Good afternoon: Department of Physics and Astronomy events for the week of 2/21/2011 are as follows: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:30 pm Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Bubbles of nothing in flux compactifications" Benjamin Shlaer Tufts Institute of Cosmology Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Robinson 251 12:00 pm (Noon) Wednesday, February 23, 2011 SOCIETY OF PHYSICS STUDENTS SPS will meet to discuss Physics Major Recruitment Night and the Condensed Matter Faculty Candidates. (Chinese food will be served at 12:15 pm) Robinson Hall, Room 251 Thursday, February 24, 2011 (Tufts is following Monday's schedule) 12:00 pm ((Noon) Thursday, February 24, 2011 Physics and Astronomy Graduate & Undergraduate Students Lunchtime Meeting Luncheon and discussion with Dr. Hugo Beauchemin CERN Oxford University Lunch served at Noon Knipp Library Robinson Hall, Room 251 Students are encouraged to attend 4:00 pm Thursday, February 24, 2011 TUFTS UNIVERSITY SPECIAL PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM “Monojet Events: A Journey into the Standard Model and Beyond” Dr. Hugo Beauchemin CERN Oxford University Robinson 250 Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 3:30 pm *Please note, Thursday2/24/11 is a Monday schedule 6:00 pm Thursday, February 24, 2011 (Monday’s schedule) Physics Graduate Students’ JOURNAL CLUB Robinson Hall, Room 250 Victor Parkinson TBA (undergraduate students, faculty and anyone interested are also invited: food served at 5:30 pm in Knipp Library) Friday, February 25, 2011 1:00 pm Friday, February 25, 2011 TUFTS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY ASTRO-COFFEE DISCUSSION Audrey Mithani will talk on the "Constraining the dark energy equation of state using LISA observations of spinning Massive Black Hole binaries" Antoine Petiteau, Stanislav Babak, Alberto Sesana (arXiv:1102.0769) Robinson 251 (Knipp Library) Coffee will be served |