BAPC Calendar of Events from 9/28/09 through October 2, 2009

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

September 28, 2009 to October 1, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, September 28, 2009

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Excursions in the Phase Diagram of QCD: the Semi-QGP, Triple Point, and 
Quarkyonic Chiral Spirals"
Rob Pisarski
BNL
Refreshments will be served


4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
Eric Mazur
Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Detectability of Gravitational Waves from Light Cosmic Strings by the
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna"
Matt DePies
University of Washington
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251


3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"What physics can we expect from the coming year's run of the Large 
Hadron Collider?"
Arno Heister
Boston University, CERN
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge


4:15 PM
Harvard University
Particle Seminar
“Disentangling Dark Matter Dynamics”
Mariangela Lisanti
(SLAC & Stanford University)
Jefferson Lab 453.

Refreshments in the High Energy Theory coffee area,
4th floor Jefferson at 3:45 PM.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

12:30 PM
(Note Special Day)
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
TBA
Matthew Buckley
Caltech


2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Higher Derivative Gravity, Causality and Positivity of Energy in a UV 
complete QFT"
Diego Hofman
Harvard
Refreshments will be served

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

1:30pm
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
"Dynamical Features of Space-time Manifolds and Resolution of Some 
Puzzles of Gravity and Cosmology"
Alexander Kaganovich
Ben Gurion University, Israel
Robinson 250

3:30 PM
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"New Kinds of Mathematical Models"
Edward Fredkin
Carnegie Mellon
Refreshments served

4:15 PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
"Semi-Direct Gauge Mediation"
Brian Wecht
(IAS)
Jefferson Lab, 453.
Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, 
at 3:45.


4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The General Relativistic Two-body Problem"
Scott Hughes
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2009.html


5:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
TBA
Patrick T. Underhill
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Friday, October 2, 2009

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
“Superconducting Magnets for Fusion Application”
Luisa Chiesa
Tufts University
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson 112
Refreshments served in Burden Lounge, Anderson 108, at 2:30 pm.


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