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 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 or unsubscribe from the bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html _____________________________________________________________________________ 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/ _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, October 5, 2007 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 453 "QED" Juerg Froehlich ETH Zurich _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html