BAPC - Calendar of Events from 2/23/09 to 2/27/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

February 23, 2009 to February 27, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University. Entries should
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Monday, February 23, 2009

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"When Worlds Collide"
Thomas Levi
NYU

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Correlators of conserved charges in the quark-gluon plasma"
Harvey Meyer, MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"A New View of the High-Energy Universe: Results from the Fermi 
Gamma-ray Space Telescope's First 6 Months in Orbit"
Peter F. Michelson
Stanford University
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
“What is Inside a Black Hole?”
Samir Mathur
Ohio State University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

11:00am (note day and time)
Brown University
Department of Physics --Theoretical Seminar
Barus & Holley 555
"TBA"
Professor Samir Mathur
Ohio State University

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"About the nature of dark matter and dark energy"
Isaac Cohen-Abbo
Brandeis University

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"What Does the Eye Tell the Brain?: A Journey from High Energy Physics 
to Neural Systems"
Alan Litke
UC Santa Cruz
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
18 Hammond Street, Cambridge; 1st floor conference room
"CUORE: A Cryogenic Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay"
Reina Maruyama
University of Wisconsin

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Bacteria as a fluid: Applying the materials physics paradigm to biology"
Aparna Baskaran
Syracuse University
Refreshments at 3:30 pm outside Abelson 131

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Acceleration in our past, present and future"
Leonardo Senatore, IAS
Refreshments will be served.

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
"Looking for supersymmetry with molecules:
a search for the electric dipole moment of the electron"
Amar V. Chandra
Yale and Harvard Universities
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

3:00 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Mechanical Design of the Kinesin Motor"
Wonmuck Hwang
Texas A & M

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"What can we learn about the Higgs with 10/fb at the LHC?
Ketevi Assamagan
Brookhaven National Laboratory

4:00 p.m. (note different day of the week than usual)
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series - Physics Department Colloquium 
<departmentcolloquia.html>
Abelson 131
"Vibrational dynamics and heat conduction in amorphous solids"
Vincenzo Vitelli
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments at 3:30 pm outside Abelson 131

4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium and CIRCS Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
"Single Molecule Imaging for the Analysis of Protein-Protein 
Interactions in Living Cells"
Keith Lidke
University of New Mexico

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Origin of Mass of the Visible Universe"
Zoltan Fodor
University of Wuppertal, Eotvos University of Budapest, John von Neumann 
Institute for Computing, DESY-Zeuthen, and Forschungszentrum-Juelich
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html

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Friday, February 27, 2009

12 Noon
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Wrinkling, folding and crumpling of thin elastic sheets"
Narayanan Menon
UMASS Amherst
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

1:30 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Statistical Properties of Granular Materials"
Jie Zhang
Duke University
Refreshments served at 1:15



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