BAPC - Calendar of Events from 12/04/06 to 12/08/06

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

December 4, 2006 to December 8, 2006

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Monday, December 4, 2006

2:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"The order of the T\neq 0 QCD transition and its transition temperature"
Zoltan Fodor
U Wuppertal/U Eotvos
Refreshments will be served

3:00pm (special day)
Boston University
Math-Physics Seminar
111 Cummington St.
Math Dept., Room MCS 135
"Feynman diagrams and Lax pair equations"
Gabriel Baditoiu (Boston Univ.)
(Tea at 2:45pm)
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 26, Room 214
"Quantum parameter estimation with atomic hyperfine spins"
Hideo Mabuchi
Caltech

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Defects in Diamond:  New Hardware for the Quantum World?"
Joerg Wrachtrup
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

Monday, December 4, 2006

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Flexoelectricity in Nematic and Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals: Symmetry,
Geometry, and Devices"
Professor Robert Meyer
Brandeis University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/


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Tuesday, December 5, 2006

3:00 pm
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Department of Physics
Boston College
"A-Site Disorder and Phase Separation of Manganites"
Higgins 235
J. M. Liu
Chinese Academy of Science

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Science on the National Agenda: How it Happened"
Mike Lubell
American Physical Society
Refreshments served at 3:15 in the 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium Physics Building
Abelson 131
"Life at low Reynolds number Revisited"
Dr. Tom Powers
Brown University
3:30 PM Refreshments outside Abelson 131

4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
CIRCS Seminar 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Nanoscale Imaging of Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins: Breaking the
Diffraction Barrier"
Samuel T. Hess 
University of Maine 
Refreshments will be served

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Wednesday, December 6, 2006

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Seminar
"Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory"
Chris Beasley
Harvard
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Phase Tansitions of N=4 Super Yang-Mills with Flavor"
Andy O'Bannon
University of Washington
 
4:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Building, Rm. 595
3 Cummington St.
"Modifying the properties of the Higgs boson"
Mark Wise
Cal tech
Refreshments served at 4:15 PM



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Thursday, December 7, 2006

2:30 pm
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
(Note Day)
"To be announced"
Dr. Daniel Grumiller
MIT

3:00pm
Boston University
Math-Physics Seminar
111 Cummington St.
Math Dept., Room MCS 135
Karen Yeats
Boston Univ.
"Recursive equations and growth estimates in Quantum Field Theory"
Tea at 2:45pm
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

4:00pm 
Northeastern University 
Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Discovery of a New Class of Particles in Condensed Matter"
Prof. Jainendra K. Jain 
Pennsylvania State University 
Refreshments will be served 

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"The First Negative Molecular Ion in the Interstellar Gas"
Michael McCarthy
CfA
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 Qweak Experiment at Jefferson Lab: Probing Physics Beyond the Standard
Model via Parity-Violating Electron-Proton Scattering"
Shelley Page
University of Manitoba 
For more information:
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html


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Friday, December 8, 2006

11:00 am
The Rowland Institute at Harvard
100 Edwin H.Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA
"Doing Nanotechnology Out of the Box"
Room: 1st floor auditorium
Dr. James Gimzewski
UCLA

11:00 am
The Rowland Institute at Harvard
100 Edwin H.Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA 02142
Room:1'st floor auditorium
"Doing Nanotechnology Out of the Box"
James Gimzewski
UCLA

12:45 pm
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Intersecting D-Branes"
Jeff Harvey
University of Chicago
Lunchtime seminar:
12:35 PM refreshments available

1:00 PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Joint Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Building
Room 352
"Life at low Reynolds number"
Tom Powers
Brown University
Pizza served at 12:30 PM

1:00 pm
Boston University
Physics Department
Joint Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Building
Room 352
"Life at low Reynolds number" revisited
Tom Powers
Brown University
Pizza served at 12:30 PM

3:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Dust, Deposition and Dynamic Retention in NSTX"
Charles Skinner
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Diffusing, Growing, Swimming: Multiscale Simulations Using Particles"
Petros Koumoutsakos
ETH Zurich
Refreshments will be served following the colloquium in the Brooks Room,
Pierce 213
www.icos.ethz.ch/cse/people/koumoutsakos