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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of April 27



Apr 27 – May 1, 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 before 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

 

2:00 pm

Monday, April 27

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar 

``A taste of dark matter: Flavour constraints on pseudo scalar mediators"

Matthew Dolan, SLAC/Stanford

 

 

3:00 pm

Monday, April 27, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joint MIT ANS & Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

“Recent Scientific Advances in NNSA Programs"

Don Cook

Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs

National Nuclear Science Administration

 

 

4:00 PM

Monday, April 27, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Kolker Room, 26-414

The Revival of Self-Interacting Dark Matter

Prof. Manoj Kaplinghat – University of California, Irvine

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm

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

 

 

4:15 p.m.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Harvard University, Physics Department Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Grid Cells and Neural Maps for Space"

May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser

NTNU, Norway
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu


Tuesday

 

2:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 28

Harvard University

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Science Center 530

Airy Diffusion and N1/3 Fluctuations in the 2D Ising Model

Senya B. Shlosman

Aix-Marseille University and Brown University

 

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, April 28

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar 

``Current challenges in CMB cosmology"

Renee Hlozek, Princeton

 

 

3:20 PM

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Boston University

Physics Colloquium

Edmonds Distinguished Lecture

Metcalf Science Center, Room 109

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Entanglement: The Hooks that Hold Space Together"

Leonard Susskind

Stanford University

Refreshments served at 2:50 PM in 1st floor lounge

 


Wednesday

 

12 noon

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Boston University

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

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"Role of precursors in crystal nucleation: From hard spheres to water"

Prof. Hajime Tanaka

University of Tokyo

Pizza served at 11:45 AM

 

 

3:00pm

Wednesday, April 29

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

String Theory Seminar

``Entwinement, entanglement and spacetime"

Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

3:30 PM

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, room 595

TBA

Chris Brust

Perimeter Institute

Coffee served

 


Thursday

 

1:00 pm

Thursday, Apr 30, 2015

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Israel Klich

U of Virginia

"TBA"

Refreshments served at 12:45

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

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Bringing Together Physics, Biology, and Medicine to Hit HIV Where It Hurts"

Arup Chakraborty

MIT

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

 

 

4:00pm

Thursday, April 30, 2015 

Boston College

Physics Colloquium Series

Higgins Hall, Room 235

Coherent X-ray Nanovision  

Dr. Oleg Shpyrko 

Department of Physics

University of California, San Diego 

 


Friday

 

2:00 pm

Friday, May 1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 Quantum Information Processing Seminar "Cycling through mutually unbiased bases"

William Wootters

Williams College

 

 

2:00 pm

Friday, May 1, 2015

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Steve Hagen

U Florida

"Worlds within worlds: Bacterial circuitry for sensing and processing environmental cues"

Refreshments served at 1:45

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