BAPC - Calendar of Events from 3/16/09 to 3/20/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

March 16, 2009 to March 20, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
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Monday, March 16, 2009

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Continuing Developments in Holographic Superconductivity and 
Superfluidity"
Chris Herzog
Princeton University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Probing Light Hidden Sectors and Dark Matter Structure at B-Factories"
Natalia Toro
Stanford
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Dark Matter is from Cygnus: in search of a wind of Dark Matter in
the Milky Way"
Gabriella Sciolla, M.I.T.
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

                       
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Orientiholes"
Frederik Denef
****Harvard University
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2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/ MIT Cosmology Seminar
"Think Global Act Casual: Complementarity in the Multiverse"
Raphael Bousso, LBL
Refreshments will be served

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

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Quantizing the `t Hooft loop: lessons from S-duality and matrix models"
Takuya Okuda
Perimeter Institute
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 
Physics Department
Brown University
To be announced
Dr. Ian Swanson
MIT

4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Improved test of the standard model of elementary particles with atomic 
parity violation"
Andrei Derevianko
University of Nevada, Reno
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

2:30 p.m.
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 
Physics Department
Brown University
"A Light Scalar as the Messenger of Electroweak and Flavor Symmetry
Breaking"
Dr. Salya Nandi 
Oklahoma State

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Quantum Networks"
Jeff Kimble
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html 
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Friday, March 20, 2009

10 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
Hosting Universities: Smithsonian, Harvard, MIT
Astro2010 Town Hall Meeting
American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, Cambridge MA
Speaker's name:  Various
Where to find more info
http://cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/astro2010townhall/registration.html

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
NW17-218, 175 Albany Street, Cambridge
"Physics of the off-diagonal momentum flux and the origins of intrinsic 
rotation"
Pat Diamond,
University of California, San Diego


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