BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/02/06 to 10/06/06

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

October 2, 2006 to October 6, 2006

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Monday, October 2, 2006

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Bringing Hearing to the Deaf: Cochlear Implants:  A Technical and Personal
Account"
Ian Shipsey
Purdue University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, October 3, 2006

2:30 pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Eternal Inflation in Realizations of Brane Inflation"
Saswat Sarangi
Columbia
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251


3:30 pm
Boston University
Physics Department
Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center
590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107
"Physics at the CERN Large Hadron Collider"
James W. Rohlf
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:15 in 1st floor lounge
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006

2:30 pm
Brown Univesity
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"On the CFT/AdS Correspondence"
Dr. Ofer Aharony
Weizmann Institute and IAS/Princeton
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Thursday, October 5, 2006

4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Nanoscale Building Blocks for Functional Materials and Devices" 
Prof. Hao Zeng 
SUNY Buffalo 
Refreshments will be served
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Friday, October 6, 2006

12:45 am
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Holography and renormalization in Lorentzian signature"
Amit Sever
Brandeis University 
Lunchtime seminar; refreshments available from 12:35.


1:30 pm
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 (Note day and time)
"*Intelligent Design of Quark Gluon Plasma: An Overview of RHIC Physics
Prof. Rudy Hwa
University of Oregon  

3:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"The Plasma Physics of Meteors:from Ionization to Turbulence to 
Dissipation"
Meers Oppenheim
Boston University


4:00 pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Mathematical models of hurricanes, dust storms and similar natural
phenomena"
Grigory Barenblatt
University of California at Berkeley
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium
http://math.berkeley.edu/~gibar/


4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Inflation and the String Theory Landscape"
Alan Guth 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html