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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of February 17, 2014



Feb 17 – Feb 21, 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

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Discovery of Neutrinos from Astrophysical Sources with IceCube"

Dr. Naoko Kurahashi Neilson

University of Wisconsin

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

1:15 PM

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Joint Solid Earth Physics Seminar/Applied Mechanics Colloquium

Hoffman 4th Floor Faculty Lounge

20 Oxford Street

Geology Rules:  Unconventional Development of Oil/Gas from Shale Formations

Anthony Ingraffea

Civil and Resource Engineering

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

 

2:00pm

Monday, February  18

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Shining LUX on Isospin-Violating Dark Matter Beyond Leading Order"

Grigory Ovanesyan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Refreshments served.

 

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Northeastern University

CIRCS Seminar

114 Dana Research Center

“Clash of Populations:

Host-Microbe Interactions in C. Elegans”

Erel Levine

Harvard University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 


Wednesday

 

12:00pm

Thursday, February 19, 2014

Northeastern University

Distinguished Lecture Series on “Nanotechnologies through Materials Innovation”

114 Dana Research Center

“Reinventing a DNA Sequence Reader”

Aleksei Asimentiev

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

2:00 pm

Wednesday, Feb 19, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Chandra Yelleswarapu

UMass Boston

“Imaging cancer from cellular level to tumor”

Refreshments served at 1:45

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

 

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, February 19

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

"Metastability and instability in thermal holographic gauge theories"

Albion Lawrence, Brandeis

Refreshments will be served

 

 

3:30 pm

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"The Heart of Factorization"

Matthew Schwartz

Harvard University

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, Feb 19, 2014

Boston College Colloquium

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

“The Strange Story of Superluminal Neutrinos”

Professor Andrew Cohen

Department of Physics, Boston University

 

 

4:00 pm
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell
Colloquium
Ball Hall Room 210
" Single and Multi-junction Quantum Dot Solar Cells"
Prof. Seth Hubbard
Rochester Institute of Technology
Refreshments at 3:30

 

 

4:00 PM

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Joint Solid Earth Physics Seminar/Applied Mechanics Colloquium

Pierce 209

29 Oxford Street

Science and Technology of Unconventional Fossil Fuel Production

Robert L. Kleinberg

Schlumberger

Cambridge, MA

 

 


Thursday

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"The Cold War Hangover: Nuclear Risks and Political Realities in the 21st Century"
James Acton
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 

 

4:00pm

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

114 Dana Research Center

“Imparting Mass to Zero Mass Relativistic Electrons”

Vidya Madhavan

Boston College

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00PM

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229

"Microrheology of Complex Fluids"

Tom Waigh

University of Manchester

 


 

Friday

 

12:00 pm

Friday, February 21, 2014

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

TBA

Arun Bansil

Northeastern University

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

2:00 PM

Friday, February 21, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS SPECIAL Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Using Kaons to Unlock the Secrets of the Neutrino"

Dr. Joshua Spitz

MIT

Refreshments served at 1:30 pm

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

 

 

3:00 PM

Friday, February 21, 2014

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“Atmospheric escape on Mars: the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN)”

Dr. Shannon Curry

Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley

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