BAPC - Calendar of Events from 4/7/08 to 4/11/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

April 7, 2008 to April 11, 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
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Monday, April 7, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Nuclear force from lattice QCD"
Sinya Aoki, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"Hadron Tomography"
Matthias Burkardt, New Mexico State University
www.lns.mit.edu

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Black Hole Information Paradox, Past and Future"
Joseph Polchinski
University of California, Santa Barbara
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: Arthur O. Williams Lecture
Barus & Holley 168
"Biocomplexity in Action: Pattern Formation and Microbial Ecology at 
Yellowstone's Hot Springs"
Professor Nigel Goldenfeld
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Pappalardo Room 4-349 (NOTE Room change this week only)
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar/String Seminar
"A Matrix model for Black Hole Thermalization"
Joseph Polchinski, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics/UCSB
refreshments will be served at 2:00pm

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lecture II
Jefferson Lab 250
"The Laser-Bec Analogy"
Jefferson 250
Marlan O. Scully
TAMU & Princeton

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Of Bugs and Men: Game Playing, Evolution and Adaptation for Physicists"
Robert H. Austin
Princeton University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"TBA"
Dr. Phillip Geissler
UC Berkeley
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"TBA"
Allan Adams, MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Physics Department
Brown University
"Conformal Collider Physics"
Dr. Diego Hofman
Princeton University

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
“Beauty and creativity in science and technology”
Paul Carr
Air Force Research Laboratory Emeritus

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Low-dimensionality condensed matter experiments at an atomistic scale 
using
strongly-coupled dusty plasmas"
Professor John Goree    
University of Iowa
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. 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 356
"Computing with Quantum Knots: Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological 
Quantum Computation"
Sankar Das Sarma
University of Maryland
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Metrology with Trapped Ions"
David Wineland
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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 11, 2008

12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"1D Fermions and Bosons beyond the Luttinger Liquid Picture"
Leonid Glazman
Yale University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM

1:30 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Embryoid Body Shell Formation Reduces Diffusive Transport:
new strategies for stem cell differentiation"
Debra T. Auguste
Harvard University

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Accelerators of the Future: from Structures to Plasmas"
Gennady Shvets
University of Texas at Austin
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