April 23, 2007 to April 27, 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, April 23, 2007 3:00 pm *Note time change for this week only Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25, 4th Flr. seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar "Finding minima of unknown functions: the topology of the Thomson problem" Alfredo Iorio Charles University of Prague/Salerno University Refreshments will be served Monday, April 23, 2007 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 Nanopores, Nanotubes and DNA" Professor Jene Golovchenko Harvard University Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. htp://physics.brown.edu/ 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Beyond Computation: The P versus NP question" Michael Sipser MIT Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:15 pm MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science Kolker Room, 26-414 Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium "Dark Matter" Professor Peter Fisher, MIT ___________________________________________________________ Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "A Tale of Two Fluids: From the Kondo Lattice to Underdoped Cuprates" David Pines UC Davis Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Joint Physics/Neuroscience Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Can Neuronal Networks Trade Space for Time?" Dr. Olivia White Pappalardo Fellow in Physics MIT Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm ____________________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room String/Gravity Theory seminar `Hierarchy Problems in String Theory-the Power of Large Volume" Joe Conlon Cambridge University Refreshments will be served Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 12:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Special Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "The Physics of Complex Networks, with applications to molecules, chemical factories and elections" Professor Jose Andrade Departamento de Fisica UFC Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil 4:00 PM Department of Physics Boston College Professor Dimitri Basov University of California, San Diego "Electrostatic doping of new materials: Challenges, opportunities and first accomplishments" Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30 PM Mugar Atrium 4:00 pm UMASS Lowell Physics Department Colloquium Series, OH218 "Subcellular Surgery and Nanosurgery" Professor Eric Mazur UMass Lowell Refreshments at 3:30 pm 4:00 p.m. Department of Physics Boston College Professor Dimitri Basov University of California-San Diego Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30 Mugar Atrium Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson 356 Coherent manipulation of single electronic and nuclear spins in diamond Dr. Lily Childress Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00 PM 4:30 PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "MARMOSET: The Path from LHC data to the New Standard Model via On- Shell Effective Theories" Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard) ____________________________________________________________ Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:30 pm Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Couplings and Spectra in a Successful Modular Inflation Scenario" Wan-Il Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Thursday, April 26, 2007, 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar 3 Cummington Street, Room 595 "Getting over the top" Ayana Holloway Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Bok Prize Lecture: Discoveries of Hypervelocity Stars and What They Tell Us About the Galactic Center" Warren Brown 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 "Surveys: The Flip Side of Observational Astronomy" James E. Gunn Princeton University For more information: http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html 4:30 pm Clark University President's Lecture Series Razzo Hall Traina Center for the Arts "Putting It All Together" Professor Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate MIT, Department of Physics ____________________________________________________________ Friday, April 27, 2007 1:15 pm. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 256 "Hierarchy Problems in String Theory: The Power of Large Volume" Joseph Conlon Cambridge University Lunchtime seminar; refreshments served in 256 at 1:10. 3:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Turbulence Dynamics, Toroidal Momentum and the Origins of 'Spontaneous' Rotation" Patrick H. Diamond University of California, San Diego 3:00 pm Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Room 211 "The Casimir Force: Still Mysterious after Nearly 60 Years" Steve Lamoreaux Yale University Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm 3:00 pm Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium/Public Lecture Robinson Hall Room 253 "Some Unanswered Questions in Physics: Extra Dimensions to Dark Energy" Krzysztof Sliwa Tufts University Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html