BAPC Calendar of Events from 11/16/09 through 11/20/09

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

November 16, 2009 to November 20, 2009

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, November 16, 2009

12:30 pm
Monday, November 16, 2009
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Phenomenology of General Neutralino NLSPs"
Matthew Reece
Institute for Advanced Study

2:00 pm
Monday, November 16, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Threshold resummation and heavy quark production"
George Sterman
YITP, Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Monday, November 16, 2009
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
"Recreating Core States of Giant Planets in the Laboratory, a New
Generation of Condensed Matter Science"
Gilbert Collins, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 pm
Monday November 16, 2009
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Location: MIT, Building 4, Room 370
Refreshments are available in Building 2, Room 290
(Math Common Room) between 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Speaker: Thanasis Fokas (University of Cambridge)
Title: Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems
Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://math.mit.edu/amc/fall09/
Applied Math Colloquium poster: 
http://math.mit.edu/amc/fall09/Thanasis_Fokas.pdf

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

2:30 pm
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“The w < -1 Side of Quintessence and its Observational Signatures"
Guido D'Amico
SISSA
Refreshments will be served at 2:15

3:30 PM
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
The Benson T. Chertok Lecture
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Wizardry with light: freeze, teleport, and go!"
Lene Vestergaard-Hau
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
TBA
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Northwestern University
<http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/physics/events/departmentcolloquia.html> 


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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

12:00 -1:00 pm
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Boston University
Mathematical Physics seminar
Math. Dept., 111 Cummington St., Rm 180
"Diffeomorphisms of fields and gravity powercounting"
Andrea Velenich, BU
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html

2:00 pm
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“More on N=2 S-dualities and M5-branes`"
Yuji Tachikawa, IAS
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
“Natures fundamental bosons Z,W,H, photons (What do we know 
experimentally?)”
Ulrich Becker
MIT

4:30 PM
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009,
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and 
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356
"Single- and many-body physics with stationary-light polaritons"
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl
Institut für Experimentalphysik Universität Innsbruck
Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department
(http://www.physics.harvard.edu)

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

2:30 pm
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Gluon Tree Amplitudes in Open Twistor String Theory
Prof. Louise Dolan
U North Carolina

3:30 pm
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"mSugra Signatures"
Pran Nath
Northeastern University
Refreshments served

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Stability in a Turbulent (Fermi) Sea: The Ever More Remarkable High 
Temperature Superconductors"
Eric Hudson
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2009.html

5:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
“Yielding Dynamics of a Colloidal Gel”
Thomas Gibaud
Brandeis University
<http://www.brandeis.edu/mrsec/calendar/index.html>

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Friday, November 20, 2009

3:00 p.m.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"LIFE: Laser Inertial Fusion Energy systems for electric power 
production and disposal of nuclear waste"
Erik Storm
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

4:00 PM
Friday, November 20, 2009
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
33 Oxford Street, Maxwell Dworkin G115 (Note location)
"Enernet: Internet Lessons for Solving Energy"
Bob Metcalfe
Polaris Ventures Partners
Refreshments will be served outside of Maxwell Dworkin G115 beginning at 
3:30 p.m.; colloquium will start at 4:00 p.m..

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