December 10, 2007 to December 14, 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, December 10, 2007 12:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "LHC and Dark Matter Signals of Improved Naturalness" Paddy Fox Fermilab 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 N&P Theory Seminar "Ultracold Fermionic Atoms in One Dimension" Wilhelm Zwerger, TU, Munich/MIT Refreshments will be served. http://ctp.lns.mit.edu 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium Jefferson 250 "There's Plenty of Room in the Middle: A View from the Bottom" Don Eigler IBM Almaden Research Center Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. 4:15pm MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 Room 414 "QCD Spin Physics at Belle" Matthias Grosse-Perdekamp University of Illinois _____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:00 p.m. Harvard University Lab for Particle Physics & Cosmology Seminars 18 Hammond Street, Palfrey House "The Quest for the Higgs" Sabine Lammer Columbia University cookies will be served http://www.lppc.physics.harvard.edu http://www.lppc.physics.harvard.edu/seminars/ 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Charting the landscape of modified gravity" Nemanja Kaloper UC Davis Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I Jefferson 250 "Computation in Nanometer-Scale Structures: Molecule Cascades" Don Eigler IBM Almaden Research Center 4:00 p.m. NO COLLOQUIA Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Math/Physics Seminar Building 2 Room 105 "Overview of D-branes in physics and mathematics." Michael Douglas Rutgers _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (postponed to Thursday, Deceember 13th) Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 String/Gravity Seminar "TBA" Oliver Dewolfe University of Colorado Refreshments will be served. http://ctp.lns.mit.edu _ The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/ Department of Physics - Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium ___________________________________________ Speaker: Professor David Weiss, Penn State University Title: Experiments with gases in 0D, 1D and more Time: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 @ 4:30 p.m. - Tea @ 4:00 p.m. Place: Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Jefferson 250 "Classical Computation in Quantum Nanostructures: A Long Road to an Uncertain Future" Don Eigler IBM Almaden Research Center 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "The Role of High Temperature Gas Reactors in the Global Expansion of Nuclear Power" Michael Campbell Refreshments @ 3:45 pm in 8-329 (Physics Common Room) http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html _____________________________________________________________________ Friday, December 14, 2007 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "ELM Suppression Using Edge Resonant Magnetic Perturbations in DIII-D" Todd Evans General Atomics _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html