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Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting on Oct 24

August 31, 2015 By

Brandeis will host the 17th annual Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting (GBASM) on Saturday, October 24, 2015, from 9:30-3:00. GBASM brings together researchers interested in statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, condensed matter physics, biophysics, and related topics for a day-long workshop.  The meeting consists of four invited talks (30 min.), and a larger number of contributed “table talks”. The invited speakers for 2015 are:

Contributed talks will follow the format adopted the last two years. Contributors will give a brief announcement of their work in the lecture hall. We will then move to the adjacent room where each contributor will sit at a table with their laptop or tablet and discuss their research with interested participants. This format eliminates the expense associated with posters and provides greater feedback to contributors. The time preparing for a “table talk” should be similar to preparing for a short talk.

GBASM Sponsors for 2015 include the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Brandeis University; the Department of Physics, Boston University; the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University; the Department of Physics, UMASS Amherst; and the Department of Chemistry, MIT. Thanks to these subsidies, bagels, coffee, tea, and lunch will be provided at no cost if you register for GBASM by the deadline of Saturday, Oct 17.

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IGERT Summer Institute – July 27 to August 7, 2015

June 17, 2015 By

IGERTBrandeis is hosting a two-week summer institute for graduate students in the mathematical sciences from July 27-August 7.  This will combine the annual summer institute of Brandeis’ Geometry and Dynamics IGERT program, with a sequel to the US-India Advanced Studies Institute on thermalization, held two years ago in Bangalore.

Topics:

  • Large deviation theory
  • Statistics of extreme events
  • The large N expansion in statistical and quantum physics
  • Statistical fluid dynamics
  • Quantum information and quantum gravity
  • Thermalization in Quantum Systems

Lecturers:

Sumit Das (U. Kentucky)
Chandan Dasgupta (IISC, Bangalore)
Rajesh Gopakumar (HRI, Allahabad and ICTS)
Alex Maloney (McGill University)
Satya Majumdar (LPTMS, Paris)
Sanjib Sabhapandit (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore)
Peter Weichman (BAE systems)

Organizers:

Albion Lawrence
Bulbul Chakraborty

Registration:

There will be no registration fee, but the venue will have limited capacity, so interested students should register by sending an email to Catherine Broderick (cbroderi@brandeis.edu) by July 4. Please list your affiliation, your year in graduate school, any publications, and the name of your PhD advisor.

Additional information can be found at www.brandeis.edu/igert/.

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37th Boston Regional Inorganic Colloquium

January 17, 2015 By
Brandeis University will host the 37th Boston Regional Inorganic Colloquium (BRIC) on Saturday, February 21, 2015.  BRIC meetings bring together inorganic chemists from across the northeast.  The schedule is:

9:15 a.m. Breakfast
9:50 a.m. Opening Remarks
10 a.m. Dr. Seth Marquard, Brandeis University, Thomas Group

Investigating the Reactions of Polar Pi-Bonds with a Zr/Co Heterobimetallic Complex

11 a.m. Professor Alfredo Angeles-Boza, University of Connecticut

Role of the ATCUN motif in Antimicrobial Peptides

12 p.m. Lunch
1 p.m. Professor James Mayer, Yale University

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: from Hydrogen Atom Transfer to Oxygen Electrocatalysis to Oxide Nanoparticles

2 p.m. Professor David Manke, UMass-Dartmouth

Lewis Base Derivatized Metal-Organic Frameworks

3:15 p.m. Happy hour poster session

Lunch will be provided and we will be having a late afternoon poster session with refreshments, thanks to our generous sponsors.   RSVP to thomasc@brandeis.edu, and indicate whether you plan to present a poster.

Directions:
From Commuter Rail: Take the South Acton/Fitchburg line to the Brandeis/Roberts stop ($6 if you get on at Porter or North Station and buy your ticket at the station). From Brandeis/Roberts stop you will walk up the hill on South St to the main entrance of Brandeis – this is a large circular driveway. At the guard house you will take a right and follow signs to upper campus. Keep walking up the hill and take your first left, you will see Shapiro Science Center (big, newer building with lots of windows). Take the right after the building, the entrance to the science complex will be ahead. Once in the building continue straight down the hall way, past a lecture hall and the class room (Gerstenzang 124) will be the next one on the right.
From Parking: Please park in the Athletic parking lot, this will be on the opposite side of the road as the Brandeis main entrance. The entrance to the lot is noticeable because of the foot bridge connecting it to the main campus. Once parked take the foot bridge across to campus and continue up the stairs up to Loop Rd. Take a left down the hill and then your first right past Schapiro Science Center (big, newer building with lots of windows). Take a right after the building, the entrance to the science complex will be ahead. Once in the building continue straight down the hall way, past a lecture hall and the class room will be the next one on the right.
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Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Nov 8

September 16, 2014 By

Brandeis will host the 16th annual Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting (GBASM) on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, from 9:30-3:00. GBASM is a workshop that brings together researchers interested in statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, condensed matter physics, biophysics, and related topics for a day of presentations and discussions.  The meeting consists of four invited talks (30 min.), and a larger number of contributed “table talks”.

The four invited speakers for this year are:

The contributed talks will follow the format we adopted last year. Instead of three minute talks with a limited time for questions, contributors will give a brief announcement of their work in the lecture hall. We will then move to the adjacent room where each contributor will sit at a table with their laptop or tablet and discuss their research with interested participants. This format will eliminate the expense associated with posters and provide greater feedback to contributors. The time preparing for a “table talk” should be similar to preparing for a short talk.

The cost of the meeting is subsidized by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Brandeis University; the Department of Physics, Boston University; the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University. Thanks to these subsidies, bagels, coffee, tea, and lunch will be provided at no cost if you register by the deadline of Saturday, Nov. 1.

More information   |  Registration

 

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Institutional Betrayal: The case of Campus Sexual Assault

September 3, 2014 By

freyd1Please join us and The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program for a special lecture:

Institutional Betrayal: The case of Campus Sexual Assault

Presented by Prof. Jennifer Freyd
University of Oregon
Department of Psychology

Friday, September 12, 2:00 PM
Sachar International Center, Wasserman Cinematheque

Co-sponsored by The Department of Psychology, The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, The Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences
Hosted by Prof. Ray Knight

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Brandeis IGERT Summer Institute June 16 – June 26, 2014

June 12, 2014 By

The second Brandeis IGERT Summer Institute begins this Monday, June 16th in Goldsmith 300 and runs through Thursday, June 26th. This will consist of a variety of talks by faculty and students on subjects in the mathematical sciences. While this is part of the IGERT training program, aimed at graduate students working across the spectrum of the mathematical sciences, we invite the Brandeis community to attend any of the talks that catch their eye. Speakers include:

  • Chris Santangelo (U Mass Amherst)– “Shape and mechanics of origami folding”
  • Matthew Headrick — “Introduction of quantum information theory”
  • Bulbul Chakraborty and Blake Lebaron — “Applications of Statistical Mechanics to Finance”
  • Daniel Ruberman — “Introduction to Knot Theory”
  • Paul Miller — “Feedback control in neural firing”
  • Albion Lawrence — “An introduction to inflation and gravity waves”
  • Eli Putzig — TBA
  • Honi Sanders — TBA
  • Tony Ng — TBA

and a schedule can be found at http://www.brandeis.edu/igert/calendar/index.html  or in the Brandeis Science Seminars listings.

We will be having lunch in the Volen bridge; please bring your own and join us!

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