BAPC - Calendar of Events from 5/12/08 to 5/16/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

May 12, 2008 to May 16, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, May 12, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Chiral Gravity in Three Dimensions"
Andrew Strominger
Harvard University
Refreshments to be served.

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"*First Results from the Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment*"
Frank Calaprice
Princeton University
www.lns.mit.edu

7:00 p.m.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
“The Science of Superheroes”
(to be followed by the screening of the film “Superman” starring 
Christopher Reeves)
Max Tegmark
Associate Professor of Physics, MIT
www.coolidge.org/science
For more information: cheryl coolidge org

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

2:00 p.m. (Note additional N&P Seminar)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Triumvirate of Running Couplings in Small-x Evolution"
Yuri Kovchegov
Ohio State University
Refreshments to be served.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"A bound on lifetimes of string theory vacua"
Ben Freivogel
UC, Berkeley
Refreshments to be served
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"Manipulating Phase Space in Plasma with Waves"
Nat Fisch
Princeton 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, May 16, 2008

11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Classroom A, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
TBA
Rashid Sunyaev
MPA
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Lithium Walls and Low Recycling: Results from CDX-U and Projections for 
LTX"
Richard Majeski
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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