BAPC Announcements: Week of - 4/29 - 5/3/13

[Gisele Byda <gisele byda bc edu>]

April 29 - May 3, 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 29, 2013

2:00 pm
Monday, April 29
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Noise analyses: A new way to non-perturbative studies of fermions?"
Joaquin Drut
UNC
Refreshments served.

4:15 PM
Monday, April 29, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Fundamental Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt 
for Dark Matter"
Stefano Profumo
University of California, Santa Cruz 
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html


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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

12:00 PM
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Model Independent Direct Detection of Dark Matter"
Emanuel Katz
Boston University
Lunch is provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/lunchtime.html

2:30 pm
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Instability in theories with many fields"
Ali Masoumi
Columbia
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 PM 
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Communities, Hierarchy, and Large-Scale Structure in Networks"
Mark Newman
University of Michigan
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00pm
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"From black holes to strange metals: many-body physics through a 
gravitational lens"
Hong Liu
MIT
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Harvard University
David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics
Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford St.
"Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era"
Roy J. Glauber, Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics
2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

2:00 PM 
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Equilibration and coarsening in the quantum 0(N) model"
Anushya Chandran
Princeton University 

2:00PM 
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
Jordan M. Horowitz, UMass Boston
"Thermodynamics with feedback: Extracting work from information"
Refreshments served at 1:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

3:00 pm
Wednesday, May 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Physical entanglement entropy: relative entropy and mutual information"
Horacio Casini
Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina
Refreshments served.

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

4 p.m.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
"TBA"
Greg Grason
UMASS Amherst

4:00 PM
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center RM 114
"Definitive Detection of Dark Matter with Directional Devices"
James Battat
Bryn Mawr College
Refreshments served at event.

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Computational Particle Accelerator Physics - Multidisciplinary Science 
for next generation Accelerators"
Andreas Adelmann
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, May 3, 2013

12 Noon 
Friday, May 3, 2013 
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
"Whither the Correlated Oxide Interface?"
Jak Chakhalian
University of Arkansas
Pizza served at 11:45 AM 

2:00PM 
Friday, May 3, 2013
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
Sidney Redner, Boston University
"Fate of the Kinetic Ising Mode"
Refreshments served at 1:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

3:00 p.m.
May 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Turbulence-driven intrinsic rotation in tokamaks"
Michael Barnes
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

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Thank You,