BAPC events December 13 - December 17

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December 13-December 17, 2004

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2004

Monday, December 13, 2004, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``On the nature of thermal QCD phase transition"
Yoshitaka Hatta
Brookhaven National Lab
Refreshments will be served

Monday, December 13, 2004 @4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Mechanics of DNA at High Curvature: From Spinning Tops to Wandering Kinks"
Philip Nelson
Pennsylvania University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Monday, December 13, 2004., 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Organic Chemistry Seminar
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St
“The Transition from Chemical Evolution to Darwinian Evolution.”
Jack Szostak
Massachusetts General Hospital

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2004

Tuesday, December 14, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Contracting Universes"
Joel Erickson
Princeton
Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM

Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 12:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Pratt Conference Room 60
Garden Street, Cambridge
"Resonant Excitation of White Dwarf Oscillations in Compact Object
Binaries"
Yasser Rathore
CalTech

Tuesday, December 14, 4:00pm
Harvard University
CUA seminar
Jefferson Lab 356
"One-Electron Quantum Cyclotron: First Fully-Quantum Measurement of the
Electron Magnetic Moment, and an Improved Value for the Fine Structure
Constant"
Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2004

Wednesday, December 15, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
`` Baryogenesis from Inflationary Gravity Waves: An Observational 
Constraint on the String Scale"
Stephon Alexander
Stanford
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, December 15, 2004, 2:30 P.M
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Non-Critical Supergravity and Holography"
Stanislav Kuperstein
Tel-Aviv U

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2004

Thursday, December 16, 2004, 12:30pm
Tufts University
Robinson Hall, Room 250
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
"Baryogenesis from Inflationary Gravity Waves: An Observational 
Constraint on the String Scale"
Stephon Alexander
Stanford University

Thursday, December 16, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Relativistic Jets in Gamma-Ray Burst Sources and Active Galactic Nuclei"
Arieh Konigl
University of Chicago
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 16, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"String-net condensation: a unification of gauge interaction and Fermi 
statistics"
Xiao-Gang Wen
MIT
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:45

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2004

Friday, December 17, 2004 4pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering 
and Applied Sciences Pierce 209
”Hybrid IC/Microfluidic Chips for the Manipulation of Biological Cells “
Hakho Lee
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium

Friday, December 17, 4PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
”Power absorption during High Harmonic Fast Wave Heating on NSTX”
Randy Wilson
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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