BAPC - Calendar of Events from 3/9/09 to 3/13/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

March 9, 2009 to March 13, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, March 9, 2009

11:00 a.m.
Harvard University
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Special Seminar
Pierce Hall 209
"Physics of repulsive Casimir forces"
Lev Pitaevskii
Department of Physics
University of Trento
Italy

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"RS2 as a realization of the unparticle scenario"
Alexander Friedland, LANL
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Fluid Nature of Quark-Gluon Plasma"
William Zajc
Columbia University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

                          
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
//"New approaches to numerical Calabi-Yau metrics"
Matthew Headrick
Brandeis University

2:30 p.m.
Harvard University
NSEC Seminar
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Two Dimensional Electron Gases at Oxide Interfaces"
Jochen Mannhart
University of Augsburg, Germany

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The Physics of Self-Assembly in Simple Systems"
Vinothan Manoharan
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.outside Abelson 131

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Orientiholes"
Frederik Denef, Harvard
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
"Nanophotonics for bio-sensing and communication"
Hatice Altug
Boston University
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Harnessing Attosecond Science in the Quest for Coherent X-Rays"
Margaret Murnane
JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html

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Friday, March 13, 2009

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Recent results from RMP ELM control experiments in DIII-D"
Rick Moyer
Center for Energy Research, UCSD

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 229
//"Active fluctuations in biology: single actin/microtubules filaments 
and active membranes"
David Lacoste
Laboratoire PCT, ESPCI (France)//


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