Physics (Internal)
Departmental events
August 1st, 2019 to July 31st, 2020. Previous/next year.
Aug08 |
Jonathan Wurtz (CMT)
Pizza will be served at 11:50am.
| Summer Student Seminar | Host: Eric Boyers |
Aug14 |
David Zou
| Search for Heavy 5/3 Charge Fermionic Top Quark Partner in Same-Sign Dilepton Final State using 13 TeV Data with the CMS Detector | |
Aug16 |
Brian Dawes (BIO) and David Long (CMT)
Pizza will be served at 11:50am.
| Summer Student Seminar | Host: Eric Boyers |
Aug23 |
Aaron Greenberg (Photonics)
Pizza will be served at 11:50am.
| Summer Student Seminar | Host: Eric Boyers |
Aug23 | Department Social | ||
Aug29 |
JJ Oon (CME) and Xiangyi Meng (CMT)
Pizza will be served at 11:50am.
| Summer Student Seminar | Host: Eric Boyers |
Sep19 | Graduate Student Council Meeting | ||
Sep23 |
Yue Liu
| Scale-Invariant Neural Dynamics for Cognition | |
Sep25 |
Chon Kit Pun (Jack)
| Predicting Catastrophes: The Role of Criticality | |
Sep26 |
Dr. Denny Dahl
D-Wave Systems
| Quantum simulation with the DW-2000Q | Host: Anders Sandvik |
Sep27 |
*Lunch will be provided*
| Physics Department Annual Fall BBQ | |
Oct01 |
Rashi Verma
Data Ops Engineer at Tamr Inc.
Lunch will be provided
| Physics Industry Lunch | Host: Eric Boyers |
Oct02 |
Sergey Buldyrev
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 11:50am
| Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Oct02 |
Zhicheng Yang
Boston University Physics Department
| Path to building quantum spin liquids and topological qubits within existing quantum hardware | |
Oct04 | Ice Cream Social | Host: Julian Ingham | |
Oct09 |
Brian Dawes (BIOE) and Nicholas Russo (CME)
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 11:50am
| Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Oct09 |
Phil Crowley
Boston University
| Topological classes of quantum dynamics in quasi-periodically driven systems | |
Oct10 |
David Zou
| Search for Heavy 5/3 Charge Fermionic Top Quark Partner in Same-Sign Dilepton Final State using 13 TeV Data with the CMS Detector | |
Oct15 |
Jessica Aither
Boston University
Lunch will be provided
| Title IX discussion and Q&A | |
Oct16 |
Deniz Aybas (PHO/CME)
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 11:45am
| Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Oct16 |
Julian Ingham
Boston University, Physics Department
| High temperature superconductivity in semiconductor artificial graphene | |
Oct18 | Department Social | Host: Julian Ingham | |
Oct23 |
Julian Ingham
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 11:45am
| Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Oct23 |
Inti Sodemann
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
| Bosonization and the Shear Sound of Metals and The Non-linear Hall Effect in Time-Reversal-Invariant Materials | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Oct24 | Graduate Student Council Meeting | ||
Oct25 |
Costume Contest: 11:45AM - 12:15PM; Pumpkin Drop: 12:30PM
| 15th Annual BU Physics Pumpkin Drop 2019 | |
Oct25 |
Viktor Novicenko
Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy Vilnius University
| Floquet analysis of a quantum system with modulated periodic driving | |
Oct29 |
Gaoxiang Mei
| Bioengineering and Analysis of Near-Infrared Absorbing Optogenetic Rhodopsins | |
Oct30 |
Julian Ingham
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 11:45am
| Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Oct30 |
Garry Goldstein
Rutgers University
| Extending the Gutzwiller approximation to intersite interactions | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Nov06 |
Sarang Gopalakrishnan
The City University of New York
| Anomalous transport in integrable spin chains | Host: Anushya Chandran |
Nov13 |
Peco Myint (CME/MSE)
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 11:45am
| Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Nov13 |
Roger Melko
University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute
| How hard is it to learn a quantum state? | |
Nov18 |
Tiziano Camporesi
CMS Experiment, CERN
| Elementary: Is This the Answer? (Poster) | |
Nov20 |
Stephen Carr (CMT)
Harvard University
Pizza will be served at 11:45am
| Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Nov20 |
Hiroki Isobe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| Many-body physics around Van Hove singularities: from twisted bilayer graphene to supermetal and non-Fermi liquid | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Nov21 |
Graduate Student Council
| Graduate Student Council Meeting | |
Nov22 |
Graduate Student Council
Snacks and refreshments will be provided
| Department Social | |
Nov25 |
Timothy Khouw
| The Effect of Network Topology on an Agent-Based Asset Exchange Model | |
Dec02 |
John Quirk
| Determining the Ejection Rate and Energy Spectrum of Protons after Muonic Capture on Alumnium | |
Dec03 |
Pranay Patil
| Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Phase Transitions | |
Dec04 |
Chon Kit Pun (Jack)
| Predicting Catastrophes: the Role of Criticality | |
Dec04 |
Phil Weinberg
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 11:45am.
| Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Dec04 |
Daniel Arcaro
| Dan Arcaro - Measurement of the Total and Differential Cross Section of Z Boson Production in Association with Jets in Proton-proton Collisions at Sqrt(s)= 13 TeV | |
Dec05 |
Lunch will be provided.
| Physics Graduate Student Town Hall | |
Dec05 |
Nickolas Kinnaird
| Muon Spin Precession Frequency Extraction and Decay Positron Track Fitting in Run 1 of the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment | |
Dec06 |
Brian Skinner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ohio State University
| The Unprecedented Thermoelectric Properties of Nodal Semimetals in a Magnetic Field | Host: Julian Ingham |
Dec09 |
Cris Moore
Santa Fe Institute
| The Planted Matching Problem | |
Dec09 |
Phillip Weinberg
| Finite-Size Scaling in Quantum Annealing with Decoherence | |
Dec11 |
Ashish George
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 11:45am.
| Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Dec11 |
Torsten Zache
Heidelberg University
| Quantum simulation of high-energy physics - microscopic and macroscopic approaches | |
Dec12 |
Jingjin Wei
| Heterogeneous Connectivity in E/I Network Allows Entrainment to a Wide Range of Frequencies | |
Dec13 |
Jonathan Wurtz
| Variational Schrieffer-Wolff Transformations for Quantum Many-Body Dynamics | |
Jan24 |
Graduate Student Council
Snacks and refreshments will be provided
| Department Social | |
Jan29 |
Graduate Student Council
| Graduate Student Council Meeting | |
Jan31 |
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/3Mph5aBADEUc2ibL7
| Physics Undergraduate Major Spring Social (Poster) | Host: Kelly Capri |
Feb01 | BU PRO (Physics REU) Open House (Poster) | ||
Feb07 |
Andreas Hartmann
University of Innsbruck
| Counterdiabatic and inhomogeneous driving in lattice gauge quantum computing and heat engines | |
Feb07 |
Graduate Student Council
| Doughnut and Hot Chocolate Social | Host: Christopher Cosby, Victoria Kovalchuk |
Feb12 |
James Propp
UMass Lowell
| A macro-meso-microscopic view of disk packing | Host: Julian Ingham |
Feb19 |
Dominik Juraschek
Harvard University
| Dynamical Materials Design | Host: Wanzheng Hu |
Feb20 |
Eric Boyers
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 12:15pm
| Realizing a synthetic topological insulator with a quasi-periodically driven qubit | Host: Eric Boyers |
Feb21 |
Graduate Student Council
Snacks and refreshments will be provided
| Department Social | |
Feb27 |
Anirudh Chandrasekaran, Mohit Pandey, and Shiyu Zhou
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 12:15pm
| Student March Meeting Talks | Host: Eric Boyers |
Mar04 |
Christopher Palmer
Princeton University/FNAL
| Observation of the Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks at CMS (Poster) | Host: James Rohlf |
Mar05 |
Timothy Khouw
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 12:15pm
| Physics in Industry: Finance, Pharmaceuticals, and Machine Learning | Host: Eric Boyers |
Mar06 |
Graduate Student Council
Doughnuts and hot chocolate will be provided
| Doughnut and Hot Chocolate Social | Host: Christopher Cosby, Victoria Kovalchuk |
Mar16 | All in-person events canceled until May 17th | ||
Mar18 |
Adarsh Ganesan
US National Institute of Standards and Technology
| CANCELLED: Phononic Frequency Combs – A New Addition to Photonics, MEMS, Quantum Information Science and Material Nanoscience | Host: Christopher Laumann |
Mar19 | Graduate Open House (Virtual) | ||
Mar20 |
Lei Zhang
Boston University, Physics Department
| Nonuniversal entanglement level statistics in projection-driven quantum circuits | |
Mar25 |
Yuan Xin
Boston University, Physics Department
Virtually: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/516244667
| Solving Strongly Coupled Quantum Field Theory - Part 1 | |
Mar26 |
Deniz Aybas
Boston University
Pizza will be served at 12:15pm
| CANCELLED: Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Mar30 |
Yuan Xin
Boston University, Physics Department
Virtually: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/303084746
