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October 4, 2010 to October 8,
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, October 4, 2010 2:00 pm Monday, October 4, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar “Hadronic Event Shapes using Effective Field Theory" Randall Kelley, Harvard Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Monday, October 4, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Building 26-414, Kolker Room Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium "Neutrinos and Nucleosynthesis from Black Hole Accretion Disks " Gail McLaughlin, NCSU Refreshments will be served. 4:15 pm Monday, October 4, 2010 Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250 “QCD for LHC" Keith Ellis, FNAL Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:30 PM Monday October 4th 2010 APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM MIT, Building 2, Room 105 “Waves from Nothing: Modeling Fluctuation Interactions” Steven Johnson (MIT) Refreshments are available in Building 2, Room 290 (Math Common Room) between 3:30 – 4:30 PM Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/fall10 To sign up for Applied Mathematics Colloquium announcements, please contact avisha math mit edu __________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 5, 2010 12:00 pm (Noon) Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Building 26-414, Kolker Room LNS Lunch Time Seminar "Particle Flow and Imaging Calorimeters" Frank Simon, MPI-Munich Pizza will be served. 2:00 pm Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Boston College, Physics Seminar Higgins Hall, Room 235 "How to Measure a Ghost Fermi Surface" David Mross MIT 4:00 pm Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 "Gravity, Entropy, and Entanglement" Matthew Headrick Brandeis University Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 6, 2010 2:00 pm Wednesday, October 6, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room String/Gravity Theory Seminar “Symmetry Constraints on Counterterms in N=8 Supergravity" Henriette Elvang, University of MIchigan Refreshments will be served 2:30 pm Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 Brown University Department of Physics "Non-supersymmetric Large N Matrix Backgrounds" Joao Rodrigues U Witwatersrand 4:00 pm Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Boston College, Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "Probing the Limits of Quantum Physics by Methods of Nanoscience" Herbert Gleiter Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT, Institute of Nanotechnology Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230 For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu 4:30 PM Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356 "Optomechanics - Interaction Between Light and Nanomechanical Motion" Florian Marquardt University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department (http://www.physics.harvard.edu) ____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, October 7, 2010 2:30 pm Thursday, October 7, 2010 Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30 PM Brown University Department of Physics “A Gapless and Conserving Mean-field Theory for Dilute BECs Possessing a Second Order Phase Transition Subtitle: “Mean Field Perturbation Theory with Two Auxiliary Fields Trumps Large-N, Hartree Fock-Bogoliubov and Popov Mean Field Approximations Fred Cooper (Los Alamos) _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, October 8, 2010 12:00 pm (Noon) Friday, October 8, 2010 Boston University Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Thin film polymeric glasses: From top to bottom" Jane Lipson Dartmouth College Pizza served at 11:45 AM 3:00 pm Friday, October 8, 2010 Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Science & Technology Center 4 Colby St., Room 136, Medford Campus “Simulation of Quantum Systems on Quantum Computers” Peter Love Haverford College Refreshments served in Science & Technology Center, Room 124 ____________________________________________________ |