BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS EVENTS FROM 11/30/09 to 12/4/09

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

November 30, 2009 to December 4, 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, November 30, 2009

12:30 pm
Monday, November 30, 2009
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
“Loops and Legs at the LHC”
Carola Berger
MIT

2:00 pm
Monday, November 30, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“The Nuclear Physics of Charm”
Sean Fleming
Arizona State University
Refreshments will be served

4:00PM
Monday, November 30, 2009
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth St, 114 Dana Research Center
Physics Colloquium
“Mott Transition in VO2 Observed by Infrared Spectroscopy and Nano-Imaging”
Mumtaz Qazilbash
University of California, San Diego
www.physics.neu.edu

4:15 pm
Monday, November 30, 2009
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
“Drawing Conclusions from Graphene”
Antonio H. Castro Neto, Boston University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

2:30 pm
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Anthropic Explanation of the Dark Matter Abundance and its 
Observational Consequences."
Ben Freivogel
UC Berkeley
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251


4:00 pm
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth St, 114 Dana Research Center
CIRCS Seminar
“Scale-Invariant Aspects of Cardiac Dynamics: Observing Physiologic 
States Under Health, Disease, and Aging”
Plamen Ivanov
Boston University
www.circs.neu.edu
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

2:00 pm
Wednesday, December 2, (note different room)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6-310 Ayasli Conference Room
“Gravity dual of Polchinski's theorem: Forbidden Landscape”
Yu Nakayama
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 4:00pm
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, room 310
“Strong and Weak-coupling Electrostatic Interactions Between 
Macromolecules"
Rudi Podgornik
Jozef Stefan Institute
Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:30 pm
Wednesday, December 2, 2009,
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and 
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356
"Cavity-free Coherent Coupling of Photons and Emitters"
Prof. V. Sandoghdar
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich
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, December 3, 2009

1:30 pm
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Anderson Hall, Room 208 (Note Room Change)
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
“Quantum Gravitational Backreaction”
Tomislav Prokopec
University of Utrecht, Netherlands

3:30 pm
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Muon (g-2) and Other Dipole Interactions: Looking to the Future"
Lee Roberts
Boston University
Refreshments served

4:15 pm
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Joint Physics and Math Colloquium
Building 10, Room 250
"Ricci Flow and the Topology of 3-manifolds"
John Morgan
Columbia University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2009.html

5:00 pm
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Tribology of Confined Molecularly Thin Films"
Marina Ruths
UMass Lowell

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Friday, December 4, 2009

Noon
Friday, December 4, 2009
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Topological and Hidden Orders in Condensed Matter systems: general 
approaches and thermodynamic considerations"
Zohar Nussinov
Washington University, St. Louis
Pizza served at 11:45

3:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Ideal Perturbed Equilibria in Tokamaks"
Jong-kyu Park
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Refreshments will be served.

4:00 pm
Friday, December 4 at 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Holomorphic Loop Equation and Yang-Mills Mass Gap"
Marco Bochicchio
Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza'


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