BAPC - Calendar for the Week of May 4

May 4 – May 8, 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

2:00PM

Monday, May 4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
``Standard Model Anatomy of Heavy WIMP Observables"

Mikhail Solon, LBL

2:30 PM

Monday, May 4, 2015

Boston University

Particle and Fields Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

"On recent anomalies in B decays at LHCb"

Diego Guadagnoli

LAPTh/Annecy

Coffee served

4:00 PM

Monday, May 4, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Kolker Room, 26-414

Executing a Pincer Movement on the Standard Model at LHCb

Prof. Michael Williams – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm

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

4:15 p.m.
May 04, 2015, Monday
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
“The Flight of the Fruit Fly.”
Itai Cohen, Cornell University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

Tuesday

2:00 p.m.

Tuesday, May 5

Harvard University

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Science Center 530

“The Classification and Construction of Subfactors”

Zhengwei Liu

Vanderbilt University and Harvard University

2:30 pm

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"Multifield Dynamics, Inflation and the Very Early Universe"

Richard Easther

Auckland

Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

Wednesday

3:00PM

Wednesday, May 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String Theory Seminar
``Generic and non-generic heterotic string vacua"

Ilarion Melnikov, Harvard

Thursday

1:00 pm

Thursday, May 7, 2015

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics colloquium series

Science building, room 3-126

Mathieu Beau

UMass Boston

"TBA"

Refreshments served at 12:45

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

3:30 PM

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Boston University

High Energy Experiment Seminar

3 Cummington Mall, Room 595

CALICE: Calorimetry Reinvented

Dr. Jose Repond

Argonne National Laboratory

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Towards Artificial Living Materials"

Michael Brenner

Harvard University

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

Friday

1:30 pm

Friday, May 8

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 Quantum Information Processing Seminar "Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the AdS/CFT correspondence"

Beni Yoshida

Caltech

3:00 pm

Friday, May 8, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

"Trouble at the tokamak boundaray, and what to do about it"

Mike Kotschenreuther

University of Texas