BAPC - Calendar of Events from 3/31/08 to 4/04/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

March 31, 2008 to April 4, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
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Monday, March 31, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Fun with Top Compositeness at the Tevatron and LHC"
Tim Tait
Argonne National Laboratory

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical  Physics
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Searching for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry"
Peter Graham, Stanford

4:15pm
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
Pavlos Vranas, LLNL
www.lns.mit.eduRefreshments to be served.

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Colloquium
Jefferson Lab 250
"The Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum:  Fluctuations and Correlations 
Tell the Story"
Marlan O. Scully (TAMU & Princeton)
Tea 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
"Mitochondrial Sequences and the Migration History of Modern Humans"
Professor Gyan Bhanot
Rutgers University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
TBA
Volker Bromm
UT, Austin
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/

2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical  Physics
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Characterizing primordial bispectra in single field inflation"
Xingang Chen
MIT-CTP
Refreshments to be served at 2:15PM

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Imaging Living Cells with Nanometer Resolution: Breaking the 
Diffraction Barrier"
Sam Hess
University of Maine, Orino
Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Semianr
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"N-ification of Forces: a Holographic Perspective on Model Building"
Herman Verlinde, Princeton
Refreshments to be served .

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

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lecture I
Jefferson Lab 250
"Using Quantum Mechanics to Detect Anthrax"
Marlan O. Scully
TAMU & Princeton

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
New Forms of Convection in Magnetized Plasmas
Eliot Quataert
Berkeley
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/


4:00 p.m.
Phillips Auditorium, Harvard College Observatory
"Study of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays with the
Pierre Auger Observatory" (Astronomy)
The Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture by
James Cronin, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
Enrico Fermi Institute.

4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"Universal Scaling Laws in Living Systems from Cells to Cities; Towards 
a Unifying Theory of Biological and Social Structure and Organization"
Geoffrey West
Sante Fe Institute
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html

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Friday, April 4, 2008

12 Noon
Boston University
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Modeling Protein Synthesis by Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion 
Processes (TASEP)"
Royce Zia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Pizza served at 11:30 AM

12 noon
Brandeis University
Soft Matter Seminar
Abelson 229
"Protein as model colloid or the physics of dynamical arrest"
Dr. Thomas Gibaud
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

1:30 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Early Steps of the Visual Cycle: Production and Clearance of Retinol in 
Vertebrate Rod and Cone Photoreceptors"
M. Carter Cornwall
Boston University School of Medicine

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"The Joy of Levitation:  Cooking up a new way to confine hot plasma"
Darren Garnier
Columbia University

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Bull n°11: a Physical Approach in Physiology"
Christophe Clanet
Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre