March 31, 2008 to April 4, 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 31, 2008 12:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Fun with Top Compositeness at the Tevatron and LHC" Tim Tait Argonne National Laboratory 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 "Searching for Gravity Waves and New Physics with Atom Interferometry" Peter Graham, Stanford 4:15pm MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 Room 414 Pavlos Vranas, LLNL www.lns.mit.eduRefreshments to be served. 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "The Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum: Fluctuations and Correlations Tell the Story" Marlan O. Scully (TAMU & Princeton) Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Mitochondrial Sequences and the Migration History of Modern Humans" Professor Gyan Bhanot Rutgers University Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ _____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:30 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge TBA Volker Bromm UT, Austin http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/ 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 "Characterizing primordial bispectra in single field inflation" Xingang Chen MIT-CTP Refreshments to be served at 2:15PM Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Soft Matter: Finding Simplicity in Complexity" Mikhail A. Anisimov University of Maryland, College Park Refreshments served at 3:15 in 1st floor lounge 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series -- Physics Colloquium Abelson 131 "Imaging Living Cells with Nanometer Resolution: Breaking the Diffraction Barrier" Sam Hess University of Maine, Orino Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131 _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 2, 2008 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics String/Gravity Theory Semianr Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 "N-ification of Forces: a Holographic Perspective on Model Building" Herman Verlinde, Princeton Refreshments to be served . 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 Physics Department "Chiral Gravity in Three Dimensions" Dr. Wei Li Harvard University 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lecture I Jefferson Lab 250 "Using Quantum Mechanics to Detect Anthrax" Marlan O. Scully TAMU & Princeton _____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, April 3, 2008 11:00 a.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge New Forms of Convection in Magnetized Plasmas Eliot Quataert Berkeley http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/ Thursday, April 3, 2008 4 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Black hole dynamics from atmospheric science" Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC) Juice & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:30. 4:00 p.m. Phillips Auditorium, Harvard College Observatory "Study of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory" (Astronomy) The Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture by James Cronin, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute. 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 34, Room 101 "Universal Scaling Laws in Living Systems from Cells to Cities; Towards a Unifying Theory of Biological and Social Structure and Organization" Geoffrey West Sante Fe Institute Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room) http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, April 4, 2008 12 Noon Boston University Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Modeling Protein Synthesis by Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Processes (TASEP)" Royce Zia Virginia Polytechnic Institute Pizza served at 11:30 AM 12 noon Brandeis University Soft Matter Seminar Abelson 229 "Protein as model colloid or the physics of dynamical arrest" Dr. Thomas Gibaud Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France 1:30 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Early Steps of the Visual Cycle: Production and Clearance of Retinol in Vertebrate Rod and Cone Photoreceptors" M. Carter Cornwall Boston University School of Medicine 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "The Joy of Levitation: Cooking up a new way to confine hot plasma" Darren Garnier Columbia University 4:00 p.m. Harvard University SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209 "Bull n°11: a Physical Approach in Physiology" Christophe Clanet Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html