BAPC - Calendar of Events from 4/14/08 to 4/18/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

April 14, 2008 to April 18, 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, April 14, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"GenEvA: A New Framework for Event Generation"
Jesse Thaler, UC Berkeley
Refreshments to be served.

3:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
HEP Seminar
Dana Building Room 114
"Physics Beyond the Standard Model with IceCube"
Alex Olvias
University of Maryland
For more information please see: http://www.physics.neu.edu/events.html

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Unparticle Physics"
Howard Georgi
Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Cosmic Superstring Dynamics"
Jose Blanco-Pillado
Tufts University
Refreshments to be served at 2:15PM

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Evolution from BCS to Bose-Einstein Condensation:
Superfluidity in Metals, Neutron Stars, Nuclei and Ultra-Cold Atoms"
Carlos Sa de Melo
Georgia Tech and Joint Quantum Institute
University of Maryland/NIST
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Math/Physics Seminar
Building 2 Room 105
"ADE-singularities and ADE integrable heirarchies"
Youngbin Ruan
University of Michigan
For more information please see: http://events.mit.edu/event.htm

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Frame Dragging: A Half Century Hunt for an Elusive Effect"
Professor Irwin Shapiro
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
JOINT ASTRO-LNS COLLOQUIUM
"Astroparticle Physics of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory"
Paul Sommers
Penn State
www.lns.mit.edu

4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Singular Schroedinger Operators Modelling Nanometer-size Networks"
Pavel Exner
Doppler Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

10:00 a.m.
Boston University Physics Department
3 Cummington Street, room PRB 595
Biophysics Seminar Series
"Which type of potentials exhibit the anomalous behavior of water?"
Marcia Barbosa
Rio Grande University, Brazil
Refreshments will be served at 9:30am

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Building an AdS/CFT Superconductor"
Gary Horowitz
UCSB
Refreshments to be served.

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 
To be announced
Dr. Amit Sever
Brandeis University

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
“Photo-physics of carbon nanotubes”
Anna Swann
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Pulsar Glitches in Neutron Stars"
Professor Chris Engelbrecht     
University of Johannesburg
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu

8:00 p.m.
Harvard University
David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics
Science Center, Hall C, 1Oxford St.
"How Physics Became Precise"
Daniel Kleppner
Dept. of Physics and MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT
Refreshments at Putnam Gallery, Science Center, following lecture
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Collapse, Collisions, Black Holes & Gravitational Waves: Frontiers of 
Numerical Relativity"
Stuart Shapiro
Illinois
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Lecture
Part of the Physics Department Colloquium Series
"The Future of Physics: challenges and opportunities at the Large Hadron 
Collider"
Robert Aymar
Director General, CERN
Refreshments served at 3 PM in the 1st floor lounge

4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"Making a Better Solar Cell"
Peter Borden
Solar Business Group, Applied Materials, Inc.
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 18, 2008

12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Collective states of interacting anyons: Things golden"
Simon Trebst
Microsoft Station Q
Pizza served at 11:30 AM

2:00 p.m.
Boston University Physics Department
590 Commonwealth Avenue, room SCI 352
Biophysics Seminar Series
"Force-induced single molecule DNA interactions: From small molecule 
binding to HIV replication"
Mark C. Williams
Northeastern University
Upper Crust pizza and soda will be served at 1:30pm

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Electronics on Plastic: A Solution to Energy Challenge or Just a Pipe 
Dream?"
Stephen Forrest
University of Michigan



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