BAPC - Calendar of Events from 9/21/09 through 9/25/09

[Catherine Broderick <cbroderi brandeis edu>]

September 21, 2009 to September 25, 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, September 21, 2009

12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
TBA
Joshua Ruderman
Institute of Advanced Study

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Controlling Chaotic Activity in Neural Networks
Larry Abbott
Columbia University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

1:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"The Black Holes of New Massive Gravity"
Gaston Giribet
University of Buenos Aires and CONICET

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics"
Chris Quigg
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Large-Scale Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies"
Tereasa Brainerd
Boston University
Refreshments outside of Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

12-1pm
Boston University
Mathematical Physics seminar
Math. Dept., 111 Cummington St., Rm 180
"Kinematics as Cohomology"
Dirk Kreimer (IHES and Center for Math. Phys,. BU)
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

2:30 p.m.
Boston University
Special Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Learning from Bacteria about Information Processing"
Eshel Ben-Jacob
Tel Aviv University

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
“Natural Optical Frequency Magnetism"
Enhancing Magnetic Dipole Transitions in Lanthanide Ions”
Zia Rashid
Brown University

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

12:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
Brian DeMarco
University of Illinois

3:30 p.m.
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Exotic Searches with Complex Final States"
Tulika Bose
Boston University

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Four Famous Myths of the Copernican Revolution"
Owen Gingerich
Harvard University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2009.html

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Friday, September 25, 2009
No events posted today.





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