* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 05/08/06 to 05/12/06

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

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

May 8, 2006 to May 12, 2006

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic
year by the Department of Physics at Harvard University.  Entries should
reach us no later than 2:00 pm the Wednesday of the week preceding the week
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Monday, May 8, 2006

12:30 PM
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington St., room 595
"Composite Higgs Models"
Roberto Contino
Rome University

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
"Quantum Computation and Anyons"
Alexei Kitaev
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Monday Colloquia
Jefferson 250
?The Cusp at Optimum Doping in the Low-Temperature Hall Number of the
High-Temperature Superconductors?
Dr. Greg Boebinger
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 @ 3:30 pm
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Tuesday May 9, 2006

2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
"Probabilities in the Multiverse"
Delia Schwartz-Perlov
Tufts University
Refreshments will be served at 2:00 PM
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

11:00 am
Brandeis University
Physics Building, Room 333
Condensed Matter Seminar
"Isn't It Ionic? Oppositely Charged Colloids Uncovered"
Dr. Mirjam Leunissen
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
"On the origin of gravitational thermodynamics"
Joan Simon
U Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location

4:30 PM
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics and Harvard
University Physics Depart.
Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"The Trapping and Interactions of Cold Rydberg Atoms"
Georg Raithel
University of Michigan
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"pH Lecture: Following the dynamics of the Universe with galaxy cluster
counts"
Alexey Vikhlinin
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. 

4:15 pm
Physics Colloquium Series at MIT
Room 10-250
Albert-László Barabási
University of Notre Dame
"From Network Biology to Human Dynamics"
Refreshments served in the Physics Undergraduate Lounge (8-329) @ 3:45pm
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/physics_colloquia_sched_spring_06.h
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Friday, May 12, 2006

11:00 am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Simulation as a Tool for Understanding Fusion Plasmas"
Donald Batchelor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory