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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of October 14, 2013



 

 

October 14 - 18 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

 

 

 


Tuesday

 

11:00am

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Some results on Entanglement in Holographic Field Theories"
Tom Faulkner
Institute for Advanced Study

 

 

2:00 pm

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Boston College

Physics Seminar

Higgins 235

"Observational Studies on Dust-Rich Quasars -- Linking Black Holes with their Host Galaxies"

Sophia Yu Dai

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics / Boston College

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

 

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Brandeis University

Martin Weiner Lecture Series

Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131
"Exploring nanophotonics to tailor the laws of physics"

Marin Soljacic

MIT

 

 

4:15 pm

Tuesday, October 15, 2013  

Harvard University
Particle Seminar

Title: "On Heavy Supersymmetry"

Tim Cohen

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

 

 


Wednesday

 

 

11 am

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Boston University

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 328

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Wigner distribution functions for complex dynamical systems"

Dries Sels

Universiteit Antwerpen

 

 

1:00 pm

Wednesday, Oct 16, 2013

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Christopher Chong, UMass Amherst

"Solitary Waves in Discrete Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations"

Refreshments served at 12:45

Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

 

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Theoretical  Seminar:  B&H 555 
Department of Physics
Brown University
 "Thoughts on non-chiral scattering amplitudes".
Cristian Vergu
(ETH Zurich)

 

 

3:30 pm

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Entanglement and geometry"

Brian Swingle

Harvard University

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Boston College

Physics Colloquium

Higgins 310

"Bell's theorem, entanglement, quantum teleportation and all that"

Anthony J. Leggett

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230

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

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Harvard University

Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar

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

"Higgs-Motivated Search Strategies for Supersymmetry at CMS"

Benjamin Hooberman

Fermilab

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

MIT

3-270

Manning Assistant Professor of Engineering and of Physics

Seeing “Magnetic Light”: Quantifying and Exploiting Magnetic Dipole Transitions

Rashid Zia

School of Engineering

Brown University

 

 


Thursday

 

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Validating Quantum Devices"

Matthias Troyer

ETH Zurich

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

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

 

 

4:00pm

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar

Abelson 229
"Fabrication and Characterization of Stable Hydrophilic Microfluidic Devices Using Acrylate Chemistry"
John Pojman
Louisiana State University

 

 

4:00pm

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

Dana Research Center RM 114

“Higgs-Motivated Search Strategies for Supersymmetry at CMS”

Benjamin Hooberman

Fermilab

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:15 pm

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Harvard University
Duality Seminar

Title: "Colliding shocks and numerical gravity in asymptotically AdS spacetime"

Laurence Yaffe

(University of Washington)

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

 

 


 

Friday

 

 

12:00 pm

Friday, October 18, 2013

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Insights into amyloid β-protein self–assembly: Specificity versus universality"

Brigita Urbanc

Drexel University

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

3:00 PM

Friday, October 18, 2013

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Science & Technology Center, Medford

4 Colby Street, Room 136

“Colloidal rafts in a flatland”

Professor Zvonimir Dogic

Brandeis University

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

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, October 18, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Modeling intrinsic rotation"
Felix Parra Diaz
Oxford University/MIT

 

4:00pm

Friday, October 18, 2013

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

Dana Research Center RM 114

“Probing Mechanics of Biomolecules and Cells on the Microsecond Timescale”

Ozgur Sahin

Columbia University

Refreshments served at event.