BAPC - Calendar of Events from 11/10/08 to 11/14/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

November 10, 2008 to November 14, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, November 10, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM: lessons from strong coupling"
Juan Maldacena
Institute for Advanced Study

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Colloquium
Jefferson Lab, 250
"Clusters of Galaxies, Cosmic Microwave  Background Radiation and 
Cosmology"
Rashid Sunyaev (Max-Planck Institute)
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Detecting and Sizing Molecules with Single Nanometer-Scale Pores"
John Kasianowicz
NIST
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"Closed string tachyon condensation in E8"
Cynthia Keeler
Harvard University

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lecture I
Jefferson Lab, 250
"CMB Spectral Distortions Due to Energy Release in the Early Universe"
Rashid Sunyaev (Max-Planck Institute)

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Soft Active Matter"
Cristina Marchetti
Syracuse University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Holographic responses of fermion matter"
Andrei Parnachev, Rutgers
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
"The State of the Search for Gravitational Waves"
Rainer Weiss
M.I.T.
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"How viral capsids adapt to mismatched cargoes - identifying mechanisms of
morphology control with simulations"
Professor Michael Hagan
Brandeis University
Department of Physics

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lecture II
Jefferson Lab, 250
"Interaction of CMB Photons with Hot Gas in the Clusters of Galaxies and 
Observational Consequences"
Rashid Sunyaev (Max-Planck Institute)

3:00 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"What can minimal models tell us about the function of biopolymers?"
Bulbul Chakraborty
Brandeis University

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Formation and Evolution of Planets and Debris Disks"
Scott Kenyon
CfA
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
"The LHC Machine"
Lyn Evans
CERN-LHC
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html

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Friday, November 14, 2008

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"The Fountain of Probability: A Surprising Role for Nonconservative 
Forces in Optical Traps"
David Grier
New York University


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