BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 25, 2010 THROUGH OCTOBER 29, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

 October 25, 2010 to October 29, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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year by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University. 
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Monday, October 25, 2010

12:30 pm
Monday, October 25, 2010
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Systematic Improvement of Parton Showers with Effective Theory"
Matt Baumgart
Johns Hopkins University

2:00 pm
Monday, October 25, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Understanding confinement through supersymmetry (Non-Abelian heterotic 
strings)"
Mikhail Shifman
Harvard/MIT/U Minnesota
Refreshments will be served

Monday, October 25, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Understanding confinement through supersymmetry (Non-Abelian heterotic 
strings)"
Mikhail Shifman, Harvard/MIT/U Minnesota
Refreshments will be served

2:30 PM
Monday October 25, 2010
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics/Joint 
Atomic Physics Colloquium
Lyman LAB, Room 425
17 Oxford Street, Cambridge
“Coherent splitting, rocking, and blinding of single atoms”
Dieter Meschede
Institut Für Angewandte Physik, Universität Bonn
Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu)

4:00 PM
Monday, October 25, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
26-414, Kolker Room
“And Thanks for all the Fish; A Decade of Measurements with SNO”
Joseph Formaggio, MIT
Refreshments will be served.

4:15 pm
Monday, October 25, 2010
Harvard University, Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory, room 250
"Emergence of Gravity"
Erik Verlinde, University of Amsterdam
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 PM
Monday October 25, 2010
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT, Building 2, Room 105
Ian H. Sloan (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
“Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Numerical Integration in Very High 
Dimensions”
Ian H. Sloan
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

12 NOON
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
26-414, Kolker Room
“Searching for the Dark Photon at JLab"
Tim Nelson, SLAC
Refreshments will be served.

2:00 pm
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Quantum spin textures in topological insulators"
David Hsieh (Pappalardo Fellow)
MIT
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

2:30 pm
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Joint MIT/CfA/Tufts Cosmology seminar
“Testing LCDM model on large and small cosmic scales"
Yin-Zhe Ma, Cambridge University, UK
Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm

3:30 pm
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Cyberspace-Taming the Wild West"
John Savage
Brown University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Measuring the spins of stellar-mass black holes"
Jeffrey E. McClintock
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

2:00 pm
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
“TBA"
S. James Gates, MIT/U Maryland
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Brown University
Department of Physics: BH Room 555
“Higher spins in AdS and O(N) vector model"
Kewang Jin (Brown U)

2:30 pm
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"Searching for a Dark Photon at JLab"
Tim Nelson (SLAC)
Coffee and cookies served at 2:30

4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 27 2010
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
"Is nuclear energy the enabling technology for large scale renewables?”
Charles Forsberg
MIT

7:00 pm
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Museum of Science, Boston
Admission Free
Museum Present at the Creation
“How can the world’s biggest atom smasher unlock the secrets of the 
universe?”
Amir D. Aczel, PhD, mathematician and international bestselling author
in conversation with physicist Stephen Reucroft, PhD
Book signing to follow
Seating is limited. Passes available in the Museum lobby beginning at 
5:45 p.m. on October 27. Museum members may reserve a limited number of 
passes in advance. For more information: mos.org/members. Admission is 
free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

1:30 pm
October 28, 2010
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson hall, R00m 250
Coincidences and Hierarchies from Measure Geometry
Stefan Leichenauer
University of California, Berkeley

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, Relativistic Jet Sources, and the 
Origin of the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays”
Charles Dermer
Naval Research Laboratory
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Noon
Friday, October 29, 2010
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
TBA
Masud Haque
Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Science & Technology Center
4 Colby St., Room 136
Medford Campus
"Towards the Higgs at Tevatron"
Vadim Rusu
Fermilab
Coffee and tea served in Room 124

3:00 pm
October 29, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Pedestal density fluctuation properties in H-mode plasma on DIII-D"
Zheng Yan
University of Wisconsin
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