BAPC - Calendar of Events from 2/02/09 through 2/06/09

[Catherine C Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

February 2, 2009 through February 6, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, February 2, 2009

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Confronting the Dark Energy Crisis in Fundamental Physics"
Christopher Stubbs
Harvard, Astrophysics
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Aspects of graviton scattering amplitudes"
Marcus Spradlin
Brown University

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Physics of Human Mobility and What It Tells Us About Cell Phone
Viruses"
Lazlo Barabasi
Center for Complex Network Research and Department of Physics at
Northeastern University, Harvard Medical School
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Gauge-Invariant Summation of All QCD Virtual Gluon Exchanges"
Professor H.M. Fried
Brown University

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Lyman 425
*"Bragg Spectroscopy of Strongly Interacting 1D Lattice Bosons"*
Leonardo Fallani

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Silk Optics"
Fiorenzo Omenetto
Tufts University

4:00 pm (note different day of the week)
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series - Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Frustrated phenomena in physics and biology:  From supercooled liquids
and glasses to protein folding dynamics"
Gregg Lois
Yale University
Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131.

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Ending of the Tyranny of Copper:  Intermetallic Superconductivity in
the Post Copper-oxide Age"
Paul Canfield
Iowa State University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)

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Friday, February 6, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"The New, Improved ITER"
Guenter Janeschitz
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

3:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Overview of the ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak Programme"
Harmut Zohm
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany

 
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