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BAPC CALENDAR FOR WEEK OF MARCH 1, 2010 THOUGH MARCH 5, 2010



March 01, 2010 to March 05, 2010

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.

NOTE: Entries that are past the deadline will have to be sent by you to the BAPC late entry email address listed below.

On time entries send to: bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu.
Late entries send to: bapc-late cosmos phy tufts edu
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http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html
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Monday, March 1, 2010

12:30 pm
Monday, March 1, 2010
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Factorization at the LHC: From PDFs to Initial State Jets"
Wouter Waalewijn
MIT

2:00 pm
Monday, March 1, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“The chiral magnetic effect and local parity violation at RHIC"
Dmitri Kharzeev
BNL
Refreshments will be served

3:00 pm
Monday, March 1, 2010
Tufts University
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
“The Most Distant Clusters of Galaxies”
Adam Muzzin
Yale University
Robinson Hall, Room 253
Refreshments served in Knipp Libray, Robinson 251 at 2:30 pm

4:15 pm
Monday, March 1, 2010.
Harvard University
Loeb Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing"
Matthew P.A. Fisher
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

1:30 pm
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Generalized Lifshitz-Kosevich scaling at quantum criticality from the holographic correspondence"
Diego Hofman
Harvard University

3:00 pm
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Harvard University
Loeb Lecture I
Jefferson 250
"Exotic Spin Liquids in Weak Mott Insulators"
Matthew P.A. Fisher
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

3:30 pm
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Through Dipole Interactions"
Lee Roberts
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Brandeis University
Joint Quantitative Biology Program/Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Physical Aspects of Viral Infectivity"
William Gelbart
UCLA
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

2:00 pm
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6-310 Ayasli Conference Room
“New weak coupling limits in F-theory and non-Kodaira singular fibers"
Mboyo Esole, Harvard
Refreshments will be served

3:30 pm
Wednesday 3 March 2010
2010 Kyungsik Kang Lecture: B&H 190
Department of Physics
Brown University
“High Energy Scattering: from Theory to Phenomenology and Back
Dr. Genya Levin

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

3:00 pm
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Harvard University
Loeb Lecture II
Jefferson 250
"Critical Quantum Fluids with d-wave Pair Correlations"
Matthew P.A. Fisher
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Discovering the Milky Way: Uncovering the Mysteries of the Universe in our Own Back Yards”
Heidi Newberg
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
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Friday, March 5, 2010

12:00 pm (noon)
Friday, March 5, 2010
Boston University
Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Rotator phases and nucleation in polyethylene"
Scott Milner
Pennsylvania State University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

2:30 pm
Friday, March 5, 2010
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Measurement of th Neutrino NCpi0 Cross Section with SciBooNE"
Morgan Wascko
Imperial College, London, UK

3:00 pm
Friday, March 5, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"The Fastest Path to Fusion Electricity: A Fusion Pilot Plant"
Rob Goldston
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

3:00 pm
Friday, March 5, 2010
Tufts University
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
“Studying Galaxy Evolution at Far-Infrared and Radio Wavelengths”
Eric Murphy
Caltech
Nelson Auditorium
Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 2:30 pm

3:00 p.m. (note earlier time and different day)
Friday, March 5, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
TBA
Younan Xia
Washington University, St. Louis
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