Jan. 31 - Feb. 4, 2005 - corrected

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January 31-February 4, 2005
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MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2005

Monday, January 31, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``High precision QCD at hadron colliders: new techniques and results for 
perturbative calculations"
Frank Petriello
Johns Hopkins University
Refreshments will be served

Monday, January 31, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Organic Chemistry Seminar
Pfizer Lecture Auditorium, Mallinckrodt Building, Lower Level, 12 Oxford 
St.
“Using Chemistry to Understand the Nicotine Receptor.” Dennis Dougherty
California Institute of Technology

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2005

Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
“Angular Trapping of Nano-Particles: Rotating and Applying Torque to 
Biological Molecules with Optical Tweezers”
Dr. Arthur La Porta
Stanford University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm


WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2005

Wednesday February 2, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Chameleon Scalar Fields: Detecting Dark Energy with Tests of Gravity"
Justin Khoury
MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2005

Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, 12:30 pm
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Massless Scalar Fields and Infrared Divergences in the Inflationary 
Brane World"
Oriol Pujolas
University of Kyoto

Thursday, February 3, 2005, 2:30pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
“Nonlinear optics in vivo: using light to study and perturb blood flow 
in the living brain”
Dr. Chris B. Schaffer
University of California-San Diego
Refreshments in Room 333 after the talk

Thursday, February 3, 2005, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"White Dwarfs from the SDSS as Tracers of the Ages amd Evolution of 
Populations in the Galaxy"
James Liebert
University of Arizona
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 3, 2005, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series at MIT
Room 10-250
"Boost-Phase Intercept and the National Missile Defense"
Daniel Kleppner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology



FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2005


Friday, Feb. 4, 2005, 3 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Remnant magnetic fluctuations and transport in the dynamo-free RFP"
John Sarff
University of Wisconsin



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