BAPC - Calendar of Events from 3/10/08 to 3/14/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

March 10, 2008 to March 14, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University. Entries should
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Monday, March 10, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"The anomalous baryon current and neutrino-photon interactions in the
Standard Model"
Richard Hill, Fermi National Lab, Theory Group
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Physics Department
HET Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"Solitons in AdS String Solutions"
Kewang Jin
Brown University

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Search for Gravitational Radiation from Astrophysical Sources
with Interferometric Detectors"
Rainer Weiss
M.I.T.
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestake"
Kevin Lesko, LBL
www.lns.mit.edu

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Quantum resolution of cosmological singularities using holography"
Neil Turok
DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

4:00 p.m.
M.I.T.
Math/Physics Seminar
Bldg 2  room 105
"Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory"
Professor Christopher Beasley
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm in bldg 2, room 349 (Applied Math Common 
Room)

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
NO COLLOQUIUM TODAY
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills at weak and strong coupling"
Radu Roiban
Penn State University
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Physics Department
HET Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"Chiral Gravity in Three Dimensions"
Dr. Wei Li
Harvard University

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
“Structure and properties of silk”
Peggy Cebe
Tufts University

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

4:15 p. m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series: The David and Edith Harris 
Distinguished Lecture
Building 34, Room 101
"Exploring the Neutrino Questions"
Boris Kayser
Fermilab
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 14, 2008

No events posted today.
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