March 7-11, 2005

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March 7-March 11, 2005
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MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2005

Monday, March 7, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``The Cosmology of Split Supersymmetry"
Aaron Pierce
SLAC
Refreshments will be served

Monday, March 7, 2005, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Quantum Information Processing Seminar Series
Building 4, room 237
"The Computational Universe: Quantum gravity from quantum computation"
Seth Lloyd
MIT Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Monday, March 7, 2005,4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Electrons in One Dimension * Spin-Charge Separation and Localization"
Amir Yacoby
Weinmann Institute
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Monday, March 7, 2005, 4:30 p.m
Brown University
Einstein Lecture
Barus and Holley 166
"Albert Einstein and Constitutional Law: One Hundred Years"
Professor Leon Cooper
Brown University.
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2005

Tuesday, March 8, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Direct Determinations of the Expansion and Acceleration History of the 
Universe"
Ruth Daly
Penn State University
Refreshments will be served at 2PM

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
“Some physics that E. coli knows”
Howard Berg
Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of
Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
MIT-Harvard Center of Ultracold Atoms
MIT Room 26-214
”Bi-photons: entanglement, indistinguishability, and quantum computing”
Franco Wong
MIT

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"The Road to Bs Mixing"
Steve Nahn
Fermilab
Refreshments @4:00 PM

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2005

Wednesday, March 9, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Bubbling AdS-type solutions of ten and six dimensional supergravity"
Diana Vaman
University of Michigan
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Department of Physics - B&H 555
"To be announced"
Dr. Toby Wiseman
Harvard University

Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 4:00 PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Spring Colloquia 2005
Olney 218
“The Physics of Gene Regulation”
Professor Ja`ne Kondev
Brandeis University
Refreshments served at 3:30 PM

Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Dana 114
"Two Ways to Destroy a Fermi Liquid" 
<http://www.physics.neu.edu/Department/Vtwo/colloquia.htm>
André-Marie Tremblay
Universite de Sherbrooke

Wednesday, March 9, 4:15 PM
MIT
LNS Special Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Recent Discoveries at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider"
Kirill Filimonov
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Refreshments @4:00 PM


Wednesday, March 9, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
`Gravity duals of marginal deformations of some large N field theories"
Juan Maldacena
Institute for Advanced Study
Refreshments will be served at 4PM

THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005

Thursday, March 10, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Searching For Cosmic Superstrings"
Henry Tye
Cornell University
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:45


Thursday, March 10, 2005, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana 114
"Recent Results from the Fermilab Tevatron Collider"
Professor Robert Hirosky
University of Virginia


FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2005

Friday, March 11, 2005, 4 PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
175 Albany St.
"Simple pictures of tokamak turbulence, and noise effects on simulations"
Gregory Hammett
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory



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