BAPC - Calendar of Events from 03/05/07 to 03/09/07

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

March 5, 2007to March 9, 2007

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Monday, March 5, 2007

2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar
``Fundamental Barriers in Designing Cosmology"
Alberto Nicolis, Harvard
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Phase Transitions in DNA:Temperature Matters""
Mara Prentiss
Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, March 6, 2007

2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: from puzzle to solution"
V. Berezinsky
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy Refreshments served at 2:00pm in
Knipp Library, Room 251
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25, Fourth floor seminar room String/Gravity Theory Seminar
``Cosmologies with Null singularities and their Gauge Theory Duals"
Jeremy Michelson, Ohio State University
Refreshments will be served
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Thursday, March 8, 2007

4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Suddenly Famous Dr. Einstein"
Tom Levenson
MIT 
For more information:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html 
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Friday, March 9, 2007

3:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Overview of recent results on NSTX and progress towards steady state
operations"
David Gates
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 211
"Exploring Electromagnetic Coils with Learners of the Past and Today"
Elizabeth Cavicchi
Edgarton Center, MIT
Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm