BAPC - Calendar of Events from 02/05/07 to 02/09/07

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

February 5 to February 9,2007

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Monday, February 5, 2007

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Discovery Physics at the LHC"
Maria Spiropulus
CERN
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

2:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"Searching for the End of Gravity's Rainbow: Gravitational Wave Production
After Inflation"
Richard Easther
Yale University
Refreshments will be served

3:00 pm
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Department of Physics
Boston College
Professor Vesna Mitrovic
Brown University
Higgins 235

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"Strongly correlated quantum systems: from electronic materials to cold
atoms"
Eugene Demler
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
CIRCS Seminar
114 Dana Research Center 
"The Phase Chip: Manipulating Phase Diagrams with Microfluidics"
Seth Fraden
Brandeis University
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium Physics Building
Abelson 131
"Gauge Theories, Strings and Gravity"
Dr. Oleg Lunin
University of Chicago
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

11:00 am
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 229
Dr. Oliver Ruebenacker
Harvard University and UConn
"Self-Assembly of the Endoplasmic Reticulum"

2:30 pm
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Black Saturn"
Dr. Henriette Elvang
MIT

4:00 pm
Colloquium
Department of Physics
Boston College
Professor Marcelo Gleiser
Dartmouth College
Higgins 310
Refreshments 3:30 p.m. Mugar Atrium

4:00 pm
MIT
LNS Special Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"A Program for Precision Measurements of the Quark Spin Structure of the
Proton"
Ralf Seidl
University of Illinois

4:15pm
MIT
LNS Special Seminar
26-414
"A Program fro Precision Measurements of the Quark Spin Structure of the
Proton"
Ralf Seidl
University of Illinois

4:30 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
sponsored by Pappalardo Room
Building 4-349..NOTE (This week only)
Joint Theory Seminar
"Eternal inflation, bubble collisions and the persistence of memory"
Alan Guth, MIT
Refreshments served at 4:00 pm
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Thursday, February 8, 2007

12:30 PM
Boston University
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
"Cooperativity, dynamic heterogeneity and the emergence of a growing
lengthscale at the glass transition"
Giulio Biroli
CEA Saclay
Pizza served at 12:15 PM

1:30 pm
Tufts University
Robinson Hall, Room 250
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
"Cosmic Necklaces from String Theory"
Louis Leblond
Texas A&M University

4:00 pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Tachyons and the Dynamics of String Theory"
Dr. Matthew Headrick
Stanford University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Probing the Early Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background"
Matias Zaldarriaga
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
"Condensed matter physics and quantum information processing with cold 
polar
molecules"
Peter Zoller
Universität Innsbruck
For more information:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html
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Friday, February 9, 2007

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"The Plasma Physics of Meteors: from Ionization to Turbulence to
Dissipation"
Meers Oppenheim
Boston University

11:45 a.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Moduli Stabilization in Non-Geometric Backgrounds"
Melanie Becker          
Texas A&M
Lunchtime seminar; refreshments available at 11:35.

12:00 PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Metcalf Science Building, Rm. 352
Condensed Matter Seminar
"Optical Control of Molecular Spontaneous Emission"
Mathias Steiner
Tübingen University, Germany
Pizza served at 11:30 AM

1:30 pm
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 333
"The Uses of Ricci Flow"
Dr. Matthew Headrick
Stanford University