BAPC - Calendar of Events from 11/17/08 to 11/21/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

November 17, 2008 to November 21, 2008

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University. Entries should
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Monday, November 17, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St.
"The conservative case for a fourth family and new strong flavor 
interactions"
Bob Holdom
University of Toronto

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Aspects of <A2> at zero and finite temperature"
David Dudal, Ghent University/MIT
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
"Atomic Engineering Oxide Heterointerfaces"
Harold Hwang
University of Tokyo
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
"Hurricane Physics"
Professor Kerry Emanuel
MIT
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room MCS180 in the Math Dept
111 Cummington Street
"Topological phases of matter at finite temperature"
Claudio Castelnovo
Oxford U.
Tea at 12:15
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"Regge behavior in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory"
Howard Schnitzer
Brandeis University

2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/ MIT Cosmology Seminar
"Cosmology and the Importance of Dimensional Reduction"
Andrew Frey, McGill
Refreshments will be served

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Searches for gravitational waves with the LIGO interferometers"
Erik Katsavounidis
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"To Knot or Not to Knot"
Alexander Grosberg
NYU
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"M2 Branes and Cern-Simons-Matter Theories"
Dr. Daniel Jafferis
Rutgers University

4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"In Search of the Nature of Dark Matter"
Professor Savvas Koushiappas
Brown 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
//A Zoltan Fried Memorial Lecture
"Quantum Weirdness and Clausner’s Interferometer"
Joseph Eberly
University of Rochester
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and 
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Observation of Rydberg Blockade between Pairs of Atoms"
Thad Walker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Refreshments served at 4pm
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

3:00 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Wrinkling, Crumpling, and Snapping Polymer Surfaces"
Al Crosby
UMASS Amherst

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Mastering Jets: New Windows into the Strong Interaction and Beyond"
Iain Stewart
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html

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Friday, November 21, 2008

11:30 a.m.
Brandeis University
Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Discussion Series Seminar
Gerstenzang 121
"Fundamental limits on the suppression of heterogeneity in cells"
Johan Paulsson
Harvard Medical School

12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Braiding and Entanglement in Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States"
Nick Bonesteel
Florida State University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Nano-opto-mechanics: utilizing light forces within guided-wave 
nanostructures"
Oskar Painter
Caltech

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Active Fluids, Films, and Filament"
Sriram Ramaswamy
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

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