BAPC - Calendar for the Week of March 24, 2014

March 24 – Mar 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

4:15 p.m.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
“Testing Gravity with Millisecond Pulsars”
David Kaplan
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

Tuesday

11:00 am
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
The Status of SUSY after Run I of the LHC
David Shih,
Rutgers University

3:30 pm

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"So Simple & Unnatural: Implications of this 125 GeV Higgs on the Physics of the Universe"

Maria Spiropulu

California Institute of Technology

Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
The Physics of Sand: Emergent Behavior in the Macroworld
Bulbul Chakraborty
Brandeis University

4:15 pm

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Harvard University
Particle Seminar

“Integrable quantum gravity and the hierarchy problem”

Sergei Dubovsky

(NYU)
Jefferson Lab, 453
Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson,
at 4:00pm.

Wednesday

2:00 pm

Wednesday, Mar 26, 2014, 2:00PM

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Mikhail Zvonarev

U Paris-Sud, Laboratoire LPTMS, Orsay, France "Time evolution and correlations in one-dimensional quantum gases"

Refreshments served at 1:45

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

3:00 pm

Wednesday, March 26

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center of Theoretical Physics

String Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar room 6c-442

``Classification of 6D SCFT's"

David Morrison, UCSB

Refreshments will be served

3:00pm

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Northeastern University

Condensed Matter Seminar

114 Dana Research Center

“On Some Surprising Effective Exchange Interactions”

Alberto Andrés Saúl

CINaM/CNRS - Marseille, France

Senior Research Scientist, MIT

Refreshments served at event.

3:30 pm

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Precision Flavor Physics from Lattice QCD"

Junko Shigemitsu

Ohio State University

4:00 pm

Wednesday, March 26

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Quantum Information Seminar

Building 32, room G575

``Quantum Algorithms for Learning and Testing Juntas via the Adversary Bound"

Alexander Belov, MIT

4:00 pm

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Harvard University

Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)

"Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Photons in CMS"

Jan Veverka

MIT

4:00 PM

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Joint Solid Earth Physics Seminar/Applied Mechanics Colloquium

Pierce 209

29 Oxford Street

Complex fluid and proppant placement in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells

Brice Lecampion

Schlumberger, Paris

4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell
Colloquium
Ball Hall Room 210
"Basic and Applied Neutron Science at LANSCE "
Dr. Matt Devlin
Los Alamos National Lab
Refreshments at 3:30

Thursday

4:00 pm
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
Viscosity, Elasticity and Bacterial Motility
Kenny Breuer
Brown University

4:00pm

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

114 Dana Research Center

“Biomolecular Machines of Life”

José N. Onuchic

Rice University

Refreshments served at event.

Friday

12:00 pm

Friday, March 28, 2014

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Link predictability of complex networks"

Linyuan Lu

Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China Pizza served at 11:45 AM