Boston University Physics Department

Graduate Student Open House
March 30- April 1, 2017


Arrival and Lodging: We suggest that you arrive on Thursday afternoon or evening and depart on Saturday. You may also tack on an extra night to explore Boston. Lodging information and reservations can be obtained through Mirtha Cabello (cabello@buphy.bu.edu, 617-353-2623). Most of you will stay at the Buckminster Hotel next to BU's campus:


 Boston Hotel Buckminster
645 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 1-617-236-7050 		 
The Physics Research Building (PRB) is located at 3 Cummington Mall: Building 34 on this map
Metcalf Science Building (SCI) - 590 Commonwealth Avenue: Building 38 on this map
 

Schedule

Thursday 3/30

07:00 pm :   welcome dinner with BU graduate students at Scoozi, 580 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.

Friday 3/31

9:00 - 12:00 :  Breakfast, welcome and Mini-Symposium on research (schedule below) at PRB 595
12:15 - 2:00 :  Lunch and Poster Session with BU Physics faculty and graduate students at SCI Lounge.
2:00 - 5:00   :  one-on-one conversations with faculty. SIF tour and lab visits
5:00 - 6:00   :  Women of Physics (WIP) get together at SCI CMT Lounge - 3rd floor
6:00 - 9:00   :  Dinner at Questrom Room, at 595 Commonwealth Ave, Room 428-430, of the Questrom School of Business (across the street from SCI at 590 Commonwealth Ave).
9:00             :  BU Pub social with Grad Student Council and other physicists

Saturday 4/1

9:30 - 9:45     :  Meet Prof Shyam Erramilli at Pavement Coffehouse at 736 Commonwealth Ave.
9:45 - 11:30   :  Tour of Photonics Research Labs with Shyam (617-750-7147 cell)
11:30 - 12:00 :  Transport to Chinese Lunch
12:00 - 1:30   :  Chinese Lunch at Sichuan Garden, 295 Washington Street, Brookline (0.3 mile walk from Brookline Village stop on the D-line of the Green Line T)
1:30               :  end of program, sight-seeing.


Mini-symposium on Graduate Studies and Research, Physics Research Building, Rm 595, 3 Cummington Mall.
Coffee, bagels, and fruit   9:00-9:20
Welcome Michael El-Batanouny (Director of Graduate Studies), and Kenneth Lane (Graduate Recruitment). 9:20-9:30
Biological Physics
Kirill Korolev and Alexandre Day
"Beyond the standard model of growth" and "Using machine learning to study the immune system"
9:30-9:50
Condensed Matter Experiment
Alex Sushkov and Deniz Aybas
"Quantum condensed matter physics experiments" and "Precision condensed matter tools to search for axion dark matter"
9:50-10:10
Condensed Matter Theory
Chris Laumann and Marin Bukov
"Condensed Matter Theory at BU" and "Periodically-Driven Many-Body Systems"
10:10-10:30
        Break 10:30-10:50
Particle Theory
Liam Fitzpatrick and Luke Pritchett
"High Energy Theory at BU" and "A mu+ mu- resonance at 30 GeV"
10:50-11:10
Particle Experiment
Chris Grant and Clint Richardson
"Neutrino and Muon Groups" and "Collider Physics at BU"
11:10-11:30
 

Activities in Boston: After lunch on Saturday you are free to take some time to look around Boston. We can recommend visits to the Aquarium and art museums (MFA or Isabella Stewart Gardner), or, in fair weather, walking around the Freedom Trail and Boston Common and Boston Public Garden.
 
 

If there are problems or questions, please contact the Open House coordinators: Prof. Ken Lane (lane@bu.edu, 617-353-4512) and Mirtha Cabello, Graduate Student Program Administrator (cabello@bu.edu, 617-353-2623).

  Campus map , Physics Department web site
updated 3/30/2017.