Advanced LIGO"
Matthew Evans
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html

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Tuesday, March 5, 2012

11:00am
Tuesday, March 5
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"The F-theorem and monopole operators in 3d CFTs"
Silviu Pufu
MIT

12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Big Bang Nucleosynthesis in the Laboratory"
June Matthews
MIT
Pizza Lunch provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/new/lunchtime.html

2:30 pm 
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Detecting Cosmic Superstrings"
David Chernoff
Cornell
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 PM 
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality?"
Bill Bialek
Princeton University
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00pm
Tuesday, March 5
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene"
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
MIT
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

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Wednesday, March 6, 2012

2:00PM 
Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
Jifeng Liu, Dartmouth College
"Lighting up the Way of Energy Sustainability"
Refreshments served at 1:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:30p.m.
Wednesday,  6 March 2013
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555  
Department of Physics
Brown University
"The Integrable Bootstrap Program at Large N and its Applications to Gauge 
Theory"
Dr. Axel Cortes
CUNY

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Thursday, March 7, 2012

11:00am
Thursday, March 7
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
TBA
Andrew Waldron
UC Davis

4:00pm
Thursday, March 7
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
TBA
Sukho Park
Chonnam National University, Korea

4:00 pm
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Physics Colloquium
MIT Department of Physics
Room 10-250 
"Morphogenetic Functions of Actomyosin"
Stephan W. Grill
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in 4-349 (The Pappalardo Community Room)

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Bringing Toy Models to Reality: Graphene and Quantum Magnetism"
Tilman Esslinger
ETH Zürich
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

4:15PM
Thursday, March 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard University
Center of Theoretical Physics
Joint Theory Seminar
Harvard, Jefferson Lab, 453
"Closed strings and non-commutative/non-associative geometry"
Dieter Luest, Max Planck Institute, Munich
Refreshments served in coffee area 4th floor Jefferson

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Friday, March 8, 2012

3:00 PM
Friday, March 8, 2013
Tufts University
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue, Medford
Robinson Hall, Room 253
"DNA folding in cells"
Jané Kondev
Department of Physics, Brandeis University
Refreshments will be served at 2:30 pm in the Knipp Library Robinson 251

3:00 p.m.
March 8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Terahertz Gyrotrons"
Sudheer Jawla
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

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Thank You,