BAPC - Calendar for the Week of January 20, 2014

Jan 20 – Jan 24 2014

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

Tuesday

11:00am

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307

"Entanglement entropy in quantum field theory: An overview"
Matthew Headrick
Brandeis University

4:00pm

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Brandeis University

Martin Weiner Lecture Series

Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131

"Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound"

Daniel Eisenstein

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

4:00pm

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Northeastern University

CIRCS Seminar

114 Dana Research Center

“Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs: Droplets Walking on the Impossible Pilot Wave”

John Bush

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Refreshments served at event.

Wednesday

3:30 pm

Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington Mall, Room 595
"The Holomorphic Higgs Portal : General methods for the Higgs Lagrangian in SUSY"
Piyush Kumar
Yale University

4:00pm

Wednesday January 22, 2014

Brandeis University

IGERT Seminar
Abelson 229

"Nobel Seminar part 2: Higgs and Hierarchy"

Albion Lawrence

Brandeis University

4:00 pm

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Boston College

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

“A Closer Look at Black Holes”

Professor Avi Loeb

Chair, Astronomy Department, Harvard University

Director, Institute for Theory and Computation

Thursday

4:00pm

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229

"Measuring the 3D Dynamics of Multiple Colloidal Particles with
Digital Holographic Microscopy and Electromagnetic Scattering
Solutions"

Jerome Fung

Brandeis University

Friday

12:00 pm

Friday, January 24, 2014 12 Noon
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Approaching an (unknown) phase transition in 2D"
Sergey Kravchenko
Northeastern University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 PM

Friday, January 24, 2014

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“Innocent Bystanders and Smoking Guns: the Dwarf Carbon Stars

Dr. Paul Green

Harvard-CfA

Refreshments will be served at 2:30 pm in Knipp Library, Robinson 251.