BAPC - Calendar of Events from 3/30/09 to 4/3/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

March 30, 2009 to April 3, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
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Monday, March 30, 2009

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Superluminal travel in two dimensions"
Sergei Dubovsky
Stanford University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Implications of a Scalar Dark Force for Terrestrial Experiments"
Sonny Mantry, University of Wisconsin
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson 250
Colloquium: "Beyond the Standard Model in the LHC Era"
Ann Nelson, Univ. of Washington
Tea in  Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.


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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Lecture: "Shielding a Supersymmetric Unparticle Sector from 
Supersymmetry Breaking"
Ann Nelson, Univ. of Washington

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: a Dynamical Mean Field Theory 
Perspective"
Gabriel Kotliar
Rutgers University
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Expectations for the Large Hadron Collider"
Matthew Schwartz
Harvard University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"A High-Sensitivity Diamond Magnetometer with Nanoscale Resolution"
Paola Cappellaro, ITAMP
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Department of Physics
"Large N Gauge Theory from Open String Worldsheets"
Dr. Charles Thorn
(IAS - Princeton)

4:00 p.m.
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 328
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Supersolidity in a quantum degenerate dipolar spinor gas"
Mukund Vengalattore
Cornell University

4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and 
Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics 
Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Ultracold Polar Molecules: A Case Study with KRb"
Paul Julienne
JILA
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Special Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"From molecules to behavior: E. coli's memory, computation and motility"
Yuhai Tu
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Protein Folding and Dynamics: From Simplicity to Complexity and Back"
Dr. Francesco Rao
Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France_
__http://www.physics.neu.edu_ <http://www.physics.neu.edu/>

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Friday, April 3, 2009

11:30 a.m.
Boston University
3 Cummington St., Room 595
Special Combined Biophysics, Condensed Matter, Computational Science 
Seminar
"Self-assembly of rod-like polyelectrolytes: from materials to cystic 
fibrosis"
Erik Luitjen
Northwestern University

2:00 p.m. (NOTE different day)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"A holographic perspective on non-relativistic defects"
Andreas Karch, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"New concepts for wake field accelerators"
Jay Hirshfield
Yale University


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