BAPC Events Week of April 20-24

[Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu>]

The Boston Area Physics Calendar for the week of April 20-24, 2026

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

Tuesday:

4:00pm
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
UMass Lowell
Olsen Hall 503
"Frontiers in Astronomy Education: Developing the Astrophysical Fluency of 
Astro Majors and the Public"
Dr. Edward Prather, University of Arizona

4:30pm
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Harvard University, Physics Department
2026 Lee Historical Lecture in Physics
17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, Jefferson 250
"Spin glasses, Complexity and All That"
Giorgio Parisi, University La Sapienza Roma

Thursday:

2:00pm
Friday, April 24, 2026
The NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions
IAIFI Public Colloquium
MIT Kolker Room (26-414)
"LLM Processes: Incorporating Expert Priors into Scientific Modeling via 
Natural Language"
James Requeima, Google DeepMind
Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91200832411
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCueoFcGm_15kSB-wDd4CBZA

Friday:

11:00am
Friday, April 24
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
13^th Annual Meservey Memorial Lecture
Pappalardo Room, 4-349
"Conventional high(room)-temperature superconductivity: from A15 to MgB2 
to H3S to metallic hydrogen"
Igor Mazin, George Mason University