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BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH NOVEMBER 5, 2010



November 1, 2010 to November 5, 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, November 1, 2010

12:30 pm
Monday, November 1, 2010
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Recent Developments in Direct Detection of Dark Matter"
Itay Yavin
New York University

2:00 pm
Monday, November 1, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
“New recursion relations for loop amplitudes"
Simon Caron-Huot, IAS
Refreshments will be served

4:00 PM
Monday, November 1, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
26-414, Kolker Room
"Searching for Higgs: A personal view on the prospects"
Christoph Paus, MIT
Refreshments will be served.

4:00 pm
Monday, November 1, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 36, Haus Room 428
“A Solvable Model of Quantum Random Optimization Problems"
Francesco Zamponi, ENS
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

12 Noon
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
26-414, Kolker Room
"Trapping Experiments"
Gerald Gabrielese, Harvard
Refreshments will be served.

1:45 pm
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"The Physical Properties of Meteorites"
Guy Consolmagno SJ
Vatican Observatory, Rome
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

2:30 pm
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Gravity, Aether, and Cosmology"
Ted Jacobson
U. of Maryland
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 pm
Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center
590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107
"Active Emulsions"
Seth Fraden
Brandeis University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Brandeis University
Joint Quantitative Biology/Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Statistical Mechanics and Virus Assembly"
Robijn Bruinsma
UCLA
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

4:00 pm
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Shape memory alloys and martensitic phase transitions: An inelastic neutron scattering study"
Stephen Shapiro
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

1:30 pm
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
“Don't Shake That Solenoid Too Hard: Particle Production from the Aharonov-Bohm Effect”
Yi-Zen Chu
Arizona State University

Thursday, November 4, 2010

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Isaac Newton and the Counterfeiter: Greed, Crime and the Birth of Modern Idea of Money”
Thomas Levenson
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

5:00 pm
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"TBA"
Madhavi Krishnan
Technische Hochschule Zurich
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Friday, November 5, 2010

Noon
Friday, November 5, 2010
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Bose-Einstein condensation in Quantum Glasses"
Francesco Zamponi
ENS, Paris
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

2:00 pm
Friday, November 5, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Coulomb Correlations in Pnictides, Cuprates and Graphene"
Ansgar Liebsch
Research Center Juelich
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

3:00 pm
Friday, November 5, 2010
Science & Technology Center, Room 136
4 Colby St., Medford Campus
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
“Early Star-forming Galaxies and the Reionization of the Universe”
Richard Ellis
Caltech University
Refreshments served at 2:30 in STC, Room 124
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