BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/15/07 to 10/19/07

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

October 15, 2007 to October 19, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, October 15, 2007

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Natural Dark Matter in Unnatural Theories"
Aaron Pierce
University of Michigan

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics  6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Seminar
"Light Scalar at the LHC: the Higgs or the Dilaton?"
Witold Skiba
Yale University
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu <http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/>

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Warped Geometry: Consequences and LHC Signatures"
Lisa Randall
Harvard University
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
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Harvard University

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Symmetry:  From Human Perception and Mate Selection to the Laws of Nature"
Dr. Mario Livio
STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Paired-Fermion superfluids with ultracold atoms"
David Huse
Princeton University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm"
Dr. Senthil Todadri
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics  6c-442
String/Gravity  Seminar
"Entanglement Entropy from AdS/CFT"
Tadashi Takayanagi
Kyoto University/Harvard
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu <http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/>

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555 
"To be Announced"
Albion Lawrence
Brandeis University

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Sub-Wavelength Imaging in Mid-Infrared: From Superlenses to Transmission 
Lines"
Professor Genady Shvets
University of Texas at Austin
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
For more information please see:  http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218
"Probing the nature of space-time with protons at the Large Hadron 
Collider"
Melissa Franklin
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm

7:00 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
LEOS Plasmonics Workshop
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
"Nanostructures by the Square Yard: Large-Area Plasmonic and
Negative-Index Materials"
Prof. Steve Brueck
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Coffee, cookies, soft drink break at 8:00 p.m.
http://www.bostonleos.org/plasmonics07/

8:15 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
LEOS Plasmonics Workshop
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
"Nanophotonics in Mid-IR:from Superlenses to Transmission Lines"
Prof. Gennady Shvets
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Coffee, cookies, soft drink break at 8:00 p.m.
http://www.bostonleos.org/plasmonics07/

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

3:30 p.m. 
Boston University
Math.-Physics Seminar
MCS 180, Math-Dept, 111 Cummington St.
"Differential geometry on a renormalization bundle"
Susama Agarwala
Johns Hopkins U.
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
"Nonperturbative effects in matrix models and topological strings"
Marlene Weiss
(CERN)
Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor  
Jefferson, at 3:30.

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Dark Nebular Cores and the Origin of Stellar Masses"
Charles Lada
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Searches for Gravitational Waves with LIGO"
Erik Katsavounidis
MIT
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html
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Friday, October 19, 2007

12:00 Noon
Boston University
Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 252
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Glass transition: a new kind of critical phenomenon?"
Giulio Biroli
CEA-Saclay
Pizza served at 11:30 AM

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
NW17-218 
"Overview of Recent NSTX Research Results"
Stanley Kaye
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

3:30 p.m.
Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA  02138
"Making A Science Out of Science Education"
Noah Finkelstein
University of Colorado, Boulder