BAPC Events Week of April 13-17

[Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu>]

The Boston Area Physics Calendar for the week of April 13-17, 2026

For submission format and general info see 
https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html

Tuesday:

8:00 am–5:00 pm
Tuesday-Wednesday April 15–16, 2026
Harvard CMSA
Swampland and our Universe Workshop
Room G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Ignatios Antoniadis, IAS, Princeton
Alek Bedroya, Princeton
Mike Boylan-Kolchin, UT Austin
Raphael Flauger, UC San Diego
M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, ICREA U. Barcelona & YITP Stony Brook
Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, UT Dallas
Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins
Miguel Montero, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Madrid
Georges Obied, UChicago
Matt Reece, Harvard
https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/swampland2026/

2:30 pm
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
574 Boston Ave, Room 310
"Discovering supermassive black hole binaries in multi-messenger 
observations"
Chengcheng Xin, Harvard
Refreshments at 2:00 outside the building, at the corner of Harvard St. 
and Boston Ave.

4:00pm
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
UMass Lowell
Physics Colloquium
Olsen Hall 503
Hugo Ribeiro, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Title: "Topological braiding operations with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians"

Wednesday:

8:00 am–5:00 pm
Harvard CMSA
Swampland and our Universe Workshop
See above

Thursday:

4:00pm
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"Physics of cellular proportions"
Jané Kondev, Brandeis University
Zoom Link: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/91337123684