BAPC - Calendar of Events from 12/1/08 to 12/5/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

December 1, 2008 to December 5, 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
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Monday, December 1, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"A simple, stable model of brane inflation"
Rakhi Mahbubani
Fermi Lab

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Lower-dimensional gravity"
Daniel Grumiller, Vienna University
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
"Making Ultracold Polar Molecules"
Deborah Jin
University of Colorado
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
"A Theory of Dark Matter"
Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed
Princeton University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room MCS180 in the Math Dept
111 Cummington Street
"Fractionalization of Dirac fermions in two dimensions"
Claudio Chamon
Boston University
Tea at 12:15
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joints Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"The scale-factor cutoff measure on the multiverse"
Michael Salem
Tufts University
Refreshments served at 2:00 p.m. in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Geometric mechanics: from the atomic to the tectonic"
L Hahadevan
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Special NSEC Lunch Seminar
33 Oxford Street, Maxwell Dworkin 119
"Electron Spins in Silicon Quantum Dots"
Mark Eriksson
University of Wisconsin

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series - Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Mapping dark matter and dark energy using cluster lensing"
Priya Natarajan
Yale University and Harvard University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
"Dynamical Stability and Variability in Human Sensorimotor Control: 
Passive Stability and Active
Control in a Rhythmic Task"
Dagmar Sternad
Department of Biology, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Physics
Northeastern University

4:30 p.m.
M.I.T.
Math/Physics Seminar
Bldg 2  Room 105
"Topics in Supersymmetric Gauge Theory."
Professor Michael Douglas
Simons Center for Geometry & Physics
Refreshments served at 4pm in bldg 2, room 349 (Applied Math Common Room)

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"A counterexample to the a-theorem"
Yuji Tachikawa, IAS
Refreshments will be served

4:00p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"UV and Light Luminescence of Lanthanide Ions in Calcium Scandium Silicate
and Calcium Yttrium Silicate""
Dr. Marco Bettinelli
University of Verona, Italy
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"Nonlinear Dynamics in Viscoelastic Jets"
Dr. Trushant Majmudar
MIT
Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Thursday, December 4, 2008

12:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Lyman 425
"Hyperfine Interaction in Quantum Dots, Interacting 2DEGs and Nanotubes "
Daniel Loss
University of Basel

2:00 p.m. (note special day)
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"Duality between non-rational CFTs and their string theory interpretation"
Gaston Giribet
U. of Buenos Aires

3:00 p.m. (note special time and location)
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Jefferson 250
"Atomic Scale Visualization of Electronic Structure in Cuprates: From 
Mottness to Superconductivity "
J. C. Seamus Davis
Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics, Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson 250
Lecture I:  "Atomic Scale Visualization of Electronic Structure in 
Cuprates: From Mottness to Superconductivity"
J.C. Séamus Davis
Cornell University & Brookhaven National Laboratory

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Signals from the Universe: from DAMA/NaI to DAMA/LIBRA"
Pierluigi Belli
Roma 2 "Tor Vergata"
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
"Critical Dipoles and Singular Potentials"
David Griffiths
Reed College
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html

5:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Examination of Non-liquidlike Behaviors in Molten Polymer Films"
Ophelia Tsui
Boston University
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Friday, December 5, 2008

12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Computing viscosity of supercooled liquids"
Xi Lin
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Gyrokinetic transport: theory and simulations"
William Dorland
University of Maryland

3:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
CCNR Seminar
500 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
"The Emotional Content of Large-Scale Texts:  The Happiness of Bloggers, 
Song Lyrics,
and Presidents"
Prof. Peter Sheridan Dodds
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
University of Vermont

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Microfluidic Jets for Medicine and Biology"
Dan Fletcher
University of California, Berkeley


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