BAPC - Calendar of Events from 11/13/06 to 11/17/06

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

November 13 to November 17, 2006

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, November 13,2006

12:00 noon
MIT Department of Physics: Chez Pierre Talk
Room 12-132 @ 12:00 p.m.
Antonio Castro Neto
Boston University 

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Enhanced Non-local Power Corrections to the B->X_s+gamma Decay Rate"
Gil Paz
IAS
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 26, Room 214
"Phase map decomposition for unitaries"
Elham Kashefi
U. Waterloo and U. Oxford

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Searching for New Physics in CP Violation with BABAR"
Masahiro Morii
Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Searching for New Physics and CP Violation in Charm and Beauty Mixing and
Decay"
Dr. Brendan Casey
Fermilab, Brown University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

1:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Solid Earth Physics Seminar
20 Oxford Street
Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Spontaneous shear localization in a model brittle solid"
Craig Maloney
Johns Hopkins University
Refreshments will be available in the Hoffman Faculty Lounge during the 
talk
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~cmaloney

3:30 PM
Boston University
Phsyics Department
Colloquium Series
"Quantum gravit and the standard model"
Lee Smolin
Perimeter Institute, Canada
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the 1st floor lounge

4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium Physics Building
Abelson 131
"Reflections of AGN Outbursts in the Hot Gas in Galaxies and Clusters"
Dr. Christine Jones
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

4:00 p.m.
Colloquium
Department of Physics
Boston College
Professor David R. Nelson
Harvard University
Higgins 310
Refreshments 3:30 p.m. Mugar Atrium

4:00 pm
UMASS Lowell
OH218
"From atoms to planets - a geological view of earthquake"
Professor Nelson Eby
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M.

4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Joint Theory Seminar
"Improving Event Generators with Effective Theories"
Christian Bauer
LBL
Refreshments will be served
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Thursday, November 16, 2006

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Mathematics-Physics Seminar
111 Cummington St.
Math Dept., Room MCS 135
Matt Szczesny
Boston Univ.
"The Langlands program: from arithmetic to conformal field theory"
Tea at 3:00 p.m.
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Funnels, Siphons, and Winds, "Oh, My!" The Weird and Wonderful World of
Magnetic Accretion"
Gary Schmidt
University of Arizona
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Dark Energy - A Cosmic Mystery"
Christof Wetterich
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/index.html
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Friday, November 17, 2006

12:45 pm
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Dressing the Giant Magnon"
Anastasia Volovich
Brown University
Lunchtime seminar:
refreshments available from 12:35

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 211
The Casimir Force: Still Mysterious after nearly 60 Years
Steve Lamoreaux
Yale University
Refreshments served in Knipp Library, Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Carbon Migrations Studies in JET"
James Strachan
Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratory

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Artificial Nanosolids"
Igor Beloborodov
Argonne National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, Pierce 213, following the
colloquium
http://mti.msd.anl.gov/homepages/IgorBeloborodov