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BAPC-Calendar for the Week of April 4



 

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

 

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the department of Physics at Northeastern University. Entries should be sent no later than 12:00 pm on the Thursday 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

11:00am

Monday, April 4, 2016

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar

Abelson 307

“Some geometrical aspects of entanglement in CFT & Holography”

Erik Tonni

SISSA

 

2:00pm

Monday, April 4

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center of Theoretical Physics

Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar

Cosman Room, 6c-442

``The cosmological constant problem in scalar gravity"

Prateek Agrawal, Harvard

 

 

4:00 PM

Monday, April 4, 2016

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium

Kolker Room, 26-414

Limiting WIMPS:  Recent LUX Results

Prof. Kimberly Palladino – University of Wisconsin

Refreshments served at 3:30 pm

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

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Monday, April 4, 2016

Boston College

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

Photo-induced force microscopy: nanoscale imaging with chemical recognition

Ryan A. Murdick

Molecular Vista

 

 

4:15 p.m.

Monday, April 4, 2016

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250

“Learning and Inference When There Is Little Data”

Yasser Roudi

Norwegian University of Science and Technology tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm http://www.physics.harvard.edu

 

 

Tuesday

 

2:30 pm

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar

574 Boston Ave, Room 310

"Our ears are open: Listening to two-body dynamics with gravitational waves"

Scott Hughes

MIT

Refreshments at 2:00 outside room 304

 

 

4:00pm

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Brandeis University

Physics Department Colloquium

Abelson 131

“Gravitational Wave Detection with Advanced LIGO”

Matthew Evans

MIT

Refreshments at 3:30pm outside of Abelson 131

 

 

7:00 pm

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

John Harvard's, Harvard Square

33 Dunster St

Cambridge, MA 02138

"Ultra-low Temperature Science and Technology - Realization and Applications"

Zuyu Zhao, Vice President and Principle Scientist, Janis Research Corporation

Join us for a free drink, great food, and a fun night of networking. Free to attend and open to all.

go.aps.org/local_links

 

 

Wednesday

 

12 noon

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Brandeis University

String Theory Seminar

Abelson 229

TBA

Daniel Harlow

Harvard University

 

 

3:00pm

Wednesday, April 6

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center of Theoretical Physics

String/Gravity  Theory Seminar

Cosman Room, 6c-442

``De Sitter spaces emerging from entanglement in conformal field theories"

Curtis Asplund, Columbia

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Boston College

Department of Physics

Higgins 310

Thoughts on a Theory of Space Weathering. Or, how rocks can make glass, iron, and life

Daniel Britt

Dept. of Physics,

University of Central Florida

 

 

 

Thursday

 

1:00 pm

Thursday, April 7, 2016

University of Massachusetts Boston

Physics Colloquium

Science Center, Room S-3-126

“Compression and Lubrication of Salt Free Polyelectrolyte Microgel Particles in Highly Compressed Suspensions by Counterion Osmotic Pressure”

Jeffrey Sokoloff

Physics Department and Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Complex Systems, Northeastern U

Refreshments served at 12:45, S-3-126

Questions: Maxim Olshanii Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series

Building 10, Room 250

"Inside the Iran Deal: the technical evolution of a historic agreement"

R. Scott Kemp

MIT

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349

http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

 

 

Friday

 

3:00 p.m.

Friday, April 8, 2016

Tufts University Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series

574 Boston Ave., Medford, MA, Room 401

“Curvature Directed Assembly”

Kathleen Stebe

University of Pennsylvania

Refreshments @ 2:30pm outside of Room 401

 

 

3:00 p.m.           

Friday, April 8, 2016

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar

Building NW17-218

"Climate science and climate risks"

Kerry Emanuel

MIT