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
LATE submissions: Send to
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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 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 "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 |