BAPC - Calendar of Events from 12/8/08 to 12/12/08

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

December 8, 2008 to December 12, 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
be sent by you to the bapc late entry email address listed below.

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Monday, December 8, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Phenomenology of Multijet Resonances at the Tevatron and the LHC"
Can Kilic
Johns Hopkins

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Kaon Physics with Chiral Quarks"
C.T. Sachrajda
University of Southampton
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics, Loeb Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Complex Quantum Matter in Bosonic Crystals: A ‘Superglass’ State in 
Solid ^4 He"
J.C. Séamus Davis
Cornell University & Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room MCS180 in the Math Dept
111 Cummington Street
"Families of QCD solutions from Dyson-Schwinger equations"
Karen Yeats
Boston University
Tea at 12:15pm

2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/ MIT Cosmology Seminar
"TBA"
Daniel Baumann
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Joint Martin Weiner Lecture Series/MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 131
"Self-assembly of rod-like polyelectrolytes: from materials to cystic 
fibrosis"
Erik Luijten
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Refreshments outside Abelson 131

4:30 p.m.
M.I.T.
Math/Physics Seminar
Bldg 2  Room 105
"Families Index Theorem for the Dirac-Ramond Operator"
Professor Orlando Alvarez
University of Miami, Physics
Refreshments served at 4:00 pm in bldg 2, room 349 (Applied Math Common 
Room)

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Anthropic Predictions in the Landscape"
Delia Schwartz-Perlov
Tufts University
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Tachyon actions in string theory: a no-go theorem"
Matthew Headrick
Brandeis University
Refreshments will be served

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics, Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson 250
Lecture II:  "Imaging the 'Fano Lattice' Signature of Heavy
Fermion Formation via f-d Hybridization"
J.D. Séamus Davis
Cornell University & Brookhaven National Laboratory 


4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Dr. Peter Littlewood
Cavendish Lab, Cambridge University
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

2:00 p.m. (note special day)
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 229
"Explicit Calabi-Yau metrics on resolved spaces"
Chethan Gowdigere
HRI Allahabad

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics, Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson 250
Lecture III: "Identification of the Cuprate Pseudogap State using
Quasiparticle Interference Imaging"
J.C. Séamus Davis
Cornell University & Brookhaven National Laboratory

4:00 pm
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
"Accelerating Electrons from 0 to 1 GeV in 3 cm: Overview of 
Laser-plasma Acceleration Science at LBNL"
Wim Leemans
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 8-329 (Marble Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2008.html

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Friday, December 12, 2008
No events posted today.

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