_____________________________________________________________________ Monday, April 14, 2008 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 "GenEvA: A New Framework for Event Generation" Jesse Thaler, UC Berkeley Refreshments to be served. 3:00 p.m. Northeastern University HEP Seminar Dana Building Room 114 "Physics Beyond the Standard Model with IceCube" Alex Olvias University of Maryland For more information please see: http://www.physics.neu.edu/events.html Time: 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM "Quantum-Mechanical Circuits." Speaker: Michel Devoret Speaker Affiliation: Yale Host: Peter Shor Host Affiliation: M.I.T. Refreshments: 3:30 PM Location: MIT, 36-428 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Unparticle Physics" Howard Georgi Harvard University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu _____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 "Cosmic Superstring Dynamics" Jose Blanco-Pillado Tufts University Refreshments to be served at 2:15PM 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Ave. "The Evolution from BCS to Bose-Einstein Condensation: Superfluidity in Metals, Neutron Stars, Nuclei and Ultra-Cold Atoms" Carlos Sa de Melo Georgia Tech and Joint Quantum Institute University of Maryland/NIST Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Math/Physics Seminar Building 2 Room 105 "ADE-singularities and ADE integrable heirarchies" Youngbin Ruan University of Michigan For more information please see: http://events.mit.edu/event.htm 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 "Frame Dragging: A Half Century Hunt for an Elusive Effect" Professor Irwin Shapiro Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131 4:15 p.m. MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 Room 414 JOINT ASTRO-LNS COLLOQUIUM "Astroparticle Physics of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory" Paul Sommers Penn State www.lns.mit.edu 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 256 "Singular Schroedinger Operators Modelling Nanometer-size Networks" Pavel Exner Doppler Institute, Prague, Czech Republic _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:00 a.m. Boston University Physics Department 3 Cummington Street, room PRB 595 Biophysics Seminar Series "Which type of potentials exhibit the anomalous behavior of water?" Marcia Barbosa Rio Grande University, Brazil Refreshments will be served at 9:30am 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics String/Gravity Theory Seminar Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 "Building an AdS/CFT Superconductor" Gary Horowitz UCSB Refreshments to be served. 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 To be announced Dr. Amit Sever Brandeis University 4:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218 “Photo-physics of carbon nanotubes” Anna Swann Boston University Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Boston College Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "Pulsar Glitches in Neutron Stars" Professor Chris Engelbrecht University of Johannesburg Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu 8:00 p.m. Harvard University David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics Science Center, Hall C, 1Oxford St. "How Physics Became Precise" Daniel Kleppner Dept. of Physics and MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT Refreshments at Putnam Gallery, Science Center, following lecture _____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:00 a.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Collapse, Collisions, Black Holes & Gravitational Waves: Frontiers of Numerical Relativity" Stuart Shapiro Illinois http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/ 3:30 p.m. Boston University Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Lecture Part of the Physics Department Colloquium Series "The Future of Physics: challenges and opportunities at the Large Hadron Collider" Robert Aymar Director General, CERN Refreshments served at 3 PM in the 1st floor lounge 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 34, Room 101 "Making a Better Solar Cell" Peter Borden Solar Business Group, Applied Materials, Inc. Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room) http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, April 18, 2008 12 Noon Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Collective states of interacting anyons: Things golden" Simon Trebst Microsoft Station Q Pizza served at 11:30 AM 2:00 p.m. Boston University Physics Department 590 Commonwealth Avenue, room SCI 352 Biophysics Seminar Series "Force-induced single molecule DNA interactions: From small molecule binding to HIV replication" Mark C. Williams Northeastern University Upper Crust pizza and soda will be served at 1:30pm 4:00 p.m. Harvard University SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209 "Electronics on Plastic: A Solution to Energy Challenge or Just a Pipe Dream?" Stephen Forrest University of Michigan _____________________________________________________________________