BAPC CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR WEEK OF FEBRUARY 22, 201 THROUGH FEBRUARY 26, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

February 22, 2010 to February 26, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, February 22, 2010

12:00 pm (Noon)
Monday, February 22, 2010
Boston University
Special Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"X-ray shines light on the water mystery"
Anders Nilsson
Stockholm University
Pizza served at 11:45AM

12:30 pm
Monday, February 22, 2010
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"The Top Triangle Moose: Combining Higgsless and Topcolor Mechanisms for 
Mass Generation"
Elizabeth Simmons
Michigan State University

2:00 pm
Monday, February 22, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“Searching for h--> 4 taus at LEP2"
Itay Yavin
CCPP, NY
Refreshments will be served
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

1:00 p.m. (note earlier time)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Brandeis University
Joint Theory Blackboard
Abelson 333
"Quantum hall transitions and conformal restriction"
Ilya Gruzberg
University of Chicago

3:30 pm
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Fractional charge: the physics of zero-energy eigenmodes"
Roman Jackiw
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series - Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Stochastic conformal geometry: applications in physics"
Ilya Gruzberg
University of Chicago

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

1:00 PM
Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Granular Gases under Driving with Rare but Powerful Energy"
Wenfeng Kang, UMass Amherst
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00 pm
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6-310 Ayasli Conference Room
“The chiral magnetic effect in holographic QCD”
Andreas Schmitt, ITP, Tuwien
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Department of Physics
Brown University
“To be announced"
Dr. Amos Yarom (Princeton U)

3:00 PM
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tufts University
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Robinson Hall, Room 253
“Gravitational lensing shows how galaxies formed stars”
Dr. Jane Rigby
Carnegie Observatories
Refreshments served at 2:30 pm in Robinson Hall, Room 251

4:00pm
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
“Optical Nanostructures for Advanced Communication Systems”
Marko Loncar
Harvard University

4:15 pm
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"Dynamics of Sheared Granular Flows"
Dr. Katha Anki Reddy
Clark University

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Thursday, February 25, 2010

4:15 pm
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Ultrasensitive Superconducting Detectors and Quantum Noise”
Daniel E. Prober
Yale University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

5:00 pm
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Microfluidic stickers: an alternative to PDMS devices"
Pascaline Mary
Harvard University

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Friday, February 26, 2010

12:00 pm (Noon)
Friday, February 26, 2010
Boston University
Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Quantum dynamics in closed Hamiltonian systems"
Anatoli Polkovnikov
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM


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