BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF APRIL 25, 2011 THROUGH APRIL 29, 2011

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

April 25, 2011 to April 29, 2011

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, April 25, 2011

12:30 pm
Monday, April 25, 2011
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Rm 595
TBA
David Tucker-Smith
Williams College

1:00 PM
Monday, April 25, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Special Seminar Series 
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Trends on experimental Astroparticle Physics"
Roberto Battiston
Chair of the INFN National Committee on Astroparticle Physics
University and INFN of Perugia, Italy

2:00 pm
Monday, April 25, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"On Models of New Physics for the Top Forward-Backward Asymmetry"
Kathryn Zurek, University of Michigan
Refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Monday, April 25, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Trends on experimental Astroparticle Physics"
Roberto Battiston
Chair of the INFN National Committee on Astroparticle Physics
University and INFN of Perugia, Italy
*Refreshments served at 3:45 PM

4:15 pm
Monday, April 25, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lecture Hall-250
"The Gravity Field Theory Duality: Black Holes as Ordinary Fluids"
Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study Tea will be served in 
Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

12:00 PM
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Looking for Θ13 in the MINOS experiment: a Preview"
Ruth Toner
Cambridge, MA 

2:00 pm
Tuesday, Aril 26, 2011
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Symmetry protected topological phases: realizations in spin chains and 
spin ladders"
Zheng-Xin Liu 
Tsinghua University
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

2:30pm
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Is there any coherent measure for eternal inflation?"
Ken Olum
Tufts Institute of Cosmology
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:30 pm
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Transforming Light with Metamaterials"
David Smith
Duke University
Refreshments served at 3:15 in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Hydration Phenomena at the Interface of Physics and Biology: A New 
Fluctuations-based Perspective"
Shekhar Garde
RPI
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

4:15 PM
Tuesday April 26, 2011
Harvard University
HETG Particle Seminar
Jefferson 453
Identifying missing energy event topologies at the LHC
Hsin-Chia Cheng
UC Davis
Refreshments at 3:45 in the HETG Coffee Area

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

1:00 pm
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Supersymmetry, Reflectionless Scattering, and the Sine-Gordon Equation"
Andrew Koller, UMass Boston
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 pm
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Higher spin black holes"
Per Kraus, UCLA
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"COUPP: First data from a deep-site bubble chamber dark matter search"
Carl Eric Dahl (University of Chicago) 

4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
UMass Lowell
Physics Colloquium
OH218
"Photonic Device Applications of Thermoreflectance Imaging"
Janice Hudgings
Mount Holyoke College
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, OH218
Colloquia Coordinator Albert Altman 978-934-3781

4:30 PM
Wednesday, April 27, 2010
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356, 
"Single-site-resolved detection and manipulation of atoms in an optical 
lattice"
Prof. Stefan Kuhr 
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
University of Strathclyde
Tea begins at 4:00
Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical 
Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department
http://www.physics.harvard.edu)

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

2:30 pm
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge)
"Looking for theta13 in the MINOS experiment: a Preview"
Ruth Toner (University of Cambridge) 

3:30 pm
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Boston University
Particles and Fields Special Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
TBA
Jiji Fan
Princeton University
Note day/time change

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 34, Room 101 
"The Multiverse of String Theory, the Measure Problem, and the 
Cosmological Constant "
Raphael Bousso
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html

5:00 pm
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
TBA
Anand Bala Subramanian
Harvard University

7:00 PM 
Thursday, April 28, 2011 
IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA
"Coded Aperture Imaging: Many Holes Make Light Work?"
Dr. Richard Lanza
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments served at 6:30 PM 
Questions: http://www.bostonphotonics.org

8:15 PM 
Thursday, April 28, 2011 
IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA
"Principles of Optical Disc Data Storage"
Prof. Masud Mansuripur
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Refreshments served at 8:00 PM 
Questions: http://www.bostonphotonics.org
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Friday, April 29, 2011

12:00 pm (Noon)
Friday, April 29, 2011
Boston University
Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Elucidating the quantum measurement problem"
Theo Nieuwenhuizen
Institute for Theoretical Physics, UvA
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pizza served at 11:45 AM

3:00 pm
April 29, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Electron thermal transport and *AE modes on NSTX"
Kevin Tritz
Johns Hopkins University

3:00 pm
Friday, April 29, 2011
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 313
Medford Campus
Title to be announced
Alan. T. Johnson
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm
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