BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/6/08 to 10/10/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

October 6, 2008 to October 10, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, October 6, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Supersymmetric lattices: theory and applications"
Simon Catterall
Syracuse University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Quasi supersymmetric Wilson loops, loop equation and exact beta function in 
the large N limit of Yang-Mills theories"
Marco Bochicchio
Refreshments will be served.

4:00 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-505
"The structure of the nucleon, from parity violation to antiproton 
annihilation"
Frank Maas
Mainz

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The New Iron Age of Superconductivity"
Douglas Scalapino
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Strongly-correlated Fermionic Matter in the Dilute Limit"
Dr. Bogdan Mihaila
Los Alamos National Laboratory
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"The Volume of the Universe after Inflation and de Sitter Entropy"
Leonardo Senatore
Institute for Advanced Study
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Liquid Water: New Results in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological 
Environments"
HE Stanley
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Learning associations while retaining specificity: competing 
demands on network plasticity rules"
Paul Miller
Brandeis University
Refreshments outside of Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

4:30 p.m.
M.I.T.
Math/Physics Seminar
Bldg 2  Room 105
"Report on some recent work of Alexeev, Bursztyn and Meinrenken."
Professor Shlomo Sternberg
Harvard
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm in bldg 2, room 349 (Applied Math Common 
Room)

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Trapped cold atoms with resonant interactions"
Felix Werner, Umass Amherst / Ecole normale supérieure
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
"Dark Matter, Gauge Mediation and CFTs"
Daniel Green, Stanford
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555

Brown University

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"Statistical Origin of Black Holes"
Dr. Bartek Czech
University of Pennsylvania

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"On the Imaging of Magnetic Nanostructures with Atomic Spin Resolution"
Dr. Matthias Bode       
Argonne National Lab
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
"Chasing Shadows: Occultation Surveys of the Outer Solar System"
Federico Bianco
Harvard Smithsonian
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and 
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Error Finding and Control for Quantum Processors"
David Cory
MIT
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
abstract: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/jointatomic.html/#anchorfall08

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

1:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"TBA"
Sean Hartnoll
Harvard University

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Using Polarization to Study Nucleon and Nuclear Structure: the BLAST 
Program at Bates"
Robert Redwine
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html

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Friday, October 10, 2008

12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"One-dimensional fermions beyond the Luttinger liquid paradigm"
Michael Pustilnik
Georgia Tech
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00  p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Control of drift wave turbulence in a laboratory plasma"
Olaf Grulke
Max Plank Institute for Plasma Physics

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Nanosculpting and Nanoelectronics"
Maria Drndic
University of Pennsylvania



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