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BAPC - Calendar of Events from 2/25/08 to 2/29/08
February 25, 2008 to February 29, 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
reach us no later than 2:00 pm the Wednesday of the week preceding the week
of the actual event. NOTE: Entries that are past the deadline will have to
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On time entries send to: bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"RHIC Physics and String Theory: The Fundamental"
David Mateos
UC, Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be served.
2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 8, Room 205
"Superconducting Cyclotrons for Proton Beam Radiotherapy"
Dr. Detlef Krishel
ACCEL Instruments GmbH
(Presented in conjunction with MIT course 8.277/6.608 "Intro to Particle
Accelerators", by Prof. W. Barletta)
4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium/Loeb Lecture I
Jefferson 250
"Single Molecule Biophysics: Reading the Genetic Code"
Steven M. Block
Stanford University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/loebcal.html
4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
Brian Odom
University of Chicago
www.lns.mit.edu
4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
“Fundamental Physics through Astrophysics”
Professor Chris Stubbs
Harvard University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Seminar/Loeb Lecture II
Jefferson 250
"Single Molecule Biophysics: How Nucleic Acids Fold"
Steven M. Block
Stanford University
http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/loebcal.html
4:00 p.m.
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Sea Sponges: A Textbook in Materials Physics"
Dr. Joanna Aizenberg
Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Science
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String /Gravity Seminar
Christopher Pope, Texas A&M
"Infinite-Dimensional Symmetries of Two-Dimensional Coset Models Coupled to
Gravity"
Refreshments will be served
2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"To be Announced"
Dr. Jonathan Heckman
Harvard University
4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
“Negative refraction materials”
Gary Kussow
UMass Lowell
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Gaps in our Understanding: STM studies of the Pseudogap Phase of High Tem
Superconductors"
Professor Eric Hudson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu
4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356
"Interference and non-adiabaticity"
Prof. Anatoli Polkovnikov
Boston University
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Seminar/Loeb Lecture III
Jefferson 250
"Single Molecule Biophysics: How Kinesin Motors Move"
Steven M. Block
Stanford University
http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/loebcal.html
4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"RHIC Physics and String Theory: The Fundamental Story"
David Mateos
(UCSB)
Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:30.
4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"The Role of Vortices in Limiting Superconductivity in the Cuprates"
Phaun Ong
Princeton 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 29, 2008
3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Characteristics of D Retention in a High-Z Tokamak with Implications
for ITER and Beyond"
Bruce Lipschultz
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
3:15 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall, Room 112
"A Heuristic Approach to Materials Design"
Marco Fornari
DMSE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics, Central Michigan University
Refreshments served in Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall, Room 108 at 2:30 pm.
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