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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of November 11, 2013



 

 

Nov 11 – Nov 15 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

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, November 11, 2013
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium

Barus & Holley room 168
"Topological Insulators and Superconductors"
Andreas Ludwig (UC - Santa Barbara)
Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 


Tuesday

 

 

11:00am
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
"The Schwinger Effect and the Geometry of Entanglement"
Abelson 307
Julian Sonner
MIT

 

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"Fuzzballs, firewalls, and all that"

Samir Mathur

Ohio State

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

 

3:30 pm

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"A Physicist's Decision to Run for Public Office"

George Gollin

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

 

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Liquid Interfaces and Solid particles: Geometry, Physics and New Materials"
Anthony Dinsmore
UMass Amherst

 

 


Wednesday

 

 

11:00 am

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Boston University

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, room 328

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Statistical physics of fluctuations away from equilibrium"

Yariv Kafri

Technion

 

 

11:00am
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Fuzzballs vs Squids"
Samir Mathur
Ohio State

 

 

1:00 pm

Wednesday, Nov 13, 2013

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Giuliano Scarcelli

Harvard University

"Biomechanical imaging with Brillouin microscopy"

Refreshments served at 12:45

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

 

 

2:00pm

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Northeastern University

MoBS Seminar

5th Floor Dana Research Center

“Where is University Going? A Proposal for Our Digital, Post-Democratic Age”

Juan Carlos de Martin

NEXA Center for Internet & Scoiety, Politecnico of Torino, Italy, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555 

Brown University
Arnaud Lepage-Jutier, M

McGill U
"Black Holes and Toy Cosmologies in Higher Spin Gravity"



3:00 pm

Wednesday,  November 13

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Deconstructing (perturbative) quantum gravity, and the compressibility of the analytic S-matrix"

John Joseph Carrasco, Stanford

Refreshments served.

 

 

3:00pm

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Northeastern University

Condensed Matter Seminar

Dana Research Center RM 114

“Integrable One-Dimensional Three-Body Problems Based on Exceptional and Non-Crystallographic Root Systems and Relaxation in One-Dimensional Two-Mass Mixtures”

Maxim Olshanii

UMASS Boston

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

3:30 pm

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, room 595

"The Effect of Gravitational Focusing on Annual Modulation"

Benjamin Safdi

Princeton University

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Boston College

Physics Colloquium

Higgins 310

"Visualizing Novel Electronic Structures of Topological Quantum Matter"

Yulin Chen

Jesus College, Oxford University

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230

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

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell

Colloquium

Ball Hall Room 214

"Light Shaping with Deformable Mirrors "

Prof. Thomas Bifano

Boston University

Refreshments at 3:30

 

 


Thursday

 

 

2:00pm

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Northeastern University

MoBS Seminar

5th Floor Dana Research Center

“Information Diffusion in Complex Networks”

Ernesto Estrada

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Journal of Complex Networks, Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods (QuanTM), Emory University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

2:00pm

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Northeastern University

MoBS Seminar

5th Floor Dana Research Center

“Information Diffusion in Complex Networks”

Ernesto Estrada

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Journal of Complex Networks, Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods (QuanTM), Emory University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Limit"

Immanuel Bloch

Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

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

 

 


 

Friday

 

 

1:30 pm

November 15

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center of Theoretical Physics

Quantum Information Seminar

Cosman Seminar room 6c-442

``TBA"

Dirk Englund, MIT

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, November 15, 2013

Northeastern University

MoBS Seminar

5th Floor Dana Research Center

“Memory in Network Flows and its Effects on Community Detection, Ranking, and Spreading”

Andrea Lancichinetti

Northwestern University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, November 15, 2013

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Science & Technology Center, Medford

4 Colby Street, Room 136

“Advances in galaxy-formation simulations: calculating mock observables & using a more-accurate numerical technique”

Professor Chris Hayward

Heidelberg Institute for Theoretische Studien

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