THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR EVENTS for 11/2/09 THROUGH 11/6/09

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

November 2, 2009 to November 6, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, November 2, 2009

12:30 PM
Monday, November 2, 2009
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room595
"Applications of Pseudomoduli"
David Shih
Institute for Advanced Study

2:00PM
Monday, November 2, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Non-relativistic conformal symmetries"
Peter Horvathy, University Tours, France
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Monday, November 2, 2009
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
"Listening to the Universe"
Neil Cornish, Montana State University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu


4:30 PM
Monday November 2nd 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Location: MIT, Building 4, Room 370
“Learning and Smoothed Analysis”
Adam Kalai (Microsoft Research)
Refreshments are available in Building 2, Room 290 (Math Common Room) 
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://math.mit.edu/amc/fall09/
Applied Math Colloquium poster: 
http://math.mit.edu/amc/fall09/Adam_Kalai.pdf

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Constraining F-theory model building"
Sakura Schafer-Nameki
KITP/UC Santa Barbara

3:30
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"How Organic Semiconductors Work"
Art Ramirez
University of Santa Cruz
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Precision Cosmology with 21 cm Tomography"
Max Tegmark
MIT

4:00 PM
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
Structure-Function Studies on Nucleic Acid Binding Proteins: Model 
Systems and Potential Applications
Richard L. Karpel
University of Maryland
http://www.physics.neu.edu

4:15 pm
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Harvard University
Particle Seminar
"A Bound on the Superpotential"
Zohar Komargodski
(IAS)
Jefferson Lab, 453

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

12:00 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Boston University
Mathematical Physics seminar
Math. Dept., 111 Cummington St., Rm 180
"Chiral Algebras and Logarithmic Geometry"
Scott Carnahan, MIT
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html


2:00 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“Holography of charged dilaton black holes”
Shamit Kachru, UCSB
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
The Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes
Dr. David Skinner (Perimeter Institute)

4:00 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
Nature of 1D Charge Transport near Metal–Insulator Transitions in Carbon 
Nanotubes
Swastik Kar
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

4:15 p.m.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"A 'Spacetime Trigonometry' approach to Relativity"
Rob Salgado
Mount Holyoke College

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

4:00 pm
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
110 Forsyth Street
Statistical Physics of Large Scale Inverse Problems
Riccardo Zecchina
ICTP
Trieste, Italy

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Neutrino Oscillations: Recent Triumphs and Future Challenges"
Robert McKeown
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2009.html

5:00 pm
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Tribology of Confined Molecularly Thin Films"
Marina Ruths
UMass Lowell
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Friday, November 6, 2009

12:00 Noon
Friday, November 6, 2009
Boston University
Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Terahertz Spectroscopy of Complex Materials"
Rick Averitt
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

12:30 PM
Friday, November 6, 2009
Boston University
Special Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"A relativistic framework for no-relativistic physics"
Peter Horvathy
University of Tours

3:00 pm
Friday, November 6, 2009
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
“Photon Manipulation of Spins and Sensitive Detection by On-chip Methods”
Irinel Chiorescu.
Florida State University and
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Robinson Hall, Room 253
Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm

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