April 7, 2008 to April 11, 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, April 7, 2008 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Nuclear force from lattice QCD" Sinya Aoki, Brookhaven National Laboratory Refreshments will be served 4:15 p.m. MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 Room 414 "Hadron Tomography" Matthias Burkardt, New Mexico State University www.lns.mit.edu 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "The Black Hole Information Paradox, Past and Future" Joseph Polchinski University of California, Santa Barbara Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium: Arthur O. Williams Lecture Barus & Holley 168 "Biocomplexity in Action: Pattern Formation and Microbial Ecology at Yellowstone's Hot Springs" Professor Nigel Goldenfeld University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ _____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, April 8, 2008 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Pappalardo Room 4-349 (NOTE Room change this week only) Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar/String Seminar "A Matrix model for Black Hole Thermalization" Joseph Polchinski, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics/UCSB refreshments will be served at 2:00pm 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lecture II Jefferson Lab 250 "The Laser-Bec Analogy" Jefferson 250 Marlan O. Scully TAMU & Princeton 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Of Bugs and Men: Game Playing, Evolution and Adaptation for Physicists" Robert H. Austin Princeton University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium Abelson 131 "TBA" Dr. Phillip Geissler UC Berkeley Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Wednesday, April 9, 2008 2:00PM (added title) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room String/Gravity Theory Seminar `` On the Quantum Geometry of the Heterotic String" Allan Adams, MIT-CTP refreshments will be served 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 Physics Department Brown University "Conformal Collider Physics" Dr. Diego Hofman Princeton University 4:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218 ?Beauty and creativity in science and technology? Paul Carr Air Force Research Laboratory Emeritus 4:00 p.m. Boston College Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "Low-dimensionality condensed matter experiments at an atomistic scale using strongly-coupled dusty plasmas" Professor John Goree University of Iowa Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. 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 356 "Computing with Quantum Knots: Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation" Sankar Das Sarma University of Maryland Refreshments served at 4:00 PM Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m _____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, April 10, 2008 4 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Partons scattering amplitudes at strong coupling" Amit Sever (Brandeis) Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 34, Room 101 "Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Metrology with Trapped Ions" David Wineland National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room) http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, April 11, 2008 12 Noon Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "1D Fermions and Bosons beyond the Luttinger Liquid Picture" Leonid Glazman Yale University Pizza served at 11:30 AM 1:30 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Embryoid Body Shell Formation Reduces Diffusive Transport: new strategies for stem cell differentiation" Debra T. Auguste Harvard University 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Accelerators of the Future: from Structures to Plasmas" Gennady Shvets University of Texas at Austin _____________________________________________________________________