December 3, 2007 to December 7, 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
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Monday December 3, 2007
12:30 p.m.
Boston University
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Dynamical mu term in gauge mediation"
Antonio Delgado
Notre Dame du Lac
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Cosman Seminar Room
Nuclear and Particle Seminar
"Heavy Quark Physics in AdS_5"
Derek Teaney, SUNY Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
4:15 p.m.
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (Joint with Astro)
Building 26 Room 414
"Sunyaev-Zeldovich Observation with Bolocam"
Sunil Gowalla
Caltech
4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quasicrystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture"
Peter J. Lu
Harvard University, Physics
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 @ 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries by the Swift Mission"
Dr. Neil Gehrels
NASA/GSFC
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Lab for Particle Physics & Cosmology Seminars
18 Hammond Street, Palfrey House
"The Casimir Effect: Physical Manifestations of the Quantum Vacuum"
Bob Jaffe
MIT
cookies will be served
http://www.lppc.physics.harvard.edu
http://www.lppc.physics.harvard.edu/seminars/
Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 3:30 PM
Boston University
Benson T. Chertok Memorial Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Future of Particle Physics"
Pier Oddone
Director, Fermilab
Refreshments served at 3:00 PM in first floor lounge
2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
4:00pm
M.I.T.
Math/Physics Seminar
Bldg 2 Room 105
"Non-variational Plateau problems and applications to positive energy
theorems in relativity."
Michael Eichmair
Stanford
TUESDAY, December 4th (not Monday,12/3)at 4PM
MIT
Joint LNS-Astro
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge, 37-252(Note room change this week only)
"Sunyaev-Zeldovich Observations with Bolocam"
Sunil Gowalla, Caltech
ssachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
"The Census Taker's Hat"
Leonard Susskind
Stanford University
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"TBA"
Pier Oddone
Director, Fermilab
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge
4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Department Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Ejected Fungal Spores, and Solutions to the Moderate Reynolds number
navier Stokes Equation"
Michael Brenner
Harvard University
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
11:00 a.m.
Rowland Institute at Harvard
100 Edwin H.Land Blvd,
2nd floor seminar room
"Probing the character of microwave and optical transport in disordered
media"
Azriel Z. Genack
Queens College, CUNY
for more information visit:
http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/index.php
2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442
String/Gravity Seminar
"High-energy scattering and locality: gravity and strings"
Steven Giddings, University of California Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be served.
http://ctp.lns.mit.edu
4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Modelling Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms"
Professor Nicholas Hill
University of Glasgow
Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see:
http://www.physics.bc.edu
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
12:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Ultracold fermionic atoms in one dimension"
Wilhelm Zwerger
Technical University of Munich
3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Math.-Physics Seminar
MCS 180, Math-Dept, 111 Cummington St.
"Renormalization and the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism"
Kevin Costello
Northwestern U.
Refreshments served at 3:15.
For more information please see:
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html
4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Trapping and counting photons without destroying them: a new way to
look at light"
Serge Haroche
Ecole Normale Supe'rieure and Colle`ge de France
http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html
Thursday, December 6, 2007
4:00 pm
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
PRB 595
"GIM or shining in warped space"
Csaba Csaki
Cornell
Thursday, December 6, 2007, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"How Luminous Was the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole in the Past?"
Frederick Baganoff
MIT
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/colloquia
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Friday, December 7, 2007
3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NW17-218
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Turbulent Liquid Metal Dynamo Experiments"
Cary Forest
University of Wisconsin
3:30 p.m.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Designing Oleophobic Surfaces"
Gareth McKinley
M.I.T.
Refreshments will be served in Pierce 209 beginning at 3:30 p.m.;
colloquium will start at 4:00 p.m..
Thursday, December 6, 2007
4:00 pm
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
PRB 595
"GIM or shining in warped space"
Csaba Csaki
Cornell
Thursday, December 6, 2007 4 PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Geometric Phases in String Theory"
Julian Sonner
(Cambridge)
Tea & cookies in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:30.
Friday, December 7, 2007, 1:30 PM
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
"Molecular Modeling - A New Approach"
Dušanka Janežič
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pizza served
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