BAPC - Calendar of Events from 4/6/09 through 4/10/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

April 6, 2009 through April 10, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, April 6, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Third-generation fermions and precision measurements at the LHC"
Jessie Shelton, Rutgers
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
High Energy Seminar 
114 Dana Research Center
"Hidden Sector Dark Matter and LHC Signatures"
Shrihari Gopalakrishna
Brookhaven National Lab
http://www.physics.neu.edu <http://www.physics.neu.edu/>


4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Synthetic Quantum Many-Body Systems
Tilman Esslinger
ETH, Zurich.
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Newton Meets Einstein: A Test of Weak Lensing"
Margret Geller
Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge 

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
18 Hammond Street, Cambridge; 1st floor conference room
"Search for the standard model Higgs boson at the Tevatron"
Evelyn Thomson
University of Pennsylvania

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
No colloquium this week.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar, Physics Department: B&H 555
"Redesigning Electroweak Theory:  Does the Higgs Particle Exist?
Professor John Moffat
University of Toronto

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
"Atoms, Nuclei and Neutron Stars; How studying the smallest things on Earth
can teach us about some of the biggest things in the Cosmos"
C.J.(Kim) Lister
Argonne National Laboratory
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 32, Room 123
"Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory"
Dam Thanh Son
University of Washington
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 32-123 (Stata)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html 
<blocked::http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html>


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Thursday, April 9, 2009

2:00 p.m.(note different day)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"How conformality is lost: from Efimov's effect to large-Nf chiral phase 
transition"
Dam T. Son, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"ICE Cube: The first kilometer scale neutrino telescope"
Kara Hoffman
University of Maryland

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Structure and Evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae"
Pat Slane
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia


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Friday, April 10, 2009

12 Noon
Boston University
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
"Conformational Sculpting of DNA:  Nanofluidics for Single Molecule DNA 
Analysis and Manipulation"
Walter Reisner
Brown University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM

1:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
Special Seminar
"Delta resonance properties from QCD"
Ulf G. Meissner, University of Bonn