October 22, 2007 to October 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 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 22, 2007
12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St./ Physics Research Building, Room 595
"Two topics beyond the MSSM"
Nathan Seiberg
IAS
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman SR 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Seminar
"Is N=8 supergravity finite?"
Lance Dixon
Stanford/SLAC
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"Exploring the partonic structure of the nucleon"
Xiangdong Ji
University of Maryland
4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Atom Interferometry"
Mark Kasevich
Stanford 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
"Educational Outreach in Physics"
Professor Elizabeth Simmons
Michigan State University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Two-electron resonance in the Coulomb blockage"
Felix von Oppen
Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universita"t Berlin
2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"Observer Dependence of the Quasi-local Energy and Momentum in
Schwarzschild Space-time"
Peng Peng Yu, Dartmouth
Refreshments will be served at 2pm.
http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html
3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
TBA
Robert Grober
Yale University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge
3:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Math/Physics Seminar
Building 2 Room 105
"Twistor-String Theory" (continued)
David Skinner
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
For more information please see: http://events.mit.edu/event.htm
4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope"
Dr. Steve Ritz
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and University of MD
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
1:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts - Boston
Physics and Engineering Seminar Series
Science Building, Room 3-126
"New Frontiers in Trapping of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Molecules"
Mark G. Raizen
University of Texas at Austin
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman SR 6c-442
TBA
Cumrun Vafa, Harvard
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"To be Announced"
Matthew Kleban
New York University
4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
"The suddenly famous Dr. Einstein"
Tom Levenson
MIT
4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-122
"Unsteady Aerodynamics of Falling Paper and Insect Flight"
Professor Jane Wang
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Cornell University
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/events/colloquium.cfm
7:00 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
LEOS Plasmonics Workshop
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
"Resonant Transmission of Light Through Sub-wavelength Holes in ThickMetal Films"
Prof. Jorge Bravo Abad
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Coffee, cookies, soft drink break at 8:00 p.m.
http://www.bostonleos.org/plasmonics07/
8:15 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
LEOS Plasmonics Workshop
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
"Plasmonics at Terahertz and Mid-Infrared Frequencies"
Prof. Richard Avetitt
Boston University, MA
Coffee, cookies, soft drink break at 8:00 p.m.
http://www.bostonleos.org/plasmonics07/
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
12:00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 209
"Exploring quantum matter in artificial crystals of light"
Immanuel Bloch
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Math.-Physics Seminar
MCS 180, Math-Dept, 111 Cummington St.
"On renormalization in coordinate space"
Christoph Bergbauer
FU Berlin and Boston U.
Refreshments served at 3:15.
For more information please see:
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html
4 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Stringy instantons, geometric transitions, and dynamical SUSY breaking"
Shamit Kachru
(Stanford)
Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:30.
4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Hot On The Trail of Particle Dark Matter"
Dan Hooper
FermiLab
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia
4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Physics of Frustration in Low-dimensional Spin Systems"
Young Lee
MIT
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html
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Friday, October 26, 2007
12 Noon
Boston University
Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Electrostatics of Graphene Strips"
Peter Silvestrov
Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum, Germany
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
3 p.m.
NW17-218
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Detailed Photoemission Modeling Using the 3D Finite-Element PIC Code
MICHELLE"
John Petillo
SAIC