* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 04/17/06 to 04/21/06

["Dayle Maynard" <maynard physics harvard edu>]

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

4/17/06 to 04/21/06

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Monday, April 17, 2006

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Monday Colloquia
Jefferson 250
"Looking Inside the Sand Pile: Some New Results for Rapid Granular Flows"
Donald Candela
University of Massachusetts
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 @ 3:30 pm
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

12:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Accelerator Science and Technology lunchtime Seminar
Kolker Room, Building 26-414
"Optical Manipulation of Beams for Ultra-Fast Science"
Dr. William Barletta
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Fermilab, and MIT
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Theoretical Seminar B&H 555
Brown University
Physics Department
"To be announced"
Prof. Niklas Beisert,
Princeton University

3:30 pm
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107
"Energy concentrating phenomena: From sonoluminiscence to crystal fusion"
Seth Putterman
UCLA
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
CIRCS 
114 Dana Research Building 
"Role of Sex in Cardiac Arrhythmias" 
Prof. Guy Salama 
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology 
University of Pittsburg Medical School 
Refreshments will be served
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room
"D terms from D-branes, Gauge Invariance and Moduli Stabilization in Flux
Compactifications"
Giovanni Villadora
Harvard
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location

2:30 pm
Brown University
High Energy Theory Seminar
B&H 555
"To be announced"
Dr. Emanuel Katz (Boston U)

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Boston College
Department of Physics
Professor Paul LaMarche
Princeton University
Higgins 310
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

2:30 pm
Theoretical Seminar B&H 555
Brown University
Physics Department
"Testing Holography with QCD"
Dr. Emanuel Katz
Boston University

4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
Joint CIRCS/ Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Building 
"Physics of Genome Management" 
Jane Kondev 
Physics Department 
Brandeis University 
Refreshments will be served
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Friday, April 21, 2006

11:00 am
Boston University
Physics Department
Condensed Matter Seminar
590 Commonwealth Ave.
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
TBA
Dr. Kevin Beach
Boston University

11:45 am
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Integrable Models and Operator Algebras"
Detlev Buchholz
Göttingen
Lunchtime seminar: Pizza and cokes and other fun stuff

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Role of Trapped Electron Mode Turbulence in C-Mod Internal Transport
Barriers and Nonlinear Upshift of TEM Critical Density Gradient"
Darin Ernst
Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT