BAPC EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 17, 2010 THROUGH MAY 21, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

May 17, 2010 to May 21, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, May 17, 2010

2:00 pm
Monday, May 17, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
“Breaking Quantum Linearity: Constraints from Human Perceptions and 
Implications at the Cosmological Scale”
Angelo Bassi
University of Triesti
Refreshments will be served
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

1:30 pm
Tuesday, May 18 2010
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"A New Approach to Counterterms in N=8 Supergravity"
Henriette Elvang
University of Michigan

2:00 pm
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Observation of Fractional quantum Hall effect and insulating phase of 
Dirac electrons in suspended graphene"
Xu Du
The State University of New York
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

5:00 pm
Tuesday, May 18 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Confinement Induced Phase Transition in a DNA-Lipid Hydrated Complex"
Laurence Navailles
CRPP (Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal)
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

2:00 pm
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Higher Spins and Holography"
Simone Giombi
Harvard
Refreshments will be served
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

4:00 pm
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"pH Lecture: Planet-forming Disks Around Young Stars"
Sean Andrews
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia

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Friday, May 21, 2010

2:00 pm
Friday, May 21, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Promising New Directions in the Quest for Majorana Fermions in 
Condensed Matter Systems"
Jason Alicea
California Institute of Technology
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

3:00 pm
Friday, May 21, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Magnetohydrodynamic spectroscopy of stationary plasma flows"
J. P. Goedbloed
FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics
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