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BAPC - Calendar of Events from 9/29/08 to 10/3/08
September 29, 2008 to October 3, 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
be sent by you to the bapc late entry email address listed below.
On time entries send to: bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu.
Late entries send to: bapc-late cosmos phy tufts edu
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http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html
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Monday, September 29, 2008
12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Fun with 2D Unparticle Physics"
Howard Georgi
Harvard University
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Gauge Theories on non-linearly realized groups"
Ruggero Ferrari, U Milan/MIT
Refreshments will be served
2:00 p.m. (note different day of the week)
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"Tachyon actions in string theory: a no-go theorem"
Matthew Headrick
Brandeis University
4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
26-505, Kolker Room
"The Early Universe and Non-Gaussianity"
Justin Khoury
Perimeter Institute
4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The String Theory Landscape"
Frederik Denef
Harvard University, Physics
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
“The Casimir Force: Still Mysterious after 60 Years”
Professor Steven Lamoreaux
Yale University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room MCS180 in the Math Dept
111 Cummington Street
"Stability conditions and Stokes factors"
Valerio Toledano Laredo
Northeastern University
Tea at 12:15
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html
2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar
"Gravity on the Largest Scale: and Cosmic Acceleration"
Justin Khoury
Perimeter Institute
Refreshments will be served
4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
No colloquium.
4:30 p.m.
Harvard Univesrity
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Lyman 425, Physics Department, 17 Oxford Street
"Laplace Operators on Metric Graphs and Causal Free Fields"
Robert Schrader
Freie Universitat Berlin
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Loop amplitudes in maximal supergravity and string theory"
Pierre Vanhove
CEA/Saclay
Refreshments will be served
4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Prof. Joseph Heremans
Ohio State University
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu
4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"The jamming transition in soft materials"
Dr. Gregg Lois
Yale University
Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Physics
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
1:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
Andrei Bernevig
Princeton University
4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Brane tilings and M2-branes"
David Vegh
MIT
Juice and cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:30 p.m.
4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"WiTricity: Non-radiative Wireless Power Transfer"
Marin Soljacic
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html
5:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Watching the paint dry"
Lei Xu
Harvard University
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Friday, October 3, 2008
3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Plasma rotation driven by static non-axisymmetric fields in DIII-D"
Andrea M. Garofalo
General Atomics
4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Sub-wavelength Photonics: the bright future of light manipulation at
the nanoscale"
Federico Capasso
Harvard University
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