March 26, 2007 to March 30, 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, March 26, 20007 12:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar 3 Cumminton Street Rm. 595 "Event generation with Twistors" Michael Peskin SLAC ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:00pm Brandeis University Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics: Lecture I Abelson 131 "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Modern Mathematics" Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf University of Amsterdam Wine and cheese and hors d'ourves after the lecture in the Volen Bridge Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131 http://www.math.brandeis.edu/eisenbud07.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:30 PM Boston University Physics Department High Energy Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: from puzzle to solution" V. Berezinsky Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy 4:00 pm Brandeis University Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics: Lecture II Abelson 131 "The Quantum Geometry of Topological String Theory" Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf University of Amsterdam Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131 http://www.math.brandeis.edu/eisenbud07.html 4:00 pm UMASS LOWELL Physics Department Colloquium Series, OH218 "Biophysics of Mucin Gels and How They Protect the Stomach from Digesting Itself" Professor Rama Bansil Boston University Refreshments at 3:30 pm 4:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Joint Theory Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "A Gravity Dual of Single Sector SUSY Breaking" Tony Gherghetta University of Minnesota Refreshments served at 4:00 PM ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "The Origin and Evolution of Luminous Infrared Galaxies: new results from the Spitzer-COSMOS survey." David Sanders University of Hawaii tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia 4:30pm (note time change) Brandeis University Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics: Lecture III Abelson 131 "Quantum Field Theory, D-Modules and Integrable Systems" Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf University of Amsterdam Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131 http://www.math.brandeis.edu/eisenbud07.html _ Thursday, March 29, 2007, 4:15 pm Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-104 "Climate Change: Update 2007" Professor Rich Wolfson Middlebury College ___________________________________________________________________________ Friday, March 30, 2007 3:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Studies of Turbulence and Transport in a Linear Magnetized Plasma: Intermittent Turbulence and Transport Suppression Through Biasing" Troy Carter UCLA 3:00 pm Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Room 211 "High Temperature Superconductors: Playgrounds for Broken Symmetries" Laura Greene University of Illinois, McCarthy Lecturer Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm