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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of October 21, 2013



 

October 21 - 25 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 21

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``QCD and its Noisome Pion"

David Kaplan, INT U Washington

Refreshments served.

 

 

2:00 pm

Monday, October 21
Harvard University Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Chemistry & Chemical Biology
ITAMP/CCB Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar in Chemistry
Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford Street
“Quantum Control and Measurement of Spins in Ultracold Atomic Gases"

Prof. Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico
Refreshments served at 1:45 pm

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, October 21, 2013
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium

Barus & Holley room 168
"Simplicity and Skepticism in Quantum Mechanics"
Nina Emery (Brown University)
Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
October 21, 2013
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
“Breathing New Life In The Quantum Era Into An Old Material ZnO”
Masashi Kawasaki
University of Tokyo
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

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

 

 

4:15 PM

Monday, October 21, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Recent Progresses in Neutrino Cosmology"

Dr. Julien Lesgourgues

(EPFL, Lausanne & CERN, Geneva)

Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

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

 

 


Tuesday

 

11:00am
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Hexagon Functions:  Bootstrapping the Three-Loop Remainder Function"
Matthew von Hippel
Simons Center

 

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Multi-particle Correlations in Proton-lead Collisions from the Initial State, the Glasma, and the Almost Prefect Fluid"

Dr. Bjoern Schenke

(BNL)

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

2:45 pm

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Dark Matter Annihilation and the Cosmic Microwave Background"

Tracy Slatyer, MIT-CTP

Refreshments served at 2:30pm

 

 

3:30 pm

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"The Planck Satellite Results: a Universe So Big, but So Simple?"

Julien Lesgourgues

CERN, Geneva and EPEL, Lausanne

Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

 

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Brandeis University
Physics Department Colloquium (co-sponsored by IGERT)
Abelson 131
"Orientation dependent handedness and chiral design"
Patrick Charbonneau
Duke University

 

 


Wednesday

 

 

1:00 pm

Wednesday, Oct 23, 2013

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Aaron Hoffman

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering "Coherent Structures in Integrable systems: Existence and Stability"

Refreshments served at 12:45

 

 

2:00pm
Wednesday, October 23, 2103
Brandeis University
IGERT Seminar
Abelson 126
"A soft-matter perspective on protein crystallization"
Patrick Charbonneau
Duke University

 

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday,  23 October 2013
Theoretical  Seminar:  B&H 555
Department of Physics
Brown University
"Scattering of Massless Particles in Arbitrary Dimension"
Song He (Perimeter Institute)

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday,  October 23

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``The Superconformal Bootstrap Program"

Leonardo Rastelli, Yang ITP,  Stony Brook

Refreshments served.

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Boston College

Physics Colloquium

Higgins 310

“Is the Higgs Boson the End of Particle Physics?"

Robert Cahn

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230

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

 

 

4:15 pm

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Clark University

Physics Colloquium

Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-122

“What is Intellectual Property and who cares?”

Elias Domingo

Associate General Counsel IP

Covidien

 

 


Thursday

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Hidden Momentum"

David Griffiths

Reed College

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

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

 

 

4:00pm
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
TBA
Dirk Albrecht
WPI, Department of Biomedical Engineering

 


 

Friday

 

1:00 pm

Friday, Oct 25, 2013

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Martin Thuo

Department of Chemistry, UMass Boston

"Stereo-electronic effects on charge transport across metal-insulator-metal tunneling junctions"

Refreshments served at 12:45

 

 

3:00 PM

Friday, October 25, 2013

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Science & Technology Center, Medford

4 Colby Street, Room 136

“Mapping the local mechanical properties of living cells and viruses in vitro at small forces and length scales using oscillating nanotips”

Professor Arvind Raman

Purdue University

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