Departmental events

August 1st, 2009 to July 31st, 2010. Previous/next year.
Aug05
Jia Shao - Departmental Seminar
Aug11
Jie Lou - Final Oral Examination
Aug14
Ling Wang Final Oral Defense
Aug19
Kristen Stoops
Rosetta Biosoftware
Women in Physics Luncheon
Aug26
Misako Takayasu, Tokyo Institute of Technology    
Hideki Takayasu, Sony Computer Science Laboratories
Tea Time, 4:30 PM
Network Structure of Japanese Business Firm
Sep09
Utku Kemiktarak - Ph.D. Final Oral Exam
Sep11
Undergraduate Reception
Sep16
Emanuele Dalla Torre
The Weizmann Institute
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, SCI328, 1:50 PM
Quantum critical states and phase transitions in the presence of non equilibrium noise
Sep23
Annual Departmental BBQ
Sep30
Arnab Sen
Boston University
1:45 PM
Geometrically frustrated magnets
Sep30
Andrew Inglis 
Departmental Seminar - Organization of Neurons and other Cells in the Brain
Oct05
Fabio Franchini
ICTP, Triste, Italy
Special date and time; Monday at 11 AM
Nonlinear dynamics of spin and charge in spin-Calogero model
Oct13
David Schaich
David Schaich - Preliminary Oral Exam
Oct30
Mark Dickison - Preliminary Oral Examination
Oct30
Pumpkin Drop 2009
Oct30
Sebastian Remi - Preliminary Oral Exam
Nov04
Erez Berg
Harvard University
A Twisted Ladder: relating the Fe superconductors to the high Tc cuprates
Nov19
Alexander DeMasi - Preliminary Oral Exam
Nov20
Tyler Dunn - Preliminary Oral Exam
Nov23
Michael Litos - Departmental Seminar
Nov30
Yangyang Yao, Final Oral Examination
Dec01
Andrea Velenich - Departmental Seminar
Dec03
Silvia Viola - Final Oral Examination
Dec08
Sungho Han - Departmental Seminar
Dec09
Andrew Inglis - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Dec15
Kevin Ann - Departmental Seminar
Dec16
Fabio Marchesoni
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Camerino, Italy
Cancelled due to illness
CANCELLED: The Physics of Molecular Motors
Dec18
Pu Chen - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Jan07
Marton Kormos
SISSA, Italy
12 Noon
1D Bose gas as the non-relativistic limit of the sinh-Gordon model
Jan07
Eric Pinnick - Departmental Seminar
Jan20
Alvaro DeRujula
Boston University, CERN
Special Physics Seminar
Higgs Imposter?
Jan20
Paul Krapivsky
Boston University
Kinetics of Ising Ferromagnets: Sudden Quench to Zero-Temperature and Slow Cooling
Jan22
Mark Betnel - Departmental Seminar
Jan26
Daniel Boline - Ph.D Final Oral Exam
Jan31
Jiayuan Luo - Preliminary Oral Exam
Feb02
Larry Sulak
Professor of Physics, Boston University
From the Big Bang to the Death of the Universe
Feb04
Nicolas DiFiori - Preliminary Oral Exam
Feb05
Andrew Strikwerda Preliminary Oral Exam
Feb10
Vanja Dunjko
University of Massachusetts, Boston
10:00 AM
Lost cousins: Gell-Mann--Low renormalization group and Pad approximation
Feb16
Assa Auerbach
Technion
2 PM
Superconductivity and Conductivity of Hard Core Lattice Bosons
Feb17
Lode Pollet
Harvard University
10:00 AM
Suppression of the critical temperature for superfluidity near the Mott transition: validating a quantum simulator
Feb19
Mengkun Liu - Preliminary Oral Exam
Feb22
Liz Simmons
Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University
Women in Physics: Tea w/ Professor Liz Simmons
Feb24
Flavio Nogueira
Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany
10:00 AM
Quantum critical behavior of deconfined spinons
Feb24
James McNerney - Department Seminar
Feb25
Daniel Volovik - Preliminary Oral Examination
Mar17
David Pritchard
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT
iUSE: Innovations in STEM Education, Session 3
Mar24
Nic Shannon
University of Bristol
10:00 AM
A quantum liquid with deconfined fractional excitations in three dimensions
Mar24
Xuetao Zhu - Departmental Seminar
Mar25
Lilach Goren
Weizmann Institute
Destruction of Cuprate Superconductivity with Current: a Variational Study
Mar26
Sebastian Huber
Weizmann Institute
The inverted kagome lattice: frustrated bosons without superexchange
Mar26
Chen Liu - Preliminary Oral Exam
Mar30
Watch LHC collisions
Apr01
Andrea Velenich - Ph.D Final Oral Exam
Apr05
Michael Litos - Ph.D Final Oral Exam
Apr05
Andrew Cohen
Boston University
Science on Screen with Andrew Cohen
Apr09
Diego Guerra - Preliminary Oral Exam
Apr26
Claire Thomas - Thesis Defense
Apr27
Josef-Stefan Wenzler - Departmental Seminar
Apr28
Hidefumi Tomita - Departmental Seminar
Apr28
Dr. David K. Campbell
BU
Achieving Large-Scale Instructional Change in STEM Education
May04
Eduardo V. Castro 
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain Centro de Fisica do Porto, Portugal
11:00 AM
Flexural phonon limited mobility in doped suspended graphene.
May05
Claudia De Grandi - Departmental Seminar
May10
Dima Abanin
Princeton University
11 AM
Flavor-Hall effect and nonlocal charge transport in graphene
May19
Erica Saint Clair
Erica Saint Clair - Preliminary Oral Examination
May21
Departmental Seminar - Christopher Sanborn
May27
Terence Russell
President and CEO of Makoto Life Sciences, former BU Physics Ph.D.
Experimenting with Life: Entrepreneurship for Scientists
Jun08
Sungho Han - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Jun09
Tea Time with Rachele and Mila
Jun22
Jia Shao - PhD Final Oral Examination
Jun25
BACON Day: 2010 (Poster)
Jul14
Jianxun Lin, Departmental Seminar
Jul23
Prof. Stefan Kehrein
University of Munich, Germany
11 AM
Weak Interaction Quenches in Bulk and Impurity Quantum Systems
Jul29
Christian Gogolin
University of Bristol
11 AM
Pure state quantum statistical mechanics