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BAPC - Calendar for the Week of May 11



This is the last week of the main calendar (as more and more schools have their graduation, the numbers of colloquiums diminish).  Going forward, and through the summer, please send all seminar announcements to the BAPC late e-mail site. 

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

May 11 – May 15, 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, May 11

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar 

``Cosmic ray physics with AMS02: theoretical perspective and antiproton and positron data"

Kfir Blum, IAS

 

 

4:00 PM

Monday, May 11, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Kolker Room, 26-414

Life on Earth – an Accident?

Prof. Ulf-G. Meissner – University of Bonn

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm

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


Tuesday

 

11:00 am

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Harvard University

Guest Speaker at Professor Philip Kim's Lab

LISE 303

"Low Dimensional Materials for Electronic and Spintronic Applications”

Professor Zhihong Chen

Purdue University

 


Wednesday

 

11:00 AM

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Boston University

Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Metcalf Science Center, Room 328

590 Commonwealth Ave.

"A counterexample to the area law for quantum matter"

Ramis Movassagh

MIT and Northeastern University

 

 

3:00pm

Wednesday, May 13

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

String Theory Seminar

``Gravity from entanglement close to a quantum critical point"

Thomas Faulkner, UIUC

 


Thursday

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Implementing Cat-Codes in Josephson Quantum Circuits"

Michel Devoret

Yale University

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

 

 

4:00PM

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Brandeis University

MRSEC Seminar

Abelson 229

“Frictional interactions in viscous suspensions: Abrupt shear thickening and flow-induced jamming”

Jeff Morris

Department of Chemical Engineering at City College of New York

 


Friday

 

1:30 pm

Friday, May 15

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Quantum Information Processing Seminar

"Gapped and gapless phases of quantum 2-SAT Hamiltonian"

Sergey Bravyi

IBM

 

 

3:00 pm

Friday, May 15, 2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218 

"Theory of tokamaks VDE and associated currents"

Leonid E. Zakharov

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory