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BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF FEBRUARY 14, 2011 THROUGH FEBRUARY 18, 2011



February 14, 2011 to February 18, 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.

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Monday, February 14, 2011

Noon (12:00 pm)
Monday, February 14, 2011
Boston University
Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Electronic Correlations in Solids: From Models to Materials"
Dieter Vollhardt
Center Fro Electronic Correlations and Magnetism
University of Augsburg
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

12:30 pm
Monday, February 14, 2011
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes"
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Institute for Advanced Study

2:00 pm
Monday, February 14, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
“Universal Thermodynamics and Spin Transport in a STrongly Interacting Fermi Gas”
Martin Zwierlein, MIT
refreshments will be served

3:45 PM
Monday, February 14, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
Bradley Plaster, University of Kentucky
"Precision Tests of Fundamental Symmetries with Neutrons"
Refreshments will be served.

4:00 pm
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tufts University
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Robinson Hall, Room 250
“Search for Exotic Phenomena at the LHC Energy”
Georgios Choudalakis
University of Chicago
Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 3:30 pm

4:15 pm
Monday, February 14, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
"Beauty for Valentine's Day: From B Factories to the Large Hadron
Collider"
Zoltan Ligeti, University of California, Berkeley
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu


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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

2:30 pm
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Joint MIT/Tufts/CfA Cosmology seminar
“The Fastest Decay in the Landscape"
Adam Brown, Princeton
Refreshments will be served

3:30 pm
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Interaction Induced Delocalization in Bose Gas"
Valery Pokrovsky
Texas A & M University and
Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Towards physical applications of holographic duality"
John McGreevy
MIT
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

1:00 pm
Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Analysis of Cold-atom Interferometer with Optical Beam Splitting and Recombination"
Ebubechukwu Ilo-Okeke, WPI
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 pm
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
“Symmetries and Strings in Field Theory and Gravity"
Nathan Seiberg, IAS
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
UMass Lowell, Physics Colloquium
OH218
"Directional Dark Matter Detection and Recent Progress with the DMTPC detector"
Jocelyn Monroe
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, OH218
Colloquia Coordinator Albert Altman 978-934-3781

4:00 pm
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tufts University
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Robinson Hall, Room 250
“Coupling Molecular and Field Mechanics for Multiscale Modeling of Soft Matter”
Nikolaos K. Voulgarakis
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 3:30 pm
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

4:00 PM
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth St, 114 Dana Research Center
Physics Colloquium
“The Effective Fine Structure Constant of Graphene Measured With Attosecond X-Ray Imaging”
Peter Abbamonte
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4:00 pm
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Tufts University
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Robinson Hall, Room 250
“Neutrino Mixing: What MINOS Can Say About θ¬13, the Neutrino Mass
Hierarchy, and CP Violation in the Lepton Sector”
Dr. Gregory Pawloski
Fermilab
Stanford University
Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 3:30 pm

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Diatomic Molecules as Quantum Tools"
David DeMille
Yale University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
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Friday, February 18, 2011

12:00 pm (Noon)
Friday, February 18, 2011
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Correlated Percolation"
Jennifer Schwarz
Syracuse University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 pm
February 18, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Inverse compton scattering for a bright and compact X-ray source"
William Graves
MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab
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