BAPC - Calendar of Events from 10/2/096 to 10/30/09

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

October 26, 2009 to October 30, 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.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

2:00PM
Monday, October 26
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Heavy Ion collisions from AdS/CFT"
Anastasios Taliotis
Ohio State University
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m
Monday, October 26, 2009
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Darwin in the Lab: Experimental Evolution Studies in Finches and
Fruitflies"
Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

9:00am to 5:00pm
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street
Einstein Fellow Symposium
Detailed program and list of presenters: 
http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2009.html.

1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Spin Models and Emergent Gauge Fields at Lifshitz Points"
Sumit Das
University of Kentucky

2:30PM
Tuesday, October 27
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joints Tufts/CfA/ MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Preheating"
Andrei Frolov
Simon Frasier University
Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm

4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming"
Brad Marston, Brown University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

9:00am to noon
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street
Einstein Fellow Symposium
Detailed program and list of presenters: 
http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2009.html.

12:00 -1:00 pm
Wednesday, October 28
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Math. Dept., 111 Cummington St., Rm 180
"The Geometry of Feynman Amplitudes and Landau Poles I"
Spencer Bloch, Chicago U.
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

2:00PM
Wednesday, October 28
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“AdS/CFT with small extra dimensions"
Eva Silverstein, UCSB
Refreshments will be served

2:30 PM
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
BrownUniversity
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
“Spin Models and Emergent Gauge Fields at Lifshitz Points”
Prof. Sumit Das
University of Kentucky

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
“Optics and Photonics in Silk”
Fiorenzo Omenetto
Tufts University

4:15 p.m.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
“Physics of protein organization in bacteria"
Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Clark University
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"From Black Holes to Strange Metals: Many-body Physics through a 
Gravitational Lens"
Hong Liu
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2009.html
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Friday, October 30, 2009


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