BAPC - Calendar of Events from 2/16/09 to 2/20/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

February 16, 2009 to February 20, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, February 16, 2009
Presidents' Day

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

12:30 p.m. (Note different day due to Monday holiday)
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St.
"The anomalous baron current and neutrino-photon interactions"
Richard Hill
Fermi Lab

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Black holes, qubits and octonions"
Michael Duff
Imperial

2:00 p.m. (note different day due to holiday)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Dark Matter through the Axion Portal"
Jesse Thaler, LBNL
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Colloquium
NO COLLOQUIUM -- Midterm Recess

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Particle Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Leptons and higgses galore!"
Veronica Sanz
Boston University
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Computational string compactifications"
Robert Karp
Virginia Tech
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
Department of Physics

"TBA" 

Dr. Michael Kiermaier
MIT

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
Amplitude spectroscopy with a superconducting artificial atom
William D. Oliver
Lincoln Laboratory
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"Chiral Self-Assembly of Rodlike Molecules"
Professor Zvonimir Dogic
Brandeis University 


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Thursday, February 19, 2009

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
"Black hole exhaust: An environmental impact study of microquasars"
Sebastian Heinz
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 34, Room 101
"Nucleon Spin Physics"
Matthias Burkardt
New Mexico State University / Jefferson Lab
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html

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Friday, February 20, 2009

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Superconductors for power transmission and distribution"
Joseph Minervini
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center



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