[Postdocs-visitors] BAPC EVENTS FOR WEEK OF MAY 2, 2011 THROUGH MAY 6, 2011

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

May 2, 2011 to May 6, 2011

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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year by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University.  
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Monday, May 2, 2011

2:00 pm
Monday, May 2, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
"Probing the TeV Scale through precision measurements of Ultra Cold 
Neutron Decays"
Rajan Gupta, LANL
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Monday, May 2, 2011
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Linear Algebra & Darwin's Finches"
Michael Brenner
Harvard University 
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 PM
Monday, May 2, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"First results from the heavy ion collisions at the LHC"
*Refreshments served at 3:45
Boleslaw Wyslouch, MIT

4:30 PM
Monday May 2, 2011
MIT
APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT, Building 2, Room 105
"Quickly Computing Approximate Solutions to NP-hard Optimization Problems 
in Planar Graphs"
Prof. Philip Klein
Brown University
Applied Math Colloquium Website: http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring11
Applied Math Colloquium poster: 
http://www-math.mit.edu/amc/spring11/P_Klein.pdf
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

12:00 PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Lunch Time Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Detector Development for Direction-Sensitive Dark Matter / Neutron 
Research"
Hidefumi Tomita
Boston University

2:00 pm
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Boston College, Physics Seminar
Higgins 235
"Spin-dependent transport and magnetic response in topological insulators"
Anton Burkov
University of Waterloo
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

4:30 pm
Tuesday, May 3
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The physical basis of morphogenesis"
L. Mahadevan
Harvard University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

1:00 pm
Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 1:00PM
University of Massachusetts Boston
Physics colloquium series
Science building, room 3-126
"TBA"
Charlie Keese, Applied Biophysics, Inc. 
Refreshments served at 12:45
Questions: Maxim Olshanii (Olchanyi) <Maxim Olchanyi umb edu>

2:00 pm
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Cosman seminar room 6c-442
Joint Harvard/MIT String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Localization and Exact Holography"
Atish Dabholkar, LPTHE, Paris
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Barus & Holley Building
Brown University
Physics Department
"F-Theory, Seiberg-Witten Curves and N = 2 Dualities"
Keshav Dasgupta
McGill

4:00 pm
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Boston College, Physics Colloquium
Higgins 310
"Grand Challenges in Superconductivity: From 1948 to 2011"
David Pines
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu

7:00 PM 
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 
IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA
"Neutrino Telescopes: Catching Images of Ghost Particles?"Prof. Tyce 
DeYoung
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Refreshments served at 6:30 PM 
Questions: http://www.bostonphotonics.org 

8:15 PM 
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 
IEEE Photonics Society Imaging Workshop 
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA
"Computational Microscopy for Imaging the Lung"
Prof. Charles A. DiMarzio
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Refreshments served at 8:00 PM 
Questions: http://www.bostonphotonics.org
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

12:30PM
Thursday, May 5, 2011 
Boston University
Water Group Special Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
TBA
Paul Matsudaira
National University Singapore
Pizza served at 12:15 PM

2:30 pm
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Boston University
High Energy Experiment Seminar
3 Cummington Street, Room 595
"New Results from the MEG Experiment"
Ben Golden
University of California, Irvine
Refreshments served at 2:15PM

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"Ultraplanckian Scattering, Black Holes, and the Problems of Quantum 
Gravity"
Steve Giddings
University of California
Santa Barbara
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html
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Friday, May 6, 2011

3:00 p.m.
May 6, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Research on materials for fusion"
Brian Wirth
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

3:00 pm
Friday, May 6, 2011
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 313
"TBA"
Jose Blanco-Pillado
Tufts University
Refreshments served at 2:30 in Robinson Hall, Room 251

4 p.m.
Friday, May 6
Boston University Seminar
Room 525, 745 Commonwealth Avenue
"Hertz's mechanics and Schrödinger's equation: The Hidden History"
Professor Ricardo Lopes Coelho
University of Lisbon and Technical University, Berlin
Sponsors: Center for Philosophy and History of Science, and Center for 
Einstein Studies, Boston University.
For further information, contact
John Stachel, <john stachel gmail com> or (617)956-2890.
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