October 29, 2007 to November 2, 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.
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http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html
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Monday, October 29, 2007
12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles & Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"The LHC: More Symmetries or More Universes?"
Lawrence Hall
Berkeley
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Seminar
"LHC^{-1} = ILC? (Can the ILC solve the LHC inverse problem?)"
Carola Berger
MIT-CTP
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Testing Relativity"
Alan Kostelecky
University of Indiana
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
"The Long Distance Structure of the Nucleon"
Richard Milner
MIT
4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"A Few Comparisons Between String Theory and Heavy-Ion Physics"
Professor Steven Gubser
Princeton University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Fascinating Properties of Cuprates"
Professor Adam Kaminski
Iowa State University
For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
3:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Math/Physics Seminar
Building 2 Room 105
"Solutions of Chern-Simons open string field equations."
Barton Zwiebach
M.I.T. Center for Theoretical Physics
For more information please see: http://events.mit.edu/event.htm
2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Cosmology with pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons".
Lorenzo Sorbo
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The discovery of Dark Matter"
Gerson Goldhaber
LANL
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge
4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"TBA"
Debbie Chakra
Olin School of Engineering
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m. (Wednesday Oct. 31 is Halloween, moved to Tuesday)
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
LEOS Plasmonics Workshop
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
"Optical Antennas"
Prof. Kenneth Crozier
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Coffee, cookies, soft drink break at 8:00 p.m.
http://www.bostonleos.org/plasmonics07/
8:15 p.m. (Wednesday Oct. 31 is Halloween, moved to Tuesday)
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
LEOS Plasmonics Workshop
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
"Electric and Magnetic Surface Plasmons on Metamaterials"
Prof. Willie Padilla
Boston College, Newton, MA
Coffee, cookies, soft drink break at 8:00 p.m.
http://www.bostonleos.org/plasmonics07/
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman SR 6c-442
"D-brane deconstructions in 11B orientifolds"
Frederik Denef
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"The Eiffel Tower: A Structure Molded by Wind"
Professor Patrick Weidman
University of Colorado at Boulder
Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu
4:00 p.m.
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
"Generation and quantum storage of single photons"
Vladan Vuletic
MIT
4:15 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-122
"STM on high temperature superconductors: clues to the paring mechanism"
Professor Vidya Madhavan
Boston College
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/events/colloquium.cfm
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Math.-Physics Seminar
MCS 180, Math-Dept, 111 Cummington St.
"Renormalization and mixed Hodge Structures"
Spencer Bloch
University of Chicago
Refreshments served at 3:15.
For more information please see:
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html
4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Black Holes in the Blue Yonder - the Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP)"
Paul Green
CfA
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 Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture in Physics
"From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and on to James Webb Space Telescope"
John C. Mather
NASA
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html
Thursday, November 1, 2007 4 PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M theory fivebranes"
Luca Mazzucato
(Tel Aviv)
Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:30.
Thursday, November 1, 3pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special QIP Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics,Building 6C, Cosman Seminar Room 6C-442.
Speaker: Dr. Sahel Ashhab
Frontier Research System, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical
Research), Japan
Title: Landau-Zener crossings in quantum-computing systems
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Friday, November 2, 2007
12 Noon
Boston University
Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Quantum Coherence in Networks"
Laurent Saminadayar
CNRS, Grenoble, France
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
3 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
NW17-218
"Gyrotron Collective Thomson Scattering Diagnostics of Fast Ions in
TEXTOR and ASDEX Upgrade"
Paul Woskov
Plasma Science & Fusion Center
3:30 p.m.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"A Wrinkle in Space: Quantum Isospectral Nanostructures"
Hari Manoharan
Stanford University
Refreshments will be served in Pierce 209 beginning at 3:30 p.m.;
colloquium will start at 4:00 p.m.
website:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/manoharan_hari.html