BAPC - Calendar of Events from 02/26/07 to 03/02/07

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

Feb. 26, 2007 to March 2, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, February 26, 2007

12:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Cruft 318
"Fine-tuning the dynamics of electron spins in quantum dots"
Bill Coish
University of Basil

12:30 pm
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
PRB 595
"Strings, black holes, and heavy ion collisions"
Hong Liu 
MIT

2:00 pm
Harvard University
Applied Mechanics Colloquium
Maxwell Dworkin G115
"Source Estimation of Aerosol Precursors Using 4 - Dimensional Variational
data Assimilation"
Daven henze
Caltech
Coffee will be served in Brooks Room Pierce Hall #213 at 3:00 pm

2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Light and Shadows from Dark Matter"
Stefano Profumo
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 26, Room 214
"Entanglement Renormalization: from Quantum Circuits to Topological Order"
Guifre Vidal
University of Queensland

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Matter-Antimatter Transformations at 3 Trillion Hertz"
Joseph Kroll
University of Pennsylvania
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
"Matrix Field Theorists Try to Fold RNA"
Professor Anthony Zee
Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

2:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"Oscillons Properties and Applications of the Lumps that Wouldn't Die"
Marcelo Gleiser
Dartmouth
Refreshments will be served

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure
Constant"
Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the 1st floor lounge

4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series - Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"String Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics"
Dr. David Mateos
University of California, Santa Barbara
Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131

4:00 pm
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131 
Dr. David Mateos
University of California, Santa Barbara
"String Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics"
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

1:30 pm
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Physics Building
Abelson 333
"String Theory and RHIC physics: The fundamental story"
Dr. David Mateos
University of California at Santa Barbara

2:30 pm
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
TBA
Prof. Hong Liu
MIT

4:00 pm
UMASS Lowell
Physics Department
Colloquium Series, OH218
"Surface Structure and Chemical Composition of Liquid Metal Alloys"
Peter Pershan
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:30 pm

4:30 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar New
Center for Theoretical Physics
5 Cambridge Center
4th floor seminar room
"Charmed Resonances and Effective Field Theory"
Thomas Mehen
Duke/MIT
Refreshments served at 4:00 pm
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Thursday, March 1, 2007

4:15 PM 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Beyond Computation: The P versus NP Question"
Michael Sipser
MIT
For more information:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html
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Friday, March 2, 2007

1:15 pm
Harvard University (Note: new time and place for Duality Seminar)
Duality Seminar, Lunchtime seminar
Jefferson 256
"Applying AdS/CFT to 2+1 Dimensional Systems"
Chris Herzog 
University of Washington
refreshments available in 256 at 1:10 pm

3:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Plasma Shielding for In-Air and Under-Water Beam Processes"
Ady Hershcovitch
Brookhaven National Laboratory