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November 29,
2010 to December 3, 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 29, 2010 12:30 pm Monday, November 29, 2010 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Writing CFT correlation functions as AdS scattering amplitudes" Joao Penedones Perimeter Institute 2:00 pm Monday, November 29, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar ``Thermal and diffractive effects in Casimir energies" Daniel Kabat, CUNY Refreshments will be served 3:00 PM Monday, November 29, 2010 Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center “Using Neutrino Oscillation to Study the Matter/Antimatter Asymmetry in the Universe” Morgan Wascko, Imperial College, London Refreshments will be served. www.physics.neu.edu 3:45 PM Monday, November 29, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "HERMES and the Renaissance of Transverse Momenta in Deep Inelastic Scattering" Ed Kinney, UC 3:45 Refreshments / 4:15 Lecture 4:30 pm Monday November 29th 2010 APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM MIT, Building 2, Room 105 “Direct Product Theorems for Communication and Query Complexity” Alexander Sherstov Microsoft Research New England Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/fall10 Applied Math Colloquium poster: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/fall10/Alexander_Sherstov.pdf _________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:00 Noon Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS Lunch Time Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "First Top results from the CMS experiment at the LHC" Julia Thom, Cornell Refreshments will be served. 12:15 PM Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Boston University Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Can Physical Science offer insights into switching phenomena in financial markets? Dr. Tobia Preis University of Mainz (Germany) Pizza served at 12 Noon 4:00 pm Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center “Translational Components of the Systems Based Response to DNA Damage” Thomas Begley, Cancer Research Center, University of Albany, State University of New York Refreshments will be served. www.physics.neu.edu ____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, December 1, 2010 1:00 pm Wednesday, Dec 1, 2010 University of Massachusetts Boston Physics colloquium series Science building, room 3-126 "TBA" Sanjoy Mahajan, Olin College Refreshments served at 12:45 Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu> 2:00 pm Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 in 6c/6 Building String/Gravity Theory Seminar “Electron stars and metallic quantum criticality" Sean Hartnoll, Harvard Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center “Two-dimensional Electron Gas at a Mott Insulator/Band Insulator Interface” Professor R.C. Budhani, Director National Physical Laboratory, India Refreshments will be served. ____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, December 2, 2010 1:30 PM Thursday, December 2, 2010 Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 “Quantum Modifications to Gravity Waves in de Sitter Spacetime” Jen-Tsung Hsiang National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan 4:15 p.m. Thursday, December 2, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Pseudo Spins in Graphitic Carbon Nanostructures: From Analogy of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to Carbon Based Electronics” Philip Kim Columbia University Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html ____________________________________________________________________ Friday, December 3, 2010 11:45 AM Friday, December 3, 2010 Harvard University Lyman Laboratory Room 425 Condensed Matter Theory Kids' Seminar "Statistical Physics of Cellular Decision Making" Jané Kondev, Brandeis Sandwiches will be served. 12:00 pm (Noon) Friday, December 3, 2010 Boston University Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Droplet impact and the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of wetting" Dr. Shmuel Rubinstein Harvard University Pizza served at 11:45 AM 3:00 pm Friday, December 3, 2010 Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Science & Technology Center, Room 136 4 Colby St., Medford Campus “A Physical View on Cancerous Cells” Igor Sokolov Nanoengineering and Biotechnology Laboratories Center (NABLAB), Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Refreshments served at 2:30 in STC, Room 124 3:00 p.m. December 3, 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 "Disruption avoidance by magnetically guiding locked modes towards stabilizing electron cyclotron current drive" Francesco Volpe University of Wisconsin, Madison 3:00 pm Friday, December 3, 2010 Celebration of the life of John Huchra Room 104 Hilles Center (formerly Hilles Library) 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA For more info: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/calendar/latest.html or rfouche cfa harvard edu |