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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of February 24, 2014



Feb 24 ? Feb 28, 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

 

12:00 pm

Monday, February 24, 2014

Boston University

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

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Comb polyelectrolytes:Synthetic and Biological"

Thomas Waigh

University of Manchester

Note: Special day

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

2:00pm

Monday, February 24

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

Jonathan Walsh, UC Berkeley

Refreshments served.

 

 

2:00 pm
Monday, February 24
Harvard University Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Chemistry & Chemical Biology
ITAMP/CCB Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar in Chemistry
Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford Street

“Understanding photo-induced dynamics from scratch using the

simplest, practical computational chemistry"

Prof. Joseph Subotnik, University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments served at 1:45 pm

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, February 24, 2014
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Barus & Holley room 168

David Pine (NYU)
Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:00 PM  (please note new start time)

Monday, February 24, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

"The Limits of the Nuclear Landscape"

Prof. Witek Nazarewicz

University of Tennessee/ORNL

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm (please note new time)

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: The Higgs Boson and Beyond"
Joao Guimaraes da Costa
Harvard University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/colloquium.pdf

 


Tuesday

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"The Odd Couple:  Finding Higgs to τ τ and High Intensity Running in CMS"

Dr. Philip Harris

CERN

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"nu-LambdaCDM: How Neutrinos help reconcile Planck with the Local Universe"

Mark Wyman

NYU

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

 

4:00pm (RESCHEDULED)

Tuesday, February 25, 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

 

11:00 am

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Boston University

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 328

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"TBA"

Dr. David Luitz

Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Toulouse

 

 

2:00 pm

Wednesday, Feb 26, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Michael Hagan

Brandeis University

 "Virus assembly around RNA and on a membrane"

Refreshments served at 1:45

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

 

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, 26 February, 2014

Theoretical Seminaar: B&H 555 

Department of Physics

Brown University

Dan Xie (IAS - Princeton)
"Overview of cluster algebra and its applications to physics"

 

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday,  February 26

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Chiral symmetry algebras and the superconformal bootstrap in four and six dimensions"

Chris Beem, IAS

Refreshments served.

 

 

4:00 PM (please note day/time)

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS SPECIAL Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"TBA"

TBA

TBA

Refreshments served at 1:30 pm

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

 

 

4:00 pm
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell
Colloquium
Ball Hall Room 210
"Internet inspired Physics Models"
Prof. Rhett Allain
Southeastern Louisiana University
Refreshments at 3:30

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, Feb 26, 2014

Boston College Colloquium

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

“From Structure to Control”

Professor Albert-László Barabási

Center of Complex Networks Research, Northeastern University

And Division of Network Medicine, Harvard University

 

 

4:00 PM

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Joint Solid Earth Physics Seminar/Applied Mechanics Colloquium

Pierce 209

29 Oxford Street

Gas-driven Fracturing ― Influence of Gas Composition and State

Derek Elsworth

Energy and Mineral Engineering and Geosciences

Pennsylvania State University

 


Thursday

 

4:00pm

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

114 Dana Research Center

“Into the Flat Land: Quantum Wigner Crystallization in Zero Magnetic Field”

Jian Huang

Wayne State University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Topological Phenomena in Quantum Matter"
Ashvin Vishwanath
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 


 

Friday

 

12:00pm

Friday, February 28, 2014

Northeastern University

Condensed Matter Seminar

114 Dana Research Center

“Tunable Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Quenches in Spin Ice”

Claudio Castelnovo

Cambridge University, UK

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, February 28, 2014

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division courses”

Professor Steven Pollock

University of Colorado at Boulder

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