BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/23/06 to 10/27/06

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

October 23 -27, 2006

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, October 23, 2006


11:00 am
Harvard University
CNS Special Seminar
"The Synergy of Nanofabrication Technology Development and Applications" 
Henry I. Smith, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT
Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
http://www.cns.fas.harvard.edu


2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Determining the fundamental parameters of QCD on the lattice"
Harvey Meyer
MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

3:30 pm
Brandeis University
Physics Building
Abelson 239
"The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project"
Kirk Gilmore
LSST Camera Manager


4:00 pm
MIT
Room 26-214
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Mortin Roetteler
NEC Labs
"Quantum convolutional codes"


4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Complex Networks: From the Web to the Cell"
Laszlo Barabasi
University of Notre Dame
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu


4:00 pm
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus and Holley 168
"How DNA Worms through Protein Channels"
Prof. M. Muthukumar
Polymer Science and Engineering Department
University of Massachusetts
Refreshments commence at 4:00 pm
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006


2:30 pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"On Incipient Black Holes and Information Loss"
Tanmay Vachaspati
Case Western Reserve
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251


3:00 pm
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Boston College
Department of Physics
Professor Yayu Wang
UC, Berkeley
Higgins 235
3:00 pm


3:30 pm
Boston University
Physics Department
Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
Chertok Lecture
"Quantum Computing"
Ray Laflamme
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Refreshments served at 3:00 pm in 1st floor lounge


4:00 pm
Harvard University
Solid Earth Physics Seminar
20 Oxford Street
Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Paleoseismology and Earthquake Surface Ruptures: Could We Learn Anything
about Earthquake Processes?"
Yann Klinger
Institut de Physique du Globe
Paris, France
www.ipgp.jussieu.fr/~klinger


4:00 pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium Physics Building
Abelson 131
"Giant number fluctuations and cooperative phenomena in self propelled
particles"
Dr. Arshad Kudrolli
Clark University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 pm
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

11:00 am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Active MHD Spectroscopy on the Joint European Torus"
Alex Klein
JET


2:30 pm
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Aspects of Factorized Scattering in Ads/CFT"
Dr. Ian Swanson
IAS, Princeton University


4:00 pm
Umass Lowell
OH218
"Strange Beauty and the Matter/AntiMatter Puzzle"
Professor Christopher Paus
MIT
Refreshments at 3:30 pm


4:00 pm
Department of Physics Colloquium
Boston College
Professor David R. Smith
Duke University
"The Power of Metamaterials: From Negative Refraction to Invisibility
Cloaks"
Higgins 310
Refreshments 3:30 pm, Mugar Atrium


4:30 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Joint Theory seminar
``Geometrically Induced Metastable Vacua"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard
Refreshments will be served
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

2:30 pm....(Note Special Day)
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Magnon Bounstates in Gauage/String Duality"
Heng-Yu Chen
DAMTP, Cambridge


3:00 pm
Boston University
Math-Phys Seminar
111 Cummington St.
Mathematics Dept.
Room MCS 135
"Quantization and Chiralization"
Victor Kac
MIT
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
"Detection of Low-Mass Extrasolar Planets by Gravitational Microlensing"
David Bennett
University of Notre Dame
tea and cookies at 3:30 pm
http://www.cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia


4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Quark-Gluon Liquid at RHIC"
Gunther Roland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html
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Friday, October 27, 2006


12:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Friday Lunch Club
"Ruminations of A Centenarian"
Laszlo Tisza
MIT, Professor of Physics, Emeritus


12:45 pm
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Lunchtime Seminar
Jefferson 453
"On the CFT/AdS Correspondence and Massive Gravitons"
Ofer Aharony
Weizmann Institute/IAS
refreshments available at 12:35 pm


4:00 pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"MEMS-Based Lasers"
Carol Livermore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, Pierce 213, after the talk
http://www.me.mit.edu/people/personal/livermor.htm