September 10, 2007 to September 14, 2007 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Brandeis 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-event@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu . Late entries send to: bapc-late@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe from the bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html ___________________________________________________________ Monday, September 10, 2007 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 6c-442 "Was Einstein Wrong? Astrophysical tests of effective quantum gravity" Nico Yunes Penn State University refreshments will be served http://ctp.lns.mit.edu 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Information Seminar CTP 6-310 "Counterexamples to additivity of minimum output p-Renyi entropy for close to 0" Aram Harrow University of Bristol 4:15 p.m. MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 Room 414 "Heavy Ion Collisions and the Transport Coefficients of QCD" Harvey Meyer MIT www2.1ns.mit.edu/seminars ___________________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series---Department of Physics Colloquium Abelson 131 "Entropy and Temperature of Granular Matter" Bulbul Chakraborty Brandeis University Refreshments served outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm 4:15 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-122 "Hard Potentials for Soft Systems: Geometry and Elasticity of Entropy-Dominated Systems" Yacov Kantor Tel Aviv University http://www.clarku.edu/departments/physics/events/colloquium.cfm ___________________________________________________________ Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics String Seminar Seminar Room 6c-442 TBA Eva Silverstein Stanford University Refreshments will be served 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Nearing the Horizon of a Heterotic String" Aaron Simons Brown University ___________________________________________________________ Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CFA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "What low luminosity galaxies tell us about cosmology" Michael Blanton New York University tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/colloquia Wednesday, September 13, 2007, 3PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Improved H-mode (Hybrid scenario) results from ASDEX Upgrade" A.C.C. Sips IPP - Garching -- 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Beauty in the Mirror: Looking for New Physics in CP Violation" Gabriella Sciolla MIT http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html ___________________________________________________________ Friday, September 14, 2007 No events posted for this day. _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html