March 12, 2007 to March 16, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, March 12, 2007

2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar
"MARMOSET: A Path from LHC Data to the New Standard Model"
Natalia Toro, Harvard
Refreshments will be served

3:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 34, Room 401A
Scott Aaronson
University of Waterloo
"The Limitations of Quantum Computers"

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"A Cloak of Invisibility: Harry Potter Does Electromagnetism"
John Pendry
Imperial College, London
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
"Superfluid 4He? Does It Exist?"
Professor Bill Brinkman
Princeton University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu/
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

No talks were submitted for today

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Theory seminar
"Metastability"
Michael Dine, U. C. Santa Cruz
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
High Energy Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
Brown University
"Holographic QCD and Pion Mass"
Prof. Koji Hasimoto
U Tokyo, Komaba

4:00 p.m.
Department of Physics
Boston College
Professor John Ditusa
Louisiana State University
Higgins 310
Refreshments 3:30 p.m. Mugar Atrium

4:30 PM
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard
University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases: Recent Results from Innsbruck"
Rudi Grimm
University of Innsbruck
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
4:30 PM
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 453
"There is Only One String Theory"
Simeon Hellerman
IAS Princeton____________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, March 15, 2007

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "High Energy Processes in
Shell-type SNRs and Pulsar Wind Nebulae"
Felix Aharonian
MPI Heidelberg
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
"Binary Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Numerical Relativity"
Joan Centrella 
NASA 
For more information:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html
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Friday, March 16, 2007

1:15 pm.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 256
"New transitions and dualities via string cosmology"
Ian Swanson
IAS
Lunchtime seminar; refreshments available in 256 at 1:10.

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 211
"Hadron Collider Physics: Recent Results from the TeVatron and Getting Ready
for LHC"
Simona Rolli
Tufts University
Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 2:30 pm

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"New Applications of Micro-CT Imaging: From Skeletal Fragility to Tissue
Regeneration"
Robert Guldberg
Georgia Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, Pierce 213, following 
the colloquium
www.me.gatech.edu/me/people/academic.faculty/Guldberg_Robert.html