BAPC - Calendar of Events from 2/9/09 through 2/13/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

February 9, 2009 through February 13, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
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Monday, February 9, 2009

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"First Characterization of New Physics at the LHC"
Natalia Toro
Stanford University

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Lattice simulation of thermal D0-branes"
Toby Wiseman
Imperial

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Aspects of (General) Gauge Mediation"
David Shih, IAS
Refreshments will be served

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Searching for New Particles at the LHC"
Sarah Eno
University of Maryland
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series - Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Microengineered hydrogels for stem cell bioengineering and tissue
regeneration"
Ali Khademhosseini
Center for Biomedical Engineering, Harvard Medical School
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Services and Technology, MIT
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"On the Equivalence of superstring field theories"
Michael Kroyter, MIT/Tel Aviv University
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Integrability in Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories"
Dr. Joseph Minahan
U Uppsala

3:30 p.m. (note different day)
Boston University
Special High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington Street, Room 595
"CP violation in hadronic penguins at BABAR"
Jim Hirschauer
University of Colorado

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
Chiral Self-Assembly of biopolymers
Zvonomir Dogic
Brandeis University
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

3:00 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Scale-invariant aspects of physiologic dynamics"
Plamen Ivanov
Boston University

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Physics with single photon plus missing energy final states at D0"
Edgar Carrera
Florida State University

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The First Supermassive Black Holes?"
Mitch Begelman
JILA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia


4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
Henry Fu
"Swimming in viscoelastic fluids and gels"
Brown University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"Science at SASE Free-Electron Lasers"
Jochen Schneider
LCLS Experimental Facilities Division, SLAC, CA and Center for 
Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Germany
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)

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Friday, February 13, 2009

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Full-function particle simulation of diverted tokamak plasmas"
C.S. Chang
New York University

 


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