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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of December 2, 2013



 

Dec 2 – Dec 6 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, December 2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Hadron Structure in Transverse Momentum Dependent Factorization"

Ted Rogers, CNYI, Stony Brook

Refreshments served.

 

 

4:00pm

Monday, December 2, 2013

Northeastern University

High Energy Physics Seminar

114 Dana Research Center

“Hadronic Decays of the Higgs Boson: Lessons from the LHC Run 1 and Prospects”

David Lopez Mateos

Harvard University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, December 2, 2013
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium & Book Signing

Barus & Holley room 166
"The Physics of The New York Times"

Cornelia Dean (Brown / New York Times)
Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:15 PM

Monday, December 2, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Einstein and Quantum Mechanics:  It's Not What You Think"

Prof. A. Douglas Stone

Yale University

Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"LUX: NOBLE TRAVAILS: First Dark Matter Search Results from the Large Underground Xenon Detector"
Richard Gaitskell
Brown University
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

 

11:00am
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"M-strings and their orbifolds"
Babak Haghighat
Harvard University

 

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Neutrino Physics With High Power Cyclotrons:  The Isotope Decay-At-Rest (IsoDAR) Experiment"

Dr. Matt Toups

MIT

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, December 3, 2011

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson 250

"The gravitational interactions of the Higgs boson"

Xavier Calmet

Sussex

Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Brandeis University

Abelson 131

Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"First Dark Matter Search Results from the Large Underground Xenon Detector "
Richard Gaitskell
Brown University

Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131

 


Wednesday

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, December 4

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String Theory Seminar

Duboc Room 4-331 (this week only)

``Gravitational anomaly-induced trasport in four (and more) dimensions"

Kristan Jensen, SUNY, Stony Brook

Refreshments served.

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Boston College

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

“Scientific Opportunities with Soft X-Rays for Studying Quantum Materials and Energy Problems”

Professor Hussain

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

 

4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Brandeis University
IGERT Theory Seminar
Abelson 239
"The Global Financial and Food Crisis: A Complex Systems Science Analysis"
Yaneer Bar-Yam
 NECSI

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

HQOC/ITAMP

Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar

Jefferson 250, Harvard University Department of Physics Transformation Optics Shapes Metamaterials Sir John Pendry Imperial College London

Student Presentation from 4:00-4:10 PM

Refreshments Served from 4:10-4:30 PM

Guest Presentation from 4:30-6:00 PM

 

 


Thursday

 

3:30 pm

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Boston University

High Energy Experiment Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Jets Without Jets"

Jesse Thaler

MIT

Refreshments served

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Nature’s Engines: Powering Life"
Julia Yeomans 
University of Oxford
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 

 

4:00pm
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
"Clustering Carbohydrates on DNA and Peptides to Mimic HIV"
Isaac Krauss

Brandeis University


 

Friday

 

12:00pm              

Friday, December 6, 2013

Boston College

Department of Physics

Higgins 235

“Multiple Metal (Plasmonic) nanostructures and novel carrier transport layers for high-performance organic solar cell.”

Professor Choy

University of Hong Kong, China

 

 

3:00 pm

December 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Runaway ions in lightning and fusion plasmas"
Tunde Fülop
Chalmers University of Technology