_____________________________________________________________________ Monday, April 21, 2008 4:15 p.m. MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 Room 414 PATRIOT'S DAY - NO COLLOQUIUM 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 Which Path to Metallic Hydrogen: High or Low Temperatures Isaac F. Silvera Harvard University 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 Barus & Holley 168 "Theoretical Physics and Cellular Biology: Some Case Studies" Professor Curtis Callan Princeton University Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ _____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:30 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The Redshift Evolution of Galactic Structures (Bars, Bulges & Disks) at z < 1 from COSMOS: Quantifying the Assembly of the Hubble Sequence" (2008, ApJ, 675, 1141) Kartik Sheth Caltech/SSC http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/ 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Magnetic Fields, Baryogenesis, and Sparks" Tanmay Vachaspati CWRU and Princeton Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Ave. "E. coli's division decision: modeling Min-protein oscillations" Ned Wingreen Princeton University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium NO COLLOQUIUM--Passover and Spring Recess _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics String/Gravity Theory Seminar Cosman Seminar room 6c-442 "Hydrodynamics at the Horizon" Eric Verlinde U Amsterdam/Harvard Refreshments to be served. 4:00 p.m. Boston College Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "MRI- The Quest for Atomic Resolution" Professor Mladen Barbic CSU Long Beach Refreshments served at 3:30, Higgins 230. For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu _____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:00 p.m. Brown University Special Kyungsik Kang Seminar: B&H 190 "Strong Interactions, Known and Unknown, at the Large Hadron Collider" Prof. Matt Strassler Rutgers University 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 34, Room 101 "Electronic Liquid Crystals" Steven Kivelson Stanford University Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room) http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, April 25, 2008 11 a.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Issues Associated with Codeposition in ITER; What to Expect" Russ Doerner University of California, San Diego 12 Noon Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 328 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Precise Measurement of Electronic States Above and Below the Fermi Level" Ray Ashoori Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pizza served at 11:30am 3:30 p.m. Boston University Special Particle Theory Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Can there be a discrete theory of gravity?" Prof. Gerard 't Hooft University of Utrecht 4:00 p.m. Harvard University SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209 "Shaping Material Deposition by Evaporative Flow" Tom Witten University of Chicago _____________________________________________________________________