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 26, 2007 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Cruft 318 "Fine-tuning the dynamics of electron spins in quantum dots" Bill Coish University of Basil 12:30 pm Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar PRB 595 "Strings, black holes, and heavy ion collisions" Hong Liu MIT 2:00 pm Harvard University Applied Mechanics Colloquium Maxwell Dworkin G115 "Source Estimation of Aerosol Precursors Using 4 - Dimensional Variational data Assimilation" Daven henze Caltech Coffee will be served in Brooks Room Pierce Hall #213 at 3:00 pm 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Light and Shadows from Dark Matter" Stefano Profumo California Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Information Processing Seminar Building 26, Room 214 "Entanglement Renormalization: from Quantum Circuits to Topological Order" Guifre Vidal University of Queensland 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Matter-Antimatter Transformations at 3 Trillion Hertz" Joseph Kroll University of Pennsylvania Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Matrix Field Theorists Try to Fold RNA" Professor Anthony Zee Institute for Theoretical Physics University of California, Santa Barbara Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar "Oscillons Properties and Applications of the Lumps that Wouldn't Die" Marcelo Gleiser Dartmouth Refreshments will be served 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant" Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the 1st floor lounge 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series - Physics Colloquium Abelson 131 "String Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics" Dr. David Mateos University of California, Santa Barbara Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131 4:00 pm Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 Dr. David Mateos University of California, Santa Barbara "String Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics" ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 28, 2007 1:30 pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building Abelson 333 "String Theory and RHIC physics: The fundamental story" Dr. David Mateos University of California at Santa Barbara 2:30 pm Brown University Physics Department Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 TBA Prof. Hong Liu MIT 4:00 pm UMASS Lowell Physics Department Colloquium Series, OH218 "Surface Structure and Chemical Composition of Liquid Metal Alloys" Peter Pershan Harvard University Refreshments at 3:30 pm 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar New Center for Theoretical Physics 5 Cambridge Center 4th floor seminar room "Charmed Resonances and Effective Field Theory" Thomas Mehen Duke/MIT Refreshments served at 4:00 pm __ Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson 356 Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:30 PM Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Lyman 425 "Measurement and generation of single photons in a circuit" David Schuster Yale University Classical simulation of quantum many-body systems using a tensor network Guifre Vidal-Bonafont University of Brisbane Refreshments served at 4:00 PM http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/jointatomic.html February 28, 2007 4 PM Department of Physics Boston College Professor Richard Averitt Boston University Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30 PM in Mugar Atrium, Higgins Hall __________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, March 1, 2007 Thursday, March 1, 2007, 2:30 PM (new time) Boston University Physics Department Particle Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 (new room) "The International Linear Collider: a Detector Physicist's View of the Physics of the next generation Accelerator" George Gollin Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Beyond Computation: The P versus NP Question" Michael Sipser MIT For more information: http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, March 2, 2007 1:15 pm Harvard University (Note: new time and place for Duality Seminar) Duality Seminar, Lunchtime seminar Jefferson 256 "Applying AdS/CFT to 2+1 Dimensional Systems" Chris Herzog University of Washington refreshments available in 256 at 1:10 pm 3:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Plasma Shielding for In-Air and Under-Water Beam Processes" Ady Hershcovitch Brookhaven National Laboratory Thursday, March 1, 2007 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Taming Coulomb interaction in models for ionic solutions of water" John Weeks University of Maryland Thursday, March 1, 2007, 1:30 pm Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Tachyonic Open Inflationary Universes" Pedro Labrana Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile Friday, March 2, 2007, 12 Noon Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Superfluid disorder in quantum solids" Nikolai Prokofev University of Massachusetts, Amherst Pizza served at 11:30 AM _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html