Departmental events

August 1st, 2010 to July 31st, 2011. Previous/next year.
Aug30
Erik Lascaris - Preliminary Oral Exam
Aug31
Alex Petersen - Department Seminar
Sep08
Christopher Serino - Preliminary Oral Examination
Sep29
Alioscia Hamma
Perimeter Institute, Canada
Revivals of a closed quantum system and Lieb-Robinson speed
Sep29
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Physics Department Annual BBQ
Sep30
Eric Pinnick
Boston University
Computational Investigation of Lipid Hydration in Membranes Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Oct04
Alan Gabel - Preliminary Oral Examination
Oct13
Titus Neupert
Paul Scherrer Institut
Zero-energy states in two-dimensional superconductors: Creating a chain of Majorana fermions
Oct13
Yoram Bauman
Synapse and The Econ Club present The Stand-Up Economist (Poster)
Oct15
Symposium celebrating Evan Evans' 70th birthday
Oct20
Elena Strekalova - Preliminary Oral Exam
Oct22
Ross Maddox
MP3s and Your Lost Sound (Poster)
Oct27
Manas Kulkarni
Stony Brook University
First observation of shock waves in a Unitary Fermi Gas
Oct29
Pumpkin Drop 2010 (Poster)
Oct29
Thomas Koschmeider, Ph.D.
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Joint Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Physics Department special seminar
Reliability Test of Electronic Components
Nov03
Itay Hen
UC Santa Cruz
Phase diagram of the hardcore Bose-Hubbard model with a superlattice
Nov04
Feng Wang
Boston University, Chemistry Dept.
Pizza served at 12:15PM
Molecular Models of Water Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Nov17
Takuya Kitagawa
Harvard University
Topological characterization of periodically driven systems
Nov18
Dr. Logan Chieffo
Boston University
Pizza served at 12:15PM
Terahertz Spectroscopy on Biomolecules Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Nov22
Alexander DeMasi - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Nov30
Xuqing Huang - Preliminary Oral Exam
Dec01
Josef-Stefan Wenzler - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Dec01
Jonathan Rosen
Synapse Fall 2010 Release Party (Poster)
Dec02
Xuetao Zhu - Ph.D Final Oram Examination
Dec02
Jiayuan Luo, Dongdong Peng, John Ogren 
Boston University, Physics Grad Students
Pizza served at 12:15PM
Water Group Seminar Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Dec03
Jason St. John Departmental Seminar
Dec03
Mark Betnel - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Dec09
Christopher Sanborn - Final Oral Examination
Dec09
Yayoi Terada
Tohoku University
Pizza served at 12:15PM
Long-time diffusion of polydisperse hard disks and hard spheres Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Dec10
David Schaich - Department Seminar
Dec16
Hidefumi Tomita - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Jan19
Elsa Abreu - Preliminary Oral Examination
Jan20
Jason Olejarz - Preliminary Oral Examination
Jan24
Armin Rahmanisisan
Jan26
Claudio Rebbi
Boston University, Physics Chair
12:30 PM
Hybrid Monte Carlo simulation of graphene
Jan31
Jiayuan Luo - Preliminary Oral Exam
Feb02
Arijeet Pal
Princeton University
11 AM
The Many-body localization transition- Breakdown of themalization in highly excited states
Feb09
Dan Gastler - Departmental Seminar
Feb11
Jeremy Love - Departmental Seminar
Feb16
Daoxin Yao
Sun Yat-sen University, China
11:30 AM
Magnetism and multiorbital models in the iron-based superconductors
Feb28
Ying Tang - Preliminary Oral Exam
Mar02
Torsten Clay
Mississippi State University
The Paired Electron Crystal: order from frustration in the quarter-filled band
Mar08
Alexander Michael Petersen - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Mar09
Rudro Rana Biswas
Harvard University
11:00AM
SU(2)-invariant spin liquids on the triangular lattice with spinful Majorana excitations
Mar11
Matthew Coleman
University of California, Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Challenges associated with de novo synthesis of functional receptors supported in nanolipoproteins Host: Kenneth Rothschild
Mar18
H. Eugene Stanley Symposium and Gala: celebrating 70 years of discovery (Poster)
Mar24
Kevin Ann - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Apr01
Prospective Students Open House - Class of Fall 2011
Apr04
Claudia De Grandi - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Apr07
Armin Rahmanisisan - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Apr08
Mikkel Jensen - Preliminary Oral Exam
Apr11
Songbo Jin - Preliminary Oral exam
Apr12
Eric R. Pinnick - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Apr14
Cory Fantasia - Preliminary Oral Examination
Apr20
Julian Spring - Preliminary Oral Exam
Apr20
Ying Ran
Boston College
2 PM
Z2 spin liquid and chiral antiferromagnetic phase in Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice: duality between Schwinger-fermion and Schwinger-boson representations
Apr22
Dongdong Peng - Preliminary Oral Exam
Apr28
Ronglih Liao
Harvard University Department of Medicine
Spring Release Party
May04
Andreas Nunnenkamp
Yale University
11 AM
Nonlinear Optomechanics: quadratic coupling and the single-photon regime
May12
David Schaich - Ph.D Final Oral Examination
Jun02
Luca D'Alessio - Preliminary Oral Exam
Jul14
Christopher Serino - Departmental Seminar
Jul29
Jianxun Lin - Ph.D Final Oral Examination