BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF MARCH 7, 2011 THROUGH MARCH 11, 2011

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

March 7, 2011 to March 11, 2011

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, March 7, 2011

12:30 pm
Monday, March 7, 2011
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"MadGraph 5: The All-new Matrix Element Generator for Everything"
Johan Alwall
Fermilab

2:00 pm
Monday, March 7, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Collider Probes of Dark Matter Genesis"
Clifford Cheung, UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be served

4:15 Lecture
Monday, March 7, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
Robert Jaffe, MIT
"More Precious than Gold: Critical Elements for New Energy Technologies"
Refreshments at 3:45 pm

4:15 pm
Monday, March 7, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium, Jefferson 250
"The First Realistic Quantum Spin Liquids"
Steven White, University of California, Irvine
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

12:00 Noon
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
Thomas Schwarz, University of California - Davis
"Measurement of the Forward Backward Asymmetry in Top Production at the 
Tevatron


2:30 pm
Tuesday, March 8, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Joint MIT/Tufts/CfA Cosmology seminar
"Non-Gaussianities in Multifield Inflation: The Approach to Adiabaticity 
and the Fate of f nl"
Navin Sivanandam, U. Texas, Austin
Refreshments will be served

3:30 pm
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Sailing on Diffusion"
Tom Peacock
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:15 in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Brandeis University
Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Abelson 131
"Rotator phases and twist solitons in polyethylene and n-alkanes"
Scott Milner
Penn State
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
Sherry Hour after the talk in Abelson 307

4:15 pm
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 
HETG Particle Seminar Tuesday 
Jefferson 453
Anomaly mediation from RS to DS 
Yuri Shirman 
UC Irvine
Refreshments at 3:45 in the HETG Coffee Area

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

1:00 pm
Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Mechanical Influences in Biological Systems: Helicobacter pylori 
Pathogenesis and Cell-Matrix Interactions in 3D Tumor Models"
Jonathan P. Celli, Harvard Medical School Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 pm
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"From Navier-Stokes to Einstein"
Andrew Strominger, Harvard
Rrefreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Barus & Holley Room 555
Brown University
Department of Physics
"Bounds on 4D Conformal and Superconformal Field Theories"
David Poland
Harvard University

8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 
Harvard University
David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics Science Center
1 Oxford St., Hall D "Molecular Beams in Chemical Physics"
Dudley Herschbach
Harvard University

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

1:00 pm
Thursday, Mar 10, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Chromosome Distribution and Membrane Curvature Localize Cell Division 
Machinery in Escherichia coli "
Jaan Mannik, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of 
Technology Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

4:00 pm
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Northeastern University
Joint CIRCS and Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Multi-scale Imaging of Cell Networks"
Gil Bub, University of Oxford
Refreshments will be served. 

5:00 pm
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
"Introduction to Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy"
Cristina Berciu
Brandeis University
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Friday, March 11, 2011

12:00 Noon
Friday, March 11, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Special Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
Alberto Belloni, Harvard University
"W Physics with the ATLAS detector - Recent results and prospects"

3:00 pm
Friday, March 11, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 
"Plasma-based accelerators, the future for high energy physics and light 
sources?"
Patric Muggli
University of Southern California

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