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BAPC - Calendar of Events from 3/3/08 to 3/7/08
March 3, 2008 to March 7, 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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Monday, March 3, 2008
12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St.
"Un-hidden local symmetry and electroweak symmetry breaking"
Josh Erlich
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Effective Field Theory and Collider Physics"
Matthew Schwartz
Johns Hopkins University
Refreshments will be served
4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"The Energy-Environment Challenge and MIT's Energy Initiative"
Ernie Moniz
MIT
4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Giant Magnetoresistance and Spintronics"
Professor Gang Xiao
Brown University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
www.lns.mit.edu
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
12:30 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
TBD
Feng Yuan
Shanghai Observatory
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/
3:30 p.m.
Boston University
High Energy Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Starting from the top: plans & prospects for early ATLAS results"
Ayana Holloway Arce
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Plasmonics, radiating nanowires, and light-powered E.coli"
Jan Liphardt
UC Berkeley Physics Department
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String Theory Seminar
"Universality without symmetry"
Pavel Kovtun
University of Victoria/MIT
Refreshments will be served
2:30 p.m.
Physics Department
Brown University
HET Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"New String Vacua with Simple Topologies"
Dr. Alessandro Tomasiello
Harvard University
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Absorption in Pairs of QSOs: Absence of QSO feedback and winds from
galaxies"
David Tytler
UCSD
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/
11:30 a.m.
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Abelson 229
"Nuclear Magnetic Spin Noise--Fundamental Properties and Application
Potential"
Dr. Norbert Muller
Johannes Kepler University
4 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Black holes and quantum criticality"
Sean Hartnoll
(KITP)
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
"Testing Gravity with Telescopes"
Christopher Stubbs
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, March 7, 2008
12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Influence of non-equilibrium conditions on thin film stress and surface
morphology evolution"
Eric Chason
Brown University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Inertial Confinement Fusion on NIF: Physics and Challenges"
Otto Landen
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
3:00 p.m.
Boston University
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Graphene: Exploring Carbon Flatland"
Andre Geim
University of Manchester
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