Nov 24 – Nov 28, 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.
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Monday
10:30 am
Monday, November 24, 2014
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Atomic and Molecular Physics Division Seminar
Pratt Room, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
Molecular Astronomy: Using Infrared laboratory spectroscopy to understand molecular environments
Dr. Robert Hargreaves
Department of Chemistry, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
11:00am
Monday, November 24, 2014
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Renyi entropy, stationarity, and entanglement of the conformal scalar"
Benjamin Safdi
MIT
12:00 Noon
Monday, November 24, 2014
Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Phase Transitions in Animal Motions"
Hai-Tao Zhang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Pizza served at 11:45 AM
12:00 pm
Monday, November 24, 2014
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Department of Physics
Brown University
Johannes Broedel (ETH - Institute for Theoretical Physics)
"The Drinfeld associator: a universal tool for calculating (string)
amplitudes?"
2:00 pm
Monday, November 24
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
``Emergent fermionic symmetries in large N gauge theories"
Aleksey Cherman, University of Minnesota
Refreshment will be served
4:00 p.m.
Monday November 24, 2014
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley room 168
"Nature of the New Boson: a lonely Higgs, or one of many cousins?"
James Olsen
Princeton
Refreshments begin at 3:30
http://www.brown.edu/academics/physics/
4:00 PM
Monday, November 24, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
Search for New Physics in Final States with Jets at CMS
Dr. Maurizio Pierini - Caltech
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/nuclear.html
4:00pm
Monday, November 24, 2014
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
"Topological modes bound to lattice dislocations in mechanical metamaterials"
Jayson Paulose
Leiden University
4:15 p.m.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
" The Making and Breaking of Non-Abelian Anyons in Electronic Systems."
Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
Tuesday
2:30 pm
Tuesday, November 25
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Joints Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
tba
Mark Hertzberg, MIT-CTP
Refreshment will be served at 2:15PM
4:00 pm (note special day and time due to Thanksgiving holiday)
Tuesday, November 25
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String Theory Seminar
``Heterotic Standard Models and Hypercharge Flux"
Lara Anderson, Virginia Tech
Refreshment will be served
Wednesday
11:00 AM
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
TBA
Dr. Adolfo Grushin
MPIPKS, Dresden
Thursday
Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday
Happy Thanksgiving!