BAPC CALENDAR FOR 10/19/09 through 10/23/09

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

October 19, 2009 to October 23, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic 
year by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University. 
Entries should reach us no later than 2:00 pm the Wednesday of the week 
proceeding the week of the actual event.

NOTE: Entries that are past the deadline will have to be sent by you to 
the BAPC late entry email address listed below.

On time entries send to: bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu.
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Monday, October 19, 2009

12 Noon
Boston University
Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Aggregation States and Dynamics of Polymers at Non-solvent Interfaces"
Keiji Tanaka
Kyushu University, Japan
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

12:30 PM
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"A Domino Theory of Flavor"
Peter Graham
Stanford University

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Large N volume independence in confining and conformal gauge theories"
Laurence Yaffe, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served

3:00 PM
Monday, October 19, 2009
Northeastern UniversityY (NU)
Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth St., Fl #5
CENTER FOR COMPLEX NETWORK RESEARCH
“Mapping the World's Photos “
Daniel Huttenlocher
Professor & Dean of Computer and Information Science
Cornell University
http://www.barabasilab.com/index.php
*take large elevator to the 5th floor.

4:00 pm
Northeastern University
High Energy Theory Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
"New potentials in string phenomenology"
James Gray
Oxford University

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Quantum Gas Microscope - A Next Generation Quantum Simulator
Markus Greiner
Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Quarks to the Cosmos and Einstein”
Prof. Scott Dodelson
Fermilab / University of Chicago
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Quantum stress tensor fluctuations and inflation"
Larry Ford
Tufts Institute of Cosmology
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Fluctuations, Response, Entropy and 'Temperature' in Granular Packings"
Bulbul Chakraborty
Brandeis University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“Probing holographic superfluids”
Amos Yarom, Princeton
Refreshments will be served

2:30 PM
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
To be announced
Dr. James Grey
Oxford University

3:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Department of Physics
Dana Science Building
110 Forsyth Street, 5th Fl. (Large Elevator), Boston, MA 02115
“Hidden Connections: the Impact of Interacting Networks”
Elizabeth A. Leicht, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
“Biomineralization: Lessons in Materials Physics”
Joanna Aizenberg
Harvard University

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Noon
Boston University
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Thermodynamic, Dynamic and Structural Anomalies for Shoulder-like 
potentials"
Marcia Barbosa
University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Lunch served at 11:45 AM

4:00 pm
Northeastern University
High Energy Theory Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
"Cardy and Kerr"
Vishnu Jejjala
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Quantum Theory of the Classical"
Wojciech Zurek
Theory Division, Los Alamos
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
Chris Henley
LASSP, Cornell University

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Noon
Friday, October 23, 2009, 12 Noon
Boston University
Biophysics/ Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Early stage mineralization of extracelluar matrix proteins probed at 
the nanoscale by synchrotron imaging methods"
Elaine DiMasi
NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Pizza served at 11:45 PM

3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Turbulence, structures and thermal and non-thermal particle transport 
in a simple toroidal plasma"
Ambrogio Fasoli
Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas
Refreshments will be served.

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