BAPC - Calendar of Events from 11/27/06 to 12/01/06

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

November 27 to December 1, 2006

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, November 27, 2006

10:30 AM
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Spin Qubits in Carbon Nanomaterials"
Prof. Andrew Briggs
University of Oxford

11:10am ? 12:00pm
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 333
?Liquid-crystalline collagen phase leading to dense ordered matrices?
Dr. Frédéric Gobeaux
Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière
Condensèe de Paris

2:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Hadron physics from lattice QCD"
Will Detmold
University of Washington
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"QED In A Pencil Trace"
Andre Geim
University of Manchester, UK
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
"A New View of the Infrared Universe: Recent Results from the Spitzer Space
Telescope"
Professor Giovanni G. Fazio
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

11:00 am
The Rowland Institute at Harvard
100 Edwin H.Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02142
"High-Performance Quantum Dot Optoelectronic Devices"
Room:1st floor auditorium
Pallab Bhattacharya
University of Michigan

11:00 am
"High-Performance Quantum Dot Optoelectronic Devices"
Professor P.Bhattacharya
University of Michigan
Rowland Institute Methods Seminar
100 Edwin H.Land Blvd
www.rowland.harvard.edu

2:00pm 
Northeastern University 
High Energy Particle Seminar 
114 Dana Research Center 
"The Search for Majorana Neutrinos"
Anupama Atre 
University of Wisconsin, Madison 
Refreshments will be served

2:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?"
Edmund Bertschinger
MIT
Refreshments will be served

4:00pm 
Northeastern University 
CIRCS Talk 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Interfacial phenomena in the formation of nanoporous gold by dealloying"
Prof. Jonah Erlebacher 
John Hopkins University 
Refreshments will be served 
 
4:00 pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Evolution of Signaling Pathways:  MAP Kinases as a Case Study"
Dr. Sharad Ramanathan
Bauer Center for Genomic Research, Harvard University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Theory seminar
"Liouville theory, modular forms and elliptic genera"
Tohru Eguchi
University of Tokyo/Princeton
Refreshments will be served

2:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Seminar
"Holographic Description of Nonlocal Operators in Gauge Theory"
Jaume Gomis
Perimeter Institute

2:30 pm
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"To be announced"
Prof. Chris Beasley
Harvard University

4:00 pm
UMASS Lowell
OH218
"The shape dependence of fluctuation-induced forces"
Professor Mehran Kardar
MIT
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M.

4:30 PM
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Nonlinear Dynamics and Critical Phenomena in Driven Cold Atoms"
Wonho Jhe
Seoul National University
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

4:00pm 
Northeastern University 
Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Center 
"BOSE AND EINSTEIN: Discovery of Bose-Einstein Statistics"
Prof. Kameshwar C. Wali 
Syracuse University 
Refreshments will be served 

4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"HERA and the Structure of Matter"
Allen Caldwell
Max-Planck-Institute for Physics
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Friday, December 1, 2006

12:45 pm
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"To be announced"
Frederik Denef
KU Leuven
Lunchtime seminar:
refreshments available from 12:35

2:30 pm (Note the day)
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"To be announced"
Prof. Anthony Zee
University of California, Santa Barbara

3:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Proton Beam Radiation Therapy"
Kenneth Gall
Still River Systems