BAPC - Calendar of Events from 4/20/09 to 4/24/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

April 20, 2009 through April 24, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic 
year
by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University.  Entries should
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Monday, April 20, 2009

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics, Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Nuclear Physics from Effective Field Theory"
David Kaplan
University of Washington
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Constraints on inflation"
Nathaniel Reden
Brandeis University

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics, Lecture I
Jefferson 250
"Conformality Lost"
David Kaplan
University of Washington

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Lecture
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to 
Cities:
A Physicist's Search for Quantitative, Unified Theories of Biological 
and Social Structure and Organization"
Geoffrey West
Santa Fe Institute
Refreshments served at 3:00 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics 
<http://www.math.brandeis.edu/eisenbud09.html>
Abelson 131
Lecture I:  "Making a Splash, Breaking a Neck: The Development of 
Complexity in Fluids"
Leo P. Kadanoff
University of Chicago
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

11:30 a.m. (note day and time due to Monday holiday)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Perturbative Nuclear Physics?"
David Kaplan, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Diagrammatic Monte Carlo: What Happens to the Sign Problem?"
Nikolai Prokof'ev, UMass Amherst
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
"The gauge dual of Romans mass"
Alessandro Tomasiello, Harvard
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"TBA"
Dr. Simone Giombi
Harvard University

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics 
<http://www.math.brandeis.edu/eisenbud09.html>
Abelson 131
Lecture II: "The Good the Bad and the Awful-- Scientific Simulation and 
Prediction"
Leo P. Kadanoff
University of Chicago
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Physics Department
"Forward Scattering at LHC and TOTEM Collaboration"
Professor Karsten Eggert
Penn State University

2:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics, Lecture II
Jefferson 250
"Peering Beyond the Horizon with Axions"
David Kaplan
University of Washington

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics 
<http://www.math.brandeis.edu/eisenbud09.html>
Abelson 131
Lecture III:"Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions of Toeplitz Matrices"
Leo P. Kadanoff
University of Chicago

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Wave Particle Duality for a Single Photon: from Einstein's LichtQuanten 
to Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment"
Alain Aspect
Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html
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Friday, April 24, 2009

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Progress and plans for the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)"
Jon Menard
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory