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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of September 23, 2013



 

September 23 - 27, 2013

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at MIT.  Entries should be sent 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

 

2:00pm

Monday, September  23

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``The Remarkable Mathematical Structure of Scattering Amplitudes"

Marcus Spradlin, Brown

Refreshments served.

 

 

3:00 pm

September 23
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Gyrotron Application to ECRH and Collective Thomson Scattering in LHD"
Shin Kubo
National Institute for Fusion Research

 

 

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Monday, September 23  , 2013
Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and
Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Jefferson 250
"The Quantum Way of Doing Computations"
Rainer Blatt
University of Innsbruck
Tea and Refreshments served at 2:45 pm.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html

 

4:00 pm

Monday, September 23, 2013
HQOC/ITAMP Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Quantum Way of Doing Computing"
Rainer Blatt
University of Innsbruck

 

4:00pm

Monday, September 23, 2013

Northeastern University

High Energy Physics Seminar

Dana Research Center Rm 114

“Latest ATLAS Results on SUSY Electroweak Production”

Geraldine Conti

Harvard University

Refreshments served at event.

 

4:00 pm

Monday, September 23, 2013

Brown University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Barus & Holley 168

"Spontaneous Dimensional Reduction?"

Steven Carlip (UC Davis)
Refreshments begin at 3:30 pm

http://www.brown.edu/academics/physics/

 

4:15 p.m.
September 23, 2013
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
“Entanglement, Topology and the Quantum Phases of Matter”
Ashvin Vishwanath
University of California, Berkeley
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/colloquium.pdf

 

 

4:15 PM

Monday, September 23, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Theoretical Framework for the Interactions of Dark Matter"

Prof. Timothy Tait

UC Irvine

Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

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

 


Tuesday

 

11:00am

Tuesday September 24, 2013

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar

Abelson 307
"Motivic amplitudes and cluster coordinates"

Anastasia Volovich

Brown University

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, September 24, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Polarized 3He Source Development for RHIC"

Dr. James Maxwell

MIT

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

1:15 PM

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences/Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Solid Earth Physics Seminar

Hoffman 4th Floor Faculty Lounge

20 Oxford Street

Earthquake surface ruptures as a tool to get insights into earthquake behavior and fault segmentation

Yann Klinger

Laboratoire Tectonique, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris

 

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"Wave function of the Universe, Wheeler-DeWitt equation and inflation"

Alexander Kamenshchik

University of Bologna

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Brandeis University

Physics Department/IGERT Colloquium

Abelson 131
"Thermalization and localization in quantum statistical mechanics"

David Huse

Princeton University

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Northeastern University

CIRCS Seminar

Dana Research Center RM 114

“Direct Free-Energy Calculations for Semiflexible Macromolecules: Applications to DNA Knotting and Looping”

Andreas Hanke

University of Texas, Brownville

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:15 pm

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Harvard University
Particle Seminar

Title: TBD

Greg Ovanesyan

(LANL/UMASS Amherst)
Jefferson Lab, 453
Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson,
at 4:00.

 


Wednesday

 

10:30 am

Wednesday, September 25, 2013  10:30AM

Boston University

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 328

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Efficient Langevin simulation of coupled classical fields and fermions"

Dr. Kipton Barros

LANL

 

 

1:00pm
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Brandeis University
IGERT Seminar
Abelson 126
"Eigenstate phase transitions and localization-protected order"
David Huse
Princeton University

Wednesday, 25 Septemer 2013
Theoretical  Seminar:  B&H 555  2:30 PM
Department of Physics
Brown University
"Unitarity, Firewalls, and Fuzzballs"

Steven Avery (Brown U)

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, September 25

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Numerical AdS/CFT with Sources: Towards Holographic Momentum Relaxation"

Christopher Herzog, Stony Brook

Refreshments served.

 

 

3:45 pm

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Weyl consistency conditions"

Andreas Stergiou

Yale University

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Boston College

Physics Colloquium

Higgins 310

"Bio-inspired Tensegrity Structures"

Cornel Sultan

Virginia Tech University

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230

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

 

 

4 pm

Wednesday, September 25, 2012

Harvard University

Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar

Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)

"A Relative Spectral Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation at Daya Bay"

Bryce Littlejohn

University of Cincinnati

 

 

7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
September 25, 2013
Harvard University
Science Research Lecture
Harvard University, Science Center Hall C, One Oxford St, Cambridge
“Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Around Cool Stars”

Dr. John Asher Johnson

Professor of Astronomy, Harvard – Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/213

 


Thursday

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"First two years of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - The latest Results"

Samuel Ting

MIT

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

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

 

4:00pm
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
Title: TBA
Alberto Perez Muñuzuri
Univ. de Santiago de Compostela

 

4:00pm

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

Dana Research Center RM 114

“Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Amino Acids and Peptides by Recognition Tunneling”

Stuart Lindsay

Arizona State University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:15 pm

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Harvard University
Duality Seminar

"Black Hole Information and Topological Entanglement"

Herman Verlinde (Princeton)

Jefferson Lab, 453
Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson,
at 4:00.

 


 

Friday

 

12:00 pm

Friday, September 27, 2013

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Electron MBE: Growth of Complex Oxides via Pulsed Electron Beam Deposition"

Jiwei Lu

University of Virginia

 

 

3:00 PM

Friday, September 27, 2013

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Science & Technology Center, Medford

4 Colby Street, Room 136

“The Physics of Quantum Fluctuations: A Window into Quantum Gravity?”

Lawrence Ford

Tufts University

Refreshments will be served at 2:30 pm in the Science & Technology Center, Room 136.

 

 

3:00 pm

September 27
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Off-axis current drive by helicons in DIII-D"
Ron Prater
General Atomics

 

 

4:00 PM

Friday, September 27, 2013

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Applied Physics Colloquium

Pierce 209

29 Oxford Street

Rock munching mollusks: understanding biomineralization of ultrahard iron-oxide teeth

Lyle Gordon

Northwestern University