BAPC - Calendar of Events from 2/4/08 to 2/8/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

February 4, 2008 to February 8, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic 
year
by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University. Entries should
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Monday, February 4, 2008

3:00 p.m.
Boston University
High Energy Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Search for New Physics at Present and Near Future"
Hai-Jun Yang
University of Michigan

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Optics with Cold Atoms"
Peter Zoller
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Fractional Charge"
Professor Roman Jackiw
MIT
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

2:30 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Phillips, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Origin of the Highest Energy Particles"
Angela Olinto
Chicago
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/


4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The US Missile Defense and Its European Components:
The Scientific and Technical Facts and their Implications for US and European 
Security"
Ted Postol
MIT
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
No events posted today.

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Thursday, February 7, 2008

11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Evolution of Galaxies: Emerging Insights and Future Challenges"
Shardha Jogee
Texas
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/

1:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Robinson Hall, Room 250
“Microlensing and Strong Lensing by Cosmic Strings”
Xavier Siemens
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

3:15 p.m.
Tufts University
A Joint Computer Science/Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall, Room 112
“The IIC Time Series Center: How Astronomers, Computer Scientists and 
Statisticians are Working Together to Tackle Hard Problems in Astronomy”
Pavlos Protopapas
The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments served in Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall, Room 108 at 2:30 pm.

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Friday, February 8, 2008

12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Heavy Fermion Superconductors: the little spin that could"
Piers Coleman
Rutgers University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM


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