BAPC - Calendar for the Week of Dec 8

Dec 8 – Dec 12, 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

12 Noon

Monday, December 8, 2014

Boston University

Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Light as a Mechanism to Tailor Diffusion"

Manuel I. Marques

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

2.00pm

Monday, December 8, 2014

Boston College

Physics Seminar Series

Higgins Hall, Room 235

Taming light into extreme photonic capabilities: superabsorption, non-resonant field enhancement and near-frozen light

Dr. Stavroula Foteinopoulou

The University of New Mexico

2:00 pm

Monday, December 8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
``Chiral superfluidity for Strong Interactions"
Tigran Kalaydzhyan, Stony Brook
Refreshment will be served

4:00 PM

Monday, December 8, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Kolker Room, 26-414

Making Sense of the XYZ Mesons from QCD

Professor Eric Braaten – Ohio State University

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm

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

4:00pm
Monday, December 8, 2014
Northeastern University
High Energy Theory Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
“Geometries of Supersymmetric Electroweak Vacua”
Cyril Matti

City University, London

Refreshments served at event.

Tuesday

11:00 AM

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Boston University

Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

TBA

Kimberly Reynolds

University of Texas

12:00 PM

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Lunchtime Seminar

Kolker Room, 26-414

Constraining Quark Transversity Through Transverse Spin Asymmetry Measurements at STAR

Prof. Renee Fatemi

Lunch will be served

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

2:30 pm

Tuesday, December 9

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

Joint Tufts/MIT cosmology Seminar

TBA

Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Tufts

Refreshments to be served

3:30 PM

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Information, Computation, and Thermodynamics in Cells"

Pankaj Mehta

Boston University

Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor

Wednesday

3:00 pm

Wednesday, December 10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String Theory Seminar
"Holography of N=2* and N=1* gauge theories"
Henriette Elvang, U Michigan
Refreshment will be served

Thursday

1:00 pm

Thursday, Dec 11, 2014

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Robin Cote

U of Connecticut

"TBA"

Refreshments served at 12:45

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

Friday

12 Noon

Friday, December 12, 2014

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

TBA

Dr. Charles Neill

UC Santa Barbara

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 pm

Friday, December 12, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Secrets of ITER revealed by advanced modeling"
Francesca Poli
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory