BAPC - Calendar of Events from 3/23/09 to 3/27/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

March 23, 2009 to March 27, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, March 23, 2009

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
3 Cummington St., Room 595
Particles and Fields Seminar
"A Theory of Dark Matter: PAMELA positrons, DAMA, and a New Force in the 
Dark Sector"
Douglas Finkbeiner
Harvard University
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Black holes and gauge theory"
Albion Lawrence
Brandeis University

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Incorporating nongaussianities in the Fokker-Planck description of
inflation"
Saswat Sarangi
Columbia
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.
"Physics of the Cosmos: NASA's program to understand the Universe's 
origin and fate"
Michael Salamon
NASA Headquarters

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
18 Hammond Street, Cambridge; 1st floor conference room
"Observation of Single Top Quark Production"
Meenakshi Narain
Brown University

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series - Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"How worms and maggots navigate temperature gradients"
Aravi Samuel
Harvard University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
"Probing dark energy, dark matter and inflation with 21 cm tomography"
Max Tegmark
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"MuLan: The Fermi Constant to 0.5 part per million"
Kevin Lynch
Boston University

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Friday, March 27, 2009
No events posted.