BAPC - Calendar of Events from 2/11/08 to 2/15/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

February 11, 2008 to February 15, 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 11, 2008

11:30 a.m.
Boston University
High Energy Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Towards an Understanding of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking"
Florencia Canelli
Fermi Lab

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Hierarchy without Color and the LHC"
Roni Harnik
Slac/Stanford
Refreshments will be served.

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"Dark Matter Direct Detection: the Road to Discovery"
Jocelyn Monroe, MIT
www.lns.mit.edu

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino 
Observatory"
Professor Francis Halzen
University of Wisconsin
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

4:45 p.m.
Wellesley College
Wellesley College Science Center Room 278
Engineering Colloquium
"How Biomedical Engineering is Changing the Medical Paradigm"
Professor Martha Gray, MIT
Director of Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"TBA"
Ruben Minasian
CNRS/CEA Saclay

2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"The Cosmological Constant Problem in the Stringly Landscape"
Henry Tye, Cornell
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Pattern formation and front propagation in reacting systems with 
chaotic mixing"
Tom Solomon
Bucknell University
Refreshments outside of Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

2:00 p.m. (Note special day)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Calculating the viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma on the lattice"
Harvey Meyer
MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"To Be Announced"
Dr. Nathan Berkovits
U Estadual Paulista

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Transformation Design and Metamaterials: Tools for Conceiving and 
Realizing
Unique Materials"
Dr. David Schurig       
Duke University 
Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
“Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale”
Eric Mazur
Harvard University

4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and 
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"TBA"
Viktor Veselago
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Gas Giants and Rocky Planets around G and M dwarfs"
Doug Lin
UC Santa Cruz
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Active galactic nuclei: the weather report"
Bozena Czerny
Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"A Quantum Computer Can Determine Who Wins a Game Faster Than a 
Classical Computer"
Edward Farhi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html

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Friday, February 15, 2008

1:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics, SEAS & Center for the Environment
Jefferson 250
"The Path to Fusion Power"
Chris Llewellyn-Smith
Chair of International Tokomak Experimental Reactor (ITER) Council

2:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
TBA
Tsvi Piran
Hebrew University
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/





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