BAPC - Calendar of Events from 3/17/08 to 3/21/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

March 17, 2008 to March 21, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, March 17, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"General Gauge Mediation"
David Shih
Institute for Advanced Study

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Quark masses: An Environmental Impact Statement"
Alejandro Jenkins, MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
Gilad Perez
Stonybrook
www.lns.mit.edu

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"What Does the Eye Tell the Brain:  A Journey from High Energy Physics
to Neural Systems"
Alan Litke
University of California, Santa Cruz
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Particle Physics at a Crossroads"
Professor Meenakshi Narain
Brown University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"TBA"
Dr. Pavel Kovtun
MIT, University of Victoria

2:30 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Phillips, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Dark matter, small-scale structure, and dwarf galaxies"
Louie Strigari
UC Irvine
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Quest for Spin Cascade Logic Circuits"
Don Eigler
IBM Fellow
IBM Almaden Research Center
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 131
"The Algebra of Random Surfaces"
Professor Andrei Okounkov
Princeton University
Refreshments before the colloquium outside Abelson 131.
A reception in Volen Bridge follows the colloquium.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Progress in AdS(3)/CFT(2)"
Ari Pakman
Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 131
"The Algebra of Random Surfaces"
Professor Andrei Okounkov
Princeton University
Coffee and tea before the lecture outside Abelson 131.

4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and 
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Minimum instances of topological matter in an optical plaquette"
Belén Paredes
University of Mainz
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Degeneracy and Confidence in Planetary Microlensing"
Andy Gould
Ohio State University
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/

2:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 131
"The Algebra of Random Surfaces"
Professor Andrei Okounkov
Princeton University
Coffee and tea before the lecture outside Abelson 131

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Friday, March 21, 2008

1:30 p.m.
Boston University Physics Department
Biophysics Seminar
590 Commonwealth ave., room SCI 352
"Controlling Complex Molecules with light"
Adam E. Cohen
Harvard University
Food and refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Jamming and Rigidity Onset in Fluids"
Sid Nagel
University of Chicago



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