BAPC Calendar of Events - 9/15/08 to 9/19/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

September 15, 2008 to September 19, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, September 15, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Low-scale Gaugino Mediation."
Witold Skiba
Yale University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Astrophysical application of Chern-Simons modified gravity"
Kohkichi Konno, Hokkaido University, Japan
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
*"**Top Quark Measurements at DO"*
Erich Varnes
www2.lns.mit.edu/seminars

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"TBA"
Hajar Ebrahim
Brandeis University

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Small-numbers dynamics in biology and nanotech: the Maximum Caliber 
approach to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics"
Ken Dill
University of California at San Francisco
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"(De)constructing spacetime in string theory"
Albion Lawrence
Brandeis University
Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Quantum Noise as an Entanglement Meter"
Leonid Levitov
MIT
Refreshments served at 12:45

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Monodromy and the CMB"
Eva Silverstein
Stanford University
Refreshments will be served.
2:30 p.m./* */
/Brown University/
/Physics Department /
/Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 To be announced/
/Dr. Jared Kaplan Harvard University/

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Dr. Edward Shuryak      
SUNY, Stony Brook 
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
Structure of the Nucleon
Richard Milner
M.I.T.
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

1:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
“Mesoscopic Structures in Quantum de Sitter Space”
Andrew Randono
Pennsylvania State University

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series: Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture in 
Physics
Building 10, Room 250
"Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe"
Alex Filippenko
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html 
<blocked::http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html>

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Friday, September 19, 2008

12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Superconducting gaps and Pseudogaps: spectroscopic evidence for two 
competing, coexisting phases below Tc"
Vidya Madhavan
Boston College

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