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BPAC week of 11/11/19 – 11/15/19

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BPAC week of 11/11/19 – 11/15/19

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 2019

11:00AM 
Tuesday, November 12
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar  
Abelson 307
"The Schottky Anomaly of de Sitter Black Holes"  
Jennie Traschen, UMass Amherst

12:00 pm
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
MIT - LNS Lunchtime Seminar
26-414
“Strangers in a Strange (Quantum) Land”
Joseph Formaggio, MIT

2:30pm 
Tuesday, November 12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
``A Bumpy Start to a Smooth Ride: Onset of Inflation amid Backreaction 
from Inhomogeneities"
David I Kaiser, MIT
Refreshments served at 2:15

3:30 PM
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 109 
"New Directions in Neutrino Physics"
Sam Zeller, Fermilab

4:00PM
Tuesday, November 12 
Brandeis University
Physics Department Colloquium  
Abelson 131  
"Virus biophysics as a basis for developing Hepatitis B Virus-specific 
antivirals"
Adam Zlotnick, Indiana University
Refreshments served at 3:30pm


WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 2019

2:00 pm
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Northeastern University Physics Department Condensed Matter Theory
114 Dana Research Center
“Boosting Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations with Machine Learning”
Professor Huitao Shen, MIT

4:15 PM
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Boston University
HET Seminar
Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Mall, Room 595 
"Does Conformal Imply Weyl Invariance in Quantum Field Theory?"
Valentina Prilepina, Laval University


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 2019

12:45pm
Thursday, November 14, 2019
UMass Boston Physics Colloquium
S-3-126
"The Sound of Fermions"
Martin Zwierlein, MIT
https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/physics/events/seminars

4:00PM
Thursday, November 14
Brandeis University
Dark Universe Seminar
Abelson 333  
"Understanding the Nature of Neutrinos via Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay"
Wenqin Xu, University of South Dakota

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 14th 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
Title TBA, see website
Allan MacDonald
University of Texas, Austin
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

6:00 pm
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Northeastern University Physics Department
108 Snell Engineering Center
"The Universe Speaks in Numbers”
Professor Graham Farmelo, Cambridge University and Northeastern University
Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed, Princeton
Book Signing at 7:15 pm

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2019

3:00 pm                 
Friday, November 15, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218 
“Localized divertor leakage measurements using isotopic tungsten sources 
and implications on core contamination during ELM-y H-mode discharges on 
DIII-D”
Zeke Unterberg

3:00 PM
Friday, November 15, 2019    
Tufts University                                        
Physics and Astronomy Department Colloquium
574 Boston Ave., Room 401
“The Physics of Virus Self-assembly”
Vinothan Manoharan, Harvard University