Feb.14 - 18, 2005

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February 14-February 18, 2005
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005, 12 PM
Harvard University
Special Seminar at Harvard University
Lyman 425
“Transport and Charge Sensing in Few Electron Coupled Quantum Dots “
Michel Pioro-Ladriere
Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council, 
Ottowa; Centre de Recherche sur les Propriétés Électroniques de 
Matériaux Avancés, Université de Sherbrooke,
Sherbrooke, Québec

Monday, February 14, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Nucleons on the Lattice"
Kostas Orginos
MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

Monday, 14 February 2005, 12:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics
Lyman Hall 425, 17 Oxford Street
"Transport and Charge Sensing in
Few Electron Coupled Quantum Dots"
Michel Pioro-Ladriere
Institute for Microstructural Sciences
National Research Council
Ottawa, ON Canada

Monday, February 14, 2005at 4:15PM
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
26-414, Kolker Room
”Probes of Color Deconfinement at RHIC “
Berndt Mueller
Duke University
Refreshments served at 4PM

Monday, February 14, 2005 @4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Cyclotron Yields New Value for the Electron Magnetic Moment and 
the
Fine Structure Constant"
Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2005

Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
“Black hole non-formation in the c=1 matrix model”
Dr. Joanna Karczmarek
Harvard University

Tuesday, February 15, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Can Cosmology Test String Theory?"
Richard Easther
Yale University
Refreshments will be served at 2PM


Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 3:30 PM
Boston University
Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center Rm 107
"The BU Physics Graduate Meeting Showcase - Spin Physics at Boston 
University"
Chang-Yu Hou, Guiti Zolfagharkhani, Joeseph Howard, Professor Antonio 
Castro-Neto
Boston University
Refreshments served in First Floor Lounge at 3:15 pm

Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
“Long-range cooperativity in yeast mating polarization"
Dr. Chin-Lin Guo
Harvard University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm


WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2005

Wednesday February 16, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``An Infinite Family of Superconformal Quiver Gauge Theories with
Sasaki-Einstein Duals"
James Sparks
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 4:00 PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Spring Colloquia 2005
Olney 218
“Fishing in the Dark: Searching for extremely faint objects in the outer 
Solar System”
Professor Charles Alcock
Harvard Smithsonian
Refreshments served at 3:30 PM

Wednesday February 16, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Effective field theory of gravity for extended objects"
Walter Goldberger
Yale University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2005

Thursday, February 17, 2005, 12 pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Intrinsic Anomalous Transport"
Prof. Allan MacDonald
The University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, February 17, 2005, 2:30pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
“Single-molecule measurements of the motor protein FtsK”
Dr. Omar Saleh
Ecole Normale Superieure
Refreshments will be served


Thursday, February 17, 2005, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Hierarchical Assembly of Massive Black Holes"
Marta Volonteri
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 17, 2005, 4:15pm
MIT Department of Physics
Physics Colloquium Series
Room 10-250
"Jamming"
Andrea Liu
University of California, Los Angeles


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2005

Friday, February 18, 2005, 4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
175 Albany St.
"Microplasma: Physics and Applications"
Jeffrey Hopwood
Northeastern University

Friday, February 18, 2005, 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Special Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"B Meson Decays to Vector Particles:
a New Window on Fundamental Interactions"
Andrei Gritsan
SLAC
Refreshments @4:00 PM



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