BAPC - Calendar of Events from 9/14/2009 to 9/18/2009

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

September 14, 2009 to September 18, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, September 14, 2009

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Dark Matter through the Neutrino Portal"
Jessie Shelton
Rutgers University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"A Monte Carlo study of spatially anisotropic Heisenberg models"
Fu-Jiun Jiang
MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Insulators"
Shoucheng Zhang
Stanford University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Physics and Baseball: An Intersection of Passions"
Al Nathan
University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
No colloquium today.

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Particle Seminar
"Distinguishing Different Types of Dark Matter at the LHC"
Devin Walker
(Berkeley/Harvard)
Jefferson Lab 453
Refreshments in the High Energy Theory coffee area,
4th floor Jefferson at 3:45 PM.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Physics for All:  From Special Needs to Olympiads"
Arthur Eisenkraft, UMass Boston
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Entanglement entropy of two disjoint intervals in conformal field theory"
Erik Tonni
MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Higher Derivative Gravity, Causality and Positivity of Energy in a UV 
complete QFT"
Dr. Diego Hofman
Princeton University

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
“Harnessing Surface Dislocation Networks for Molecular Self-Assembly”
Karsten Pohl
University of New Hampshire

4:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Special Physics Department Colloquium
Robinson Hall, Room 253
"Physics and Baseball: An Intersection of Passions"
Alan Nathan
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Refreshment served in Knipp Library, Robinson Hall Room 251 at 4:00 pm

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Dark Matter is from Cygnus: in search of a wind of Dark Matter in the 
Milky Way"
Gabriella Sciolla
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2009.html

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Friday, September 18, 2009

9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
Shapiro Campus Center Theater
The 40th New England Complex Fluids Workshop
Invited speakers will be Aparna Baskaran (Syracuse), Jeremy Agresti 
(Harvard), Chris Santangelo (UMass-Amherst), and Wesley Wong (Rowland)
Register before Wednesday, September 16th
http://www.complexfluids.org/



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