BAPC - Calendar of Events from 04/09/07 to 04/13/07

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

April 9, 2007 to April 13, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, April 9, 2007

12:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Particles & Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Rm. 595
"Graphene as a Lorentz-breaking defect quantum field theory"
Dam Than Son
University of Washington

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Three Astrophysical Laboratories for Particle Physics?
Avi Loeb
Harvard University
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
"Finding the Higgs at the Tevatron"
Dr. Gregorio Bernardi
Fermilab
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Memorial Lecture
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"Cosmic Rays: the most energetic particles in the universe"
James Cronin
1980 Nobel Laureate
Physics Enrico Fermi Institute University of Chicago
Refreshments served at 3:00 PM in 1st floor lounge
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

2:00 pm
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Results from MiniBooNE"
Jennifer Raaf
Boston University

4:00 pm
UMASS LOWELL
Physics Department
Colloquium Series, OH218
?Nanomechanics: Quantized Motion, Stochastic Resonance and Spin Transport?
Professor Raj Mohanty
Boston University
Refreshments at 3:30 pm

4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Joint  Theory  Seminar
``The MSSM spectrum and hidden sector running"
Martin Schmaltz
Boston University
Refreshments will be served

4:30 PM
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard
University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Quantum Optimal Control: a tool for scalable Quantum Information
Processing"
Tommaso Calarco
ITAMP/Harvard University
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

9:00 am to 5:40 pm?.NOTE:  This is a two-day symposium happening today &
tomorrow (See website for list of speakers & times)
Brown University
Department of Physics
Barus & Holley, Rm. 190
?The BCS Theory of Superconductivity - 50 Years?
Introduction by Provost, David Kertzer 
Brown University
http://www.physics.brown.edu/50YearsBCS
Refreshments will be served

12:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Emergence of Cooper pairs and the phase diagram of cuprates"
Zlatko Tesanovic
The Johns Hopkins University  

4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Understanding the Quark-gluon Plasma via String Theory"
Hong Liu         
MIT
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html
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Friday, April 13, 2007

8:45 am to 5:00 pm... This is the 2?nd day of the two-day symposium listed
above.  (See website for list of speakers & times)
Brown University
Department of Physics
Barus & Holley, Rm. 190
?The BCS Theory of Superconductivity - 50 Years?
?Thermal and Quantum Fluctuations: Superconductor beyond BCS"
Matthew Fisher                                     
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics 
http://www.physics.brown.edu/50YearsBCS
Refreshments will be served

1:15 pm.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Topological Strings on Compact Calabi-Yau 3-folds and 5d Black Hole
Entropy"
Min-xin Huang
University of Wisconsin
Lunchtime seminar; refreshments served in 256 at 1:10.

1:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Building, Rm. 352
"Combinatorial polymer brushes as a novel platform for probing assembly at
interfaces"
Jan Genzer
North Carolina State University

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 211
"A New-Tool Box for Hadronic Studies:  Optics and Self-Organizing Networks"
Simonetta Liuti
University of Virginia
Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm