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BAPC - Calendar of Events from 5/4/09 to 5/9/09



Monday May 4, 2009 through Saturday May 9, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University.  Entries should
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Monday, May 4, 2009

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Effective Field Theory for Gravitational Bound States"
Andreas Ross
Yale University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Gauge Theory Approach to Protein Folding"
Antti Niemi, University of Uppsala
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University, Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Superfluid Transport Properties of Spontaneously Coherent Bilayers
Allan MacDonald
University of Texas
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Warped Conifolds and D-brane Inflation"
Igor Klebanov
Princeton
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Mid-Infrared Photonics"
Dan Wasserman, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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 hybrid between Chern-Simons and Rozansky-Witten"
Natalia Saulina, California Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served
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Thursday, May 7, 2009

4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"pH Lecture: Using Numerical Simulations to Study the Formation and Evolution 
of Galaxies"
T. J. Cox
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia


4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Warped Side of our Universe"
Kip Thorne
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2009.html

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Friday, May 8, 2009

11:30 am - 6:00 pm
Northeastern University
2009 NES APS/AAPT Meeting
"Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century"
20 West Village f
Plenary speakers: Young-Kee Kim (Fermilab and the University of Chicago); Paris Sphicas (CERN and University of Athens); Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University); Leon Lederman (Illinois Institute of Technology); Philip Sadler (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
For more information and times of talks: http://neu.edu/nesaps/

12 Noon
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Dicke superradiance and Anderson localization of photons"
Eric Akkermans
Yale University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Gyrokinetic turbulence simulations: progress and remaining problems"
Greg Hammett
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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Saturday, May 9, 2009

8:00 a.m.
Northeastern University
2009 NES APS/AAPT Meeting
"Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century"
20 West Village f
Plenary speakers: Michael Tuts (Columbia University); Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin); Chris Quigg (Fermilab)
For more information and times of talks: http://neu.edu/nesaps/