BAPC - Calendar of Events from September 17, 2007 to September 21, 2007

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

September 17, 2007 to September 21, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, September 17, 2007

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Gluons scattering at strong coupling from AdS"
Juan Maldacena
IAS

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Seminar
"Phase Transitions and the Perfectness of Fluids"
Jiunn-Wei Chen
National Taiwan University/MIT
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Sea Sponges: A Textbook in Materials Physics"
Joanna Aizenberg
Harvard University, SEAS
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26, Room 414
"The Future of Heavy Flavor Physics"
David Hitlin
Caltech
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"String Theory and Inflationary Cosmology"
Shamit Kachru
Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 2 p.m.
http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Avenue
"What PCA and clustering reveal about human migration, longevity and 
breast cancer"
Gyan Bhanot
Rugters University
Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m. in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Pattern Formations in Reactive Micro-Emulsions"
Professor Irving Epstein
Brandeis University
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

1:00 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"Partition of 3d Pure Quantum Gravity"
Xi Yin
Harvard University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Black holes, modular forms and marginal stability"
Ashoke Sen
MRI, India
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
Room NW17-218
"Improved H-mode (Hybrid scenario) results from ASDEX Upgrade"
A.C.C. Sips
IPP - Garching

4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
MIT 3-270
"21st Century Tohoku University and its thrust in Advanced Materials"
Professor Akihisa Inoue
Tohoku University, Japan
Contact:  Ai Ishitobi  a ishitobi cgjbos org

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma state in relativistic heavy ion 
collisions"
Peter Levai
KFKI Research Inste. for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy 
of Sciences
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Mugar Atrium, Higgins Hall

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

3:00 p.m.
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
MCS 180, Math Dept, 111 Cummington St.
"Nonperturbative aspects of QFT"
Dirk Kreimer
IHES and Boston University
Refreshments served at 2:45 p.m.
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

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Friday, September 21, 2007

No events posted today.





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Catherine Broderick
Department Coordinator
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