BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF APRIL 4, 2011 THROUGH APRIL 8, 2011

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

April 4, 2011 to April 8, 2011

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, April 4, 2011

12:30 pm
Monday, April 4, 2011
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Flavoring the Type-111 2 Higgs Doublet Model"
Andrew Blechman
Wayne State University

2:00 pm
Monday, April 4, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Probing the Heart of Supersymmetry"
Maxim Perelstein, Cornell
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Monday, April 4, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Hydrogen and Helium at High Pressure as Revealed by Simulations"
David Ceperley
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 PM
Monday, April 4, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
Alexander Kusenko
University of California - Los Angeles
"Sterile neutrinos: the dark side of the light fermions"
*Refreshments at 3:45

4:30 PM
Monday April 4, 2011
MIT, APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT, Building 2, Room 105 
"Topological Phases of Matter: Modeling and Application to Quantum 
Computing"
Prof. Zhenghan Wang
Microsoft
Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring11 
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

12:00 Noon
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Searching for the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays at the south 
pole"
Nathan Whitehorn
University of Wisconsin

2:00 pm
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Interesting infrared effects in de Sitter"
Ian Morrison
US Santa Barbara
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

2:00 pm
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
Title: TBD
Christopher Laumann
Harvard University
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

3:30 pm
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 `        
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
The Dean Edmonds, Sr. Memorial Lecture
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"Looking for Dark Energy on Earth: A New Experiment Using Atom 
Interferometry That Galileo Would Understand"
Martin L. Perl
Stanford University and SLAC
Refreshments served at 3:00 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Human Pulmonary Physiology with Hyperpolarized 129Xe Magnetic Resonance"
Sam Patz
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Scientific Director, Center 
for Pulmonary Functional Imaging, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

4:15 pm
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
HETG Particle Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Discriminating Top-Antitop Resonances using Azimuthal Decay Correlations" 
Brock Tweedie 
Boston University
Refreshments at 3:45 in the HETG Coffee Area
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

1:00 pm
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"TBA"
Shyamsunder Erramill
Boston University
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 pm
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Entanglement, information and holography"
Matthew Headrick
Brandeis University
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, April 6, 2010 
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room 
(18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"Liquid Argon Detectors at Fermilab: From R&D to Results"
Brian Rebel

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Development of High-Power, Tm:silica Fiber Lasers: Spectroscopy and Laser 
Physics"
Peter Moulton
Q-Peak
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

1:30 pm
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Asymptotically Safe Gravity and Implications for Cosmology"
Christoph Rahmede
University of Sussex, UK

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250 
"How Blood Flows in the Brain"
David Kleinfeld 
University of California, San Diego
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

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Friday, April 8, 2011

12:00 pm
Friday, April 8, 2011
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
"Quenched Dynamics in Interacting One-dimensional Systems"
Aditi Mitra
New York University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 pm
April 8, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Non-diffusive, non-local transport in plasmas"
Diego del-Castillo-Negrete
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

3:00 pm
Friday, April 8, 2011
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
Medford Campus
"Single-molecule Science with a Nanopore:   Inspiration from Nature"
Liviu Movileanu
Syracuse University
Refreshments served at 2:30 in Robinson Hall, Room 251
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