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BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF FEBRUARY 21, 2011 THROUGH FEBRUARY 25, 2011



February 21, 2011 to February 25, 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 21, 2011

Holiday – No talks scheduled
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

12:00 Noon
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
Earle Lomon, MIT
"Nucleon Form Factors and Pair production Analytically Connected by the Vector Meson Dominance Model"

2:00 pm
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 (note day due to Monday Holiday)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
``The Principle of Plenitude"
Asimina Arvanitaki, LBL
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Bubbles of nothing in flux compactifications"
Benjamin Shlaer
Tufts Institute of Cosmology
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, R

4:00 PM
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth St, 114 Dana Research Center
Joint CIRCS & Physics Seminar
“Structure of RNase H2 Defines Roles in Replication, Repair, and Autoimmune Disease
Doryen Bubek
University of Oxford, Division of Structural Biology
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

2:00 pm
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
``The Local Geometry fo Stabilized Compactifications"
Liam McAllister, Cornell
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Plasmonic enhanced femtosecond laser nanoprocessing and cell nanosurgery"
Michel Meunier
Polytechnique Montreal
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230)
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 pm
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
UMass Lowell, Physics Colloquium
OH218
"Understanding the origin of optical enhancement by metal nanoparticles: an analytical approach"
Gregg Sun
UMass Boston
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, OH218
Colloquia Coordinator Albert Altman 978-934-3781

4:30 PM
Wednesday, Feb 23, 2010
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Lyman 356, Tea begins at 4:00
“The size of the Proton”
Randolf Pohl
Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department
(http://www.physics.harvard.edu)
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

4:00 pm
Thursday, February 24, 2011       
Northeastern University
110 Forsyth St, 114 Dana Research Center
Physics Colloquium
“Crystallography on Curved Surfaces”
David R. Nelson
Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University

4:00 pm
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Tufts University
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Robinson Hall, Room 250
“Monojet Events: A Journey into the Standard Model and Beyond”
Dr. Hugo Beauchemin
CERN
Oxford University
Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 3:30 pm

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Bouncing Droplets and the Nature of Reality"
John Bush
MIT
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

5:00 pm
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals - Analysis, Computation and  Applications"
Apala Majumdar, University of Oxford
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Friday, February 25, 2011

12:00 pm (Noon)
Friday, February 25, 2011
Boston University
Joint CCS/Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Dielectric effects in self-assembly of binary colloid mixtures"
Kipton Barros
Los Alamos National Lab
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

12:00 Noon
Friday, February 25, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Special Seminar Series
Kolker Room, 26-414
James Battat, MIT
“Uncovering the Dark Universe:  Testing Gravity and Hunting for Dark Matter”

3:00 pm
Friday, February 25, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Fluid-kinetic theory for electrons in a hot magnetized plasma"
Jesus Ramos
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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