BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF MAY 10, 2010 THROUGH MAY 14, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

May 10, 2010 to May 14, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, May 10, 2010

2:00 pm
Monday, May 10, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“Secluded dark matter and dark forces"
Maxim Pospelov
Perimeter Institute
Refreshments will be served

4:30 PM
Monday May 10th 2010
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT, Building 2, Room 105
“Inapproximability of NP-complete problems, Discrete Fourier Analysis, 
and Geometry”
Subhash Khot
(Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Refreshments are available in Building 2, Room 290
(Math Common Room) between 3:30 – 4:30 PM
A survey is available at:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~khot/papers/icm-khot.pdf
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

3:00pm (note earlier time)
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Dark Matter is from Cygnus: in search of a wind of Dark Matter in the 
Milky Way"
Gabriella Sciolla
MIT
Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

2:00 pm
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"A Universal Inequality for CFT and Quantum Gravity"
Simeon Hellerman
IPMU, Japan
Refreshments will be served

4:30 PM
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Joint 
Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356
"Quantum phase transitions, strong correlations, and novel many-body 
systems"
Hanns-Christoph Naegerl
Universität Innsbruck
Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department
(http://www.physics.harvard.edu)
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

3:00 pm
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442
Special Talk
“Dark Matter-Motivated Searches for Exotic 4th Generation MIrror Quarks 
in Tevatron and Early LHC Data"
Shufang Su
University of Arizona

4:00 pm
Thursday, May 13, 2010, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture: Formation and Evolution of Massive 
Galactic Disks at z~1-2"
Reinhard Genzel
MPE
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

4:15 pm
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"A Theorist's Perspective on the The Large Hadron Collider”
Matthew Strassler
Rutgers University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

5:00 pm
Thursday, May 13, 2010
5:00pm
Brandeis Unversity
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Optimality in Affinity Maturation of antibodies"
Jingshan Zhang
Harvard University
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Friday, May 14, 2010

12:45 pm
Friday, May 14, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6-310 Ayasli Conference Room
Special String Talk
“Gravity as the Square of Gauge Theory"
Michael Kiermaier, Princeton

3:00 pm
Friday, May 14, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Developing and Testing a Predictive Model for the H-Mode Pedestal in 
Tokamaks"
Phil Snyder
General Atomics
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