BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF FEBRUARY 28, 2011 THROUGH MARCH 4, 2011

["Grant, Gayle" <Gayle Grant tufts edu>]

February 28, 2011 to March 4, 2011

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, February 28, 2011

12:30 pm
Monday, February 28, 2011
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
TBA
Christopher Lee
MIT

4:00 pm
Monday, February 28, 2011
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Hunting for the Higgs at the Atlas Experiment"
Dr. Valerie Perez Reale
CERN/Columbia University
Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 3:30 pm

4:15 Lecture
Monday, February 28, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 25-414
Roy Schwitters, University of Texas - Austin
"The UT Maya Muon Project: Seeing Through Dirt and Rocks with Cosmic Ray 
Muons"
Refreshments served at 3:45

4:15 pm
Monday, February 28, 2011 
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250 "Simulating a Gravity-Wave 
Observatory with a Few Thousand Atoms"
Dan Stamper-Kurn, 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, March 1, 2011

12:00 Noon
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
Mateusz Ploskon, LBNL
"Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions - the laboratory of hot QCD 
matter"

2:00 pm
Tuesday, March 1, 2010
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Phase transitions in "J-Q" type models in two dimensions"
Arnab Sen
Boston University
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu
 
4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 1
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Exploring the String Axiverse with Astrophysical Black Holes"
Sergei Dubovsky
NYU
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Special Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"The Search for New GeV-scale Forces"
Rouven Essig, SLAC/Stanford
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 
Harvard University
HETG Particle Seminar
Jefferson 453
Singlet-Stabilized Minimal Gauge Mediation
David Curtin
Cornell
Refreshments at 3:45 in the HETG Coffee Area
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

2:00 pm
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Holographic dual of a free field theory"
Shlomo Razamat, SUNY, Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Brown University
Department of Physics
High Energy Theory Seminar
BH 555
"Conifolds and Tunneling in the String Landscape"
David Kagan
Columbia University.

2:30 pm
Wednesday, March 2, 2010
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar Palfrey House 1st 
floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge) "The Mu2e Experiment"
Doug Glenzinski

4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 2, 2010
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"The Fermi Pasta Ulam (FPU) Problem and The Birth of Nonlinear Science"
David Campbell
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

4:15 pm
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250 
"Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in 
Solids"
Amir Yacoby
Harvard University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
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Friday, March 4, 2011

12:00 Noon
Friday, March 4, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Special Seminar Series
Kolker Room, 26-414
Kristian Hahn, FermiLab
"W/Z Physics at CMS"

3:00 pm
Friday, March 4, 2011 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar 
Building NW17-218 
"Key physics and materials aspects of plasma-wall interactions in ITER" 
Richard Pitts 
ITER
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