BAPC - Calendar of Events from 4/21/08 to 4/25/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

April 21, 2008 to April 25, 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 21, 2008

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
PATRIOT'S DAY - NO COLLOQUIUM

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Which Path to Metallic Hydrogen: High or Low Temperatures
Isaac F. Silvera
Harvard University
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
"Theoretical Physics and Cellular Biology: Some Case Studies"
Professor Curtis Callan
Princeton University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Redshift Evolution of Galactic Structures (Bars, Bulges & Disks) at z < 1 from COSMOS: Quantifying the Assembly of the Hubble Sequence" 
(2008, ApJ, 675, 1141)
Kartik Sheth
Caltech/SSC
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Magnetic Fields, Baryogenesis, and Sparks"
Tanmay Vachaspati
CWRU and Princeton
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"E. coli's division decision: modeling Min-protein oscillations"
Ned Wingreen
Princeton University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
NO COLLOQUIUM--Passover and Spring Recess
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical  Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Hydrodynamics at the Horizon"
Eric Verlinde
U Amsterdam/Harvard
Refreshments to be served.

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"MRI- The Quest for Atomic Resolution"
Professor Mladen Barbic
CSU Long Beach
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please 
see: http://www.physics.bc.edu
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

4:00 p.m.
Brown University
Special Kyungsik Kang Seminar: B&H 190
"Strong Interactions, Known and Unknown, at the Large Hadron Collider"
Prof. Matt Strassler
Rutgers University

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"Electronic Liquid Crystals"
Steven Kivelson
Stanford University
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 25, 2008

11 a.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Issues Associated with Codeposition in ITER; What to Expect"
Russ Doerner
University of California, San Diego

12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Precise Measurement of Electronic States Above and Below the Fermi Level"
Ray Ashoori
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pizza served at 11:30am

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Special Particle Theory Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Can there be a discrete theory of gravity?"
Prof. Gerard 't Hooft
University of Utrecht

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Shaping Material Deposition by Evaporative Flow"
Tom Witten
University of Chicago

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