BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 8, 2010 through NOVEMBER 12, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

November 8, 2010 to November 12, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, November 8, 2010

2:00PM
Monday, November 8, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
“Direct Gaugino Mediation"
Daniel Green
IAS
Refreshments will be served

4:00 PM
Monday, November 8, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
26-414, Kolker Room
"The Best of Worlds, the Worst of Worlds..."
Alejandro Jenkins
FSU
Refreshments will be served.

4:15 pm
Monday, November 8, 2010
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lecture Hall-250
"Footnotes of the History of Statistical Mechanics: In Boltzmann's
Words"
Robert Swendsen
Carnegie Mellon University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

12:00 Noon
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
26-414, Kolker Room
"Measurement of the ∏0 Lifetime: Probing the QCD Axial Anomaly"
Aron Bernstein
MIT
Refreshments will be served.

2:00 pm
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Superconductivity in the repulsive Hubbard model: an asymptotically 
exact weak coupling solution"
Srinivas Raghu
Rice University
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 pm
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The Physics of Titan"
Peter Ford
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

1:30 pm
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
“Massive Gravity and the Cosmological Constant”
Gregory Gabadadze
New York University

2:00 pm
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"How Do Black Holes Predict the Sign of the Fourier Coefficients of 
Siegel Modular Forms?"
Ashoke Sen, HRI India
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Emerging Functionality in Complex Oxides Driven by Spatial Confinement"
Ward Plummer
Louisiana State University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 pm
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Northeastern University
114 Dana Center
High Energy Seminar
"F-theory GUTS"
Jacek Pawelczyk
Warsaw University
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Veterans Day
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Friday, November 12, 2010

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Science & Techology Center
4 Colby St., Room 136
Medford Campus
“Early Star-forming Galaxies and the Reionization of the Universe”
Richard Ellis
Caltech University
Coffee and cookies served in Room 124
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