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 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 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/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________________ 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 __________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html