BAPC - Calendar of Events from 4/27/09 through 5/1/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

April 27, 2009 through May 1, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year
by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University.  Entries should
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Monday, April 27, 2009

2:00 p.m.
UMass Medical School
Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology Seminar
Lazare Research Building 916
"Cortical actin layers and cell instabilities"
Jean-Francois Joanny
Institut Curie, Paris

Note a change in starting time:  4:30 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Light-Matter Interactions for Terawatt-Scale Solar Energy Conversion"
Dr. Harry A. Atwater
California Institute of Technology
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:15 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Recent Results from the VERITAS Gamma-ray Observatory "
Professor David Hanna
McGill University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

11:30 a.m. (note different day and time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Signatures of a GeV dark sector"
Liantao Wang, Princeton

2:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Weak field black hole formation in asymptotically AdS spacetimes"
Shiraz Minwalla
TIFR

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Understanding Black Hole X-ray Binary Systems: Clues from Radio 
Polarization Imaging of the Microquasar GRS 1915+105"
John Wardle
Brandeis University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Controlling the Shot Noise of a Quantum Point Contact
via Coupling to a Mechanical Resonance"
Alex Rimberg, Dartmouth College 
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
"Time Dependent Cosmologies and Their CFT Duals"
Sandip Trivedi, TATI, TIFR
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Olney 218
"Downhole NMR and crude oils"
Denise Freed
Schlumberger, Cambridge Ma
Refreshments @ 3:30 pm in Olney 218

4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"Reducing artifacts in dynamic MRI movies using a
spline interpolated sliding window technique."
Eric Frederick
University of Massachusetts - Lowell

4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and 
Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics 
Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Towards Trapping and Cooling of Atomic Tritium 
for Precision Measurement of Beta Decay"
Prof. Mark Raizen
UT-Austin
Refreshments served at 4:00

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Thursday, April 30, 2009

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"The Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System"
Michael Brown
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html
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5:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Entropy in Crystal Nucleation of Hard Spheres"
Eli Sloutskin
Harvard University
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Friday, May 1, 2009

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Into the Local Interstellar Plasma"
John Belcher
MIT Department of Physics