Boston Area Physics Calendar
Monday, April 29, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
2:00 pm
Monday, April 29
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Noise analyses: A new way to non-perturbative studies of fermions?"
Joaquin Drut
UNC
Refreshments served.
4:15 PM
Monday, April 29, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Fundamental Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt for Dark Matter"
Stefano Profumo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
12:00 PM
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Model Independent Direct Detection of Dark Matter"
Emanuel Katz
Boston University
Lunch is provided
http://web.mit.edu/lns/news/
2:30 pm
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Instability in theories with many fields"
Ali Masoumi
Columbia
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251
3:30 PM
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 109
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Communities, Hierarchy, and Large-Scale Structure in Networks"
Mark Newman
University of Michigan
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge
4:00pm
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"From black holes to strange metals: many-body physics through a gravitational lens"
Hong Liu
MIT
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Harvard University
David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics
Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford St.
"Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era"
Roy J. Glauber, Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics
2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
2:00 PM
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Equilibration and coarsening in the quantum 0(N) model"
Anushya Chandran
Princeton University
2:00PM
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
Jordan M. Horowitz, UMass Boston
"Thermodynamics with feedback: Extracting work from information"
Refreshments served at 1:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim.Olchanyi@umb.edu>
3:00 pm
Wednesday, May 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
"Physical entanglement entropy: relative entropy and mutual information"
Horacio Casini
Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina
Refreshments served.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
12:00noon (note time change)Thursday, May 2, 2013
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
"Frustration & Optimal Packing in Soft Assemblies:
from Spherical Crystals to Twisted Filaments Bundles (and back again)"
Greg Grason
UMASS Amherst
4:00 PM
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center RM 114
"Definitive Detection of Dark Matter with Directional Devices"
James Battat
Bryn Mawr College
Refreshments served at event.
4:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Computational Particle Accelerator Physics - Multidisciplinary Science for next generation Accelerators"
Andreas Adelmann
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/
Friday, May 3, 2013
12 Noon
Friday, May 3, 2013
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
"Whither the Correlated Oxide Interface?"
Jak Chakhalian
University of Arkansas
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
2:00PM
Friday, May 3, 2013
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
Sidney Redner, Boston University
"Fate of the Kinetic Ising Mode"
Refreshments served at 1:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim.Olchanyi@umb.edu>
3:00 p.m.
May 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Turbulence-driven intrinsic rotation in tokamaks"
Michael Barnes
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Tufts University
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
212 College Avenue, Medford
Robinson Hall, Room 253
“Transforming the teaching of physics in high school and university: Challenges and opportunities”
Stamatis Vokos
Seattle Pacific University
Refreshments will be served at 2:30 pm in the Knipp Library, Robinson 251.