April 9, 2007 to April 13, 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 9, 2007 12:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Rm. 595 "Graphene as a Lorentz-breaking defect quantum field theory" Dam Than Son University of Washington 4:15 pm Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Three Astrophysical Laboratories for Particle Physics" Avi Loeb Harvard University 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 "Finding the Higgs at the Tevatron" Dr. Gregorio Bernardi Fermilab Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ Monday, April 9, 2007, 4:15 PM MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Room 26-414 "n Strong Interactions, Known and Unknown, at the Large Hadron Collider" Matt Strassler, University of Washington ___________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Memorial Lecture Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "Cosmic Rays: the most energetic particles in the universe" James Cronin 1980 Nobel Laureate Physics Enrico Fermi Institute University of Chicago Refreshments served at 3:00 PM in 1st floor lounge ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 3:00 PM MIT LNS Special Seminar Room 35-225 (Corner of Mass Ave. and Vassar St.) “MiniBooNE Oscillation Results” Jocelyn Monroe , MIT 4:00 pm Boston College Physics Department Colloquium Series Professor Vinothan Manoharan Hrvard University Higgins 310 efreshments at 3:30 pm in Mugar Atrium 2:00 pm Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Results from MiniBooNE" Jennifer Raaf Boston University 4:00 pm UMASS LOWELL Physics Department Colloquium Series, OH218 "Nanomechanics: Quantized Motion, Stochastic Resonance and Spin Transport" Professor Raj Mohanty Boston University Refreshments at 3:30 pm 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Joint Theory Seminar ``The MSSM spectrum and hidden sector running" Martin Schmaltz Boston University Refreshments will be served 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson 356 "Quantum Optimal Control: a tool for scalable Quantum Information Processing" Tommaso Calarco ITAMP/Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00 PM _ Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 2:00 PM Boston University Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 “Results from Mini-BooNE” Jennifer Raaf Boston University Please note special time ___________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:00 am to 5:40 pm....NOTE: This is a two-day symposium happening today & tomorrow (See website for list of speakers & times) Brown University Department of Physics Barus & Holley, Rm. 190 "The BCS Theory of Superconductivity - 50 Years" Introduction by Provost, David Kertzer Brown University http://www.physics.brown.edu/50YearsBCS Refreshments will be served 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Emergence of Cooper pairs and the phase diagram of cuprates" Zlatko Tesanovic The Johns Hopkins University 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Understanding the Quark-gluon Plasma via String Theory" Hong Liu MIT http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, April 13, 2007 Friday, April 13, 2007, 12 Noon Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Inhomeogeneous Phases of Bosons in Optical Lattices" Smitha Vishveshwara University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 8:45 am to 5:00 pm... This is the 2'nd day of the two-day symposium listed above. (See website for list of speakers & times) Brown University Department of Physics Barus & Holley, Rm. 190 "The BCS Theory of Superconductivity - 50 Years" "Thermal and Quantum Fluctuations: Superconductor beyond BCS" Matthew Fisher Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics http://www.physics.brown.edu/50YearsBCS Refreshments will be served 1:15 pm. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 256 "Topological Strings on Compact Calabi-Yau 3-folds and 5d Black Hole Entropy" Min-xin Huang University of Wisconsin Lunchtime seminar; refreshments served in 256 at 1:10. 1:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Biophysics Seminar Metcalf Science Building, Rm. 352 "Combinatorial polymer brushes as a novel platform for probing assembly at interfaces" Jan Genzer North Carolina State University 3:00 pm Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Room 211 "A New-Tool Box for Hadronic Studies: Optics and Self-Organizing Networks" Simonetta Liuti University of Virginia Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html