BAPC - Calendar for the Week of November 25, 2013

Nov 25 – Nov 29 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

2:00pm

Monday, November 25

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Variable flavor number scheme for final state jets"

Andre Hoang, U. of Wien

Refreshments served.

4:00pm

Monday, November 25, 2013 (note special date)

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229

"Self-Organization, Fluctuation Forces and Transport of Active Matter On Disordered Landscapes"

Charles Reichhardt

Los Alamos National Laboratory

4:00 pm

Monday, November 25, 2013
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium

Barus & Holley room 168
"Quantum simulation with nuclear spins"

Chandrasekhar Ramanathan (Dartmouth)
Refreshments begin at 3:30

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

4:15 PM

Monday, November 25, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Indirect Search for New Phenomena with the LHCb Experiment"

Dr. Johannes Albrecht

TU Dortmund

Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

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

4:15 p.m.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
“The Black Hole Information Paradox, Alive and Kicking”
Joseph Polchinski
UCSB
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 26, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Dark Matter Searches at the LHC using Missing Energy Signatures"

Dr. Leonardo Di Matteo

MIT

Lunch is provided

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

2:30 pm

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"Naturalness of low energy de-Sitters in Einstein-Maxwell landscape"

Ali Masoumi

Tufts

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

4:15

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Harvard University
Particle Seminar

Title: "Limits on new physics from catalyzed vacuum decay"

Cliff Cheung

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

4:00pm

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar

Abelson 229
"Solid-to-Fluid DNA Transition in Viruses Facilitates Infection"
Alex Evilevitch

Carnegie Mellon University

Wednesday

1:00 pm

Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013, 1:00PM

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Leo Perlov

Real View Inc.

Loop Quantum Gravity - Spin Foams: Lecture 1 (a part of a two-lecture mini-course; Lecture 2 TBA) Refreshments served at 12:45

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

Thursday

Friday