BAPC - Calendar of Events from 12/11/06 to 12/15/06

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

December 11 to December 15, 2006

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Monday, December 11, 2006

2:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics seminar room
5 Cambridge Center, 4th floor
"Ring Structures,Jets and Accretion in High Energy Astrophysics: Basic
Nonlinear Theory"
Bruno Coppi
MIT
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 26, Room 214
"Parallel Repetition of Quantum XOR Proof Systems"
Richard Cleve
University of Waterloo

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Physical Lab., Rm 250
Colloquium: "Taking Sides on the Dark Energy Issue"
Rocky Kolb
University of Chicago
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

2:30 pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"The scale of gravity and the cosmological constant within a landscape"
Michael Graesser
Rutgers University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Physical Lab., Rm 250
Lecture I:  "Inflation and the Origin of Structure"
Rocky Kolb
University of Chicago
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

4:30 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics seminar room
5 Cambridge Center, 4th floor
"Predictions in the landscape"
Raphael Bousso
UC, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served
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Thursday, December 14, 2006

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Physical Lab., Rm 250
Lecture II:  "Dark Matters"
Rocky Kolb
University of Chicago

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium,
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Astrobiology and the Biological Universe"
Steven Dick
NASA Headquarters
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
"Understanding the Adaptive Immune Response to Pathogens:  A Crossroad of
Physics and Biology"
Arup Chakraborty
MIT 
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html
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Friday, December 15, 2006

3:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Progress of Resistive Wall Mode Stabilization on DIII-D"
Michio Okabayashi
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Photovoltaics to meet the Terawatt Challenge"
Harry Atwater
Caltech
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, Pierce 213, following the
colloquium
http://daedalus.caltech.edu/