BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/16/06 to 10/20/06

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

October 16 -20, 2006

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, October 16, 2006

12:00 pm
MIT Department of Physics: Chez Pierre Talk
Room 12-132
Alex Kamenev
University of Minnesota 
"One-dimensional Fermions: Going beyond the Luttinger Model"


2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Strings, black hole and relativistic heavy ion collisions"
Hong Liu
MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Search for Ykawa-Type Gravity-like Forces at Sub-mm Distance"
Aharon Kapitulnik
Stanford University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

2:30 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar
``Fading Gravity and Self-Inflation"
Justin Lange
Perimeter Institute
Refreshments will be served at 2:00 pm


3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"A New Era of UHE Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Astrophysics"
Angela Olinto
University of Chicago
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
"Understanding the Adaptive Immune Response to Pathogens: A Crossroad to
Physics and Biology"
Dr. Arup Chakraborty
MIT
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm


4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
CIRCS Seminar 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Monte Carlo simulations of supercoiled DNA with intrinsic bends" 
Andreas Hanke 
Department of Physics & Astronomy 
University of Texas at Brownsville 
Refreshments will be served 
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Theory seminar
"Quantum mechanics and classical spacetimes"
Vijay Balasubramanian
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served


2:30 pm
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"To be announced"
Dr.   N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr
Princeton University


4:00 pm
UMASS LOWELL
Zoltan Fried Memorial Lecture, OH218
"Shallow water waves"
Professor Alex Sachs
Refreshments at 3:30 pm


4:30 PM
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics &
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Exact Properties of Strongly Correlated Ultracold Gases in Tight
Waveguides"
Marvin Girardeau
University of Arizona
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

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Thursday, October 19, 2006 


3:00 pm
Boston University
Math-Physics Seminar
111 Cummington St.
Math Dept., Room MCS 135
"On the Cutkosky Rules for Feynman Graphs"
Christoph Bergbauer
FU Berlin
Tea at 2:45 pm
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html


4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium,
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"The principle of mediocrity"
Alexander Vilenkin
Tufts University
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia


4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Quantum-Dot Computing and Decoherence" 
Dr. Leonid Fedichkin 
Clarkson University 
Refreshments will be served


4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Celestial Engineering: Resonance and the Dynamical Architecture of
Planetary Systems"
Eugene Chiang 
University of California, Berkeley 
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html 


6:00 pm
Harvard University
Women, Science, and Society Seminar Series
Jefferson 250
"Analyzing the Leaky Pipeline: Why are Women Scientists Under-represented 
in
Senior Positions?"
Phoebe Leboy
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hgwise/upcoming.html

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Friday, October 20, 2006

12:45 pm
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
Title:  TBA
John McGreevy
MIT
Lunchtime seminar
refreshments available from 12:35


4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Nature's Renewable Energy Blueprint: Future Fuel from Photosynthesis &
Biomimics"
Charles Dismukes
Princeton University
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium
http://www.princeton.edu/~catalase