BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF APRIL 5, 2010 THROUGH APRIL 9, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

April 05, 2010 to April 09, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, April 5, 2010

12:30 pm
Monday, April 5, 2010
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
TBA
Lisa Randall
Harvard University

2:00 pm
Monday, April 5, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Precision Higgs Mass Prediction from the Multiverse"
Yasunori Nomura
LBL
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Monday, April 5, 2010
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy: Coherence, Entanglement and
Photosynthesis"
Graham R. Fleming
University of California, Berkeley
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

1:00PM (Note change of time)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Exploring the Heterotic Landscape
Dr. Yang-Hui He (Oxford U)


2:30 pm
Tuesday, April 6, 2:30 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
“Lumps and bumps in the early universe"
Mustafa Amin, MIT
refreshment to be served at 2:15pm

3:30 pm
Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
“Topological insulators and topological superconductors"
Shou Chang Zhang
Stanford University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:30 pm
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Relativity and Positive Temperature"
Christian Jaekel
Cardiff University, Wales

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

1:30 pm
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Clark University
Departments of Physics and Chemistry - Joint Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-120 (Johnson Auditorium)
"Subcellular Surgery and Nanosurgery"
Professor Eric Mazur
Harvard University

2:00 PM
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 (note change of room)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6-310 Ayasil Conference Room
"Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions"
Eric Bergshoeff, University of Groningen
Refreshments will be served
Joyce Berggren
Admin. Asst.
jib mit edu
MIT-CTP 6-304
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139 617-253-4827

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Electronic States in Discotic Organic Semiconductors"
Prof. Madalina Furis
University of Vermont
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:15 pm
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Clark University
Departments of Physics and Chemistry - Joint Colloquium
Lasry Center for BioScience, Room 237
"Memorizing or Understanding: Are we teaching the right thing?"
Professor Eric Mazur
Harvard University

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Thursday, April 8, 2010

2:30 pm (note different day and time)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions"
Eric Bergshoeff
University of Groningen

3:30 pm
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Boston University
Special High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Exploring LHC data in the di-lepton final state"
Dmytro Kavalskyi
University of California at Santa Barbara
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM

4:00 pm
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth Street, 114 Dana
Physics Colloquium
“Large Hadron Collider Startup: the Exotic Journey”
Tulika Bose
Boston University

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Is Physical Reality A Matrix?"
S. James Gates Jr.
University of Maryland
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, April 9, 2010

3:00 pm
Friday, April 9, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"High energy particle profile modification by Alfvén modes"
Roscoe White
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

5:00 pm
Friday, April 9, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Active Clustering, Fluctuations and Stresses in Living Cells"
Madan Rao
Raman Research Institute and National Center for Biological Sciences, India
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