BAPC CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9, 2009 THROUGH NOVEMBER 13, 2009

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

November 9, 2009 to November 13, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, November 9, 2009

2:00 PM
Monday, November 9, 2009 (note different room)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, PAPPALARDO ROOM 4-349
"Quantum Gravity without Space-time Singularities or Horizons"
Gerald 't Hooft
Utrecht University
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Monday, November 9, 2009
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
"Energy, Environment and Health: The Sometimes Hidden Role of High
Magnetic Fields and Invisible Light"
Greg Boebinger, Professor of Physics, Florida State University and
University of Florida
Director, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 p.m.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"How might a Fermi surface die?"
Professor Senthil Todadri
MIT
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

4:30 PM
Monday November 9th 2009
Applied Mathematics Colloquium And Imaging and Computing Seminar
Robust and Efficient Computation of Two-dimensional Photonic Crystal 
Band Structure Using Second-kind Integral Equations
Speaker: Alexander Barnett
Dartmouth College
Location: MIT, Building 4, Room 370
Refreshments are available in Building 2, Room 290
Math Common Room between 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Joint work with Leslie Greengard (NYU)
Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://math.mit.edu/amc/fall09/
Applied Math Colloquium poster: 
http://math.mit.edu/amc/fall09/Alex_Barnett.pdf
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
TBA
Radu Roiban, Penn State University

2:00 PM
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 (note different day)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“Holography from Conformal Field Theory”
João Penedones
Kavli, ITP
Refreshments will be served.

3:30 PM
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Quantum Signals: Noise and Amplification"
Steve Girvin
Yale University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Models and Manipulations: Min oscillations inside an E.coli bacterium"
Andrew Rutenberg
Dalhousie University, CANADA
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

2:30 p.m
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
“On Short Strings in AdS_5 x S5”
Dr. Radu Roiban (Penn State U)

4:00pm
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, room 310
"Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Neutral, Ultracold Plasmas"
Dr. Michael Murillo
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Brandeis University
Special Seminar
Chancellor's Suite, Sachar International Center
"Complexity: A Guided Tour"
Melanie Mitchell
Portland State/Sante Fe Institut

4:15 p.m.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"Instabilities and morphological phases of stressed elastic membranes"
Professor Benny Davidovitch
UMass, Amherst
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

2:00PM
Thursday, November 12, 2009 (note different day)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“AdS_3/LCFT_2`
Daniel Grumiller, ITP, U Tuwien
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m
Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
" The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time "
Sean Carroll
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2009.html

5:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Two-state kinetics and single molecule colocalization experiments"
Daniel Reeves
Brandeis University 
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3:00 p.m.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Turbulent momentum transport in gyrokinetic simulations"
Felix Parra-Diaz
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Refreshments will be served.

4:30 p.m.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Ground States of Supersymmetric Matrix Models"
Douglas Lundholm
KTH Stockholm

4:30 p.m.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Ground States of Supersymmetric Matrix Models"
Douglas Lundholm
KTH Stockholm
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