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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of April 28th



April 28 – May 2, 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

 

1:30 pm

Monday, Apr 28, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Naomichi Hatano

U Tokyo 

"Arrow of time in quantum mechanics"

Refreshments served at 1:15

 

 

2:00 pm

Monday, April 28
Harvard University Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP) & Harvard Chemistry & Chemical Biology
ITAMP/CCB Joint Quantum Sciences Seminar in Chemistry
Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford Street
"Pushing the boundaries of wavefunction based ab initio approaches"
Prof. Frank Neese, MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion
Refreshments served at 1:45 pm

 

 

2:00pm

Monday, April 28

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Exact lattice supersymmetry: N=4 Yang-Mills"

Simon Catterall, Syracuse University

Refreshments served.

 

 

4:00 PM 

Monday, April 28, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)

Kolker Room, 26-414

"AMS-02:  Status and Perspectives"

Prof. Paolo Zuccon

MIT

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.

Monday April 28, 2014

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium 

Jefferson 250, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Marc Mézard, Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (http://lptms.u-psud.fr/membres/mezard/)

"The spin glass cornucopia"

Tea at 3:30 in the Physics Library, Jefferson 450

https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/305

 


Tuesday

 

11:00am
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Recent progress on period integrals"
Bong Lian
Brandeis University

 

12:00 PM

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ­ Laboratory for Nuclear Science

LNS Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

"Proton Form Factors:  Interesting at All Scales"

Dr. Jan C. Bernauer

MIT

Lunch is provided

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

 

 

2:30pm

Tuesday, April 29

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Probing inflation with large scale structure"

Nishant Agarwal, CMU

Refreshments served.

 

 

3:20 PM

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Boston University

2014 Edmonds Distinguished Lecture

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"The Lord of the Rings and Mr. Higgs' Boson: What Next?"

Michel Spiro

National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France Refreshments served in 1 st floor lounge at 2:50 PM

 

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Nanoscale Coaxial Probes with Optical, Solar and Sensing Utility"
Michael J. Naughton
Boston College

 


Wednesday

 

2:00pm

Wednesday, April 30

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium 

Science Center Lecture Hall A, One Oxford Street, Cambridge

Marc Mézard, Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (http://lptms.u-psud.fr/membres/mezard/)

“Occam’s razor in massive data acquisition: a statistical physics approach”

https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/305

 

 

2:00 pm

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Shannon L Stott

Harvard MGH 

 "TBA"

Refreshments served at 1:15

 

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, April 30

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity  Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Exactsolutions of 2d SQCD's"

Adhijit Gadde, Cal Tech

Refreshments served.

 

 

3:30 PM

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

TBA

Walter Goldberger

Yale University

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Boston College Colloquium

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

“Spin and pseudospins in 2D semiconductors”

Professor Xiaodong Xu

University of Washington

 


Thursday

 

3:30 PM

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Boston University

High Energy Experiment Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"Dark Matter in the Black Hills: the LUX experiment"

Dr. Simon Fiorucci

Brown University

Refreshments served

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) High-Energy X-ray Mission: Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus"
Fiona Harrison

California Institute of Technology

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

 


Friday

 

1:30 pm

Friday,  May 2  

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Quantum Information Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

``Good quantum  codes with low-weight stabilizers"

Sergey Bravyi, IBM

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, May 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
“Beam dynamics in high intensity cyclotrons: can fusion theorists help nuclear medicine?”
Antoine Cerfon
New York University