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Good afternoon Department events for the week November 29, 2010 through December 3, 2010 are as follows: Monday November 29, 2010 5:00 pm Monday, November 29, 2010 Robinson Hall 250, 5:00 pm Physics Graduate Students’ JOURNAL CLUB Talks on Condensed Matter Physics Cristian Staii Peggy Cebe Roger Tobin (undergraduate students, faculty and anyone interested are also invited: food served at 4:30 pm in Knipp Library) Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:30 am Tufts University Department of Physics and Astronomy Ph.D. Thesis Defense Conference Room 132 Science Technology Center “Search for Neutrino-Induced Coherent Neutral-Current Pi-Zero Production in the MINOS Near Detector” Daniel Cherdack Attendees are invited to coffee, tea, and pastries at STC A114 at 9:40 am to 10:20 and immediately prior to the presentation at 10:30 am Tuesday morning. Wednesday, December 1, 2010 12:00 – 2:00 pm Science & Technology Center The Shop - Room 102 Please join us for lunch to celebrate Larry McMasters’ Retirement Larry McMaster will officially retire from Tufts and the High Energy Physics Shop on December 31, 2010 after 44 years of service. Thursday, December 2, 2010 1:30 pm Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 “Quantum Modifications to Gravity Waves in de Sitter Spacetime” Jen-Tsung Hsiang National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Friday, December 3, 2010 1:00 pm Robinson 251 (Knipp Library) Tufts University Department of Physics and Astronomy Astro-Coffee Discussion Emily Dare will talk on: “The Moment of Truth for WIMP Dark Matter” Gianfranco Bertone To appear in Nature (Nov 18, 2010) http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3532 Coffee will be served Friday, December 3, 2010 3:00 pm TUFTS UNIVERSITY Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Science & Technology Center, Room 136 4 Colby St., Medford Campus “A Physical View on Cancerous Cells” Igor Sokolov Nanoengineering and Biotechnology Laboratories Center (NABLAB), Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Refreshments served at 2:30 in STC, Room 124 |