BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/1/07 to 10/5/07

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

October 1, 2007 to October 5, 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, October 1, 2007

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics  6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Seminar
"Unparticle Physics"
Howard Georgi
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu <http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/>

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Exploring a New Family of Planets: Super-Earths Orbiting Other Stars"
Dimitar Sasselov
Harvard University, Astronomy
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 MiniBooNE Experiment: Not Just for Neutrino Oscillations Anymore"
Sam Zeller
Los Alamos

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Star Formation and Galactic Magnetism"
Professor Giles Novak
Northwestern University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Thermal derivation of the Coleman-De Luccia tunneling prescription"
Erick Weinberg
Columbia
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The Nature of Dark Nebulae and the Origin of Stellar Masses"
Dr. Charles Lada
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131

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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics  6c-442
String/Gravity  Seminar
"Stringy instanton effect is in Type II orientifolds"
Timo Weigand
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu <http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/>

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Quantum Gravity as a Problem in Condensed Matter Physics"
Fotini Markopoulou
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-122
"Emerging Energy Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation: Growing
Interest in Carbon Capture and Storage"
Jennie Stephens
IDCE - Clark University
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/events/colloquium.cfm

4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and 
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Positronium molecules and the annihilation gamma ray laser"
Alan Mills
University of California, Riverside
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

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Thursday, October 4, 2007

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Math.-Physics Seminar
MCS 180, Math-Dept, 111 Cummington St.
"Visualizing solutions to Dyson Schwinger equations"
Karen Yeats
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:15.
For more information please see: 
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Stringy instanton effects in Type II orientifolds"
Timo Weigand   UPenn
Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:30.

5:00 p.m .
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It"
Steve Chu
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html

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Friday, October 5, 2007

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 453
"QED"
Juerg Froehlich
ETH Zurich