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Monday, April 28, 2008

12:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Abelson 229
"Swimming in viscoelastic fluids and gels"
Henry Fu
Brown University

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Flavorful Supersymmetry"
Michele Papucci, IAS
Refreshments will be served

4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
JOINT ASTRO-LNS COLLOQUIUM
Cosmological Nucleosynthesis
Gary Steigman, Ohio State University
www.lns.mit.edu

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
Nano Carbon: From Terahertz Transistors to Atomic Membranes
Paul L. McEuen
Cornell 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
"What Drove the Big Bang?"
Dr. Gary Melnick
CfA: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
NO COLLOQUIUM
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
"Fusion of conformal interfaces"
Ilka Brunner
ETH, Zurich
Refreshments will be served

4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
“Relativistic quantum physics at your pencil tips:
Dirac fermion in graphitic carbon”
Phillip Kim
Columbia University
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.

4:30 p.m.
Boston College
The Inaugural Arline & Michael Magde Colloquium in Physics
Higgins Hall, Room 300
"Does Science Progress Through Blind Chance or By Intelligent Design?"
Nobel Laureate Professor Sheldon Glashow
Arthur G. B. Metcalf Professor of Physics, Boston University
Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Harvard University
A Reception will follow the presentation in Mugar Atrium at 5:30p.m.
For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu

7:00 p.m.
Museum of Science
Boston/Cahners Theater, Blue Wing, Level 2
"Physics of the Impossible"
Michio Kaku (author of Beyond Einstein, Visions, Hyperspace, and
Parallel Worlds)
City College of New York
Free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.
Additional funding for adult programs provided by the Barbara and
Malcolm L. Sherman Fund for Adult Programs.
Book signing to follow.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008

11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
Galactic Winds
Crystal Martin
UC Santa Barbara
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/


4 PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Modeling Multiple M2’s"
Neil Lambert
(King's College)
Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:30


4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"The Highest Energy Particles"
Angela Olinto
University of Chicago
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2008.html

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Friday, May 2, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Special Colloquium
Bldg. E25-111
"Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Options and
Opportunities for the Next Administration"
Victor H. Reis
Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary
U.S. Department of Energy
Discussion period 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Refreshments: 1:45 p.m. outside the room

3 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"An Introduction to the Trapped Gryo-Landau Fluid Transport Model"
Gary Staebler
General Atomics

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall room 209
"Carbon Nanotube Electronics and Photonics"
Phaedon Avouris
IBM

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