BAPC - Calendar of Events from 04/30/07 to 05/04/07

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

April 30, 2007 to May 4, 2007

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Monday, April 30, 2007

1:30PM, NW17-218
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"The Path to Magnetic Fusion: Crossing the Next Frontier"
R.J. Goldson and J.E. Mennard
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar
"Quantum-classical crossover in electrodynamics"
Janos Polonyi
LPT, Universite Louis Pasteur
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 26, Room 214
"Geometry and Control in Quantum Information Science"
Navin Khaneja
Harvard

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Phase Transitions"
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

2:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology  seminar
Building NE25, 4th flr. Seminar room
"Remarks on Eternal Inflation Measures"
Stephen Shenker
Stanford
Refreshments will be served

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"Photo-physics of carbon nanotubes"
Anna Swan
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Joint Physics/Quantitative Biology Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Cholesterol/phospholipids interactions: Evidence of ordering and
displacement of cholesterol by alcohol"
Dr. Ka Yee Lee
University of Chicago
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

No talks were submitted for this day
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Thursday, May 3, 2007

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Search for the Missing Baryons"
Mike Shull
University of Colorado
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
"Neutrinos from Supernova 1987A: What we learned, what we didn't, and the
strategies for detecting supernova neutrinos again (soon!)"
John Beacom 
Ohio State University 
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html
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Friday, May 4, 2007

1:15 pm.
Harvard University
Lunchtime Duality Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Consistency Conditions On The S-Matrix Of Massless Particles"
Freddy Cachazo  
Perimeter Institute
refreshments served in 256 at 1:10

3:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Progress of Resistive Wall Mode Stabilization on the DIII-D Device"
Michio Okabayashi
PPPL