April 2, 2007 to April 6, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, April 2, 2007

2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar
"Quantum field theory in graphene"
Dam T. Son
University of Washington
Refreshments will be served

Monday, April 2, 2007
4:15 PM
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)
Kolker Room, 26-414
“Fundamental Constants in Physics and their Time Dependence”
Harald Fritzsch
University of Munich
http://www.lns.mit.edu/seminars/nppc.html

 
Monday, April 2, 2007
4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"The Global Energy Challenge"
Dr. George Crabtree
Materials Science Division,
Argonne National Laboratory
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.

http://physics.brown.edu/4:15 pm
Harvard University and MIT Joint Colloquium
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Scientific Work of Andrei Dmitreyvich Sakharov"
Richard Wilson, Harvard University, and Bruno Coppi, MIT
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007

4:00pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Songbirds and Synfire Chains"
Prof. Henry Greenside
Duke University
Refreshments will be served 

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Theory seminar
"Branes In Strong RR Fluxes, Superluminal Velocities and Puff Field Theory"
Ori Ganor
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Department of Physics
Boston College
Professor John Negele
MIT
"Solving the Quark-Gluon Many Body Problem using Lattice QCD"
Higgins 310
Refreshments @ 3:30 PM Mugar Atrium

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
4:30 PM
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 453
  "Degravitation of the Cosmological Constant"
Justin Khoury
Perimeter Institute
4:00 p.m.
Department of Physics
Professor John Negele
MIT
Higgins 310
Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m. Mugar Atrium
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Thursday, April 5, 2007

12:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Superconducting Circuits as Artificial Atoms and Qubits "
Franco Nori
University of Michigan

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 4:00 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar
3 Cummington Street, Room 595
"Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Dependence"
Harald Fritzch
LM University Munich

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4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Clay Lecture: The Stellar Halos of Galaxies"
Beth Willman
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/colloquia

4:15 PM 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250
"The Uncanny Physics of Superhero Comic Books"
Jim Kakalios 
University of Minnesota 
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html 
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Thursday, April 5, 2007, 3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
"Manipulating optical information with coherent matter-wave dynamics"
Sean R. Garner
Harvard University


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Friday, April 6, 2007

1:15 pm.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Can N=8 Supergravity Be Finite?"
Radu Roiban
Penn State
Lunchtime seminar; refreshments served in 256 at 1:10.

Friday, April 6 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Pierce 209
"Photonic Crystal Fibres:  A Multi-faceted Superhighway for Light"
Philip Russell
University Erlangen-Nuremberg



1:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Physics Department
Jefferson 356
Special Seminar
"Novel Ways to Control the Motion of Either Tiny Particles or Quanta, with
Examples from Vortex Dynamics in Nano-Structured Superconductors"
Franco Nori
University of Michigan and RIKEN

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 211
"Quantum Computing with Braids"
Nick Bonesteel
Florida State University
Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm

3:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Comet Tempel Deep Impact"
Peter Schultz
Brown University


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