BAPC - Calendar of Events from 11/06/06 to 11/10/06

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

November 6 to November 10, 2006

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Monday, November 6, 2006

12:00 Noon
MIT
Department of Physics
Chez Pierre Talk
Room 12-132
Konstantin Matveev
Argonne National Laboratory


2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"How can AdS/CFT be useful for heavy-ion physics?"
Pavel Kovtun
UCSB
Refreshments will be served


4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 26, Room 214
Ben Reichardt
U.C. Berkeley
"A probabilistic mixing lemma and quantum fault tolerance"


4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
High Energy Particle Seminar 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Models of Baryogenesis Below the TeV Scale" 
Frederico Urban 
University of Ferrera and INFN-Section of Ferrara 
Refreshments will be served


4:15 pm
Harvard University
Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson 250
Colloquium: "Testing the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the
Dark-Energy Length Scale"
Eric Adelberger
University of Washington
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.


4:40 pm
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
"Using Nanopores to Analyze DNA and DNA-protein Interactions"
Professor Amit Meller
Boston University
Barus and Holley 168
Refreshments commence at 4:00 P.M.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics seminar room
5 Cambridge Center, 4th floor
"Non-Gaussianities in Multi-field Inflation"
Thorsten Battefeld
Brown
Refreshments will be served


3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson 250
Loeb Lecture I:  "Modern Tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle"
Eric Adelberger
University of Washington


3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in
Graphitic Carbon"
Philip Kim
Columbia University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the 1st floor lounge


4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Special Theory seminar
"Predicting Protein Folding Pathways from Quantum Path Integrals"
Pietro Faccioli
University of Trento/INFN
Refreshments will be served
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006


2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Seminar
"Non-perturbative Couplings of String Vacua--Intersecting D-brane Story"
Mirjam Cvetic
University of Pennsylvania


2:30 pm
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
To be announced
Professor Radu Roiban
Penn State


4:00 pm
UMASS Lowell
Ball 214
"New forms of quantum matter near absolute zero temperature"
Professor Wolfgang Ketterle
MIT
Refreshments at 3:30 pm
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Thursday, November 9, 2006


2:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lectures in Physics
Maxwell Dworken, Rm 119
Loeb Lecture II: "Probes of Lorentz-Symmetry Violation and other Exotica
using a Spin Pendulum"
Eric Adelberger
University of Washington


3:00 pm
Boston University
Mathematics-Physics Seminar
111 Cummington St.
Math Dept., Room MCS 135
"The Connes-Kreimer Hopf Algebra as a Combinatorialist's Playground"
Michael Hoffman
US Naval Academy
Tea at 2:45pm
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html


4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Center 
"The Amazing Properties of Two-Dimensional Carbon" 
Prof. Antonio Castro Neto 
Boston University 
Refreshments will be served 


4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Adventuring Through the Distant X-ray Universe: Recent Results from the
Chandra Deep Field Surveys"
Niel Brandt
Penn State University
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia


4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"The Nus from MiniBooNE"
Janet Conrad 
Columbia University 
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html 
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Friday, November 10, 2006

No talks were submitted for today because it is a holiday - Veterans Day