BAPC - Calendar of Events from 3/2/09 to 3/6/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

March 2, 2009 to March 6, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
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Monday, March 2, 2009  

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"The Test of the Seesaw Mechanisms at the LHC"
Tao Han
University of Wisconsin

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Astrophysical Probes of Unification"
Asimina Arvanitaki, LBL
Refreshments will be served

5:00 p.m.
Harvard Medical School
Cox Bldg, MGH
Collins Lecture
"A Physicist Ponders the Meaning of Life"
Eric J. Chaisson
Tufts University                                           
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Gravity duals of non-relativistic quantum critical 
points"
John McGreevy
MIT
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2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Holographic Noise"
Craig Hogan
Fermilab
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals"
Sajeev John
University of Toronto
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Response and Fluctuations in Active Systems"
Andy Lau
Florida Atlantic University
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Perturbative super-Yang-Mills and the Topological AdS_5xS5 String"
Nathan Berkovits, IFT, UNESP
Refreshments will be served

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Scaling extreme astrophysical phenomena to the laboratory"
Bruce Remington
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Which way is up?  Or, How a BEC lives with dipolar interactions"
John Bohn
JILA
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

1:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
CIRCS seminar
114 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
"DNA-Threading Ruthenium Complexes"
Fredrik Westerlund
Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey : The Universe from Parsecs to 
Gigaparsecs"
Andy Lawrence
University of Edinburgh
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
"Is the Universe Homogeneous and Isotropic?"
Marc Kamionkowski
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 8-329 (Marble Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html 
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Friday, March 6, 2009

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Using fusion for more efficient nuclear waste destruction"
Mike Kotschenreuther
University of Texas at Austin

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