BPAC for week of 9/16/19 – 9/20/19

["Clayman, Stephanie D" <sclayman fas harvard edu>]

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR   9/16/19 - 9/20/19
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2:00PM 
Monday, September 16, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
``Dark Matter Strikes Back at the Galactic Center”
Rebecca Leane, MIT-CTP

4:00 PM 
Monday, September 16, 2019 
Brown University Department of Physics 
Barus and Holley 166
“Processing in the Brain?” 
Matthew Fisher, UCSB

4:15pm
Monday, September 16, 2019
Harvard University, Department of Physics
17 Oxford Street, Jefferson 250
2019 Loeb Lectures in Physics 
“The unreasonable effectiveness of deep learning”
Yann LeCun, New York University and Facebook AI Research

4:15pm
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Harvard University, Department of Physics
17 Oxford Street, Jefferson 250
2019 Loeb Lectures in Physics
“The energy-based formulation of learning”
Yann LeCun, New York University and Facebook AI Research

4:00 PM
Wednesday, September 18, 2019   
Boston College
Colloquium Series                                                 
Higgins Hall 310     
"Artificial atoms: quantum optics and spin physics of quantum dots"
Edward Flagg, West Virginia University
http://events.bc.edu/event/physics_colloquium_edward_flagg_west_virginia_university#.XXfWxehKiUk

2:30 pm
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
574 Boston Ave, Room 316
"Inflation and the theory of gravity"
Tommi Tenkanen, Johns Hopkins
Refreshments at 2:00 outside room 304

4:15pm
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Harvard University, Department of Physics
17 Oxford Street, Jefferson 250
2019 Loeb Lectures in Physics
“Intriguing connections between deep learning and physics”
Yann LeCun, New York University and Facebook AI Research

12:45pm
Thursday, Sep 19, 2019
UMass Boston Physics Colloquium
S-3-126
"TBA"
Zlatko Minev, IBM

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 19th, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
“The Black Hole Shadow in M87.”
Dan Marrone, University of Arizona
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

3:00 pm                 
Friday, September 20, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218 
"Ion heating by cryogenic pellet injection"
Per Helander, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

3:00 PM
Friday, September 20, 2019    
Tufts University                                        
Physics and Astronomy Department Colloquium
574 Boston Ave., Room 401
“Collision Course: Particle Physics Meets Machine Learning”
Jesse Thaler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology