March 24, 2008 to March 28, 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, March 24, 2008 4:15 p.m. MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 Room 414 SPRING BREAK - NO COLLOQUIUM _____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Math/Physics Seminar Building 2 Room 105 "Counting Dyons, and Crossing Walls" Erik Verlinde University of Amsterdam For more information please see: http://events.mit.edu/event.htm 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium Abelson 131 "Soft Modes, Rigidity and Relaxation in Amorphous Solids" Dr. Matthieu Wyart Harvard University _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218 Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. "Single cell visualization of DNA repair in vivo" Azadeh Samadani Brandeis University _____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "The Hidden Valley Scenario: A Panoply of Novel Signals for LHC Searches" Matt Strassler Rutgers University Note: time is different from usual _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, March 28, 2008 12 Noon Boston University Joint Condensed Matter/Biophysics Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Measuring DNA interactions in vitro and in viruses" Adrian Parsegian NIH Pizza served at 11:30 _____________________________________________________________________