BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF APRIL 18, 2011 THROUGH APRIL 22, 2011

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

April 18, 2011 to April 22, 2011

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, April 18, 2011

4:15 p.m.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics, Loeb Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory"
Dam Thanh Son
University of Washington
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

2:00 pm
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Beyond bosons and fermions: how to detect and use anyons"
Dmitri Feldman 
Brown University
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

3:00 pm
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics, Loeb Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Deconstructing Holographic Liquids"
Dam Thanh Son
University of Washington
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:00 PM
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
"Structure, Stability and Properties of Epitaxial Graphene:  Insights from 
Molecular Dynamics and Density Functional Theory"
Cristian V. Ciobanu
Colorado School of Mines
4:00 pm
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Brandeis University
No Physics Department Colloquium
(Passover and spring recess)

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

1:00 pm
Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Healey Library
Lower Level (LL) Room 3507 (Media Auditorium)
"The Structure and Dynamics of Economic Complexity"
Cesar A. Hidalgo
MIT
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu

2:00 pm
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Gravity wave correlators in de-Sitter space"
Juan Maldacena, IAS
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Brown University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
BH Room 555
"Phase Space Gauge Principles and Universal Consequences for Physics and 
Space-Time"
Itzhak Bars
University of California & Perimeter

2:30 pm
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room 
18 Hammond St, Cambridge 
"Recent results from ATLAS on W' and Z' searches "
Katherine Copic 
Columbia

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Superconductivity - from 4 K to 164 K and beyond"
Paul C. W. Chu
University of Houston
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
UMass Lowell, Physics Colloquium
Special Field's Medal Winner Lecture
Ball 210
"The Shape of Inner Space"
Shing-tung Yau
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Ball 210
Colloquia Coordinator Albert Altman 978-934-3781

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

7:00 PM 
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 
IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA
?Photoacoustic Tomography: Ultrasonically Breaking through the Optical 
Diffusion Limit?
Prof. Lihong V. Wang
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Refreshments served at 6:30 PM 
Questions: http://www.bostonphotonics.org

8:15 PM 
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 
IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA
Looking Around Corners: New Imaging using Time and Angle Resolved 
Techniques?
Prof. Ramesh Raskar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments served at 8:00 PM 
Questions: http://www.bostonphotonics.org

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

3:00 pm
Thursday, April 21, 2011  note day and time 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 
Cosman seminar room 6c-442 
Special Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Unravelling Multi-jet Events: An Effective Field Theory Approach"
Saba Zuberi
LBL
Refreshments will be served

3:00 pm
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics, Loeb Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Field Theoretical  Methods for Nonrelativistic Systems"
Dam Thanh Son
University of Washington
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:00 PM
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"DNA as Exemplary Polymer"
Oleg Krichevsky
Ben-Gurion University (Israel) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250 
"Topological (Non-Abelian) Phases of Matter and Why You Should Be 
Interested"
Steven Simon
Oxford University
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

5:00pm
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Brandeis University
Abelson 333
MRSEC Seminar
"Molecular Self-Assembly for Making Gels Outside and Inside Cells"
Yuan Gao
Brandeis University

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Friday, April 22, 2011

!2:00 pm (noon)
Friday, April 22, 2011
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Visualizing Surface States of Topological Insulators with Scanning 
Tunneling Microscopy"
Pedram Roushan
Princeton University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

1:15 pm (note day and time)
Friday, April 22, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 
Cosman seminar room, 6c-442
Special Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"An Introduction to Jets and Soft-Collinear Effective Theory"
Andrew Hornig
University of Washington
Refreshments will be served

3:00 pm
Friday, April 22, 2011
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 313
"Infrared Hall Conductivity in Graphene and other Interesting Materials"
John Cerne
Physics Department
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Refreshments served at 2:30 in Robinson Hall, Room 251
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