THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Physics Department at Boston University.
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Monday, February 12, 2018:
11:00 am
Monday, February 12, 2018
Boston University
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
"Operator Spreading and the Quantum Butterfly Effect in Random Unitary Circuts"
Sagar Vijay
MIT
2:00 pm
Monday, February 12, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Multi-hadron transition rates from lattice QCD"
Maxwell Hansen, CERN
4:00 pm
Monday, February 12, 2018
Boston University
Metcalf Science Center, Room 117
Biophysics Seminar
"Single Molecules Come Into Focus: Understanding RNA-Driven Regulation From First Principles"
Nils G. Walter
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4:00 pm
Monday, February 12, 2018
Brown University
"New Frontiers in Cosmology"
Cora Dvorkin
Brown University
Barus and Holley 166
4:00 pm
Monday, February 12, 2018
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
26-414
"Unlocking the Higgs Portal with Exotic Higgs Decays"
Verena Martinez Outschoorn
UMass Amherst
Tuesday, February 13, 2018:
2:00 pm
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Boston University
Physics Research Building, Room 595
HET Seminar
"Dynamics of 2+1-dimensional Quantum Field Theory: Confinement, Symmetry Breaking, and Topological Order"
Zohar Komargodski
Stony Brook
2:30 pm
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"Spin-2 scattering amplitudes and asymptotic superluminality"
Austin Joyce
Columbia University
Refreshment served at 2:15PM
3:00 pm
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Tufts University
High Energy Physics Seminar
574 Boston Ave., Medford, MA, Room 310
"Measuring reactor neutrino oscillations in the Double Chooz experiment"
Ralitsa Sharankova
Tufts University
3:30PM
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Boston University
Physics Research Building, Room 595
HEE Seminar
"Jet substructure as a key to LHC physics"
Clemens Lange
CERN
4:00 pm
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Brandeis University
Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The elastic Leidenfrost effect: coupling vapor release and elastic deformations to power sustained bouncing"
Scott Russell Waitukaitis
AMOLF
Refreshments 3:30pm outside of Abelson 131
4:00 pm
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Department of Physics, Jefferson 356
"Canonical Bases for Permutohedral Plates"
Nicholas Early
University of Minnesota
Wednesday, February 14, 2018:
3:00 pm
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6C-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
“Bootstrapping large charge operators”
Daniel Jafferis
Harvard University
Thursday, February 15, 2018:
12:45 pm
Thursday, February 15, 2018
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics Colloquium
Science Center, Room S-3-126
"Very attractive photons"
Vladan Vuletic
MIT
3:30 pm
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Boston University
Physics Research Building, Room 595
HEE Seminar
"A Stop to Natural SUSY?"
Indara Suarez
University of California, Santa Barbara
4:00 pm
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Brandeis University
Physics Department Special Seminar
Abelson 131
"Active nematic liquid crystals in biological materials: from multicellular tissues to active bio-polymers"
Guillaume Duclos
Brandeis University
Refreshments 3:30pm outside of Abelson 131
4:00 pm
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
“Black Holes, Quantum Information, and Unification”
Raphael Bousso
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
Friday, February 16, 2018:
3:00 pm
Friday, February 16, 2018
Tufts University Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
574 Boston Ave., Medford, MA, Room 401
"Five years on Mars: Exploration of Gale crater with the Curiosity Rover"
Kevin Lewis
Johns Hopkins University
Refreshments @ 2:30pm outside of Room 401