BAPC - Calendar of Events from 12/10/07 to 12/14/07

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

December 10, 2007 to December 14, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, December 10, 2007

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"LHC and Dark Matter Signals of Improved Naturalness"
Paddy Fox
Fermilab

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
N&P Theory Seminar
"Ultracold Fermionic Atoms in One Dimension"
Wilhelm Zwerger, TU, Munich/MIT
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu <http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/>

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"There's Plenty of Room in the Middle: A View from the Bottom"
Don Eigler
IBM Almaden Research Center
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.

4:15pm
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
“QCD Spin Physics at Belle”
Matthias Grosse-Perdekamp
University of Illinois

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

2:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Lab for Particle Physics & Cosmology Seminars
18 Hammond Street, Palfrey House
"The Quest for the Higgs"
Sabine Lammer
Columbia University
cookies will be served
http://www.lppc.physics.harvard.edu
http://www.lppc.physics.harvard.edu/seminars/

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Charting the landscape of modified gravity"
Nemanja Kaloper
UC Davis
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I
Jefferson 250
"Computation in Nanometer-Scale Structures: Molecule Cascades"
Don Eigler
IBM Almaden Research Center

4:00 p.m.
NO COLLOQUIA
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
String/Gravity Seminar
"TBA"
Oliver Dewolfe
University of Colorado
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu <http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/>
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II
Jefferson 250
"Classical Computation in Quantum Nanostructures: A Long Road to an 
Uncertain Future"
Don Eigler
IBM Almaden Research Center

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Role of High Temperature Gas Reactors in the Global Expansion of 
Nuclear Power"
Michael Campbell
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 8-329 (Physics Common Room)
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html


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Friday, December 14, 2007

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
NW17-218
"ELM Suppression Using Edge Resonant Magnetic Perturbations in DIII-D"
Todd Evans
General Atomics

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