BAPC - Calendar of Events from 04/23/07 to 04/27/07

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

April 23, 2007 to April 27, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, April 23, 2007

3:00 pm *Note time change for this week only
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25, 4th Flr. seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar
"Finding minima of unknown functions: the topology of the Thomson problem"
Alfredo Iorio
Charles University of Prague/Salerno University
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Beyond Computation: The P versus NP question"
Michael Sipser
MIT
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 pm
MIT
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Kolker Room, 26-414
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
"Dark Matter"
Professor Peter Fisher, MIT
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"A Tale of Two Superconductors:
Underdoped Cuprates from a Kondo Lattice Perspective"
David Pines
UC Davis
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Joint Physics/Neuroscience Colloquium Physics
Building, Abelson 131
"Can Neuronal Networks Trade Space for Time?"
Dr. Olivia White
Pappalardo Fellow in Physics
MIT
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Theory seminar
`Hierarchy Problems in String Theory-the Power of Large Volume"
Joe Conlon
Cambridge University
Refreshments will be served

4:00 PM
Department of Physics
Boston College
Professor Dimitri Basov
University of California, San Diego
"Electrostatic doping of new materials: Challenges, opportunities and first
accomplishments"
Higgins 310
Refreshments 3:30 PM Mugar Atrium

4:00 pm
UMASS Lowell
Physics Department
Colloquium Series, OH218
"Subcellular Surgery and Nanosurgery"
Professor Eric Mazur
UMass Lowell
Refreshments at 3:30 pm

4:00 p.m.
Department of Physics
Boston College
Professor Dimitri Basov
University of California-San Diego
Higgins 310
Refreshments 3:30 Mugar Atrium

4:30 PM
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 453
"MARMOSET: The Path from LHC data to the New Standard Model via On- Shell
Effective Theories"
Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard)
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Thursday, April 26, 2007

1:30 pm
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Couplings and Spectra in a Successful Modular Inflation Scenario"
Wan-Il Park
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Bok Prize Lecture: Discoveries of Hypervelocity Stars and What They Tell 
Us
About the Galactic Center"
Warren Brown
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/colloquia

4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Surveys: The Flip Side of Observational Astronomy"
James E. Gunn 
Princeton University 
For more information:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html

4:30 pm
Clark University
President's Lecture Series
Razzo Hall
Traina Center for the Arts
"Putting It All Together"
Professor Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate
MIT, Department of Physics
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Friday, April 27, 2007

1:15 pm.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Hierarchy Problems in String Theory: The Power of Large Volume"
Joseph Conlon   
Cambridge University
Lunchtime seminar; refreshments served in 256 at 1:10.

3:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Turbulence Dynamics, Toroidal Momentum and the Origins of 'Spontaneous'
Rotation"
Patrick H. Diamond
University of California, San Diego

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 211
"The Casimir Force:  Still Mysterious after Nearly 60 Years"
Steve Lamoreaux
Yale University
Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium/Public Lecture
Robinson Hall
Room 253
"Some Unanswered Questions in Physics:  Extra Dimensions to Dark Energy"
Krzysztof Sliwa
Tufts University
Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm