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

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

March 14, 2011 to March 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.  
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Monday, March 14, 2011

1:00 pm
Monday, Mar 14, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics Colloquium Series
Science building, room 3-126
"Protein-based Biomacromolecules -
The Physics Bridging Biological and Polymer Science"
Xiao Hu, Tufts University
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 pm
Monday, March 14, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Low-Scale SUSY Breaking: Collider Physics and Cosmology"
Matthew Reece, Princeton
Refreshments will be served

4:30 PM
Monday March 14, 2011
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT, Building 2, Room 105 
"Compressive Sampling and Redundancy"
Prof. Deanna Needell (Stanford University)
Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring11 
Applied Math Colloquium poster: 
http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring11/D_Needell.pdf
To sign up for Applied Mathematics Colloquium announcements, please 
contact avisha math mit edu

5:00 pm
Monday, March 14, 2010
SPECIAL EVENT
Boston College, Physics 
4th Annual Arlene and Michael Magde Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Field Theory Problems in Cosmology"
Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics 1979
University of Texas
Refreshments served at 4:00 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

1:30 pm
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Brandeis University
String Theory Seminar
Abelson 307
"Casimir Effect: Edges and Diffraction"
Dimitra Karabali
Lehman College

2:00 pm
Tuesday, March 15, 2010
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Interlay of Quantum Criticality and Geometric Frustration in Columbite"
Ribhu Kaul 
University of Kentucky
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

2:30 pm
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Massive Gravity: Resolving the Puzzles"
Slava Mukhanov
Ludwig Maximillians University, Munich
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Collective molecular motor using chiral liquid crystalline thin films"
Hiroshi Yokoyama
Kent State University
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

2:00 pm
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
"Holographic c-theorems"
Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Bose-Einstein condensation in ultracold gases and studies of 
superfluidity"
Wolfgang Ketterle, Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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 17, 2011

12:00 pm (Noon)
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Boston University
Special Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 
352 590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Underlying physics relating magnetism with economics--and air pollution"
Eugenio E. Vogel
Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile Pizza served at 11:45 AM

1:30 pm
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Topology Evolution of the Horizons of Cosmological Kaluza-Klein Black 
Holes"
Jennie Traschen
University of Massachusetts

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250 
"First Planck Results on CMB Foregrounds"
François Bouchet 
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS & UPMC-Sorbonnes Universités 
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

5:00 pm
Thursday, March 17, 2011
5:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Coupled aggregation and liquid-crystalline order: theory and Monte Carlo 
simulation"
Meredith Betterton
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Friday, March 18, 2011

March 18-19, 2011
HES70: HORIZONS IN EMERGENCE & SCALING
H. Eugene Stanley Symposium and Gala
              ..celebrating 70 years of discovery
Fri., March 18th
*Registration opens at 11:30 am, program begins at 1:00 pm.
Sat., March 19th
*Registration opens at 8:00 am, program begins at 9:00 am
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
1 Silber Way, 9th Fl., Boston, MA 02215
Register at http://hes70.weebly.com/index.html
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
C. Austen Angell, Arizona State University - Antonio Coniglio, University 
of Napoli "Fredico II" - Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton University - Mildred 
Dresselhaus, Massachusetts institute of Technology - J. Doyne Farmer, 
Santa Fe Institute - Michael E. Fisher, University of Maryland - Shlomo 
Havlin, Bar-Ilan University - Hans J. Hermann, Swiss Federal Institute of 
Technology - Albert J. Libchaber, The Rockefeller University - Joel L. 
Lebowitz, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey - Johanna M. H. 
Levelt-Sengers, National Institute of Standards and Technology - Luciano 
Pietronero, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Alessandro Vespignani, 
Indiana University, Bloomington - Benjamin Widom, Cornell University

3:00 pm
March 18, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218 
"Predicting the response of tokamak plasmas to radio frequency waves: 
progress, plans and pretty pictures"
David Green
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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