BAPC - Calendar of Events from 9/22/08 to 9/26/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

September 22, 2008 to September 26, 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
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Monday, September 22, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Tagging Hadronic Tops at High Pt."
Brock Tweedie
Johns Hopkins University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"The assault on one-loop QCD"
Keith Ellis
Fermi National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Quantum Oscillations in Metals:  Old Dog, New Tricks
Andy MacKenzie
St. Andrews University, Scotland
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
“Something Old, Something New”
Professor Juan Collar
University of Chicago
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room MCS180 in the Math Dept
111 Cummington Street
"Feynman graphs and Ringel-Hall algebras"
Matt Szczesny
Boston University
Tea at 12:15
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"TBA"
Cecilia Garraffo
Brandeis University

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Are there quantitative mathematical laws underlying financial markets?"
Doyne Farmer
Santa Fe Institute
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
"A Precision Muon Detector for the ATLAS Experiment"
James Bensinger
Brandeis University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Microscopic diagonal entropy, heat, and laws of thermodynamics"
Anatoly Polkovnikov
Boston University
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
"Non-Geometric Backgrounds and Generalized Geometry in String Theory and 
M-Theory"
Christopher Hull
Imperial College
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Clark University
Departments of Physics and Biology - Joint Colloquium
Lasry Center for BioScience, Room 237
"Cilia: multifunctional organelles at the center of vertebrate left-right
asymmetry"
Professor Martina Brueckner, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Thermoelectric Materials by Design"
Dr. Jihui Yang
General Motors Corporation
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
String Theory and the Early Universe
Albion Lawrence
Brandeis University
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

1:00 pm.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"FeAs superconductors"
Efstratios Manousakis

1:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
“The Bursts and the Beads: Gravitational Wave Bursts from Monopoles on 
Strings”
Ben Shlaer
Tufts University

2:30 p.m.
/Brown University/
Physics Department
/Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"Amplitudes in Maximal Supergravity and String Theory"
//Dr. Pierre Vanhove
Saclay/

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Four dimensional dynamics of string compactifications"
Gonzalo Torroba
Rutgers
Juice & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:30.

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Circuit QED: Quantum Optics on a Superconducting Chip"
Rob Schoelkopf
Yale University
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html

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Friday, September 26, 2008

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"ELM characterization and stability experiments in NSTX"
Rajesh Maingi
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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