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Good morning: DEPARTMENT of PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY EVENTS FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 1, 2010: Monday, November 1, 2010 5:00 pm Robinson Hall 250, Physics Graduate Students’ JOURNAL CLUB Spencer Smith “Black Hole Analogs in Condensed Matter Systems” (undergraduate students, faculty and anyone interested are also invited: food served at 4:30 pm in Knipp Library) Tuesday, November 2, 2010 2:30 PM Tufts University Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Gravity, Aether, and Cosmology". Ted Jacobson University of Maryland Coffee and cookies served in Robinson 251 (Knipp Library) Wednesday, November 3, 2010 Noon SPS Weekly Meeting Robinson 251 (Knipp Library) Final preparations for Physics major recruitment night. Pizza and soda provided Wednesday, November 3, 2010 1:00 PM Astro-coffee Talk Robinson 251 (Knipp Library) Cemile Marsan and Audrey Mithani will discuss "Galaxy Formation Theory" Andrew J. Benson http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6TVP-50FGY1M-1-1D&_cdi=5540&_user=201547&_pii=S037015731000150X&_origin=search&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2010&_sk=995049997&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlz-zSkzV&md5=83c00fa1ba72bb653d7064187574d603&ie=/sdarticle.pdf Coffee served Thursday, November 4, 2010 1:30 pm Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 “Don't Shake That Solenoid Too Hard: Particle Production from the Aharonov-Bohm Effect” Yi-Zen Chu Arizona State University Friday, November 5, 2010 3:00 pm Friday, November 5, 2010 Science & Technology Center, Room 136 4 Colby St., Medford Campus “Early Star-forming Galaxies and the Reionization of the Universe” Richard Ellis Caltech University A few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the hydrogen in deep space was ionized into its component protons and electrons. Theorists speculate this landmark event was caused by the birth of the first galaxies. Can powerful telescopes, probing back in cosmic history, directly witness this event? Large telescopes have already traced the evolutionary history of galaxies back to when the Universe was 1 billion years old. The first results from the Wide Field Camera 3 onboard Hubble Space Telescope give a glimpse at primitive stellar systems at yet earlier times. The lecture will address the progress and challenges of this fundamental quest for our origins, and discuss the future prospects with the James Webb Space Telescope and the next generation of 30 meter aperture ground-based telescopes. Refreshments served at 2:30 in STC, Room 124. Friday, November 5, 2010 6:00 pm Tufts University Society of Physics Students (SPS) Sacco's Bowling Haven Davis Square 45 Day Street, Somerville. Faculty and SPS Students will enjoy a night of candlepin bowling and flatbread pizza from the adjacent restaurant. If you have any questions, please send us an email or ask us in person. Emma Goldsmith-Rooney, President (emmagoldsmithrooney gmail com) Sawyer Bernath, Vice President (sawyer bernath tufts edu) Tufts Society of Physics Students (SPS) |