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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of Nov 3



Nov 3 – Nov 7, 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

 

11:00am
Monday, November 3, 2014
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Critical Mass of Neutron Stars: A Black Hole Entropic View"
Parthasarathi Majumdar
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University

 

3:00 pm

Monday , November 3

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar

TBA

Patrick Meade, SUNY Stony Brook

refreshment wil be served.

 

 

4:00 PM

Monday, November 3, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Kolker Room, 26-414

Building Big and Thinking Fast:  New Prospects for Neutrino Physics with Cherenkov and Scintillating Detectors

Dr. Matthew Wetstein – University of Chicago

Lee Grodzins Prize Award Winner

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm

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

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Monday November 3, 2014

Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Barus & Holley room 168

"Cosmology as a Probe of Physics Beyond the Standard Model" 

Scott Watson

Syracuse

Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, November 03, 2014
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
“Blood from a Stone: Precision Jet Physics at the LHC.”
Matthew Schwartz

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


Tuesday

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The Quantum and the Continuum: Einstein's dichotomous legacies"
Parthasarathi Majumdar
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University


Wednesday

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

High Energy Theory Seminar:  BH555 

Department of Physics

Brown University
"Intermediate Scalings in Holographic RG Flows and Conductivities"
Sera Cremonini (Cambridge/Texas A&M)

 

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, November 5

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

String Theory Seminar

``The accelerated string in Anti-de Sitter space"

David Vegh, IAS

refreshment wil be served.

 

 

4pm

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Boston College

Physics Colloquium Series

Higgins Hall, Room 310

Designing Emergent Matter: How Physicists Think About New Materials

David Mandrus 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

 

4:30 pm
Wednesday, November 5 , 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
“Inducing Photonic transitions for enabling next generation Silicon Photonics”
Michal Lipson
Cornell University
Tea served at 4:00 after short student talk.

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html


Thursday

 

1:00 pm

Thursday, Nov 6, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Gershon Kurizki

Weizmann Institute of Science

"What is truly quantum about quantum thermodynamics?"

Refreshments served at 12:45

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

 

 

4:00pm
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
“Compact Fiber Lasers for Mid-Infrared Photothermal Spectroscopy”
Michelle Sander

Boston University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Optical Tweezers:  Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time"

Steven Block

Stanford University

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

 


Friday

 

1:00 pm

Friday, Nov 7, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Tyrone Porter

Boston U

"TBA"

Refreshments served at 12:45

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

 

 

1:30pm

Friday, November 7, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics;  Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442 Quantum Information Processing Seminar "Compressing wave functions: The NO MAGIC algorithm"

Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

 

 

2:00 pm

November 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Advances in non-axisymmetric field research on DIII-D"
Carlos Paz-Soldan
General Atomics

 

3:00

Friday, November 7, 2014

Tufts University

Department of Physics & Astronomy

4 Colby Street

STC, Room 136

“Do supermassive black holes stunt galaxy growth?”

Mark Lacy

North American ALMA Science Center

Refreshments will be served at 2:30 pm.

 

 

4pm
Friday, November 7, 2014
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
"Fire ant rafts assemble, morph and repair"
David L. Hu
Georgia Institute of Technology

 

4pm

Friday, 7 November 2014

Boston College

Physics Colloquium Series

Higgins Hall, Room 310

Exotic superconductivity at the itinerant-to-local moment crossover: A superconductivity-magnetism "emulsion"

Emilia Morosan

Rice University 

 

 


Saturday

 

9:30am - 3:00pm
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Brandeis University
Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting (GBASM)
Lemberg Academic Center
Invited Speakers: Maria Kilfoil, UMass Amherst; Tom Powers, Brown University; Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard University; Adam P. Willard, MIT
Registration deadline: Saturday, November 1: https://sites.google.com/a/brandeis.edu/gbasm/home/registration-form