BAPC - Calendar of Events from 4/13/09 to 4/17/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

April 13, 2009 through April 17, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, April 13, 2009

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Electric-magnetic duality in finite-temperature QCD"
Edward Shuryak, SUNY, Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"When The Virtual World is Better than Reality: Teaching Physics with
Interactive Simulations"
Carl Wieman, British Columbia Univ.
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
No colloquium this week - Passover and Spring Recess

4:00 p.m.
CIRCS Seminar
"Mechanics of Twisted Biopolymers"
Moneesh Upmanyu
Division of Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
114 Dana Research Center
http://www.physics.neu.edu <http://www.physics.neu.edu/>

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Particle Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Supersymmetry in Slow Motion"
Zackaria Chacko
University of Maryland

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Quantum manipulation of mechanical motion using a single spin qubit"
Peter Rabl, ITAMP
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"A Conformal Field Theory for Eternal Inflation"
Matthew Kleban, New York University
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Physics Colloquium
"Shocks and Spreading in Social Systems"
Riley Crane
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Zurich, Switzerland
114 Dana Research Center
http://www.physics.neu.edu <http://www.physics.neu.edu/>

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Gottfried Strasser
University of Buffalo
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"Simulations of dense gravity-driven granular flows"
Professor Shubha Tewari
University of Massachusetts - Amherst

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons:  Rekindling the Vision of 
Reagan and Gorbachev at Reykjavik"
Sidney Drell
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html

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Thursday, April 16, 200

4:00 p.m.
Physics Colloquium
"We Are Teaching, But Are They Learning? Research Findings on How People 
Learn"
Christos Zahopoulos
Engineering & Education and Executive Director, Center for STEM Education
114 Dana Research Center
http://www.physics.neu.edu <http://www.physics.neu.edu/>

8:00 p.m.
Harvard University
David M. Lee Historical Lecture
Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford St.
"The Discovery of the Superconducting Energy Gap"
Michael Tinkham
Harvard University
Refreshments afterwards in Putnam Gallery, Science Center

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Friday, April 17, 2009

12 Noon
Boston University
Biophysics/ Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Studying the effects of tumor microenviroment on migration, assembly 
and therapeutic efficacy in a 3D model of ovarian cancer"
Dr. Jon Celli
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, MGH
Harvard Medical School
Pizza served at 11:30AM

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Current-driven stellarator plasmas: can disruptions be tamed?"
Stephen Knowlton
Auburn University