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

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

November 1, 2010 to November 5, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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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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