BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/27/08 to 10/31/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

October 27, 2008 to October 31, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
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Monday, October 27, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Holographic superconductors"
Sean Hartnoll
Harvard University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"QCD thermodynamics, quasiparticles and Polyakov loop"
Claudia Ratti, SUNY, Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
> From Astrophysics to Bioimaging: New Applications of Physics Tools
Ron Walsworth
Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. For Astrophysics
Harvard University Department of Physics
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room MCS180 in the Math Dept
111 Cummington Street
"A dynamical systems perspective on the Dyson-Schwinger equation for QED"
Guillaume van Baalen
Boston University
Tea at 12:15
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

1:00PM (Note time and day)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Special Nuclear and Particles Theory Seminar
"The phenomenon of statistical hadronization"
Francesco Becattini, University of Florence/INFN
Refreshments will be served

2:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Towards the Lifshitz Transition in Elemental Bismuth: Light Electrons Gone
Heavy at the Metal-insulator Transition?"
Dr. N. Peter Armitage
Johns Hopkins University
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"Transport properties of holographic defects"
Matthias Wapler
Perimeter Institute

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Strings in the background"
Levon Pogosian
Simon Fraser University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Global Warming: State of the Science"
Richard Wolfson
Middlebury College
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Joint Physics Department/Quantitative 
Biology Program Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The Nature and Characterization of Order in High Density DNA Mesophases"
Rudolf Podgornik
NIH and University of Ljubljana
Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

UNUSUAL LOCATION
1:00PM - 3:00PM
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Point lounge (3rd Floor), Campus Center 
"Like a Work of Shakespeare: Reality and Metaphor in Modern Physics"
Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College
Refreshments served at 12:45

1:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Lyman 425
"Emergent paramagnetic phases in the hyper-kagome quantum 
antiferromagnet Na_4Ir_3O_8 "
Michael Lawler
Binghamton University and Cornell University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"BPS Wall-Crossing and Dimensional Reduction"
Andy Neitzke, Harvard
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
Physics Department
"SUSY/Non-SUSY Duality in U(N) Gauge Model with Partially Broken N=2 
Supersymmetry"
Dr. Kazunobu Maruyoshi
Osaka City University

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Dr. Jeff Snyder
California Institute of Technology
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
"How Worms Navigate Their Environments"
Aravinthan Samuel
Harvard University
Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m. in Olney 218

4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"The Entanglement Cost of a Nonlocal Measurement"
Professor Williams Wootters
Williams College
Department of Physics

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

12:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Lyman 425
"Nodal nematic quantum criticality and
quasiparticle interference"
Eun-Ah Kim
Cornell University

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Into the darkness: Predicting the distribution of dark matter in our 
Galaxy"
Volker Springel
MPA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Lattice Instabilities and Ferroelectricity in Complex Oxides"
Karin Rabe
Rutgers University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html

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Friday, October 31, 2008

12 noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Lieb-Robinson bounds and the speed of light from topological order"
Alioscia Hamma
Perimeter Institute
Pizza served at 11:45am

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Energetic particle production during magnetic reconnection"
James Drake
University of Maryland

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint SEAS Applied Physics/EE Colloquium
33 Oxford Street, Maxwell Dworkin G115 (Note location)
"Transformation Optics with Metamaterials: A New Paradigm for the 
Science of Light"
Vlad Shalaev
Purdue University
Refreshments will be served in Maxwell Dworkin G115 beginning at 3:30 p.m.


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