BAPC Announcements: Week of - 3/11 - 15/13

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

March 11 - 15, 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 11, 2013

2:00 pm
Monday, March 11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Power Corrections and Event shapes: Roadmap to Precision Physics"
Vicent Mateu
University of  Valencia
Refreshments served.

4:15 PM
Monday, March 11, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Searching for Dark Matter and other New Physics at Millikelvin 
Temperatures"
Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

11am
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Geometry of the 2-d renormalization group"
Daniel Friedan
Rutgers University

12:00 PM
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Effective Theory for Quark-Hadron Phase Transition"
Tetsuo Matsui
Kinki University
Pizza Lunch provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/new/lunchtime.html

2:30pm
Tuesday, March 12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Quantum Excitations in Time-Dependent Backgrounds"
Tanmay Vachaspati
Arizona State University
Refreshments served.

3:00 pm
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Boston College
Joint Biology & Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Prediction of RNA structures with pseudoknots"
Henri Orland 
Institut de Physique Théorique, Saclay, France
Refreshments served at 4:00 pm, Higgins Hall 345
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

4pm
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner/DOE Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"From gluons to gravitons: a panoramic view of long distance behaviour"
Chris White
University of Glasgow
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

2:00PM 
Wednesday, Mar 13, 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 1:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:30 pm 
13 March 2013
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555  
Department of Physics
Brown University
"Black Holes without Firewalls"
David Lowe
Brown University

3:00 pm
Wednesday, March 13
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"A Landscape of Boundary String Field Theory"
Koji Hashimoto
Osaka University
Refreshments served.

4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Boston College
Joint Biology & Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Transition Paths in Protein Folding"
Henri Orland 
Institut de Physique Théorique, Saclay, France
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

4:00 PM
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center RM 114
"Smashing Atoms for Medicine"
Ron Moore
Massachusetts General Hospital
Refreshments served at event.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

1:30 pm
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Northeastern University
Center for Complex Network Research Seminar
5th floor Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
"Dependency network and node influence: overview and applications"
Dror Y. Kenett
Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Center for Polymer Studies 
Department of Physics, Boston University
Refreshments served at 1pm

4:00 PM
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center RM 114
"Aggregated Yet Disordered: The Liquid State of (Elastomeric) Proteins"
Regis Pomes
University of Toronto, Department of Biochemistry
Senior Scientist, Molecular Structure and Function, Hospital for Sick 
Children
Refreshments served at event.

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Friday, March 15, 2013

3:00 p.m.
March 15
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Plasma edge imaging by means of electron cyclotron emission imaging"
Benjamin Tobias
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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Thank You,