BAPC - Calendar of Events from 9/10/07 to 9/14/07

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

September 10, 2007 to September 14, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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year by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University. Entries should 
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Monday, September 10, 2007

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Seminar Room 6c-442
“Was Einstein Wrong? Astrophysical tests of effective quantum gravity"
Nico Yunes
Penn State University
refreshments will be served
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu <http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/>

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Seminar
CTP 6-310
“Counterexamples to additivity of minimum output p-Renyi entropy for 
close to 0”
Aram Harrow
University of Bristol

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
“Heavy Ion Collisions and the Transport Coefficients of QCD”
Harvey Meyer
MIT
www2.1ns.mit.edu/seminars

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series—Department of Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
“Entropy and Temperature of Granular Matter”
Bulbul Chakraborty
Brandeis University
Refreshments served outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-122
"Hard Potentials for Soft Systems: Geometry and Elasticity of
Entropy-Dominated Systems"
Yacov Kantor
Tel Aviv University
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/events/colloquium.cfm

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String Seminar
Seminar Room 6c-442
TBA
Eva Silverstein
Stanford University
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
“Nearing the Horizon of a Heterotic String”
Aaron Simons
Brown University

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CFA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
“What low luminosity galaxies tell us about cosmology”
Michael Blanton
New York University
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/colloquia

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
“Beauty in the Mirror: Looking for New Physics in CP Violation”
Gabriella Sciolla
MIT
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html

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Friday, September 14, 2007

No events posted for this day.