BAPC CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR WEEK OF FEBRUARY 15, 2010 THROUGH FEBRUARY 19, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

February 15, 2010 to February 19, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, February 15, 2010

No talks scheduled
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

12:30 pm
Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 12:30 PM
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Signals of a Sneutrion (N)LSP at the LHC"
Brock Tweedie
Johns Hopkins University

2:00 pm (note different day this week only)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“Some new results for Classical Field Theories"
Ira Rothstein
Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Tuesday, 16, 2009, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Observable effects of anisotropic bubble nucleation."
Mike Salem
Tufts
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

4:00 pm
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth Street
114 Dana Research Center
CIRCS Seminar
“Memory Storage at Synapses by a Self-Repairing Variable-Size Synaptic 
Grid”
John Lisman
Brandeis University

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

1:00 pm
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010, 1:00PM
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Quantum criticality and the cuprate superconductors"
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00 pm
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
``Prospects for Observing Cosmic Bubble Collisons"
Matthew Kleban, NYU
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
“To grant me a vision of Nature’s forces: The Large Hadron Collider”
Marcus Klute
MIT

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

4:00 pm
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth Street
114 Dana Research Center
Physics Colloquium
“The Hunt for the Last Neutrino Mixing Angle”
Morgan Wascko
Imperial College London

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the eve of launch”
Samuel Ting
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, February 19, 2010

12:00 PM (Noon)
Friday, February 19, 2010
Boston University
Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Anomalous Structural Relaxation in Thin Polymer Films"
Connie Roth
Emory University
Pizza served at 11:45AM

2:30 PM
Friday, February 19, 2010
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
"Cosmic Rays at the Highest Energies: Results from Pierre Auger 
Observatory"
Tom Paul
Northeastern University
Refreshments served

3:00 PM
Friday, February 19, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Long Distance Detection of Nuclear Materials: Active and Passive, Crazy 
and Not so Crazy"
Richard Lanza
MIT

3:00 pm
Friday, February 19, 2010
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
“The Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies since z~4”
Chien Peng
NRZ Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 2:30 pm

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