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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of Nov 10



Nov 10 – Nov 14, 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

 

10:30 am

Monday, November 10, 2014

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Atomic and Molecular Physics Division Seminar

Pratt Room, 60 Garden Street
Hot Gas Emission Spectroscopy: Measuring all Energy Levels of Small Polyatomic Molecules

Georg Mellau
Physikalisch Chemisches Institut, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany

 

4:00 p.m.

Monday November 10, 2014

Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Barus & Holley room 168

"Emergence from frustration: spin liquid and high temperature superconductivity"

Patrick Lee

MIT

Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
“Chasing the Fundamental: An Experimentalist’s Perspective, from CERN to FNAL.”
Sarah Demers

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


Tuesday

 

3:30 PM

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Seeking Quantum Speedup Through Spin Glasses: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"

Helmut G. Katzgraber

Texas A & M University

Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

 

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Testing Turing's Theory of Morphogenesis"
Seth Fraden
Brandeis University


Wednesday

 

2:30 pm

Wednesday, 12  November 2014

High Energy Theory Seminar:  BH555 

Department of Physics

Brown University
"Mirror Symmetry, Partition Function and Gauged Linear Quivers"

 

3:00 pm

Wednesday, November 12, 3:00pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

String Theory Seminar

``Mock modular Mathieu moonshine and K3 surfaces"

Sarah Harrison, Harvard

refreshments will be served

 

 

4:00pm
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Brandeis University
IGERT Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"Applications of quantum field theory to geometry and topology: observables and index theory"
Ryan Grady
Boston University

 

 

4:00pm
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Northeastern University
Special CIRCS Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
“Assessing the Pandemic Potential of the Ebola West Africa Outbreak”
Alessandro Vespignani

Northeastern University

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4pm

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Boston College

Physics Colloquium Series

Higgins Hall, Room 310

Functional Nanomaterials for Nanoelectronics and Energy Applications

Chen Yang

Perdue University

 

4:00 pm
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell
Colloquium
Olsen 102
Cerenkov Light Imaging of Radiation Dose in Cancer Radiotherapy
Prof. Brian Pogue
Dartmouth College


Thursday

 

12:30 PM

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"From the CMB to fundamental physics - A closer look at n_s and r"

Raphael Flauger

Carnegie Mellon University

Refreshments served

 

 

2:00

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Tufts University

Department of Physics & Astronomy

4 Colby Street

STC, Room 136

“Non-local Quantum Effects in Cosmology”

John Donoghue

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

 

4:00pm
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
“Programmable DNA Compartments as Artificial Cells on a Chip”
Roy Bar-Ziv

Weizmann Institute of Science

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

“Micromechanical Studies of DNA-Protein Interactions and Chromosome Organization"

John Marko

Northwestern University

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

 


Friday

 

12 Noon

Friday, November 14, 2014

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Aggregation, packing, and response of soft matter"

Arshad Kudrolli

Clark University

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

1:00 pm

Friday, Nov 14, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Ted Pudlik

Boston U

"Semiclassical tunneling in a (dissipative) Bose-Hubbard dimer"

Refreshments served at 12:45

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

 

 

1:30pm

Friday, November 14, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics;  Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

Quantum Information Processing Seminar

Title: "A general transfer-function approach to noise filtering in open-loop quantum control"

Speaker: Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, November 14, 2014

Tufts University

Department of Physics & Astronomy

4 Colby Street

STC, Room 136

“Energy Lens:  Some Thoughts on Teaching and Learning about Energy from Third Grade to College”

Roger Tobin

Tufts University

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, November 14
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Gyrotron drilling full bore"
Paul Woskov
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center