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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of November 18, 2013



 

Nov 18 – Nov 22 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

 

 

12:00 pm

Monday, November 18, 2013

Boston University

Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Statistical physics approach to quantifying creativity"

Professor Yoed Kenett

Bar-Ilan University

Ramat-Gan, Israel

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

2:00pm

Monday, November 18

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Collisions in ads and the thermalisation of Heavy ions"

Wilke van der Schee, Perimeter Institute

Refreshments served.

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, November 18, 2013
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium

Barus & Holley room 168
"Fluid transport at the nanoscales and application to osmotic energy harvesting"
Lyderic Bocquet 

(Institut Lumière Matière, Université Lyon and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT)

Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, November 18, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Higgs-Motivated Searches for Supersymmetry at CMS"

Dr. Ben Hooberman

Fermilab

Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
“Max Planck’s Cosmic Harmonium”
Dr. Peter Pesic
St. John’s College
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/colloquium.pdf

http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 


Tuesday

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"The Higgs Golden Channel in ATLAS: Run 1 Results for the ZZ to 4 Leptons Channel and Prospects for the Future"

Dr. Giacomo Artoni

CERN

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

2:45pm

Tuesday, November 19

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Testing Quantum Mechanics and Bell's Inequality with Observations of Causally 

Disconnected Cosmological Events"

Andrew Friedman, MIT

Refreshments served at 2:30pm

 

 

4:00 pm

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Brandeis University

Martin Weiner Lecture Series

Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131

"Measuring the Cosmos"

Mark Reid, Harvard University

Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

 

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Northeastern University

CIRCS Seminar

114 Dana Research Center

“Atomistic Modeling of Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Metals”

George Gilmer

Colorado School of Mines

Refreshments served at event.

 


Wednesday

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday,  November 20, 3:00pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Aspects of algorithmic approaches to string compactification and moduli stabilization in heterotic"

James Gray, Virginia Tech.

Refreshments served.

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Brandeis University

IGERT Seminar
Abelson 239
'The Science Behind the 2013 Nobel Prizes"

Albion Lawrence (Physics, Brandeis); Blake LeBaron (International Business School, Brandeis)

 

 


Thursday

 

3:30 pm

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Boston University

High Energy Experiment Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Results and prospects for H->Zgamma"

Toyoko Orimoto

Northeastern University

Refreshments served

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"What’s the Matter with the Universe?"

Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

MIT

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

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

 

 

4:00pm

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

114 Dana Research Center

TBA

Garnet Chan

Princeton University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 pm

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
TBA
Tom Powers
Division of Engineering and Department of Physics at Brown University



 

Friday

 

1:00 pm

SPECIAL SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT!

Friday, November 22, 2013

Northeastern University

The 2013 Physics Nobel Prize Colloquium

305 Shillman Hall

“And Then There Was Mass: The Origin of Mass and the Discovery of the Higgs Boson”

Joseph Incandela

Yzurdiaga Professor of Experimental Science, University of California Santa Barbara

Refreshments at 2:00pm in room 114 Dana Research Center (located across the street).

 

 

1:30 pm

November 22
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Quantum Information Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
``Quantum Thermodynamics"
Max Tegmark, MIT

 

 

3:00 PM

Friday, November 22, 2013

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Science & Technology Center, Medford

4 Colby Street, Room 136

“Neutrinos on Ice:  oscillation physics with IceCube DeepCore and PINGU”

Professor Tyce DeYoung

Pennsylvania State University

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