Departmental events

August 1st, 2014 to July 31st, 2015. Previous/next year.
Aug07
William Shain
Imaging and Scattering in Porous Media
Aug27
Prof. John Butler
Comprehensive Exams - Part 1
Aug28
Shyam Erramilli/Michael El-Batanouny
New Graduate Physics Student Orientation
Aug29
Prof. John Butler
Comprehensive Exams - Part II
Sep03
Dr. Sergey Syzranov
University of Colorado, Boulder
9 AM
Transport in Dirac materials exposed to strong electromagnetic radiation Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Sep06
Manher Jariwala
Incoming Teaching Fellow Bootcamp
Sep09
Christopher Kachulis
Determining the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with Matter Effects
Sep10
Prof. Vladimir Gritsev
University of Amsterdam
TBA Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Sep15
Andreas Läuchli
University of Innsbruck
Note special day, time: Monday at 11 AM
Entanglement spectroscopy of quantum matter Host: Anders Sandvik
Sep17
Marin Bukov
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Oct01
Cheng-Wei Liu
Boston University
11 AM
CMT group meeting
Oct08
Dr. Michael Tomka
Boston University
11 AM
CMT Group Meeting
Oct27
Tiago Souza
Emergent Magnetic Monopole Charges in a Two Qubit System
Oct29
Joshuah Heath
University of Vermont
CANCELLED: CMT group meeting
Oct29
Valentin Kasper
University of Heidelberg
Real-Time Dynamics of Fermions in Gauge Theories Host: Shainen Davidson
Nov05
Dr. Luca D'Alessio
Penn State University & Boston University
11 AM
Dynamical preparation of Floquet Chern insulators: A no-go theorem and the experiments Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov07
Jessica Morrison
Electrothermally Actuated Steering Micromirror with Integrated Varifocal Capability
Nov12
Dr. Michael Knap
Harvard University
11 AM
Relaxation dynamics, thermalization, and dynamic phase transitions in Heisenberg quantum magnets Host: Marin Bukov
Nov17
Nicholas Lubbers
The Statistical Mechanics of Wealth: Agent-based Economics and Ergodic Transitions
Nov20
Colin Howard
Measuring and Translating Electron Quasiparticle-phonon Interactions on the Surface of the Topological Insulator Bi2Te3
Nov20
Maria-Theresa Rieder
Freie Universität Berlin
Note: Special day,Thursday
Disorder-induced phase transitions in multichannel Majorana wires Host: Thomas Iadecola
Nov21
Prof. Walter Hofstetter
Goethe University, Frankfurt
Note special day, time: Friday at 10 AM
Quantum Simulations with Ultracold Atoms and Ions: Beyond Standard Optical Lattices Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Dec02
Dr. Adolfo Grushin
MPIPKS, Dresden
Note: Event moved from 11/26 to 12/2/14
Stability of Chern and Fractional Chern insulators Host: Claudio Chamon
Dec02
Antonio Majdandzic
Spontaneous Recovery and Metastability in Single and Interdependent Networks
Dec02
Javad Noorbakhsh
Nonlinearity and Stochasticity in Biochemical Networks
Dec03
David Newby
Soft x-ray Spectroscopy Studies of Novel Electronic Materials using Synchrotron Radiation
Dec03
Bernardo Zubillaga
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Dec04
George R. Keiser
Near Field Interactions in Terahertz Metamaterials
Dec04
Marc McGuigan
Developing a Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope for the Characterization of Aluminium Nanoantennas
Dec08
Gustavo Marques Tavares
Gustavo Marques Tavares - TBA
Dec08
Dylan Rankin
Triggers for Boosted Physics Signals at the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment
Dec10
Cheng-Wei Liu
Phase Transitions, Algorithms, and the Applications to Quantum Computing
Dec10
Shuai Shao
Robustness of Complex Networks: Localized Attack and Clustering Structure
Dec11
Will Morrison
Understanding the Brain through its Spatial Structure
Dec16
Alex Lang
Statistical Mechanics of Epigenetic Landscapes
Dec19
Chester Curme
Communities in Statistically-Validated Networks"
Jan14
Prof. John Butler
Comprehensive Exams - Part I
Jan16
Prof. John Butler
Comprehensive Exams - Part II
Jan16
Maira Constantino
Does Helicobacter Pylori Exhibit Corkscrew Motion While Swimming?