| Solving Strongly Coupled Quantum Field Theory - Part 2 | |
Apr01 |
Sexual Assault Response & Prevention Center (SARP)
Lunch will be provided
| CANCELLED: SARP Interrupt Workshop | Host: David Long |
Apr01 |
David Sperka
Boston University, Physics Department
| CANCELLED: Collider Search Candidate Seminar - Title TBA | |
Apr01 |
Srinivas Raghu
Stanford University
| CANCELLED: CMT Seminar - Title TBA | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Apr01 | BU Physics Student Remote Coffee Hour | ||
Apr03 |
Bernardo Zubillaga Herrera
Boston University Physics Department
https://zoom.us/j/590832246
| The Statistical Mechanics of Societies: Opinion Formation Dynamics and Financial Markets | |
Apr03 |
Graduate Student Council
| CANCELLED: Ice Cream Social | |
Apr06 |
Ashish Bino George
Boston University, Physics Department
https://zoom.us/j/433892652
| Eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial populations with heterogeneous growth and dispersal | |
Apr09 |
Brian Dawes
Boston University
Recording: https://bit.ly/2wzI7lW
| The molecular biology of COVID-19 | Host: Eric Boyers |
Apr14 |
Yue Liu
Boston University, Physics Department
https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/365061062
| Scale-invariant neural dynamics for cognitive behavior | |
Apr14 |
Graduate Student Council
Boston University, Physics Department
| Physics PhD Program Town Hall | |
Apr15 |
Sean Foster
Boston University, Physics Department
https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/461622209
| The Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab | |
Apr15 |
https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/99749652544?pwd=eUlMZHhvcG9WQkRDbXVDaWE2VXVTZz09
| Physics Virtual Coffee Hour #2 | |
Apr17 |
Graduate Student Council
Snacks and refreshments will be provided
| CANCELLED: Department Social | |
Apr23 |
Sean Foster and Sam Rosen
Boston University
Recording: https://bit.ly/2YlHXub
Password: 2u$*$4+z | Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Apr29 |
Meeting ID: 958 0536 1597
| Physics Virtual Coffee Hour #3 | |
Apr30 |
Anirudh Chandrasekaran
Boston University
Recording: https://bit.ly/35mhqhA
Password: 7L=7X1x% | Probing and structures with X-ray | Host: Eric Boyers |
Apr30 |
Aobo Li
Boston University, Physics Department
https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/7748832895
| The Zen of Neutrino: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Deep Learning | |
May14 |
David Long
Boston University
Recording: https://bit.ly/2zXyDT6
Password: 1o*$$pD1 | Phases of Quasiperiodic Driving | Host: Eric Boyers |
May15 |
Jonathan Wurtz
Boston University, Physics Department
| Cluster phase space and variational subspace approaches to the quantum many-body problem | |
May28 |
Eric Boyers
Boston University
Recording: https://bit.ly/2XhRu4e
Password: 9b&.60&% | Spin Squeezing for CASPEr Electric | Host: Eric Boyers |
Jun04 |
Chiara Salemi
MIT
| CANCELLED: Student Seminar Series | Host: Eric Boyers |
Jun11 |
Meeting ID: 939 0141 6617
| Physics Virtual Coffee Hour | |
Jun12 |
Tamiro Villazon Scholer
Boston University, Physics Department
| Persistent Dark States & Non-Ergodic Chaos in Anisotropic Central Spin Models | |
Jun24 | Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles | ||
Jun25 |
Meeting ID: 952 3126 9978
| Physics Virtual Coffee Hour | |
Jul02 |
Sal Pace
Boston University
| CANCELLED: Student Seminar Series | |
Jul09 |
Julian Ingham
Boston University
Recording: https://bit.ly/2FhBxo6
Password: 1a.$=Wv4 | Pseudospin superconductivity in honeycomb superlattices | Host: Eric Boyers |
Jul09 |
Meeting ID: 952 3126 9978
| Physics Virtual Coffee Hour | |
Jul17 |
Xiangyi Meng
Meeting ID: 986 0583 3542
| A general quantum advantage in quantum networks | |
Jul20 |
Andras Eke
Semmelweis University & Yale University
| Assessing fractality for empirical temporal signals with application to brain dynamics | Host: Plamen Ivanov |
Jul23 |
Meeting ID: 952 3126 9978
| Physics Virtual Coffee Hour | |
Jul30 |
Michael Bahram Manighalam
Boston University, Physics Department
Meeting ID: 922 3854 5183
| Continuous Time Limit of the DTQW and Plasticity |