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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of October 7, 2013



 

 

October 7 - 11 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

 

2:00 pm

Monday, October 7th

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``tba"

Neil Weiner, NYU

Refreshments served.

 

 

2:00 pm

Monday, October 7, 2013

Boston College

Physics Seminar

Higgins 235

“Experimental Studies of Light-matter Interaction at Subwavelength Scale on Plasmonic Nanostructures”

Jun Xu

MIT

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

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, October 7, 2012.
Brown University
Department of Physics 
ColloquiumBarus & Holley 168
"Cosmic Past, Present, Future: Planck and Beyond"
Benjamin Wandelt (Sorbonne University).
Refreshments begin at 3:30

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

 

 

4:15 PM

Monday, October 7, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Basement Nuclear Bombs: How Technology has Changed Nuclear Proliferation"

Prof. Scott Kemp

MIT

Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
“Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Supergravity”
Zvi Bern
University of California, Los Angeles
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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

 

 


Tuesday

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"A Yocto-Second Look at Nuclei"

Dr. Daniel Winklehner 

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"Cosmic variance, statistical naturalness and non-Gaussianity"

Sarah Shandera

Penn State

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Brandeis University

Martin Weiner Lecture Series

Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131
"Imaging Methods Applied to Conservation of Cultural Heritage"

Greg Bearman
Snapshot Spectra, USC Keck School of Medicine and the Israeli Antiquities Authority

 

4:15 pm

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Harvard University
Particle Seminar

Title: "post-LHC R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry"

Roberto Franceschini

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

 


Wednesday

 

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Theoretical  Seminar:  B&H 555 
Department of Physics
Brown University
"Electric/magnetic duality in AdS4/CFT3"
Oscar Varela (Harvard U)

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, October 9th

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``F-theory Compactifications With Multiple U(1)-Factors"

Denis Klevers, U. of Pennsylvania

Refreshments served.

 

 

3:30 pm

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Dilatons and Fine Tuning"

John Terning

University of California, Davis

Note: new time for this event 3:30 PM

 

 

4:30 PM

Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and
Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Jefferson 250

"Dark states and the incoherent encoding of molecular motions"

Moshe Shapiro
University of British Columbia and The Weizmann Institute
Student presentation at 4:00 PM,  TBD. Tea and Refreshments served.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html

 


Thursday

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Recent Experiments with Entangled Photons"

Anton Zeilinger

University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences 

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

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

 

 

4:15 pm

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Harvard University
Duality Seminar

Title: "F-Theory Compactifications With Multiple U(1)-Factors"

Denis Klevers (University of Pennsylvania)

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

 


 

Friday

 

12:00 pm

Friday, October 11, 2013

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Liquid-liquid transition in supercooled water suggested by microsecond simulations"

Feng Wang

University of Arkansas

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

4:00pm

Friday, October 11
Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar
TBA
Abelson 229

Prerna Sharma

Brandeis University