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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of March 31, 2014



 

March 31 – Apr 4, 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

 

4:00pm

Monday, March 31, 2014

Northeastern University

High Energy Physics Seminar

114 Dana Research Center

“Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Photons in CMS”

Jan Veverka

MIT

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, March 31, 2014
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Barus & Holley room 168

Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University)

"Fundamental physics with two-dimensional carbon"

Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.

Monday, March 31, 2014

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250

"Unveiling the Order of the High Temperature Superconductors"

Subir Sachdev

Harvard University, Physics

tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 


Tuesday

 

11:00am
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
Title: TBA
James Halverson
KITP

 

2:30pm

Tuesday, April 1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures"

Leonardo Senatore, Stanford

Refreshments served.

 

 

3:30 pm

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Massless and Massive Electrons: Relativistic Physics in Condensed Matter Systems"

Vidya Madhavan

Boston College

Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 34, Room 101

"Our Mathematical Universe: From Inflationary B-modes to Precision 3D Mapping of our Cosmos"
Max Tegmark
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Performance through Deformation and Instability"
Katia Bertoldi
Harvard University


Wednesday

 

11:00 am

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Boston University

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 328

590 Commonwealth Ave.

TBA

Jung Hoon Han

Sungkyunkwan University

 

 

2:00 pm

Wednesday, Apr 2, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Leo Perlov

UMass Boston/Real View Inc.

"Loop Quantum Gravity - Spin Foams"

Lecture 2 of a three-lecture series

 

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555 

Department of Physics

Brown University

David Poland (Yale)
"Covariant Approaches to Superconformal Blocks".

 

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, April 2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity  Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Constrained gauge theories and matter spectra in the landscape"

Jim Halverson, KITP, UCSB

Refreshments served.

 

 

3:30 pm

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Long-Distance AdS Physics from the CFT Bootstrap"

Matthew Walters

Johns Hopkins University

 

 

4:00 PM

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Joint Solid Earth Physics Seminar/Applied Mechanics Colloquium

Pierce 209

29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Geosciences Inspiring Engineering:  What Dyke Swarms Teach Us About Hydraulic Fracturing

Andrew P. Bunger

Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Pittsburg

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Boston College Colloquium

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

“Topological Materials at the Nanoscale”

Professor Jennifer Hoffman

Department of Physics, Harvard University

 

4:00pm
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Brandeis University
IGERT Seminar
Abelson 229
"Passive mechanisms for maintaining thermodynamic stability in protein solutions"
Will Jacobs
Cambridge University

 

4 pm

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Harvard University

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

"Observation of s-channel single-top-quark production at the Tevatron”

Matteo Cremonesi

Oxford University

 

 

4:30 pm

Wednesday, April 2  note time

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Quantum Information Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Reliable Quantum State Tomography"

Renato Renner, ETH

 

 

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>

 


Thursday

 

3:00 pm

April 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
“High power ECRH and ECCD experiments in moderately collisional ASDEX Upgrade H-modes”
Jorg Stober
ASDEX-Upgrade

 

4:00pm

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

114 Dana Research Center

Searching for New Physics at the LHC: The Story You Haven't Heard

Michael Williams

MIT

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00pm
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
Title: TBA
Catherine Kuo
Tufts University

 

 

7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Building 26, Room 100

"The BICEP2 Results and What They Mean: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe"

Alan Guth, Scott Hughes, John Kovac, and Max Tegmark
MIT

 


Friday

 

12:00pm

Friday, April 4, 2014

Northeastern University

Distinguished Lecture Series on “Nanotechnologies through Materials Innovation”

114 Dana Research Center

“Towards Material Design Using Strongly Correlated Electron Materials”

Gabriel Kotliar

Stony Brook University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

3:00 PM

Friday, April 4, 2014

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“Dynamics of neuronal growth on controlled substrates”

Cristian Staii

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Tufts University

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

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, April 4, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
“The future of fusion”
Tim Luce
General Atomics