October 1, 2007 to October 5, 2007
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic
year
by the Department of Physics at Brandeis University. Entries should
reach us no later than 2:00 pm the Wednesday of the week preceding the week
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Monday, October 1, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Seminar
"Unparticle Physics"
Howard Georgi
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Exploring a New Family of Planets: Super-Earths Orbiting Other Stars"
Dimitar Sasselov
Harvard University, Astronomy
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"The MiniBooNE Experiment: Not Just for Neutrino Oscillations Anymore"
Sam Zeller
Los Alamos
4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Star Formation and Galactic Magnetism"
Professor Giles Novak
Northwestern University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
2:30 p.m. - CANCELLED
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Thermal derivation of the Coleman-De Luccia tunneling prescription"
Erick Weinberg
Columbia
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251
4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The Nature of Dark Nebulae and the Origin of Stellar Masses"
Dr. Charles Lada
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555 2:30PM
"Tabletop AdS/CFT: from Black Holes to Superconductors"
Sean Hartnoll
UC-Santa Barbara
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
3:30pm
M.I.T.
Math/Physics Seminar
Bldg 2 Room 105
"An overview of the chiral de Rham complex"
Professor Matthew Szczesny
Boston University
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
String/Gravity Seminar
"Stringy instanton effect is in Type II orientifolds"
Timo Weigand
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Quantum Gravity as a Problem in Condensed Matter Physics"
Fotini Markopoulou
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu
4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-122
"Emerging Energy Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation: Growing
Interest in Carbon Capture and Storage"
Jennie Stephens
IDCE - Clark University
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/events/colloquium.cfm
4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Positronium molecules and the annihilation gamma ray laser"
Alan Mills
University of California, Riverside
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 1:00 PM
Harvard University
Special Physics Seminar
LISE Building 303
"Discovering New Physics in Low-Dimensional Electron Systems: The
Role of High Mobility MBE"
Loren Pfeiffer
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Math.-Physics Seminar
MCS 180, Math-Dept, 111 Cummington St.
"Visualizing solutions to Dyson Schwinger equations"
Karen Yeats
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:15.
For more information please see:
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html
Thursday, October 4, 2007, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Breaking the Ionospheric Barrier: The Murchison Wide-field Array and the Return of Low Frequency Radio Astronomy"
Justin Kasper
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia
4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Stringy instanton effects in Type II orientifolds"
Timo Weigand UPenn
Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:30.
5:00 p.m .
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It"
Steve Chu
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html
Thursday, October 4, 2007 12:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Random Zeeman interactions and Anderson Localization"
Juerg Froehlich
ETH, Zurich
Thursday, October 4, 2007
1:30 pm
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Quark and Lepton Masses and Mixings from Gaussian Landscapes"
Michael Salem
Tufts University
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Friday, October 5, 2007
4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 453
"QED"
Juerg Froehlich
ETH Zurich
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