BAPC CALENDAR FOR WEEK OF APRIL 26, 2010 THROUGH APRIL 30, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

April 26, 2010 to April 30, 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.

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Monday, April 26, 2010

12:30 pm
Monday, April 26, 2010
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
Title TBA
Leonardo Senatore
Harvard University

2:00 PM
Monday, April 26, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"SUSY without Prejudice at the LHC"
James Gainer
ANL/Northwestern
Refreshments will be served

4:00 PM
Monday, April 26, 2010
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth St, 114 Dana Research Center
High Energy Physics Seminar
“Hidden Light Dark Matter in Neutrino Detectors”
Jennifer Kile
Brookhaven National Lab

4:15 pm
Monday, April 26, 2010
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Applied String Theory for the Impatient
Steven Gubser, Princeton University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

1:30 pm
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"TBA"
Alex Maloney
McGill University

2:30 pm
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“Lumps and bumps in the early universe"
Mustafa Amin
MIT Physics Dept
Refreshments will be served at 2:15

4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"TBA"
Alex Maloney
McGill University
Refreshment outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

2:00 pm
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"TBA"
Alex Maloney
Mc Gill University
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Electron itinerancy, orbital symmetry and itinerant spin fluctuations 
in Fe-based superconductors as revealed by soft x-ray spectroscopies."
Norman Manella
Tennessee Knoxville
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:30 PM
Wednesday April 28, 2010
The 2010 Simons Lectures, Topic: "Forceless Physics and the 
Combinatorial Arsenal"
MIT, Building 3, Room 270 at 4:30 pm
Lecture 1: Phase transition and hard constraints
Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College)
Reception at 4:00 PM in 2-290

5:00 pm
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"The effect of chirality on self-assembly of attractive rod-like particles"
Thomas Gibaud and Nadir Kaplan
Brandeis University
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

4:15 pm
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Exploring the Extreme Universe: Results from the VERITAS Gamma-ray 
Observatory”
Reshmi Mukherjee
Barnard College
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

4:30 PM
Thursday April 29, 2010
The 2010 Simons Lectures, Topic: "Forceless Physics and the 
Combinatorial Arsenal"
MIT, Building 4, Room 370 at 4:30 PM
Lecture 2: “Branched polymers and the hard core model”
Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College)
Reception at 4:00 PM in 2-290

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Friday, April 30, 2010

12:00 pm
Friday, April 30, 2010
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"SIGe based hetero-and nanosturctures"
Günther Bauer
Institute for Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler 
University Linz, Austria
Pizza served at 11:45AM

4:30 PM
Friday April 30, 2010
The 2010 Simons Lectures, Topic: "Forceless Physics and the 
Combinatorial Arsenal"
MIT, Building 4, Room 370
Lecture 3: “Independent and coordinate percolation”
Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College)
Reception at 4:00 PM in 2-290

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