BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF DECEMBER 13, 2010 THROUGH DECEMBER 17, 2919

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

December 13, 2010 to December 17, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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Monday, December 13, 2010

4:00 PM
Monday, December 13, 2010
Northeastern University
Physics Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
?Unveiling Structure in Amorphous Materials with Fluctuation Microscopy?
Professor Murray Gibson
Dean, College of Science, Northeastern University
Refreshments will be served.

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

2:00 pm
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Beyond the s-orbital band of optical lattices: from finite-momentum
px+ipy Bose-Einstein condensation to topological semi-Fermi liquids"
W. Vincent Liu University of Pittsburg
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

Tuesday, December 14, 2010
2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Ghost Condensation and the Matter Bounce Scenario"
Robert Brandenberger
McGill University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

1:30 pm
Thursday, December 16, 2010 Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
?Signatures from heavy physics in cosmology?
Sjoerd Hardeman
University of Leiden

Thursday, December 16, 2010
4:00 PM ~ Physics Colloquium
Thursday, December 16th
Northeastern University
?On the Verge of Mechanical Instability?
Tom C. Lubensky
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy Dana
Research Center, 110 Forsyth St., Rm 114, Boston, MA 02115
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Friday, December 17, 2010

3:00 p.m.
December 17, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"MST Progress in RFP Confinement and Physics"
John Sarff
University of Wisconsin 
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