BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF MAY 3, 2010 THROUGH MAY 7, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

May 03, 2010 to May 07, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, May 3, 2010

2:00 pm
Monday, May 3, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“TBA"
Aaron Pierce
University of Michigan
Refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Monday, May 3, 2010 @ 4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest"
David Nelson, Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 pm
Monday, May 3, 2010
MIT
Building 3, Room 270 at 4:30 PM
The 2010 Simons Lectures Series
Topic: "Applied Noncommutative Geometry"
Lecture 1: Algebra and geometry of random surfaces
Andrei Okounkov
Princeton University
Reception at 4:00 PM in 2-290
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

2:00 pm
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Diamagnetism and pairing in hole-doped high Tc superconductors"
Lu Li
MIT
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 pm
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Quantum Money from Knots"
Eddie Farhi
MIT
Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131

4:00 PM
May 4, 2010
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth St, 114 Dana Research Center
CIRCS Seminar
“Applications of Electronic Structure Methods to Protein Structure and 
Reactions”
Michael Frisch
Gaussian, Inc.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

1:00 PM
Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 1:00PM
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"From Classical Mechanics to General Relativity: Vignettes of 
Integrability"
Shabnam Beheshti, Rudgers University
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 pm
Wednesday, May 5, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"N3: Nonperturbative, Nonanalytic and Noncritical"
Soo-Jong Rey
Seoul National U./Princeton
Refreshments will be served

2:00 – 5:00 pm
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Brown University
Barus & Holley Building, Room 190
Celebration of Sakurai Prize Winners
2:00 p.m. Gerry Guralnik (Brown U) “The History of the Guralnik, Hagen 
and Kibbledevelopment of the Theory of Spontaneous SymmetryBreaking and 
Gauge Particles”
2:30 p.m. Roman Jackiw (MIT):“Gerry and the Problem of Mass; then and now”
3:00 p.m. Sally Dawson Brookhaven Natl Lab):“Searching for electroweak 
symmetry breaking”
4:00 p.m. Marcus Spradlin (Brown U):"The Harmony of Scattering 
Amplitudes: From Twistor
Space to the LHC"
4:30 p.m. Jesse Thaler (MIT):“Supersymmetry Breaks (Again): Gravitinos 
and Goldstini
at the LHC”
5:00 p.m. Ulrich Heintz (Brown U):"The elusive agent of electroweak 
symmetry breaking
from an experimentalists point of view"

4:00 pm
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Boston College, Physics
3rd Annual Arlene and Michael Magde Colloquium in Physics
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Severe Space Weather Effects on the Earth"
Joseph B. Reagan
Retired VP & GM, Lockheed Martin Corporation/Member, National Academy of 
Engineering
Reception at 5:00 pm, Higgins Hall Atrium
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Physical Mechanisms for the Reading and Storage of Genomic DNA"
Andrew Spakowitz
Stanford University
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

2:00 pm
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 131
"Dense Packing and Beyond"
Daan Frenkel
Cambridge University

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Physics and Baseball: A Report to Red Sox Nation”
Alan Nathan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
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Friday, May 7, 2010

3:00 pm
Friday, May 7, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Correlation ECE measurements of turbulent electron temperature 
fluctuations in tokamaks"
Anne White,
MIT
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