* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 04/24/06 to 04/28/06

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

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

04/24/06 to 04/28/06

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Monday, April 24, 2006

2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25, 4th flr. Seminar room
"Black Hole Effective Field Theories"
Ira Rothstein
Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments will be served *see our web page for directions to our new lo

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Monday Colloquia
Jefferson 250
"Multi Modal Functional Brain Imaging"
Bruce Rosen
NMR at Massachusetts General Hospital
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 @ 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

3:30 pm
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107
"Optical biopsy: noninvasive detection of early cancer with
elastic-scattering spectroscopy"
Irv Bigio
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Seeing the Light from Extrasolar Planets"
Professor David Charbonneau
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Spring 2006
Marlar Lounge 37-252
"Models of the Galaxy and Lensing in Andromeda"
Professor Larry Widrow
Queen's University
http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/colloq.html
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
"Black Rings, Geometric Transitions and Black Hole Microstates"
Iosif Bena
IAS
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location

4:00 pm 
UMASS Lowell
OH 218
"Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Fermionic Atoms"
Dr. Boris Gelman
SUNY Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 pm
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Thursday, April 27, 2006

No talks submitted for today
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Friday, April 28, 2006

11:00 am
Boston University
Physics Department
Condensed Matter Seminar
590 Commonwealth Ave.
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
"Observation of High-Temperature Superfluidity in a Gas of Fermionic Atoms"
Dr. Martin Zwierlein
MIT

11:00 am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Absorption of Fast Waves at Moderate to High Ion Cyclotron Harmonics on
DIII-D"
Robert Pinsker
General Atomics

11:45 am
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"From Spacetime to Worldsheet: Four point Correlators in AdS_5"
Rajesh Gopakumar
HRI, Allahabad
Lunchtime seminar: refreshments in 453 beginning at 11:30.

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Absorption of Fast Waves at Moderate to High Ion Cyclotron Harmonics on
DIII-D"
Robert Pinsker
General Atomics