February 25, 2008 to February 29, 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 25, 2008 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "RHIC Physics and String Theory: The Fundamental" David Mateos UC, Santa Barbara Refreshments will be served. 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 8, Room 205 "Superconducting Cyclotrons for Proton Beam Radiotherapy" Dr. Detlef Krishel ACCEL Instruments GmbH (Presented in conjunction with MIT course 8.277/6.608 "Intro to Particle Accelerators", by Prof. W. Barletta) 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium/Loeb Lecture I Jefferson 250 "Single Molecule Biophysics: Reading the Genetic Code" Steven M. Block Stanford University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/loebcal.html 4:15 p.m. MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 Room 414 Brian Odom University of Chicago www.lns.mit.edu 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Fundamental Physics through Astrophysics" Professor Chris Stubbs Harvard University Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ _____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Seminar/Loeb Lecture II Jefferson 250 "Single Molecule Biophysics: How Nucleic Acids Fold" Steven M. Block Stanford University http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/loebcal.html 4:00 p.m. Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium Abelson 131 "Sea Sponges: A Textbook in Materials Physics" Dr. Joanna Aizenberg Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Science Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m. _ Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:00pm M.I.T. Math/Physics Seminar bldg 2 room 105 "D-branes and Representations" Professor Sergei Gukov UCSB, IAS Refreshments served at 3:30 pm in bldg 2, room 349 (Applied Math Common Room) ____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Cosman Seminar Room 6c-442 String /Gravity Seminar Christopher Pope, Texas A&M "Infinite-Dimensional Symmetries of Two-Dimensional Coset Models Coupled to Gravity" Refreshments will be served Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:00pm M.I.T. Math/Physics Seminar bldg 4 room 237 "Langlands Duality for Conjugacy Classes" Professor Sergei Gukov UCSB, IAS Refreshments served at 3:00 pm in bldg 2, room 349 (Applied Math Common Room) 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "To be Announced" Dr. Jonathan Heckman Harvard University 4:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218 "Negative refraction materials" Gary Kussow UMass Lowell Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Boston College Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "Gaps in our Understanding: STM studies of the Pseudogap Phase of High Tem Superconductors" Professor Eric Hudson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu 4:30 p.m. Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356 "Interference and non-adiabaticity" Prof. Anatoli Polkovnikov Boston University Refreshments served at 4:00 PM _____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, February 28, 2008 Thursday, February 28, 2008, 2:30 PM Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 TBA Alberto Nicolis Columbia University 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Seminar/Loeb Lecture III Jefferson 250 "Single Molecule Biophysics: How Kinesin Motors Move" Steven M. Block Stanford University http://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/loebcal.html 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "RHIC Physics and String Theory: The Fundamental Story" David Mateos (UCSB) Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:30. 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 34, Room 101 "The Role of Vortices in Limiting Superconductivity in the Cuprates" Phaun Ong Princeton University Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room) http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html Thursday, February 28, 2008 4 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "RHIC Physics and String Theory: The Fundamental Story" David Mateos (UCSB) Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:30.____________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 29, 2008 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Characteristics of D Retention in a High-Z Tokamak with Implications for ITER and Beyond" Bruce Lipschultz Plasma Science and Fusion Center 3:15 pm Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall, Room 112 "A Heuristic Approach to Materials Design" Marco Fornari DMSE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics, Central Michigan University Refreshments served in Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall, Room 108 at 2:30 pm. Applied Physics Colloquium Precursor Structures in Crystallization/Precipitation Processes Jens Rieger BASF Advanced Research Initiative 4:00 pm, February 29 refreshments start at 3:30 pm 209 Pierce Hall Harvard University Abstract: Crystallization of inorganic (and organic) matter often proceeds via intermediate stages – rather than by simple nucleation and growth mechanisms (1). Recent time-resolved studies on the structural evolution of precipitating CaCO3 obtained by means of X-ray microscopy and quench cryo-transmission electron microscopy will be presented, emphasizing the role of precursor structures that not only comprise crystal modifications that are less stable than the final one (Ostwald’s rule of stages), but also amorphous, hydrated (nano-) particles and emulsion-like precursors structures (2). The mode of action that water-soluble polymers play during the formation of calcium carbonate precursors and crystals will be discussed _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html