Boston University Physics Department
Graduate Student Open House
March 28-30, 2013

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 hotel is on the corner of Beacon Street and Brookline Avenue in Kenmore Square (map). It is conveniently reached by subway (also known as the "T"). Be sure to take a B, C, or D train of the Green Line which goes through to Kenmore Square (NOT the E train). From the airport take the Blue Line to Government Center, change to the Green Line outbound to Kenmore Square. If you arrive late please take a taxi and keep the receipt.

Directions to the Physics Department: The Physics Department is a 3 minute walk from the hotel at 712 Beacon Street. Simply walk along Beacon Street outbound. The last building before the overpass over the Mass Pike Highway, on the right hand side, is the Metcalf Science and Engineering Center (SCI). The Physics front office is just inside the doors on Beacon St. (room 255). An alternative entrance to the Metcalf Science and Engineering Building is at 590 Commonwealth Ave.

If you get here by 3:30pm on Thursday check out a special colloquium from CMS with the latest on the Higgs.
 
 

Thursday 3/28
08:00 pm :   welcome dinner with BU graduate students at Scoozi restaurant (580 Commonwealth Ave).

Friday 3/29
9:00 - 11:30 :  Breakfast, welcome and Mini-Symposium on research (schedule below)
11:30 - 1:00 :  Lunch with graduate students
1:00 - 2:00   :  Research posters and coffee
2:00 - 5:00   :  one-on-one conversations with faculty, lab visits, Scientific Instrument Facility tour.
6:30 - 9:30   :  Dinner at Prof Andrei Ruckenstein's home (23 Regent Circle, Brookline).

Saturday 3/30
9:30 - 9:45     :  Meet Prof Shyam Erramilli at Espresso Royale at 736 Commonwealth Ave.
9:45 - 11:30   :  Tour of Photonics Research Labs with Shyam (617-750-7147 cell)
11:30 - 12:00 :  T-ride to Chinatown
12:00 - 1:30   :  Dim Sum lunch at Hei La Moon at 88 Beach St in Chinatown (617-338-8813).
1:30               :  end of program, sight-seeing.


 
Mini-symposium on Graduate Studies and Research, Physics Research Building 595.
Coffee, bagels, and fruit   9:00-9:20
Welcome Sidney Redner (Physics Dept Chair) 9:20-9:30
Condensed Matter Experiment Karl Ludwig and Colin Howard 9:30-9:50
Particle Physics Experiment Kevin Black and Cory Fantasia 9:50-10:10
Particle Physics Theory Ami Katz and Evan Weinberg 10:10-10:30
        Break 10:30-10:45
Condensed Matter Theory Claudio Chamon, Luca D'Alessio and Tom Iadecola 10:45-11:05
Biological Physics Pankaj Mehta and Alex Lang 11:05-11:25
 

Activities in Boston: After lunch 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). If the weather is nice, simply walking around the Freedom Trail and Boston Common and Boston Public Garden may be nice.
 
 

If there are problems or questions, please contact the Open House coordinators: Prof. Martin Schmaltz (schmaltz@bu.edu, 617-780-4509 cell) and Mirtha Cabello, Graduate Student Program Administrator (cabello@buphy.bu.edu, 617-353-2623).

  Campus map , Physics Department web site, Graduate Student Resources Links
updated 3/27/2013.