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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 4/1 - 5/13



April 1 - 5, 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, April 1, 2013

2:00pm
Monday, April 1, 2013
Northeastern University
Center for Complex Network Research Seminar 5th floor Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
"Quantified Curiosity"
Amy Robinson
Creative Director, Eyewire
The Seung Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:00 pm
Monday, April 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Discrete R Symmetries and Anomalies"
Michael Dine
University of California Santa Cruz
Refreshments served.

4:15 PM
Monday, April 1, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Nuclear and  Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"TBA"
Kazuhiro Terao
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html

4:15 p.m.
Monday, April 01, 2013
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Why Are Neutrinos So Light?"
Carter Hall
University of Maryland
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu 

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

12:00 PM
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Next Generation Scintillation Detectors: Neutrinos and Nanotechnology"
Lindley Winslow
UCLA
Lunch will be provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/lunchtime.html

2:00 pm
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Surface-Bound Molecular Film Structure Effects on Electronic and Magnetic 
Properties."
Alex Pronschinske 
North Carolina State University
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

3:30 PM 
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Jamming"
Andrea Liu
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555  
Department of Physics
Brown University
"Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity"
David Skinner
IAS and Cambridge U

4:15 PM
Tuesday, April 2, 2013  
Harvard University
Particle Seminar 
Jefferson Lab, 453
"The Top-Quark Charge Asymmetry with a Jet Handle"
Susanne Westhoff
Mainz
Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, 
at 4:00.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

2:30pm
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555  
Department of Physics
Brown University
"One symmetry to rule them all"
Arjun Bagchi
MIT

3:00 pm
Wednesday, April 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity"
David Skinner
IAS
Refreshments served.

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Polariton Condensation"
Peter B. Littlewood 
Argonne National Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/ 

4:30 pm
Wednesday, April 3 , 2013
Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and 
Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC) Joint 
Quantum Sciences Seminar Jefferson 250 "Shining a (bright) light on the 
very small"
Romain Quidant
IFCO
Tea served at 4:00 after short student talk.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

2:00pm
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Joint Network Seminar
Northeastern University
Center for Complex Network Research Seminar 5th floor Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
"Resilience: Measurement Framework and Applications"
Risk and Decision Science Focus Area Lead US Army Engineer Research and 
Development Center Adjunct Professor of Engineering and Public Policy 
Carnegie Mellon University

4:00 PM
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center RM 114
Shedding New Light on the High-Tc Electronic Infrastructure
Ruihua He
Boston College
Refreshments served at event.

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Mysteries of Mass Unveiled?"
Markus Klute
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

4:15 PM 
Thursday, April 4, 2013  
Harvard University
String Duality Seminar 
Jefferson Lab, 453
"The black hole information paradox"
Samir Mathur
Ohio State
Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, 
at 4:00.

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Friday, April 5, 2013

2:00PM 
Friday, April 5, 2013 
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
TBA
Yanou Cui
University of Maryland 

2:00PM
Fri, Apr 5, 2013
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"From Scale Invariant Theories to Quantum Gravity in Curved Space"
Emanuel Katz
Boston U
Refreshments served at 1:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

3:00 PM
Friday, April 5, 2013
Tufts University
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue, Medford
Robinson Hall, Room 253
"Galaxy Mergers through Cosmic Time"
Jennifer Lotz
Space Telescope Science Institute
Refreshments will be served at 2:30 PM in the Knipp Library, Robinson 251.

April 5:
3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Progress in the characterization of the pedestal structure, stability, 
and fluctuations during ELM cycle"
Ahmed Diallo
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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Thank You,