BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/13/08 to 10/18/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

October 13, 2008 to October 18, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, October 13, 2008

October 13 - 16, 2008
The Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, Cambridge, MA 02128
"Stringy Reflections at the LHC"
http://www.claymath.org/workshops/lhc/
Register by sending email to "battese claymath org"
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

12:30 p.m. ( Monday schedule due to holiday)
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"The Dark Top"
David Poland
Harvard University

2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"An overview of the closed string tachyon"
Ian Swanson
MIT

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
NO COLLOQUIUM

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

1:00 p.m
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Feynman-Mensky approach to continuous quantum measurements"
Roberto Onofrio, Dartmouth College
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
"Conformal invariance and the weak scale: can the standard model survive all 
the way to M_Planck?"
Hermann Nicolai, Albert Einstein Institute
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Matrix Models for the Black Hole Information Paradox"
Dr. Takuya Okuda
Perimeter Institute

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Vortex Transitions in Hybrid Mesoscopic Superconductors"
Dr. Goran Karapetrov
Argonne National Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu

7:00 p.m.
Museum of Science, Boston
One Science Park, Boston
Preview of NOVA film, /Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
/followed by Q&A with Paula Apsell, NOVA and Max Tegmark, MIT

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"M2 branes and maximal gauged supergravities in D=3"
Hermann Nicolai
AEI Potsdam

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"When going underground, remember the sunscreen..."(What the sun has 
teaches us about neutrinos, and vice-versa)
Joseph Formaggio
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 8-329 (Marble Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html
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Friday, October 17, 2008

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St.
Chandra Fellows Symposium
Phillips Auditorium
Detailed program at: http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2008.html

12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Novel boundaries for quantum Hall fluids: The bent quantum Hall junction"
Matthew Grayson
Northeastern University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"IR thermography and its application to burning plasma devices"
Charles Lasnier
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Saturday, October 18, 2008

9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
10th Annual Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting
Lemberg Hall  
Registration deadline: Tuesday October 14, 2008
http://physics.clarku.edu/gbasm/

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