November 12, 2007 to November 16, 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
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Monday, November 12, 2007
4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26 Room 414
Veterans Day
NO COLLOQUIUM
4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Good the Bad and the Awful--Scientific Simulation and Prediction"
Leo Kadanoff
University of Chicago
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
9:30 a.m. (note special day and time due to holiday)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman SR 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Seminar
"Fermions at unitarity as a nonrelativistic conformal field theory"
Yusuke Nichida, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
12:30 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt Conference Room, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"What can we do with CMB as a backlight?"
Shirley Ho
Princeton
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
3:30pm
M.I.T.
Math/Physics Seminar
Bldg 2 Room 105
"Non-Kahler Geometry and the Connectedness of the Moduli Space
of SU(3) Manifolds"
Professor Allan Adams
M.I.T.
2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"Cosmological Dark Matter and LHC: How Robust is the Connection?"
Scott Watson, University of Michigan
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.
"Recent Gravitational Experiments and their Implications for Particle
Physics"
Eric Adelberger
University of Washington
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the 1st floor lounge
4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium
Abelson 131
"The Physicist in Industry and Other Adventures"
Dr. Ira Farber
Brandeis University
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman SR 6c-442
"Pseudo-Chern-Simons terms in the Standard Model, with applications"
Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"To be Announced"
Josh Lapan
Harvard University
4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Electro-convection about Conducting Particles"
Dr. Ehud Yariv Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 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
"Drawing conclusions from graphene"
Antonio Castro-Neto
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm
4:30 p.m.
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and
Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Lone wavelength spin dynamics of ferromagnetic condensates"
Austin Lamacraft
University of Virginia
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:00 a.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute for Theory and Computation Seminar
Pratt Conference Room, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Sam Finn
Penn State
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/events/
12:00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Fermions at unitarity as a nonrelativistic conformal field theory"
Yusuke Nishida
University of Washington
2:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Lyman 425
"Charge Fractionalization in Quantum Wires"
Hadar Steinberg
Hebrew University
4:00 p.m.
Boston University
Particles & Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Mass Scales and Unparticle Physics at the LHC"
Devin Walker
Berkeley
4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Galaxies, Dark Matter and Black Holes at z=1"
Alison Coil
University of Arizona
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Science of Optics; The History of Art"
Charles Falco
University of Arizona
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia
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Friday, November 16, 2007
12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Drawing conclusions from graphene"
Antonio Castro Neto
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
1:30 p.m.
Boston University
Biological Physics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 255
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Ab Initio Discrete Molecular Dynamics Approach to Studies of
Alzheimer's Amyloid Beta-Protein Folding and Assembly"
Brigita Urbanc
Center for Polymer Studies, Physics Department
Boston University
3:00 p.m.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 100F
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Tsunami(s): What have we learnt?"
Emile Okal
Northwestern University
Refreshments will be served in Pierce 100F beginning at 2:45 p.m.;
seminar will start at 3:00 p.m..
4:00 p.m.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Metal/Semiconductor Heterostructures"
Arthur Gossard
UCSB
Refreshments will be served in Pierce 209 beginning 3:30 p.m.; seminar
will start at 4:00 p.m..
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