May 14, 2007 to May 18, 2007
BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, May 14, 2007

12:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Precision constraints on warped scenarios with custodial protection"
Eduardo Ponton
Columbia University

2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar
"Dense Gluon Matter in High Energy QCD"
Kenji Fukushima, Brookhaven National Lab Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 26, Room 214
Itai Arad
(Hebrew University)
"Efficient quantum algorithms for an additive approximation  of the Tutte
polynomial and the q-state Potts model"

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Universal Scaling Laws from Genomes and Cells to Ecosystems and Cities;
Towards a Unified Quantitative Theory of Biological Structure and
Organization"
Geoffrey West
Los Alamos
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

No talks were submitted for this day
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 26, Room 214
Lorenza Viola
(Dartmouth)
"Physical and information-theoretic aspects of generalized entanglement"

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
4:30 PM
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 453
"A smooth bouncing cosmology with scale invariant spectrum"
Paolo Creminelli (ICTP, Trieste)

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
2:00pm
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Abelson 229
"How Different is the Dynamics of a Lennard-Jones Binary Fluid from 
One-Component Lennard-Jones Fluid?"
Dr. Takayuki Narumi
Tohoku University, Japan___________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, May 17, 2007

12:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar
3 Cummington Street, Room 595
TBA
Yasunori Nomura
UC, Berkeley

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips
Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "pH Lecture: Spectral Fingerprints
of Earth-like Exoplanets"
Lisa Kaltenegger
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
"One-Dimensional Metals in Theory and Experiment"
Bertrand Halperin
Harvard University
For more information:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html
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Friday, May 18, 2007

3:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"General Theory of MHD Stability with Flow and a Resistive Wall"
Luca Guazzotto
Plasma Science & Fusion Center


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