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BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/20/08 to 10/24/08
October 20, 2008 to October 24, 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
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Monday, October 20, 2008
12:30 PM
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"TBA"
Andreas Weiler
Cornell University
2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Imprints of GUTs in flavor physics"
Soeren Wiesenfeldt, University of Karlsruhe
Refreshments will be served
4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Observation of a New Class of Topological States of Quantum Matter"
M. Zahid Hasan
Princeton University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room MCS180 in the Math Dept
111 Cummington Street
"More on Dyson Schwinger Equations"
Dirk Kreimer
CNRS-IHES and BU
Tea at 12:15
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html
2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"Holographic superconductors"
Sean Hartnell
Harvard University
2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"TBA"
Alex Vilenkin, Tufts University
Refreshments will be served
3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Physics of Crude Oils: What downhole nuclear magnetic resonance can
tell"
Denise Freed
Schlumberger
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge
4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
NO COLLOQUIUM
4PM
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Held jointly with Astrophysics
Marlar Lounge, 37-252
"Testing Gravity in the Solar System"
James Battat, MIT
http://www2.lns.mit.edu/seminars/nppc.html
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Dynamically error-corrected gates for accurate quantum control and
computation"
Lorenza Viola, 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
"Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point"
Petr Horava, UC, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served
2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Physics Department
"TBA"
Dr. Matthias Wapler
Perimeter Institute
4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Refraction and Handedness"
Dr. Peer Fischer
Rowland Institute at Harvard University
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
Biomineralization: Lessons in Material Physics
Joanna Aizenberg
Harvard University
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
“Ultracold Polar Molecules"
Jun Ye
University of Colorado
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 24, 2008
11am-6pm
Brown University
Third New England String Meeting
Vijay Balasubramanian (Penn)
Zvi Bern (UCLA)
Frederik Denef (Harvard)
Gregory Moore (Rutgers)
Andrew Strominger (Harvard)
More details can be found at the meeting web site:
http://physics.brown.edu/physics/researchpages/het/stringtheory/
12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Ultrafast structural dynamics observed with atomic scale resolution"
Nuh Gedik
MIT
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
3 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Edge turbulence, blobs and interaction with sheared flows"
James Myra
Lodestar Research Corporation
4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Energy: Rising to Society's Grand Challenge"
Ramamoorthy Ramesh
University of California, Berkeley
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