November 5, 2007 to November 9, 2007
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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year
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Monday, November 5, 2007
12:30 p.m.
Monday, November 5, 2007
12:30 p.m.
Boston University
3 Cummington St., Room 595
Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar
"KK Parity in Warped Extra Dimension"
Ion Low
Argonne/Northwestern
2:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"A Wrinkle in Space: Quantum Isospectral Nanostructures"
Professor Hari Manoharan
Stanford University
For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman SR 6c-442
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
"Nuclear forces on the Lattice and orbifold boundary conditions"
Paulo Bedaque
University of Maryland
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"New Insights into Hard Problems with Soft Materials"
David Weitz
Harvard University, SEAS
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
"Heavy Flavor Physics at the Tevatron: Probing the Standard Model and
Beyond"
Cheng-Ju Lin
Lawrence Berkeley Lab
4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Geometry and Physics of Proteins"
Professor Jayanth Banavar
Penn State University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 235
"Quantum Computing with Braids"
Professor Nick Bonesteel
Florida State University
For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu
3:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Math/Physics Seminar
Building 2 Room 105
"Bivariant K-theory and T-duality via noncommutative correspondences."
Mathai Varghese
Adelaide
For more information please see: http://events.mit.edu/event.htm
4 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Physics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging"
Dr. Aaron Grant
Harvard Medical School
Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics, Cosman SR 6c-442
"Warped String Compactifications: Signatures and Effective Theory"
Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
2:30 p.m.
B&H 555
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
"To be Announced"
Simone Giombi
Harvard University
4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"A Tour of Nanoscience Research at Sandia National Laboratories"
Dr. Julia Phillips
Sandia National Laboratory
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
"Rheology of Ageless Foams"
Professor Stephan Koehler
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/events/colloquium.cfm
7:00 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
LEOS Plasmonics Workshop
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
"Coherent, Nonlinear, and Ultrafast Nanoplasmonics"
Prof. Mark Stockman
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Coffee, cookies, soft drink break at 7:45 p.m.
http://www.bostonleos.org/plasmonics07/
8:00 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
LEOS Plasmonics Workshop
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
"Giant Field Enhancement and Localization in Aperiodic Plasmonic Structures"
Prof. Luka Dal Negro
Boston University, Boston, MA
Coffee, cookies, soft drink break at 8:45 p.m.
http://www.bostonleos.org/plasmonics07/
9:00 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
LEOS Plasmonics Workshop
MIT Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
"Wave-Bending Plasmonic Elements, Nanocircuits with Light, and
Metaplasmonic Structures"
Prof. Nader Engheta
University of Pennsylvania, PA
Coffee, cookies, soft drink break at 8:45 p.m.
http://www.bostonleos.org/plasmonics07/
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
12:00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Scaling hypotheses for non-Fermi liquid quantum criticality"
T. Senthil
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:10 p.m.
Biological Physics Seminar
Brandeis University
Abelson 229
"Self-Organized Barrier Crossing in Biological Systems at the Meso-scale"
Prof. Wokyung Sung
Department of Physics
Pohang University of Science and Technology
S. Korea
http://biostatphys.postech.ac.kr/wksung/wksung.html
3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Math.-Physics Seminar
MCS 180, Math-Dept, 111 Cummington St.
"Lattice point counting and ribbon graphs"
Paul Norbury
Melbourne U. 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
"5D stringy black holes"
Per Kraus
(UCLA)
Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:30.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"The Start of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)"
Gregor Herten
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html
Thursday, November 8, 2007
4:00 p.m.
Boston University
3 Cummington St., Room 595
Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar
"D-Dbar mixing"
Yuval Grossman
Cornell University
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Friday, November 9, 2007
11am-6pm
Brown University
The Second New England String Meeting
Barus-Holley Building, Room 190
Melanie Becker (Texas A&M)
Igor Klebanov (Princeton)
Hong Liu (MIT)
Robert Myers (Perimeter)
Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)
More details can be found at the meeting web site:
http://physics.brown.edu/physics/researchpages/het/stringtheory/
12 Noon
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Tailoring the metabolism against mutations"
Natali Gulbahce
Center for Complex Networks Research, Northeastern University and
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
3:30 p.m.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Pairing Atoms in an Atomic Fermi Gas"
Deborah Jin
JILA and Department of Physics
University of Colorado
Refreshments will be served in Pierce 209 beginning at 3:30 p.m.;
colloquium will start at 4:00 p.m.