BAPC - Calendar of Events from 11/3/08 to 11/07/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

November 3, 2008 to November 7, 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, November 3, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Quark masses: an environmental impact statement."
Alejandro Jenkins
MIT

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"The Dark Top"
David Poland, Harvard
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Biggest Explosions since the Big Bang"
Edo Berger, of Harvard University
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
"First Glimpse at the LHC Data with the CMS Experiment"
Professor Darin Acosta
University of Florida
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

11:30 a.m.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and
Harvard Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Solid Earth Physics Seminar
20 Oxford Street
Hoffman 4th Floor Lounge
Cambridge, MA  02138
"True Triaxial Testing of Rock"
John Rudnicki
Northwestern University

2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"AdS4 vacua in string theory, and their CFT duals"
Alessandro Tomasiello
Harvard University

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Experiments with gases in 0D, 1D and beyond"
David Weiss
Pennsylvania State 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
"TBA"
Martin Zwierlein
MIT
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth St.
"Homeostasis and Neuromodulation in a Rhythmic Neuronal Network"
Dr. Eve Marder
Biology Department and Volen Center
Brandeis University
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Subcellular surgery and nanosurgery"
Eric Mazur, Harvard University
Refreshments served at 12:45

1:30 p.m.
Clark University
Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Education, Math/Computer Science and
Physics - Joint Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-121
"What STEM in Massachusetts means to Higher Education"
Dr. Isa Zimmerman
UMass - Massachusetts STEM Initiative
http://www.massachusetts.edu/STEM/

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Gravity Duals of Lifshitz-like Fixed Points"
Shamit Kachru, Stanford
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University School Engineering and Applied Sciences
IIC Colloquium (Initiative in Innovative Computing)
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Professor Priya Vashishta
University of Southern California

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Thermoelectric Energy Conversion in Nanostructured Materials"
Dr. Li Shi
The University of Texas at Austin
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu

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Thursday, November 6, 2008

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: The First 3 Months"
Peter F. Michelson
Stanford University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html

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Friday, November 7, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar room
Special String Seminar
"TBA"
Juan Maldacena
IAS
Refreshments to be served

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"An assessment of full-wave effects on the propagation and absorption of 
lower hybrid waves"
John Wright
MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Optical Fiber Microarrays for Multiplexed Analysis"
David Walt
Tufts University


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