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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. 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, February 21, 2011 Holiday – No talks scheduled ____________________________________________________________________ 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 __________________________________________________________________ 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) ____________________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________________ 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 ____________________________________________________ |