BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF APRIL 12, 2010 THROUGH APRIL 16, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

April 12, 2010 to April 16, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, April 12, 2010

12:30 pm
Monday, April 12, 2010
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
TBA
Andrey Katz
University of Maryland

2:00 pm
Monday, April 12, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Uplifted region of the supersymmetric Higgs sector"
Bogdan Dobrescu
Fermilab
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Monday, April 12, 2010
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
The Box Functions in Momentum-twistor Space
Dr. Andrew Hodges
Oxford University

3:00 PM
Monday, April 12, 2010
Northeastern University
CCNR Seminar
Dana Research Center, 110 Forsyth St., 5th Fl., Boston, MA 02115
“Population spatial structure and human mobility: how networks shape 
epidemics”
Dr. Vittoria Colizza
Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation, Italy, 
Computational Epidemiology Lab
**Please be sure to take the Large Freight Elevator to the 5th floor 
(not the small elevator, it only stops at the 4th floor). For directions 
visit http://www.barabasilab.com/

3:30 pm
Monday, April 12, 2010
Boston University
Special High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"A Top Perspective on CMS"
Tim Christiansen
CERN
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM

4:00 pm
Monday, April 12, 2010
Tufts University
The Kathryn A. McCarthy Lecture in Physics
Pearson Hall, Room 104
Talbot Ave., Medford Campus
“Fun with Ultracold Atoms”
Dr. Deborah Jin
National Institute of Standard and Technology and
University of Colorado, Boulder

4:00 PM
Monday, April 12, 2010
Northeastern University
CCNR SEMINER
Center for Complex Network Research, 110 Forsyth St., 5th Fl., Boston, 
MA 02115
“Population spatial structure and human mobility: how networks shape 
epidemics.”
Vittoria Colizza, Research Scientist
ISI Foundation, Italy
http://www.barabasilab.com/index.php

4:00pm
Monday, April 12, 2010
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth Street, 114 Dana
High Energy Physics Seminar
“Renormalization group flow of gravity and asymptotic safety”
Christoph Rahmede
University of Sussex

4:15 pm
Monday, April 12, 2010 2010
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Two-Way Interplay of Magnetism and Superconductivity"
Louis Taillefer
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

4:30 PM
Monday April 12th 2010
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT, Building 2, Room 105
Refreshments are available in Building 2, Room 290
(Math Common Room) between 3:30 – 4:30 PM
“Expanding Wave Solutions of Einstein’s Equations which Induce an 
Anomalous Acceleration into the Standard Model of Cosmology “
Joel Smoller
University of Michigan
Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://math.mit.edu/amc/spring2010
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Quantum AdS_5 x S5 superstring in the AdS light-cone gauge"
Simone Giombi
Harvard University

3:30 pm
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Boston University
Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Annual Lecture
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Taming Wild Molecules"
Dudley Herschbach
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 131
"Lecture I: Differential K-theory and Dirac operators"
Dan Freed
University of Texas, Austin
Reception to follow Lecture I
http://www.math.brandeis.edu/eisenbud10.html

4:30 pm
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Tufts University
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Science & Technology Center, 4 Colby St., Medford, Campus
Room 136
"Ultracold Polar Molecules".
Dr. Deborah Jin
National Institute of Standard and Technology and
University of Colorado, Boulder
Refreshments served at Science & Technology Center, 4 Colby St., in Room 
124
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

11:00 am
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Lattice Club
“Walking step by step on the lattice"
David Lin
National Taiwan University

1:00 pm
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2010
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Quantum Nucleation with Emphasis on a Superheated Liquid"
Leon Gunther, Tufts University
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 131
“Lecture II: Twisted K-theory and loop groups"
Dan Freed
University of Texas, Austin
http://www.math.brandeis.edu/eisenbud10.html

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Some recent work on Kuramoto's coupled oscillator model"
Renato Mirollo
Boston College
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00p.m.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
“Efficient Energy Conversions Using Nanomaterials”
Zhifeng Ren
Boston College

Wednesday, April 14, 2010
4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics - Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room S-122
"Atomic force microscopy and electromagnetic fields: Magnetic nanorings 
and PbS quantum dot arrays”
Professor Katherine Aidala
Mount Holyoke College

5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"TBA"
Leonid Mirny
MIT

8:00 pm
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Harvard University
Department of Physics
Harvard Science Center, Hall D
David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics
"Historical Threads of Nanoscience"
Mildred Dresselhaus
MIT
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

12:30 pm
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Boston University
Special Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Spontaneous CP Violation vs. Collective Symmetry Breaking"
Ze'ev Surujon
UCSD

4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Brandeis University
Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics
Abelson 131
"Lecture III: Dirac charge quantization in string theory"
Dan Freed
University of Texas, Austin
http://www.math.brandeis.edu/eisenbud10.html

4:15 pm
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101 (note room change)
"The Large Hadron Collider at CERN: Entering a New Era in unraveling the 
Mystery of Matter, Space and Time”
Felicitas Pauss
CERN and ETH Zurich
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
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Friday, April 16, 2010

12:00 pm
Friday, April 16, 2010
Boston University
Biophysics/ Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Breakdown of thermalization in finite one-dimensional systems"
Marcos Rigol
Georgetown University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

2:30 pm
Friday, April 16, 2010
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"LHC Phenomenology for String Hunters"
Luis Anchordoqui
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Refreshments served

3:00 pm
Friday, April 16, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"A conservative approach for the development of hybrid magnetic fusion"
Wallace Manheimer
Naval Research Laboratory
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