March 10, 2008 to March 14, 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.

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Monday, March 10, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"The anomalous baryon current and neutrino-photon interactions in the
Standard Model"
Richard Hill, Fermi National Lab, Theory Group
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Physics Department
HET Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"Solitons in AdS String Solutions"
Kewang Jin
Brown University

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Search for Gravitational Radiation from Astrophysical Sources
with Interferometric Detectors"
Rainer Weiss
M.I.T.
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestake"
Kevin Lesko, LBL
www.lns.mit.edu

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Quantum resolution of cosmological singularities using holography"
Neil Turok
DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

4:00 p.m.
M.I.T.
Math/Physics Seminar
Bldg 2  room 105
"Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory"
Professor Christopher Beasley
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm in bldg 2, room 349 (Applied Math Common Room)

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
NO COLLOQUIUM TODAY
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
11:30 a.m.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Solid Earth Physics Seminar Series
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 100F
Cambridge, MA  02138
"Slip and Depth Dependent Variations in Fault Strength and Gouge Properties:  Insights from Particle Dynamics Simulations"
Julia Morgan
Visiting Scholar, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Department of Earth Sciences, Rice University


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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills at weak and strong coupling"
Radu Roiban
Penn State University
Refreshments will be served

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Physics Department
HET Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"Chiral Gravity in Three Dimensions"
Dr. Wei Li
Harvard University

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
"Structure and properties of silk"
Peggy Cebe
Tufts University

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

4:15 p. m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series: The David and Edith Harris 
Distinguished Lecture
Building 34, Room 101
"Exploring the Neutrino Questions"
Boris Kayser
Fermilab
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html

Thursday, March 13, 2008   4 PM

Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
  "D-branes and Representations"
Sergei Gukov
(UCSB)

Juice & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor  
Jefferson, at 3:30.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series: The David and Edith Harris Distinguished Lecture
Building 34, Room 101
"Exploring the Neutrino Questions"
Boris Kayser
Fermilab
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room) 
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Friday, March 14, 2008

No events posted today.
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