February 12 to February 16, 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 12, 2007 1:30 pm Theory Seminar Brandeis University Dr. Allan Adams, MIT Physics Building - Abelson 333 Title: TBA 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar "Unusual Higgs or SUSY from Natural Electroweak symmetry Breaking" Radovan Dermisek IAS Refreshments will be served 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Vorticity and the Phase Diagram of High-Tc Superconductors" N. Phuan Ong Princeton University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:30 pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Eternal Inflation and the Transition from Chance to Biological Evolution in the History of Life" Eugene V. Koonin NCBI, NIH Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "DNA translocation, diffusion and unzipping through a Nanopore: The physics of polymers in a highly confined space" Amit Meller Boston University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the 1st floor lounge 4:00 pm Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium Brandeis University Physics Building Abelson 131 Dr. Allan Adams, MIT Title: TBA Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131 ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth floor seminar room String/Gravity Theory Seminar "String theory and quark-gluon plasma" Steven Gubser Princeton Refreshments will be served 4:00 p.m. Department of Physics Boston College Professor Pengcheng Dai ORNL Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30 p.m. Mugar Atrium 4:00 pm UMASS LOWELL Physics Department Colloquium Series, OH218 "Mapping the Energy Landscape of Biomolecules using Force Correlation Spectroscopy: Theory and Application" Professor Valeri Barsegov UMass Lowell Refreshments at 3:30 pm 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson 356 "Artificial atoms and molecules in quantum information science" Dr. Jake Taylor MIT Refreshments served at 4:00 PM _ _Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 4:30 PM Harvard University Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room J453 Joint Theory Seminar "Giant gravitons and small black holes in AdS/CFT" Davide Gaiotto Harvard Cokies served at 4:00 pm __________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Peeking into a Neutron Star: Neutrons, Condensates, or Quarks?" Feryal Ozel University of Arizona tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant" Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University For more information: http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html _ Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Emergence of Spin-Half Fermion Vortices and The Vortex Metal" Assa Auerbach Technion, Israel ___________________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 16, 2007 11:45 a.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Black Saturn" Henriette Elvang MIT Lunchtime seminar; refreshments available at 11:35. Friday, February 16, 2007, 12 Noon Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Boundary Field theory Approach to Superconducting Quantum Circuits" Professor P. Sodano University of Perugia, Italy Pizza served at 11:30 AM 3:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Dielectric Surface Flashover under Pulsed RF and Unipolar Excitation" Andreas Neuber Texas Tech University 3:00 pm Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Room 211 "Extrasolar Planets as a Blemish in Einstein's Telescope" David Bennett University of Notre Dame Refreshments served at 2:30 pm in Robinson Hall, Room 251 Friday, February 16, 2007 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge MA 02138 "Kinetic measurements during the nucleation and growth of Si and Ge nanowires" Frances Ross IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Friday, February 16, 2007 11 am. The Rowland Institute at Harvard University Methods Seminar 2nd floor seminar room 100 Edwin H.Land Blvd Cambridge MA 02142 "Doing Nanotechnology out of the Box" Jim Gimzewski Nanolab, UCLA _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html