Jan21
Nima Dehmamy
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Feb04
Ted Pudlik
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Feb05
David Zou
Central Service Upgrades for Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at 13 TeV
Feb11
Prof. Aldofo del Campo
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Shortcuts to adiabaticity across a phase transition Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
Feb12
Hossein Alizadeh
Plasmonically Enhanced Chiral Fields and Forces
Feb18
Dr. Julian Struck
MIT
Artificial Gauge Fields in Driven Optical Lattices Host: Marin Bukov
Feb24
Xiao Luo
MuSun Experiment: Measuring the Rate of Muon Capture on the Deuteron
Feb26
Adrian Yi
Vibrational Spectroscopy of Optogenetic Rhodopsins
Feb27
Rajita Menon
Diffusion-limited Mutualism in Microbes
Mar03
Po-Hao Huang
2D TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS: from 2D to 1D; from 1D to 2D
Mar11
Dr. Marco Schiro'
Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT), Saclay France.
Transient Orthogonality Catastrophe in a Time Dependent Nonequilibrium Environment
Mar12
Professor Sarah Keller
University of Washington
Note special time - 3:00 PM, day - Thursday .....Refreshments served
Membrane biophysics Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Mar18
Prof. Masaki Oshikawa
University of Tokyo
Symmetry protection of critical phases and global anomaly in 1+1 dimensions Host: Claudio Chamon
Mar20
John Ogren
Vibrational Spectroscopy of an Optogenetic Rhodopsin: A Biophysical Study of Molecular Mechanisms
Mar23
Dr. Rajeev Singh
MPIPKS, Dresden
Many-body localization and its signatures in quantum quenches
Mar31
Adam Avakian
Banking System Stress Testing using Bipartite Network Theory
Apr01
Dr. Luiz Santos
Perimeter Institute
Stroboscopic Symmetry Protected Topological Phases Host: Claudio Chamon
Apr02
Evan Weinberg
Going for a Walk with 4+8 flavors
Apr02
Black/ Ludwig/Chamon
Physics Graduate Program Open House
Apr06
Gustavo Marques Tavares
Non-Abelian Dark Matter and Dark Radiation
Apr07
Luis Ibáñez Herrera
Mesurement of the Rate of Muon Capture on the Deuteron
Apr08
Duan Wang
Application of Statistical Physics in Time Series Analysis
Apr08
Colin Howard
Measuring, Interpreting and Translating Electron Quasiparticle-phonon Interactions on the Surfaces of the Topological Insulators Bismuth Selenide and Bismuth Telluride
Apr09
Chester Curme
Lagged Correlation Networks
Apr15
Prof. Kirill Korolev
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Apr15
Thomas Iadecola
Statistical Mechanics of Periodically-driven Open Quantum Systems
Apr24
NES APS 2015 Spring Meeting
Apr30
Joseph Hardcastle
The Influence of Morphology on the Swimming Behavior of Helicobacter Pylori
May05
Xin Yuan
Design of Robust Interdependent Networks by Introducing Protective Nodes
May05
Nima Dehmamy
Properties of Networks of Interacting Stochastic Agents
May05
Jeffrey Gustafson
Searches for Delta B = 2 Processes at Super-Kamiokande
May06
Pankaj Mehta
Boston University
11:00 AM
CMT Group Meeting
May13
Ramis Movassagh
MIT and Northeastern University
11:00 AM
A counterexample to the area law for quantum matter Host: Claudio Chamon
May15
Asher Mullokandov
Modeling the Price Dynamics of Stock Markets
May29
Alex Lang
Physics of Epigenetic Landscapes and Statistical Inference by Cells
Jun03
Dr. Monika Aidelsburger 
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Artificial magnetic fields with ultracold atoms in optical lattices and Chern-number measurement Host: Marin Bukov
Jun04
Carsten Madler
Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors for the Detection of Proteins
Jun29
Shuai Shao
Robustness and Structure of Complex Networks
Jul01
 Dr. Johannes Nübler 
Technische Universität München, Munich
Adsorption-desorption kinetics of soft particles and application to chromatin assembly Host: Kirill Korolev