November 26, 2007 to November 30, 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, November 26, 2007 12:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., room 595 "MFV@LHC: Constraining Flavor at the TeV Scale" Tomer Volansky IAS 2:00pm (Note room change this week only) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics 6-310 Ayasli conference room "Asymptotic safety" Roberto Percacci SISSA Refreshments will be served. 2:30 p.m. Brown University B&H 555 Theoretical Seminar "Scattering Amplitudes via AdS/CFT" Luis Fernando Alday Univ. Utrecht 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Spins and Charges in Reduced Dimensions" Amir Yacoby Harvard University, Physics 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 "Future Direction for Nuclear Theory" David Kaplan University of Washington _____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:00 p.m. Boston College Physics Seminar Higgins Hall, Room 235 "Complete 3D Gap Photonic Crystals at Optical Frequencies for Light Emission Control" Dr. Ganesh Subramania Sandia National Laboratory For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu 2:00 p.m. Harvard University Lab for Particle Physics & Cosmology Seminars 18 Hammond Street, Palfrey House "Testing Gravity with the Moon" James Battat Harvard University cookies will be served http://www.lppc.physics.harvard.edu http://www.lppc.physics.harvard.edu/seminars/ 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium Abelson 131 "The Search for Dark Matter" Dr. Steve Ahlen Boston University Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131 _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:00 a.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "Theory and Application of Magnetic Self-organization" Xianzhu Tang Los Alamos National Laboratory 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 String/Gravity Seminar "Scattering amplitudes via AdS/CFT" Fernando Alday Utrecht University Refreshments will be served. http://ctp.lns.mit.edu 2:30 p.m. Brown University B&H 555 Theoretical Seminar "To be Announced" Thomas Klose Princeton University 4:00 p.m. Boston College Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "Understanding High Temperature Superconductivity: Are We There Yet?" Professor Thomas Timusk Mcmaster University 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 "Many worlds in one" Alexander Vilenkin Tufts 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 "Cooling of Nanoscale Mirrors" Pierre Meystre University of Arizona Refreshments served at 4:00 PM Abstract @ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/jointatomic.html _____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington Street, Room 595 "Radion Phenomenology in Realsitic Warped Spactime Models" Seung J. Lee Stony Brook 3:30 p.m. Boston University Math.-Physics Seminar MCS 180, Math-Dept, 111 Cummington St. "Properties of n-dimensional iterated integrals" Ivan Horozov Brandeis University 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 "The dirt on dust composition: an X-ray perspective" Julia Lee Harvard University tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia Thursday, November 29 Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Backreacting Flavors on Conifolds: New Cascades" Ben Freivogel (Berkeleyl) Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:30. _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, November 30, 2007 12 Noon Boston University CANCELLED Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Ferroelectric distortion in coherently strained SrTi03 thin flims on Si(001): Experiment and first principles theory" Joe Woicik NIST Pizza served at 11:30 AM 3 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "Behavior of Non-neutral Plasmas in the CNT Stellarator" Thomas Sunn Pedersen Columbia University _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html