January 22, 2007 to January 26, 2007 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Harvard 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 to or unsubscribe from the bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Monday, January 22, 2006 No talks were submitted for today ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, January 23, 2006 3:00 pm (Please note time change) Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "QCD from a string theory perspective" Dr. Diana Vaman Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:00pm 3:30 pm Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Building 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107 "The Chirality of Life: A Field Theory Approach" Marcelo Gleiser Dartmouth College Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:30 pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 229 "Holography with Backreacted Flavor" Dr. Diana Vaman Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan _ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "On transport and other properties of disordered superconducting thin films" Yonatan Dobi Ben-Gurion University, Israel ___________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, January 25, 2007 Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Recent results on the fractional quantum Hall effect at 5/2 " Csaba Toke Penn State University ___________________________________________________________________________ Friday, January 26, 2007 11:45 am.........Note New Time for Duality Seminars Spring 2007 Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "New Structures in N=4 Yang-Mills" Anastasia Volovich Brown University Lunchtime seminar...refreshments available at 11:35 12:30 pn Boston University Physics Department Metcalf Science Building, Rm. 352 Joint Condensed Matter/Biophysics Seminar "Ion transport in biological ion channels and silicon nanopores: No life without entropy" B.I. Shklovskii University of Minnesota Pizza served at 12:00 Noon _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html