BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF MARCH 22, 2010 THROUGH MARCH 26, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

March 22, 2010 to March 26, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, March 22, 2010

12:30 pm
Monday, March 22, 2010
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Spin, Hadronization and lifetimes"
Yuval Grossman
Cornell University

4:15 pm
Monday, March 22, 2010
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Spin Glasses and Computational Complexity
Daniel Gottesman
Perimeter Institute
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

1:30 pm
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"TBA"
Miranda Cheng
Harvard University

2:00 PM
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Physics Seminar
TEX 101e
"Astrophysical expulsions: Solar/Stellar Winds, Supernovae, and
Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)"
Kelly Korreck
Harvard CfA

3:30 PM
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Modeling the hard geometry of soft membranes: From tethers to the 
endoplasmic reticulum"
Greg Huber
University of Connecticut
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Black Hole Collisions"
Frans Pretorius
Princeton University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

11:30 AM
Wednesday, March 24
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 
***Special Talk***
Philips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
"Universality in Few-Body Physics - The Efimov Family Tree"
Prof. Randall Hulet
Rice University
Special Talk sponsored by Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, 
Molecular and Optical
Physics (ITAMP) (http://itamp.harvard.edu) At the Harvard-Smithsonian 
Center for Astrophysics and Harvard Physics.

4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Novel Applications of Molecular Spectroscopy to Heritage Fields of Study"
Dr. Tom Tague
Bruker Optics
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
“From Black Holes to Strange Metals: Many-body Physics through a 
Gravitational Lens”
Hong Liu
MIT

4:15 p.m.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"A New way to Look at Diffusion and Relaxation in Multi-Scale Systems"
Dr. Lawrence Schwartz
Schlumberger-Doll Research &
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT

4:30 PM
Wednesday March 24, 2010
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and 
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356
"Generating and detecting strongly correlated states of ultra cold atoms"
Prof. Anders Sorensen
Bohr Institute, U. of Copenhagen
Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department
(http://www.physics.harvard.edu)

5:00 pm
Wednesday March 24, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Viral templated Paddadium Nanocatalysis"
Hyunmim Yi
Tufts University

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

2:00 PM
Thursday, March 25, 2010
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Physics Seminar
TEX 101e
"Shining Light on Star Formation: A Numerical Investigation of How
Radiation Feedback Influences Forming Stars"
Stella Offner
Harvard CfA

2:00 PM
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Covariant vertex operators for cosmic strings"
Dimitri Skliros
University of Sussex

3:30 pm
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 3:30 PM
Boston University
Special High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"On the Hunt for New Physics at the LHC"
Kevin Black
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM
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Friday, March 26, 2010


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