April 30, 2007 to May 4, 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 30, 2007 1:30PM, NW17-218 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "The Path to Magnetic Fusion: Crossing the Next Frontier" R.J. Goldson and J.E. Mennard Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar "Quantum-classical crossover in electrodynamics" Janos Polonyi LPT, Universite Louis Pasteur Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Information Processing Seminar Building 26, Room 214 "Geometry and Control in Quantum Information Science" Navin Khaneja Harvard Monday, April 30, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Pappalardo Room, 4-349 (note change in room) ``The Black Hole Singularity in a Quark Gluon Plasma" Stephen Shenker, Stanford University Refreshments will be served 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Quantum Phase Transitions" Subir Sachdev Harvard University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, May 1, 2007 2:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar Building NE25, 4th flr. Seminar room "Remarks on Eternal Inflation Measures" Stephen Shenker Stanford Refreshments will be served Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 12:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Composite gluinos at the LHC" Thomas Gregoire Boston University 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "Photo-physics of carbon nanotubes" Anna Swan Boston University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Joint Physics/Quantitative Biology Colloquium Abelson 131 "Cholesterol/phospholipids interactions: Evidence of ordering and displacement of cholesterol by alcohol" Dr. Ka Yee Lee University of Chicago Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm ___________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, May 2, 2007Wednesday, May 2, 2007 2:00 p.m. Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory Colloquium Lyman Lab 425 11 Oxford Street "Defects in graphene: electronic structure, magnetism, and scattering mechanisms" Prof. dr. M. I. Katsnelson Radboud University Nijmegen Institute for Molecules and Materials ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, May 3, 2007 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Search for the Missing Baryons" Mike Shull University of Colorado 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 "Neutrinos from Supernova 1987A: What we learned, what we didn't, and the strategies for detecting supernova neutrinos again (soon!)" John Beacom Ohio State University http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, May 4, 2007 1:15 pm. Harvard University Lunchtime Duality Seminar Jefferson 256 "Consistency Conditions On The S-Matrix Of Massless Particles" Freddy Cachazo Perimeter Institute refreshments served in 256 at 1:10 3:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Progress of Resistive Wall Mode Stabilization on the DIII-D Device" Michio Okabayashi PPPL Friday, May 4th 3:00 PM Boston College Department of Physics Higgins 310 "Molecular Motors: Observations and Theory" Michael Fisher University of Maryland Refreshments served in Mugar Atrium at 2:30 PM Friday, May 4, 2007 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "The coordination number of granular cylinders" Seth Fraden Brandeis University _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html