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WEDNESDAY. November 15, 2010 to November 19, 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. NOTE: Entries that are past the deadline will have to be sent by you to the BAPC late entry email address listed below. On time entries send to: bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu. Late entries send to: bapc-late cosmos phy tufts edu To subscribe or unsubscribe from bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html _____________________________________________________________________ Monday, November 15, 2010 12:00 p.m. Monday, November 15, 2010 Brandeis University MRSEC Seminar Abelson 333 "Defects in Smectics A: From Focal Conics Domains to the Helical Nanofilament Phase" Elisabetta Matsumoto University of Pennsylvania 12:30 PM Monday, November 15, 2010 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 TBA Johannes Heinonen University of Chicago 2:00 pm Monday, November 15, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar “Viable Gravity Mediation" Takemichi Okui, Florida State University Refreshments will be served 4:00 PM Monday, November 15, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium “Analysis of achieved LEP data and the RECAST proposal” Kyle Cranmer, NYU Refreshments will be served. 4:15 PMMonday, November 15, 2010 Harvard University, Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Superconductivity: Deep Superficial Insights" Andrea Damascelli, University of British Columbia Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:30 pm Monday November 15, 2010 MIT, Building 2, Room 105 APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM “The Mathematics and the Physics of the Moving Contact Line Problem” Weinan E Princeton University Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/fall10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics Cambridge, MA 02139 Math Department: http://math.mit.edu ____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 16, 2010 12:00 Noon Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS Lunch Time Seminar “Project 8: The Future of Neutrino Mass Measurements with Tritium Beta Decay” Noah Oblath, MIT Refreshments will be served. 2:30 pm Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Joint MIT/CfA/Tufts Cosmology seminar “The Clock Ambiguity and the emergence of locality and Lorentz symmetry" Andreas Albrecht, UC, Davis Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm 3:30 pm Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Boston University Physics Dept. Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Ave. “A Theorist's Perspective on the Large Hadron Collider" Matthew Strassler Rutgers University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Brandeis University MRSEC/Martin Weiner Lecture Series Abelson 131 "Cell Shapes: From Waves to Motion" Wolfgang Losert University of Maryland Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30p ___________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 17, 2010 1:00 pm Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010 University of Massachusetts Boston Physics colloquium series Science building, room 3-126 “Counter-Synchronous Sloshing in Free Containers" Andrzej Herczynski, Boston College Refreshments served at 12:45 Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu> 2:00 pm Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room String/Gravity Theory Seminar “From N=4 Super Yang-Mills to Superconformal QCD” Leonardo Rastelli, SUNY, Stony Brook Refreshments will be served 2:30 PM Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Harvard University LPPC Seminar LPPC Seminar room, 1st floor of Palfrey House (Harvard University), 18 Hammond St., Cambridge, MA http://lppc.physics.harvard.edu/ “Dark Matter, Dark Matter, Eeverywhere, and All the Detectors Did Blink” Peter Sorensen LLNL 4:00 pm Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Boston College, Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 “Topological Phases in Insulators and Superconductors" Liang Fu Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230 For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu 4:30 PM Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010 Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Lyman 425, Tea begins at 4:00 “Strongly interacting 6 Li 40K Fermi Mixture & Quantum Degenerate Strontium Gases” Prof. Florian Schreck IQOQI Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department (http://www.physics.harvard.edu) ___________________________________________________________________ Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:30 pm Thursday, November 18, 2010 Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250, Medford camous “Symmetry Breaking in the Sky” Jiro Soda Kyoto University 2:00 pm Special Time Thursday, November 18, 2010 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Minimal Conformal Technicolor" Ruggero Tacchi UC Davis 4:15 p.m. Thursday, November 18, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Patterning an Embryo: What Makes It So Robust?” Naama Barkai Weizmann Institute of Science Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html 5:00 p.m. Thursday, November 18, 2010 Brandeis University MRSEC Seminar Abelson 333 "Active Emulsions: Coupled Chemical Photosensitive Oscillators" Hector Gonzalez-Ochoa Brandeis University _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, November 19, 2010 12:00 Noon Friday, November 19, 2010 Boston University Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Study Hard Condensed Matter Physics in Soft Colloidal Crystals" Sean Xinsheng Ling Brown University Pizza served at 11:45 AM 3:00 p.m. Friday, November 19, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 "Pilot Plant Options for Fusion Nuclear Science" Hutch Nielson Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 3:00 pm Friday, November 19, 2010 Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Science & Technology Center, Room 136 4 Colby St., Medford Campus “Fabricating Graphene and Metallic Nano-Structures with Atomic Precision” Douglas R. Strachan University of Kentucky Refreshments served at 2:30 in STC, Room 124 ___________________________________________________ |