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Monday, May 5, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Dynamical QCD medium effects of jet energy loss"
Magdelena Djordjevic
Ohio State University
Refreshments to be served.


4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"RHIC Phenomenology"
Dima Kharzeev
BNL
www.lns.mit.edu


4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Mechanics on Giant Scales"
Nergis Mavalvala
M.I.T.
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"The AWE Hypothesis: A Clue for a Unified Description of Dark Matter and
Dark Energy?"
Andre Fuzfa
GAMASCO, U Namur, Belgium
Refreshments to be served at 2:15PM

4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
NO COLLOQUIUM.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical  Physics
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Cosman Seminar room 6c-442
"Holographic spectral functions and transport in strongly coupled plasmas"
Andrei Starinets
IAS
Refreshments to be served.

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 34, Room 101
"Hunting for Our Universe and Other Adventures on the Frontiers of Computation"
Stephen Wolfram
Wolfram Research
Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)


3:30h pm
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"New Developments in d=4, N=2 Superconformal Field Theories"
Yuji Tachikawa
(IAS)
Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:30

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Friday, May 9, 2008

3 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Non-Axisymmetric Plasma Shaping: Fusion Applications and Physics"
Allen Boozer
Columbia University
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