BAPC - Calendar of Events from 2/18/08 to 2/22/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

February 18, 2008 to February 22, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, February 18, 2008

4:15 p.m.
PRESIDENTS' DAY
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
NO COLLOQUIUM
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Quark and Lepton Masses and Mixings from Gaussian Landscapes"
Michael Salem
Tufts University

2:30 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Visualizing Two Gaps in the High-TC Superconductor (Bi-Pb)2Sr2CuO6+d"
Professor Michael Boyer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.physics.bc.edu

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology
SeminarRobinson 250
Richard Woodard
University of Florida (Gainsville)
"Interacting Quantum Fields in de Sitter Space"
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
NO COLLOQUIUM
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String/GravityTheory Seminar
"Causal hydrodynamics of gauge theory plasma from AdS/CFT"
Makoto Natsuume, KEK 
refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"Interacting Quantum Fields in de Sitter Space"
Prof. Richard Woodard  (U Florida)

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Quantum Mechanics and Global Warming"
Professor Brad Marston          
Brown University
Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu


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Thursday, February 21, 2008

11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Intitute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
> From Massive Cores to Massive Stars
Mark Krumholz
Princeton
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/


2:30  p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"Causal Hydrodynamics of Gauge Theory Plasmas from AdS/CFT"
Dr. Makoto Natsuume  (KEK - Japan)

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"Electro-optical Traps for Single Molecules in Water at Room Temperature"
Adam Cohen
Harvard University
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 22, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Intitute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
TBA
Stuart Wyithe
Melbourne
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/