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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of Feb 9



 

Feb 9 – 13, 2015

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

 

11:00 am

Monday, February 9th, 2015

Brandeis University

Sting Theory Seminar

Abelson 307

"GeV Gamma-Rays from the Central Milky Way and the Case for Annihilating Dark Matter"

Tracy Slatyer

MIT

 

 

2:00 pm

Monday, February 9

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar 

``The highs and lows of the QCD axion"

Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute

 

 

2:00 PM

Monday, February 9, 2015

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

TBA

Stefania Gori

Perimeter Institute

 

 

2:00pm

Monday, February 9, 2015

Northeastern University

High Energy Colloquium

114 Dana Research Center

“The Flavor Puzzle”

Wolfgang Altmannshofer

Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Monday February 9, 2015

Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium 

Barus & Holley room 168

"TBA"

David Weitz

Harvard

Refreshments begin at 3:30 

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Harvard University, Physics Department Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Increasing Learning, Engagement, and Personal Interest: A Research-Based Transformation of a Large Introductory Physics Course for Life Science Concentrators."

Logan McCarty and Louis Deslauriers

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

 


Tuesday

 

3:30 PM

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Using entanglements to solve quantum many particle systems"

Steven White

University of California, Irvine

 

 

4:00 pm

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Brandeis University

Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131

"Examining the mechanics of dynamic microtubule networks"

Scott Forth

Rockefeller University

 


Wednesday

 

11:00 AM

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Boston University

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 328

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Shortcuts to adiabaticity across a phase transition"

Prof. Aldofo del Campo

University of Massachusetts, Boston

 

 

2:00pm

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Northeastern University

High Energy Colloquium

114 Dana Research Center

“Avenues Beyond the Higgs Boson”

Brock Tweedie

University of Pittsburgh

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

3:00pm

Wednesday, February 11

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

String Theory Seminar

``Bootstrapping Conformal Field Theories"

David Simmons-Duffin, IAS

 

 

4:00 pm

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Harvard University

LPPC Seminar

Harvard LPPC, 18 Hammond St., Cambridge

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

Matthew Wetstein

University of Chicago

 

 

4.00pm

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Boston College

Physics Colloquium Series

Higgins Hall, Room 310

Nano-Plasmonic Phenomena in Graphene

Zhe Fei

Argonne National Laboratory

 

 

4:00 pm
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Physics Dept. U. Mass Lowell
Colloquium
Olsen 102
Space Physics (and other things) at the Greatest Observatory on Earth: Arecibo Observatory

Dr. Robert Kerr
Arecibo Observatory
Refreshments at 3:30

 

 

4:30 pm
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

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
"Measurements Beyond the Heisenberg uncertainties"

Eugene S. Polzik
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Tea served at 4:00 after short student talk.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/gcalendar.html


Thursday

 

1:00 pm

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Brandeis University

Physics Department Colloquium

Gerstenzang 122

"Active mechanics in living oocytes reveals molecular - scale kinetics"

Wylie Ahmed

Institute Curie

 

 

1:00pm

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Northeastern University

Special Biophysics Seminar

114 Dana Research Center

“Bayesian Cryo-EM Refinement”

Christian Blau

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany

Refreshments served at event.

 

 

1:00 pm

Thursday, Feb 12, 2015

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Gene Wayne

Boston U

"The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation as an approximation for water waves and normal forms for partial differential equations"

Refreshments served at 12:45

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

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"The Physics and Forensics of Neutron Star Explosions"

Anna Watts 

University of Amsterdam

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

 


Friday

 

12:00 Noon

Friday, February 13, 2015

Boston University

Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 352

590 Commonwealth Ave.

TBA

Ilija Zeljkovic

Boston College

Pizza served at 11:45

 

 

3:00

Friday, February 13, 2015

Tufts University

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Robinson Hall, Room 253

“High energy physics in primordial density perturbations”

Xingang Chen

University of Texas at Dallas

Refreshments will be served at 2:30 pm.