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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of March 10, 2014



 

 

March 10 – Mar 14, 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

 

2:00pm

Monday, March 10

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Where the LHC stands today vis-a-vis the Higgs, Supersymmetry, and Beyond"

Matthew Strassler, Harvard

Refreshments served.

 

 

2:00 pm

Monday, March 10, 2014

Boston University

Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 328

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Dynamics of Thermalization in nanoscale systems"

Derek Lee

Imperial College, London

Note: Special day & time

 

 

4:00 PM 

Monday, March 10, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

Entanglement and Geometry"

Dr. Veronika Hubeny

Durham University

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm 

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

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, March 10, 2014
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Barus & Holley room 168

Joshua Winn (MIT)
Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
March 10, 2014, Monday
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
“Attosecond Imaging with X-Rays”
Peter Abbamonte

University of Illinois, Urbana
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

 

11am

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Constraints on the spectra of 2d CFTs"
Al Shapere

University of Kentucky

 

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

New Experimental Constraints in Searches for a Light Neutral Boson at 0.1 meV"

Dr. Penny Slocum

Yale University

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

4pm

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Brandeis University

"Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics"
Physics Department Colloquium
Lecture I
Abelson 131
"Strings and the Magic of Extra Dimensions"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University

Reception to follow at 5pm, Faculty Club Lounge

 


Wednesday

 

11am
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Brandeis University
"Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics"

Lecture II

Abelson 333
"Recent Progress in Topological Strings I"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University

 

12:00 pm

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Stochastic processes on interdependent infrastructures"

Gregorio D'Agostino

University of Rome

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

Note: Special day

 

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555

Department of Physics

Brown University

Jaroslav Trnka (Caltech)

"The Amplituhedron"

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and
Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Quantum Optics Center (HQOC)
Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar
Jefferson 250, Harvard University Department of Physics
Quantum control for efficient metrology

Paola Cappellaro

MIT

 

 

4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Brandeis University
Lecture III
Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 229
"Recent Progress in Topological Strings II"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University

 

 

4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell
Colloquium
Ball Hall Room 210
"The application of magnetic fields to stimulate cellular and physiological systems"
Prof. Craig Laramee
SUNY Binghamton
Refreshments at 3:30

 

 


Thursday

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 34, Room 101

"Quantum Matter without Quasiparticles"
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 

 

4:00 pm

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
"Mechanical and structural sensitivity of axon growth"
Jeff Urbach
Georgetown University

 

 

4:00pm

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Northeastern University

Joint Physics Colloquium and Distinguished Lecture Series on “Nanotechnologies through Materials Innovation”

114 Dana Research Center

“The Potential and Flux Landscape for Complex Physical and Biological Systems”

Jin Wang

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Refreshments served at event.

 


Friday

 

12:30 PM

Friday, March 14, 2014

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“Nonlinear mechanics of stiff biopolymer networks”

Professor Jeff Urbach

Georgetown University, Physics

Refreshments will be served at 12:00 pm in Knipp Library, Robinson 251.