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BAPC Announcements: Week of - 4/8 - 12/13



 

April 8 – 12, 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, April 8, 2013

 

1:30 PM

Monday, April 8, 2013

Tufts University

Condensed Matter Seminar

Science & Technology Center

4 Colby Street, Room 135

“Thin Structures in Motion”

James Hanna

Brown Bag Lunch – All Welcome – Coffee Provided

 

2:00 pm

Monday, April 8

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

“Atomic Quantum Simulation of Abelian and non-Abelian Gauge Theories"

Uwe-Jens Wiese

U. Bern/MIT

Refreshments served.

 

3:00 pm

Monday, April 8, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Colloquium

MIT 26-100

"First Results from the AMS Experiment on the International Space Station" and "AMS: The Astronauts' Story"

Andrei Kounine, MIT 

Col. E. Michael Fincke, NASA

Refreshments served at 2:30pm in 26-414 (The Kolker Room)

http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html

 

3:00-5:00 PM

Monday, April 8, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)

Special LNS Colloquium

26-100

"First results from the AMS Experiment on the International Space Station"

Andrei Kounine

MIT

and

“AMS: The Astronauts’ Story”

Astronaut Col. E. Michael Fincke

NASA

Refreshments served at 2:30 in 26-414

http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html

 

4:15 p.m.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Harvard University Joint Kavli Lecture/Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250

“Tissue Maintenance: A Laboratory for Statistical Physics”

Benjamin Simon

University of Cambridge

tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 


 

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

 

11:00am

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar

Abelson 307

"On the Beaming of Gluonic Fields at Strong Coupling"

César Agón

Brandeis University

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Models of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in the Harsh Light of LHC"

Michael Peskin

SLAC

Lunch is provided

http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/lunchtime.html

 

12:00 pm

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Lunchtime Seminar

MIT 26-414 (The Kolker Room)

"Models of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in the Harsh Light of LHC"

Michael Peskin

SLAC

Lunch provided.

http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/lunchtime.html

 

2:30pm

Tuesday, April 9

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

“Massive and Partially Massless Gravity?"

Andrew Waldron, UC, Davis

Refreshments served.

 

3:30 PM

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Flight of the Fruit Fly"

Itai Cohen

Cornell University

Refreshments served at 3:00 PM in first floor lounge

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Brandeis University

Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131

"Energy Critical Elements: More Precious than Gold"

Robert Jaffe

MIT

 

4:15 PM

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 

Harvard University

Particle Seminar

Jefferson Lab, 453

Title: TBD

Raphael Flauger

IAS/NYU

Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 4:00.

 


 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

 

2:00pm

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Brandeis University

IGERT Seminar

Abelson 126

"Renyi entropies as a measure of the complexity of counting problems"

Claudio Camon

Boston University

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, April 10

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

“Locality and Unitarity from Positivity"

Nima Arkani-Hamed, IAS

Refreshments served.

4:00pm

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar

Abelson 229

"Things Come Together: Experiments on Liquid Drop Coalescence"

Joseph Paulsen

University of Chicago

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Boston College

Physics Colloquium

Higgins 310

"TBA"

Abhay Pasupathy

Columbia University

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell

Colloquium

Olney Science Center Room 218

"Stellar explosions and the origins of the elements"

Jeffrey Blackmon

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

3:30 refreshments

 

4:00 PM

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

Harvard University, Institute of Theoretical Atomic,

Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology ITAMP/CCB Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar

Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford Street

"Individual Molecules Investigated by Scanning Probe Microscopy with Atomically Functionalized Tips"

Leo Gross

IBM Research - Zurich

Refreshments served at 3:45 PM

 


 

Thursday, April 11, 2013

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 54, Room 100

"The Cosmic Growth of Supermassive Black Holes and their Co-Evolution with Host Galaxies"

Megan Urry

Yale University

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

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

 

4:15 PM

Thursday, April 11, 2013 

Harvard University

String Duality Seminar

Jefferson Lab, 453

"Locality and Unitarity from Positivity"

Nima Arkani-Hamed

IAS

Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 4:00.

 


 

Friday, April 12, 2013

 

12 Noon

Friday, April 12, 2013

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Mucin biopolymers prevent biofilm formation by retaining bacteria in the free-swimming state"

Katharina Ribbeck

MIT

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

2:00 pm

Friday, April 12, 2013

Boston College

Physics Seminar

Higgins 235

"Physics and chemistry of graphene: controlling experiments down to atomic scale"

Masa Ishigami

University of Central Florida

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

 

2:00 PM

Friday, April 12, 2013

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

TBA

Itay Yavin

McMaster University/Perimeter Institute

 

3:00 PM

Friday, April 12, 2013

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“Heretical Ideas that led to the Search for the Higgs Boson”

Gerald Guralnik

Brown University

Refreshments will be served at 2:30 PM in the Knipp Library, Robinson 251.

 

3:00 p.m.

April 12

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

“Particle acceleration during magnetic reconnection”

James Drake

University of Maryland

 

 


 

 

 

Thank You,

 

Gisele Byda

Boston College - Physics

617) 552-3575