February 5 to February 9,2007 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Harvard 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 to or unsubscribe from the bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Monday, February 5, 2007 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Discovery Physics at the LHC" Maria Spiropulus CERN Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 6, 2007 2:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar "Searching for the End of Gravity's Rainbow: Gravitational Wave Production After Inflation" Richard Easther Yale University Refreshments will be served Monday, February 5th 1:30pm Theory Seminar Brandeis University Location: Abelson 333 Dr. Oleg Lunin, University of Chicago "Gravitational Description of Wilson Lines" 3:00 pm Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Department of Physics Boston College Professor Vesna Mitrovic Brown University Higgins 235 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "Strongly correlated quantum systems: from electronic materials to cold atoms" Eugene Demler Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 pm Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "The Phase Chip: Manipulating Phase Diagrams with Microfluidics" Seth Fraden Brandeis University Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building Abelson 131 "Gauge Theories, Strings and Gravity" Dr. Oleg Lunin University of Chicago Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 7, 2007 11:00 am Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 229 Dr. Oliver Ruebenacker Harvard University and UConn "Self-Assembly of the Endoplasmic Reticulum" 2:30 pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Black Saturn" Dr. Henriette Elvang MIT 4:00 pm Colloquium Department of Physics Boston College Professor Marcelo Gleiser Dartmouth College Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30 p.m. Mugar Atrium 4:00 pm MIT LNS Special Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "A Program for Precision Measurements of the Quark Spin Structure of the Proton" Ralf Seidl University of Illinois 4:15pm MIT LNS Special Seminar 26-414 "A Program fro Precision Measurements of the Quark Spin Structure of the Proton" Ralf Seidl University of Illinois 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics sponsored by Pappalardo Room Building 4-349..NOTE (This week only) Joint Theory Seminar "Eternal inflation, bubble collisions and the persistence of memory" Alan Guth, MIT Refreshments served at 4:00 pm ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, February 8, 2007 12:30 PM - CANCELLED Boston University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Cooperativity, dynamic heterogeneity and the emergence of a growing lengthscale at the glass transition" Giulio Biroli CEA Saclay Pizza served at 12:15 PM 1:30 pm Tufts University Robinson Hall, Room 250 Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar "Cosmic Necklaces from String Theory" Louis Leblond Texas A&M University 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Tachyons and the Dynamics of String Theory" Dr. Matthew Headrick Stanford University Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Probing the Early Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background" Matias Zaldarriaga CfA tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Condensed matter physics and quantum information processing with cold polar molecules" Peter Zoller Universita"t Innsbruck For more information: http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 9, 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "The Plasma Physics of Meteors: from Ionization to Turbulence to Dissipation" Meers Oppenheim Boston University 11:45 a.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Moduli Stabilization in Non-Geometric Backgrounds" Melanie Becker Texas A&M Lunchtime seminar; refreshments available at 11:35. 12:00 PM Boston University Physics Department Metcalf Science Building, Rm. 352 Condensed Matter Seminar "Optical Control of Molecular Spontaneous Emission" Mathias Steiner Tu"bingen University, Germany Pizza served at 11:30 AM 1:30 pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 333 "The Uses of Ricci Flow" Dr. Matthew Headrick Stanford University Friday, February 9, 2007 11:00 am The Rowland Institute at Harvard, 100 Edwin H.Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02142 "Micro- and Nanotechnology Tools for Tissue Repair" Seminar Room 2nd floor angeeta N. Bhatia, MD, PhD _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html