May 7, 2007 to May 11, 2007

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, May 7, 2007

Monday, May 7, 2007, 2 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
"Exploring Quantum Matter in Artificial Crystals of Light"
Immanuel Bloch
University Mainz

Monday, May 7, 200
4:15 p.m. (coffee and cookies at 4pm)
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)
26-505, Kolker Room
"Charm physics at CLEO"
Roy Briere, Carnegie Mellon University


12:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Particles & Fields Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Using Top Quarks to Discern New Physics at the LHC"
Devin Walker
UC, Berkeley

2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar
``Viscous Hydrodynamics and RHIC"
Paul Romatschke, University of Washington Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information Processing Seminar
Building 26, Room 214
Dave Bacon
(U. of Washington)
"Quantum Algorithms Using Clebsch-Gordan Transforms"

4:15 p.m. (CANCELLED)
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Physical Lab, Rm. 250
Colloquium:  "Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing"
Matthew P.A. Fisher
Kavli Institute, UCSB
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Quantum nature of the Big Bang in the FRW models"
Abhay Ashtekar
Penn State
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

3:00 p.m. (CANCELLED)
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Physical Lab., Rm. 250
Lecture I:  "Spin Liquids in Frustrated Quantum Antiferromagnets"
Matthew P.A. Fisher
Kavli Institute, UCSB
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
String/Gravity Theory seminar
"Quantum Horizons of the Standard Model Landscape"
Sergei Dubovsky
Harvard
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, May 9, 4:30 pm
Boston University
Physics Department Joint Theory Seminar
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"de-gravitation"
Gia Dvali
New York University
Refreshments served at 4 PM__

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Thursday, May 10, 2007

3:00 p.m. (CANCELLED)
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Physical Lab., Rm. 250
Lecture II:  "Dynamical Disentanglement in a non-Abelian Quantum Hall State"
Matthew P.A. Fisher
Kavli Institute, UCSB

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology"
Robert Kirshner
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
www.cfa.harvard.edu/colloquia
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Special Seminar
Lyman 425
"Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots: from the Coulomb Blockade to the SU(4) Kondo and the Mixed Valence regimes."
Gleb Finkelstein
Duke University
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Friday, May 11, 2007

3:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Magnetic Fluctuation-induced Particle Transport and Flow Generation"
David Brower
University of Texas


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