BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF MAY 9, 2010 THROUGH MAY 13, 2011

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

May 9, 2011 to May 13, 2011

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, May 9, 2011

12:00 pm
Monday, May 9, 2011
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Jefferson 453
“Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs Produced in Association with a W 
Boson in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV 
Pierluigi Catastini
Harvard University

1:00 PM
Monday, May 9, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Special Seminar Series
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Dynamics of relativistic charged particles: gyrokinetic and 
radiation-reaction problems"
Claudio Cremaschini
International School for Advanced Studies - Trieste, Italy

2:00 pm
Monday, May 9, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar, Room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
TBA
Bjoern Schenke
BNL
Refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Monday, May 9, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"A Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production"
Dan Amidei
University of Michigan
*refreshments served at 3:45

4:30 PM
Monday May 9, 2011
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT, Building 2, Room 105
“Noisy Matrix Decomposition: Applications and Methods”
Prof. Martin Wainwright
University of California at Berkeley
Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring11 
Applied Math Colloquium poster: 
http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring11/M_Wainwright.pdf
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

12:00 Noon
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Proportional 
Counters"
Noah Oblath
MIT

2:00 pm
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room
18 Hammond St, Cambridge
“A Forward-Backward Asymmetry in t-tbar Production”
Dan Amidei
University of Michigan

2:30 pm
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Joint MIT/Tufts/CfA Cosmology seminar
“Open inflation in the landscape"
Misao Sasaki
YITP, Kyoto University
Refreshments will be served

4:15 PM
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
HETG Particle Seminar
Harvard University Physics Department
Jefferson 453
“Anomalous Dimensions of Non-Chiral Operators from AdS/CFT”
David Shih
Rutgers
Refreshments at 3:45 in the HETG Coffee Area
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

1:00 pm
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"Quantum Phases in Ultracold Atomic and Molecular Lattice Systems"
Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone, ITAMP
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

1:00 PM
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Special Seminar Series
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs Produced in Association with a W 
Boson in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV"
Pierluigi Catastini
CERN

2:00 pm
Wednesday, May 11, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
“Surprises with Interacting High Spin Particles"
Massimo Porrati
NYU
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Seminar
Palfrey House 1st floor conference room (18 Hammond St, Cambridge) 
“Reactor Simulations With DRAGON For Antineutrino "Experiments and 
Nonproliferation”
Christopher Jones
MIT
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"A Wave-Particle Duality at a Macroscopic-Scale: the Uncertainty Resulting 
from Attempts of Localization"
Yves Couder
Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes
Université Paris Diderot -Paris
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
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Friday, May 13, 2011

3:00 pm
Friday, May 13, 2011
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 313
“Gaseous Halos and Galaxy Evolution: Latest Results from the Hubble Space 
Telescope”
Jason Tumlinson
Space Telescope Science Institute
Refreshments served at 2:30 in Robinson Hall, Room 251
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