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January 31, 2011 to February 4, 2011 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, January 31, 2011 12:30 pm Monday, January 31, 2011 Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Exploring the String Axiverse with Astrophysical Black Holes" Sergei Dubovsky NYU 4:00 pm Monday, January 31, 2011 Tufts University Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 250 “Ghostly Neutrinos: Past, Present and Future” Alex Sousa Harvard University Refreshments at 3:30 in Robinson Hall, Room 251 (Knipp Library) 4:15 pm Monday, January 31, 2011 Harvard University Department of Physics Loeb Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Unexpected Physics in Biology" Boris Shraiman KITP, UCSB Tea at 3:30 p.m. in Jefferson 450 http://www.physics.harvard.edu ____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:00 pm Tuesday, February 1, 2010 Boston College, Physics Seminar Higgins 235 "Decoherence of a superconducting qubit due to coherent quantum phase-slips" Vladimir Manucharyan Harvard University For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu 2:30 pm Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Bubbles of Nothing in Flux Compactifications" Benjamin Shlaer Tufts Institute of Cosmology Refreshments at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 3:00 pm Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Harvard University Department of Physics Loeb Lecture I Jefferson 250 "Statistical Genetics for Statistical Physicists" Lecture I: "Genetic Ensembles: Alleles versus Genotypes Boris Shraiman KITP, UCSB http://www.physics.harvard.edu 3:30 pm Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 3:30 PM Boston University Particles and Fields Special Seminar 3 Cummington Street, Room 595 "Perspectives for Discovering New Physics at the CERN Large Hadron Collider" Dr. John Ellis CERN Refreshments served at 3:15PM 4:00 pm Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Brandeis University 4:00 p.m. Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 "Collective molecular motor using chiral liquid crystalline thin films" Hiroshi Yokoyama Kent State University Refreshments at 3:30pm outside Abelson 131 ____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 2, 2011 1:00 pm Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011 University of Massachusetts Boston Physics colloquium series Science building, room 3-126 "Solving the Mysteries of Life Using Single Molecule Biophysics" Mara Prentiss, Harvard University Refreshments served at 12:45 Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu> 2:30 pm Wednesday, February 2, 2010 Harvard University Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge) "The Mu2e Experiment" Tim Nelson (SLAC) Coffee and cookies served ____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, February 3, 2011 3:00 pm Thursday, February 3, 2011 Harvard University Department of Physics Loeb Lecture II Jefferson 250 "Statistical Genetics for Statistical Physicists" Lecture II: "Sex, Survival and Adaptation" Boris Shraiman KITP, UCSB http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:15 p.m. Thursday, February 3, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Dissecting Galaxies With the Hubble Space Telescope” Julianne Dalcanton University of Washington Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349 http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 4, 2011 12:00 pm (Noon) Friday, February 4, 2011 Boston University Biophysics/ Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "The Role of Reinforcement on Social Dynamics" Sid Redner Boston University, Physics Dept. 3:00 pm Friday, February 4, 2011 Tufts University Robinson Hall, Room 253 Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “Coupling Molecular and Field Mechanics for Multiscale Modeling of Soft Matter” Nikolaos K. Voulgarakis University of California, Berkeley Refreshments served at 2:30 pm in Robinson Hall, Room 251 _________________________________________________ |