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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of April 21st



April 21 – April 25, 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

 

4:00 p.m.

Monday April 21, 2014

Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Barus & Holley room 168

Ian Fisher (Stanford)

"Electronic nematic phases in high temperature superconductors"

Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Föppl, Fluctuations, and Feynman: Nonlinear Mechanics with Graphene and Nanotubes"

Paul McEuen

Cornell University

tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 


Tuesday

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

“Satus, Prospects, and Interplay with Searches for BSM of Higgs Boson Coupling Measurements"

Prof. Markus Klute

MIT

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

1:15 PM

Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences/Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Solid Earth Physics Seminar

Hoffman 4th Floor Faculty Lounge

20 Oxford Street

Seismic Evidence for Thermal Shear Runaway During Intermediate-depth Earthquakes

Germán A. Prieto

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

2:00 pm

Tuesday, Apr 22, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Lorenzo Campos Venuti

USC

"Theory of temporal fluctuations in out-of-equilibrium dynamics"

Refreshments served at 1:45

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

 

 

3:30 PM

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Graphene and the Magic of Physics in Two Dimensions"

Eva Andrei

Rutgers University

Refreshments served in 1st floor lounge at 3 PM

 


Wednesday

 

2:00 pm

Wednesday, Apr 23, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Quing Zhu

U Connecticut

"Optical imaging for breast and ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment monitoring"

Refreshments served at 1:45

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

 

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Theoretical Seminar:  B&H 555 

Department of Physics

Brown University

Robert DeMello Koch (U Witwatersrand)

"Higher Loop Non-planar Anomalous Dimensions"

 

 

3:30 pm

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Measuring two observables on a single jet"

Duff Neill

MIT

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April  23, 2014

Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell

Colloquium
Ball Hall Room 210

""Bioimaging at the nanoscale -- Single-molecule and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy"

Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University

Refreshments at 3:30

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

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

"Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases in a Dissipative Environment"

Igor Lesanovsky

University of Nottingham

Student Presentation from 4:00-4:10 PM
Refreshments Served from 4:10-4:30 PM
Guest Presentation from 4:30-6:00 PM

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Boston College Colloquium

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

“Quantum Viscosity and Perfect Fluidity in Fermi Gases”

Professor John E. Thomas

North Carolina State University

 


Thursday

 

3:30 PM

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Boston University

High Energy Experiment Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"The Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider: The first four years"

Joao Guimaraes da Costa

Harvard University

Refreshments served

 

 

4:00pm

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium

114 Dana Research Center

“Lessons from the Large Hadron Collider: The Higgs Boson and Beyond”

Matthew Strassler

Harvard University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Fundamental Symmetries of the Early Universe and the Origin of Matter"
Michael Ramsey-Musolf

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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

 

 

4:15pm

Thursday, April 24

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Announcing Joint Harvard/MIT Theory Seminar

Harvard's Jefferson Lab  Room 453

``Anomalies and Hydrodynamics in AdS/CFT"

Hirosi Ooguri

California Institute of Technology

Refreshments served in coffee area 4th floor Jefferson

 


Friday

 

12 Noon

Friday, April 25, 2014

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Traces of integrability in the relaxation in one-dimensional tow-mass mixtures"

Maxim Olchanyi

UMass - Boston

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

1:30pm

Friday, April 25

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Quantum Information  Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``On the informational completeness of local observables"

Isaac Kim, Perimeter Institute

 

 

3:00 PM

Friday, April 25, 2014

Tufts University

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

212 College Avenue, Medford

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“Improving students’ understanding of quantum mechanics”

Chandralekha Singh

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

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

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, Apr 25, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Manas Kulkarni

Princeton

"Aspects of non-equilibrium many-body phenomena in quantum matter and light"

Refreshments served at 2:45

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