BAPC Announcements: Week of - 4/15 - 19/13

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

April 15 - 19, 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 15, 2013

none

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

2:00 pm
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Magnetized strongly coupled plasmas: collective modes and connections 
with rotating dusty plasmas"
Hanno Kahlert 
Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/

2:30 pm
Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Anisotropy and Inflation"
Sugumi Kanno
Tufts
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 PM
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Physical Biology: Is There an Elephant in the Room?"
Stan Leibler
The Rockefeller University
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00pm
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Optical tools to monitor electrical activity in neurons"
Adam Cohen
Harvard University

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

2:00PM
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
Mikhail Lemeshko
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Manipulating quantum states 
in ultracold gases using conservative and nonconservative forces"
Refreshments served at 1:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00PM
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Quantum Impurity Physics with Microwave Photons"
Moshe Goldstein
Yale University

3:00 pm
Wednesday, April 17
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
``Newton-Cartan geometry and the quantum Hall effect"
Dam Thanh Son, University of Chicago
Refreshments served.

4:15 pm
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Clark University - Department of Physics Colloquium
"Channelization in coastal wetlands and in porous media"
Amala Mahadevan 
Department of Physical Oceanography
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/news/colloquium.cfm

4:30 pm
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and
Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Jefferson 250
"3D Imaging at the Limits with Photo-Activated Labels and Electrons"
Harald Hess
HHMI
Tea served at 4:00 after short student talk.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

4:00pm
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Brandeis University
MRSEC Semianar
Abelson 229
TBA
Tim Atherton
Tufts University 

4:00 PM
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center RM 114
The Asymmetry of Life: From Phase Transitions to Astrobiology
Marcelo Gleiser
Dartmouth College
Refreshments served at event.

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Visualizing and Manipulating Topological Quantum States in Novel 
Materials and Nanostructures"
Ali Yazdani
Princeton University
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

4:00 PM
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Tufts University
Winthrop Street Function Hall
51 Winthrop Street
Medford, MA 
The Kathryn A. McCarthy Lectureship in Physics
"From Bits to Qubits: A Quantum Leap for Computers"
Professor Susan Coppersmith
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Parking garage available with shuttle service located on ground floor, 419 
Boston Avenue, Medford, MA

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Friday, April 19, 2013

12 Noon
Friday, April 19, 2013 
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Ultrafast spectroscopy of electronic dynamics in complex materials"
Robert A. Kaindl
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

2:00 PM
Friday, April 19, 2013 
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington Mall, Room 595
TBA
David Curtin
Stony Brook University

2:00 PM
Friday, April 19th, 2013
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Institute for 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
Title: "TBA"
Mark Tuckerman
NYU
Refreshments served at 1:45 PM

3:00 p.m.
April 19
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Multidimensional microwave imaging & simulation for spherical tokamaks"
Roddy Vann
University of York

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