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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of Dec 1



Dec 1 – Dec 5, 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, December 1, 2014
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Braiding knots with topological string"
Jie Gu
Bonn University

 

2:00 pm

Monday, December 1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

"Revealing dark showers at the LHC"

Tim Lou, Princeton

Refreshments serve

 

 

4:00 PM

Monday, December 1, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Kolker Room, 26-414

Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment and the Future

Professor Yifang Wang – IHEP Beijing, China

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm

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

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Monday December 1, 2014

Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Barus & Holley room 168

"The structure of the universe as a link between cosmology and dark matter physics"

Savvas Koushiappas

Brown

Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250
" Multiscale Self-Organization of Emulsions."
Jasna Brujic, NYU
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu


Tuesday

 

2:30 p.m. – Note the time difference for this special talk and tea.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Harvard University, Department of Physics

“Special” Colloquium, Jefferson 250
“Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment and the Future.”
Yifang Wang, Institute of High Energy Physics in China
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 1:45 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"Quantization Of Linearized Gravity In Cosmological Vacuum Spacetimes"

Chris Fewster

York

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

 

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Northeastern University
Special Physics Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
“Rheological Behavior of Ionomers”
Robert A. Weiss

The University of Akron

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00pm
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lectures
Abelson 131
"The topology of random real hypersurfaces and percolation."
Peter Sarnak
Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University


Wednesday

 

3:30 pm (note new time)

Wednesday, December 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Joint with Harvard String Theory Seminar
“AGT and Triality"

Mina Aganagic, UC Berkeley

Refreshment will be served

 

 

4:00pm
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lectures
Abelson 131
"Nodal domains for Maass (modular) forms."
Peter Sarnak
Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Harvard University

LPPC Seminar

Harvard LPPC, 18 Hammond St., Cambridge

"Naturalness and Searches for Vector-like Quarks with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider"

Mark Cooke

LBNL

 

 

4:30 pm
Wednesday, December 3, 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
"A single charge in a Bose-Einstein condensate:  from two to few to many-body physics"
Prof. Tilman Pfau
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Tea served at 4:00 after short student talk.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html


Thursday

 

1:00 pm

Thursday, Dec 4, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Mikhail Zvonarev

U Paris-Sud, France

"TBA"

Refreshments served at 12:45

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

 

 

3:30 PM

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Boston University

High Energy Experiment Seminar joint with Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

TBA

Dr. Mariangela Lisanti

Princeton University

Refreshments served

 

 

4:00pm
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Northeastern University
Joint CIRCS/Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
“Concepts of Protein Dynamics and Neutron Scattering”
Hans Frauenfelder

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Progress towards ignition on the National Ignition Facility"

Omar Hurricane

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 8-329
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html


Friday

 

12 Noon

Friday, December 5, 2014

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Complex Materials"

Rick Averitt

University of California, San Diego

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

1:30 pm

Friday, December 5

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442

Quantum Information Processing Seminar

"Toward an objective principle for decomposing the wavefunction into classical branches"

Jess Riedel

IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, December 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Kinetic modeling and ion probe beam experiments in a dense plasma focus Z-pinch"
Andrea Schmidt
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

4:00pm
Friday, December 5, 2014
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lectures
Abelson 131
"Families of zeta functions, their symmetries and applications."
Peter Sarnak
Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University

 

 

4pm

Friday, 5 December, 2014

Boston College
Physics Colloquium Series

Higgins Hall, Room 310

Controlling functional properties of complex oxides via the subtle structural changes induced by strain and interfaces

Hans Christen

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/physics/news-and-events/seminars-colloquia/12-5-14_christen.html