BAPC - Calendar of Events from 02/19/07 to 02/23/07

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

February 19 to February 23, 2007

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Monday, February 19, 2007

No talks were submitted for today
Holiday - Presidents' Day
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

2:00PM (note day due to holiday on Monday)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
5 Cambridge Center, Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar
"Yukawa couplings in landscapes"
Taizan Watari
University of Tokyo
Refreshments will be served
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
5 Cambridge Center, Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Seminar
"Black holes, qubits and the Fano plane"
Michael Duff
Imperial College
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
To be announced
Dr. Jeff Murugan (U Cape Town)

4:00 pm
UMASS Lowell
Physics Department
Colloquium Series, OH218
"Radio Sounding and Space Physics Applications"
Professor Paul Song
UMass Lowell
Refreshments at 3:30 pm
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

3:00pm 
Northeastern University 
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center 
"Emergence of Collective Behavior and Diversity in Gene Expression: A Study
in Bacterial Culture" 
Hanna Salman
Rockefeller University
Refreshments will be served

4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Lyot Project: Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exoplanets"
Ben Oppenheimer
American Museum of Natural History 
For more information:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html 
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Friday, February 23, 2007

11:45 a.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Quantum Attractor Flows"
Boris Pioline           
LPTHE, Jussieu
Lunchtime seminar; refreshments available at 11:35.

12:00 Noon
Boston University
Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 
352
"Boundry Field theory Approach to Superconducting Quantum Circuits"
Professor P. Sodano
University of Perugia, Italy
Pizza served at 11:30 AM

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 211
Cell Biology in Many Tesla
James Valles
Department of Physics
Brown University
Refreshments served at 2:30 pm in Robinson Hall, Room 251

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Wandering worms: exploratory navigation in C. elegans"
Aravi Samuel
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, Pierce 213, following the
colloquium