[Emeriti-faculty] Department of Physics and Astronomy events for the week of April 11, 2010

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

Good Morning:

Department of Physics and Astronomy events for the week of April 11, 2011 
are:

Monday, April, 11, 2011

5:00 pm
Monday, April 11, 2011
Physics Graduate Students' JOURNAL CLUB
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Circuit Models of Neurons and Action Potentials"
Elise Spedden
(undergraduate students, faculty and anyone interested are also invited: 
food served at 4:30 pm in Knipp Library)

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

11:45 am
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
"Exploring Cosmic Strings: Observable Effects and Cosmological Constraints"
Eray Sabancilar
Robinson Hall, Room 250

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Noon
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
SPS Meeting
Knipp Library
Robinson 251
Discussion of upcoming events
Pizza and soda served

Thursday, April 14, 2011

1:30 pm
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Tufts University
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Magnetogenesis"
Andrei Gruzinov
New York University

Friday, April 15, 2011

1:00 pm
Friday, April 15, 2011
Astro-coffee Discusstion
Cemile Marsan and Katie Thorne will discuss the following two papers:
"Secular Evolution and the Formation of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies"
by J. Kormendy and R. Kennicutt, 
2004, ARA&A, 42, 603
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.astro.42.053102.134024?journalCode=astro
AND
"Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies: Pseudobulge Growth and the Formation 
of Spheroidal Galaxies"
by J. Kormendy & D. Fisher
http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2534

3:00 pm
Friday, April 15, 2011
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 313
Medford Campus
"A Superconducting Circuit Analogue of a Black Hole"
Miles Blencowe
Dartmouth
Refreshments served at 2:30 in Robinson Hall, Room 251