February 11, 2008 to February 15, 2008 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University. Entries should reach us no later than 2:00 pm the Wednesday of the week preceding the week of the actual event. NOTE: Entries that are past the deadline will have to be sent by you to the bapc late entry email address listed below. On time entries send to: bapc-events@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu. Late entries send to: bapc-late@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe from the bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html ________________________________________________________________ Monday, February 11, 2008 11:30 a.m. Boston University High Energy Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Towards an Understanding of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking" Florencia Canelli Fermi Lab 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Hierarchy without Color and the LHC" Roni Harnik Slac/Stanford Refreshments will be served. 4:15 p.m. MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 Room 414 "Dark Matter Direct Detection: the Road to Discovery" Jocelyn Monroe, MIT www.lns.mit.edu 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory" Professor Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ 4:45 p.m. Wellesley College Wellesley College Science Center Room 278 Engineering Colloquium "How Biomedical Engineering is Changing the Medical Paradigm" Professor Martha Gray, MIT Director of Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Monday, February 11, 2008 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 The Next Great Particle Accelerator: A Linear Collider Barry C. Barish California Institute of Technology Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu ______________________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:30 p.m. Brandeis University Theory Seminar Abelson 333 "TBA" Ruben Minasian CNRS/CEA Saclay Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 12 Noon Boston University Special Condensed Matter Seminar (note different day) Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Electronic properties of graphene multilayers" Mikito Koshino Columbia University; Tokyo Institute of Technology 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar "The Cosmological Constant Problem in the Stringly Landscape" Henry Tye, Cornell Refreshments will be served 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 "Pattern formation and front propagation in reacting systems with chaotic mixing" Tom Solomon Bucknell University Refreshments outside of Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m. ________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:00 p.m. (Note special day) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Calculating the viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma on the lattice" Harvey Meyer MIT-CTP Refreshments will be served 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "To Be Announced" Dr. Nathan Berkovits U Estadual Paulista 4:00 p.m. Boston College Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "Transformation Design and Metamaterials: Tools for Conceiving and Realizing Unique Materials" Dr. David Schurig Duke University Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu 4:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218 Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. "Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale" Eric Mazur Harvard University 4:30 p.m. Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson 356 "TBA" Viktor Veselago Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Refreshments served at 4:00 PM ________________________________________________________________ Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:00 a.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Gas Giants and Rocky Planets around G and M dwarfs" Doug Lin UC Santa Cruz http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/ 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Active galactic nuclei: the weather report" Bozena Czerny Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 34, Room 101 "A Quantum Computer Can Determine Who Wins a Game Faster Than a Classical Computer" Edward Farhi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room) http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html Thursday, February 14, 2008, 4:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Special Colloquium 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "The Path to Fusion Power" Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith Director, Atomic Energy Agency, UK Thursday, February 14, 2008 4 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Gauged Linear Sigma Model for the AdS_5xS5 Superstring" Nathan Berkovits (Sao Paulo) Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:30. ________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 15, 2008 1:00 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics, SEAS & Center for the Environment Jefferson 250 "The Path to Fusion Power" Chris Llewellyn-Smith Chair of International Tokomak Experimental Reactor (ITER) Council 2:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge TBA Tsvi Piran Hebrew University http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/ Harvard University SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium Friday, February 15, 2008 4:00 pm 29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209 Speaker: Sunney Xie Title: A Life Changing Decision Made by a Single-Molecule Event: Deciphering a Genetic Switch in a Living Bacterial Cell Friday, February 15, 2008, 2PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Energy Seminar sponsored by Plasma Science & Fusion Center and MIT Energy Initiative Bartos Theatre, E15, Atrium Level "Global Energy Challenges of the 21st Century, and World and Regional Nuclear Power" Evgeny P. Velikhov Kurchatov Institute, Moscow