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September 27, 2010 to October 1,
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. NOTE: Entries that are past the deadline will have to be sent by you to the BAPC late entry email address listed below. On time entries send to: bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu. Late entries send to: bapc-late cosmos phy tufts edu To subscribe or unsubscribe from bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html _____________________________________________________________________ Monday, September 27, 2010 12:30 PM Monday, September 27, 2010 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Discovering New Physics at the LHC with Jets and Jet Substructure" David Krohn Harvard University 2:00 pm Monday, September 27, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Electromagnetic Polarizabilities: Unmasking Chiral Dynamics from Lattice QDC" Brian Tiburzi, MIT-CTP Refreshments will be served _________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 28, 2010 _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:30 pm Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Brown University HET Seminar - Barus & Holley Building, Room 555 "Eternal Inflation predicts that time will end" Ben Freivogel - MIT 2:00 pm Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room String/Gravity Theory Seminar “N=2 Sigma Models for Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds" Nathan Berkovits, UNESP Refreshments will be served 4:00 p.m. Wednesday September 29, 2010 UMass Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218 Refreshments served at 3:30 pm "A physicist ponders the meaning of life” Eric Chaisson Tufts University ____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, September 30, 2010 4:15 p.m. Thursday, September 30, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Exploring Nanophotonics to Tailor the Laws of Physics” Marin Soljačić MIT Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html 5:00 pm Thursday, September 30, 2010 Brandeis University MRSEC Seminar Abelson 333 "A Bio-inspired Nanofilm with Unidirectional Properties" Melik C. Demirel Visiting Scholar at Wyss Inste., Harvard University _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, October 1, 2010 12:00 Noon Friday, October 1, 2010 Boston University Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Ave. TBA Steve Simon Oxford University Pizza served at 11:45 AM 12:30 PM Friday, October 1, 2010 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 TBA Jesse Thaler MIT 3:00 p.m. October 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 "Some things we know about tokamak pedestals" Peter Catto MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center 3:00 pm Friday, October 1, 2010 Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Science and Technology Center 4 Colby St., Room 136, Medford Campus “Mathematical Description of the Operation of Consciousness: When Perceptual Time Stands Still” Efstratios Manousakis Florida State University Refreshments at 2:30 pm in Science and Technology Center, Room 124 ___________________________________________________ |