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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of April 14th



 

April 14 – April 18, 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 Noon

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Antibiofouling- how a polymer brush repels proteins and our novel integrated design"

Chi Wu

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

2:00PM

Monday, April 14,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
``The 3d Ising Spectrum Minimizes c"
David Simmons-Duffin, IAS
Refreshments will be served

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Monday, April 14, 2014

Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Barus & Holley room 168

Juan Restrepo

“Estimation Challenges in Climate and the Geosciences”

Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 


Tuesday

 

3:30 PM

Tuesday, April 15

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"The 3d Ising Sprectrum Minimizes c"

David Simmons-Duffin

Institute for Advanced Study

Note: Special day

 

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Northeastern University

CIRCS Seminar

114 Dana Research Center

“Exploring the Network Anatomy of Visual Cortical Processing”

Wei-Chung Allen Lee

Harvard Medical School

Refreshments served at event.

 


Wednesday

 

10:30 am

Wednesday, Apr  16, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Ramis Movassagh

MIT

Title: "TBA"

Refreshments served at 10:15

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

 

 

2:00 pm

Wednesday, Apr  16, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Mengyan Shen

UMass Lowell

"Applications of femtosecond-pulsed lasers for advanced material study"

Refreshments served at 1:45

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

 

 

2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 16

Special Quantum Optics Seminar

Lyman 425, Harvard University

“Soft quantum matter for coherent coupling between electrons and photons”

Sanli Faez

Leiden Institute of Physics, The Netherlands

 

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555 

Department of Physics

Brown University

Alexander Maloney (McGill/Harvard)

 

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, April 16

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String Gravity Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Boundary conditions and braids in 3d N=4 gauge theory"

Tudor Dimofte,  IAS

Refreshments served.

 

 

3:30 PM

Wednesday, April 16

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"In wino veritas"

Jiji Fan

Syracuse University

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Boston College Colloquium

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

“Pilot-wave hydrodynamics”

Professor John Bush

Applied Mathematics, MIT

 


Thursday

 

10:30 am

Thursday April 17, 2014

11 Oxford Street, LISE 303

Dr Victor Calado

Kavli Institue of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ballistic transport in ultra-clean edge-contacted graphene

 

 

3:30 PM

Thursday, April 17

Boston University

High Energy Experiment Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Recent results from BICEP2 (TBC)

Dr. Colin Bischoff

Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Cavity Optomechanics with a Gas of Cold Atoms"
Dan Stamper-Kurn

University of California, Berkeley

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

 

 

8:00pm

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Harvard University

David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics

One Oxford Street, Science Center Hall B, Cambridge

“The Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism and its Scalar Bosons”

François Englert, 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Reception following lecture

 


Friday

 

12 Noon

Friday, Apr 18, 2014

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Antibiofouling- how a polymer brush repels proteins and our novel integrated design"

Chi Wu

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

1:30 pm

Friday, Apr 18, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Claudia De Grandi

Yale

"Artificial atoms in a box --- or how we can tame quantum physics"

Refreshments served at 1:15

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

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, Apr 18, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Hrvoje Buljan

University of Zagreb

"Synthetic Lorentz force in classical atomic gases via Doppler effect and radiation pressure"

Refreshments served at 2:45

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

 

 

3:00 PM

Friday, April 18, 2014

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors aren’t?”

Ned S. Wingreen

Princeton University

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

 

 

3:00 pm

April 18
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Stopping power in dense plasmas”
Paul Graboski
University of California, Irvine