BAPC - Calendar of Events from 09/18/06 to 09/22/06

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

September 18 to September 22, 2006

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, September 18, 2006

12:30 PM
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminars
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington St., room 595
"A Universe without Weak Interactions"
Graham Kribs
University of Oregon


2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
"Bethe ansatz techniques in N=2 SYM and DLCQ strings"
Valentina Forini
University of Trento
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"Quantum Choregraphy: Exotica Inside Crystals"
Matthew Fisher
UCSB
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in the 1st floor lounge


4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Monday Colloquia
17 Oxford Street
Jefferson Laboratory Building
Jefferson Lecture Hall, Room 250
Cambridge, MA 02138
"TBA"
Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson Library, 4'th. flr., room 450 @ 3:30 pm
Our website: http://www.physics.harvard.edu


4:30 PM
Brown University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Barus & Holley Building, Room 168
182 Hope Street
"Melting of the Nanocrystalline Vortex Matter in High-Temperature
Superconductors"
Professor Yadin Goldschmidt
University of Pittsburgh
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

4:00 pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131
Professor James Moran
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Megamasers, Super Massive Black Holes, and the Extragalactic Distance
Scale"
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, 20, 2006

1:00 pm (Note time change)
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555 
TBA
Prof. Tamiaki Yoneya
University of Tokyo


2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
"Dressing the Giant Magnon"
Marcus Spradlin
Brown University
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location

4:30 pm
Harvard University
Jefferson 453
"Brane Inflation: Observational Signatures and Non-Gaussianities"
Gary Shiu
Univ. of Wisconsin
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Thursday, September 21, 2006

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"New Insights into the Physics of Supernovae and their Remnants: A
Comprehensive X-ray Study of SN 1572"
Jack Hughes
Rutgers University
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.


4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
CIRCS/Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Center 
"The role(s)of water in structure, dynamics and function of a noncoding 
RNA"

Nils Walter 
University of Michigan 
Refreshments will be served


4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250 
"Decoding Cosmic Cryptography in Search for the Holy Grail"
Amber Miller 
Columbia University 
For more information:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html
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Friday, September 22, 2006


11:45 a.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"A Farey Tail for Attractor Black Holes"
Robbert Dijkgraaf
University of Amsterdam
Lunchtime seminar


3:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Kinetic Frequency-Sweeping Events: Heuristic Models and Experimental
Observations"
Roderick Vann
University of York


4:00 pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"3D Optics"
George Barbastathis
Department of Mechanical Engineering
MIT
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium
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