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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of April 7th



April 7 – April 11, 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, April 7, 2014

Boston University

Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Bacteria that breathe metals"

Marco Mazza

Max Planck Institute for Complex Fluids

University of Göttingen, Germany

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

Note: Special day and location

 

 

2:00pm

Monday, April 7

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``The Standard Model Effective Theory and Higgs Physics"

Aneesh Manohar, UCSD

Refreshments served.

 

 

2:30 pm

Monday, April 7, 2014

Boston University

Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 328

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Mixed order phase transitions in one dimension"

Amir Bar

Weizman Institute

Note: Special day/time

 

 

4:00 pm

Monday, April 7, 2014
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Arthur O. Williams Lecture

Barus & Holley room 166

Robert Meyer (Brandeis University)

"Ancient Roman Technology: The Stability of Vaulted Masonry Structures”

Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:00 PM 

Monday, April 7, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

Parton Physics from Large-Momentum Effective Field Theory"

Prof.  Xiangdong Ji

University of Maryland

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250

"Optical Control in High Tc Superconductors"

Andrea Cavalleri

MPSD

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

http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 


Tuesday

 

11:00am
Tuesday, April 8
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Periodically driven holographic superconductor"
Weijia Li
Beijing Normal U. & Harvard

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"Primordial Power Spectrum pre- and post-BICEP"

Grigor Aslanyan

University of Auckland

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

 

3:30 pm

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

The Benson T. Chertok Lecture

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"The Amazing Electron and Its Moments: Most Stringent Tests of the Standard Model and Proposed Extensions"

Gerald Gabrielse

Harvard University

Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

 

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, April 8
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Swimming in Sand"
Daniel Goldman
Georgia Institute of Technology
Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131

 


Wednesday

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555 

Department of Physics

Brown University

Christopher Beem (IAS - Princeton)

"Chiral Symmetry Algebras and the Superconformal Bootstrap in Four and Six Dmensions"

 

3:30 pm

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Dimension six operators and Higgs Phenomenology"

Aneesh Manohar

UCSD

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell

Colloquium
Ball Hall Room 210

"Order out of chaos: modelling galaxy formation in the cosmological context"

Prof. Andrey Kravtsov, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago

Refreshments at 3:30

 

4:00pm
Wednesday, April 9
Brandeis University
IGERT Seminar
Abelson 229
"Characteristic classes on loop spaces  of 5-manifolds and diffeomorphism groups"
Steve Rosenberg
Boston University

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Boston College Colloquium

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

“Quantum Transport and Correlated Phenomena in Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene Membranes”

Professor Jeanie Lau

Department of Physics, UC Riverside

 


Thursday

12:00pm
Thursday, April 10
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
TBA
Abelson 239 (note room and time)
Ashkan Vaziri
Northeastern University

 

3:30 pm

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Boston University

High Energy Experiment Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Plasma Wakefield Acceleration: Not Your Parents' Particle Accelerator"

Michael Litos

SLAC

Refreshments served

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 34, Room 101

"Optical Control of Solids by “Nonlinear Phononics”"
Andrea Cavalleri

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg and the University of Oxford

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 

 

4:00pm

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

114 Dana Research Center

“Antideuteron Signatures of Dark Matter with the GAPS Experiment”

Kerstin Perez

Columbia University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

7:00pm

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Harvard University

Science Research Lecture

One Oxford Street, Science Center Hall D, Cambridge

“Atomic Legos: Building and Investigating Quantum Materials One Atom at a Time”

Markus Greiner, Professor of Physics

Harvard University


Friday

 

12:00 pm

Friday, April 11, 2014

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Quench Condensed Atomic Calligraphy"

Dr. Matthias Imboden

ECE, Boston University

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

3:00 pm

April 11.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Tungsten transport in JET H-mode plasmas, experimental observations and modelling"
Clemente Angioni
MPI, Garching

 

3:00 PM

Friday, April 11, 2014

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“New Insights into the Formation and Evolution of Today’s Most Massive Galaxies”

Danilo Marchesini

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Tufts University

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