BAPC events for week of 2/23-2/29

[Heather Kauth <hkauth buphy bu edu>]

February 23- February 29, 2003
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Monday, February 23, 2004

Monday, February 23, 2004, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon anomalous 
magnetic moment revisited"
Kirill Melnikov
University Hawaii/UCSB
Refreshments will be served

Monday, February 23, 2004, 4pm
Artisans are Instrumental to Science: Why 19th Century Germany Got it 
Right
Myles Jackson
Willamette University
Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT
*followed by refreshments

Monday, February 23rd @ 4:15PM
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-505
"The Universe from the Bottom of the World: Physics with the AMANDA 
Detector"
Dr. Jodi Cooley
MIT
* Refreshments at 4:00PM. Call 253-2395 for more info.

Monday, February 23, 2004 @4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Carbon Nanotubes  Electrons in a 1D World"
Paul McEuen
Cornell University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Tuesday, Feb.24, 2:30 PM
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Tufts University
College Ave.
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Softly Massive Gravity"
Prof. Gregory Gabadadze
New York University
*Refreshments at 2:00
Robinson Hall, Room 251

Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 4:00pm
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Cosmology with a Low-Frequency Radio Array
Prof. Jacqueline Hewitt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Refreshments are served at 3:45pm

Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Single-Molecule Dynamics of Molecular Machines
that Replicate DNA"
Dr. Anita Goel
Harvard University
*Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 4:00pm
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Cosmology with a Low-Frequency Radio Array
Prof. Jacqueline Hewitt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Refreshments are served at 3:45pm


Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 2PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
NW17-218
Alan Sykes
Culham Science Center
Title: The MAST Experiments

Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Matrix Models and Strings in D \leq 2 Dimension"
Juan Maldacena
Institute of Advanced Study
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 2:30PM
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
**To be announced <http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/hep-th/>*
Prof. Kouship Ray (IACS, India)

Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 4:00pm
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Dept. of Physics
Olney 218
The Present Model of Elementary Particles;
How Standard is it?
Professor Melissa Franklin
Harvard University
*refreshments served at 3:30 p.m


Thursday, February 26, 2004

Thursday, February 26, 2004, 3:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"The Shear Excitement of Confined Colloidal Suspensions"
Dr. Itai Cohen
Harvard University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 2:30pm

Thursday, February 26, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"The Shear Excitement of Confined Colloidal Suspensions"
Dr. Itai Cohen
HarvardUniversity
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Thursday, February 26, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Spying on Blazars: Life in the Fast Lane"
Alan Marscher
Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *

Thursday, February 26, 2004, 4:15pm
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics - Colloquium Series
Thursday, February 26th
4:15pm Building 10-250
Refreshments - 3:45pm Building 4-339
David Kaiser - MIT
""Teaching Feynman's Tools: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in 
Postwar Physics"

Thursday, February 26, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Superstring Loop Amplitudes using the Pure Spinor
Formalism''
Nathan Berkovits
IFT, Sao Paulo
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45

Thursday, February 26, 2004, 4:15 pm
Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium
Room N-105, Sackler Science Center
"Hidden Worlds: Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter"
Timothy Paul Smith
Dartmouth College


Friday, February 27, 2004

Friday, February 27, 2004, 3:30 pm Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
"Teaching Introductory Physics Through Problem Solving:
I Understand the Concepts, I Just Can't Solve the Problems"
Professor Kenneth J. Heller
Vice-President, American Association of Physics Teachers
University of Minnesota
*Refreshments at 3:00 PM
Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall

Friday, February. 27th, 4:00 pm
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Pierce 209
Gel Transitions in Colloidal Suspensions
Professor Johan Bergenholtz
Goteborg University, Sweden
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks room, following the seminar.

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