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BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 18. 2010 THROUGH OCTOBER 22, 2010



 October 18, 2010 to October 22, 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.

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Monday, October 18, 2010

12:30 pm
Monday, October 18, 2010
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"The S-MSSM: the singlet saves the day"
Antonio Delgado
Notre Dame University

2:00 pm
Monday, October 18, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
“Flavor in Conformal Technicolor"
Markus Luty
UC Davis
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Monday, October 18, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Building 26-414, Kolker Room
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
“Particle Physics and the LHC: A Tale of Three Universes”
Markus Luty
University of California – Davis
Refreshments will be served.

4:00 pm
Monday, October 18, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 36, Haus, Room 428
“Complexity of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm"
Peter Young
University of California, Santa Cruz

4:15 pm
Monday, October 18, 2010
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
"Accelerating Universes and the Emerging Landscape in String Theory"
Sandip Trivedi, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 PM
Monday October 18, 2010
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT, Building 2, Room 105
Kerry A. Emanuel (MIT)
Conserved Variable Coordinate Modeling of Hurricanes
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
Applied Math Colloquium poster: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/fall10/K_Emanuel.pdf

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
Einstein Fellowship Symposium
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
60 Garden St., Phillips Auditorium
Cambridge, MA
Einstein Fellows will present highlights of their recent work on X-ray
related topics such as black holes, X-ray binaries, supernovae, star
clusters, AGN, and galaxy clusters.
The detailed program and list of speakers can be found at:
http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2010.html
Dr. Andrea Prestwich is organizing the symposium. For more information,
contact her at aprestwich@cfa;
Light refreshments will be available.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA.

12:00 PM (Noon)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Building 26-414, Kolker Room
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
“Unexpected Results from the LHC”
Wei Li
MIT
Refreshments will be served.

2:00 pm
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Topological Transitions in Dissipative Quantum Transport"
Mark Rudner
Harvard University
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu


3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Marvels of bacterial behavior"
Howard Berg
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15PM in 1st floor lounge

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 9:00am to 3:30pm.
Einstein Fellowship Symposium
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
60 Garden St., Phillips Auditorium
Cambridge, MA
Einstein Fellows will present highlights of their recent work on X-ray
related topics such as black holes, X-ray binaries, supernovae, star
clusters, AGN, and galaxy clusters.
The detailed program and list of speakers can be found at:
http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2010.html
Dr. Andrea Prestwich is organizing the symposium. For more information,
contact her at aprestwich@cfa.
Light refreshments will be available
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA.

2:00 pm
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
“Collective Field Mapping of AdS Space-Time"
Antal Jevicki, Brown University
Refreshments will be served
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

1:30 pm
Thursday October 21, 2010
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Tufts University
Robinson 250
Eray Sabancilar
Tufts University
Neutrino Bursts from Cosmic Strings via Modulus Radiation

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Large Hadron Collider: Early Research Results, Research Plans and Priorities, and New Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Science Education”
Homer Neal
University of Michigan
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html


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Friday, October 22, 2010

12:00 noon
Friday, October 22, 2010
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
17 Oxford Street, Lyman 330
"Algebraic Structures Arising in Field Theory and Classification of Hamiltonian Maps"
Victor Kac
MIT

3:00 pm
October 22, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Novel filamentary arrays in gas breakdown studied with a 110 GHz gyrotron"
Alan Cook
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

3:00
Tufts University
Friday, October 22, 2010
Science and Technology Center
4 Colby St., Room 136
Medford Campus
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Mauro Giavalisco
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
TBA
Refreshments served at 2:30 in STC 124

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