September 17, 2007 to September 21, 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 17, 2007 12:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Gluons scattering at strong coupling from AdS" Juan Maldacena IAS Monday, September 17, 2007 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Information Seminar Room 36-428 "Counterexamples to the p-norm multiplicativity conjecture" Patrick Hayden McGill __ 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Nuclear and Particle Seminar "Phase Transitions and the Perfectness of Fluids" Jiunn-Wei Chen National Taiwan University/MIT Refreshments will be served. http://ctp.lns.mit 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Sea Sponges: A Textbook in Materials Physics" Joanna Aizenberg Harvard University, SEAS Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26, Room 414 "The Future of Heavy Flavor Physics" David Hitlin Caltech _____________________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar "String Theory and Inflationary Cosmology" Shamit Kachru Stanford University Refreshments will be served at 2 p.m. http://www-ctp.mit.edu/cosmo.html 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Avenue "What PCA and clustering reveal about human migration, longevity and breast cancer" Gyan Bhanot Rugters University Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m. in 1st floor lounge 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium Abelson 131 "Pattern Formations in Reactive Micro-Emulsions" Professor Irving Epstein Brandeis University Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131 _____________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:00 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "Partition of 3d Pure Quantum Gravity" Xi Yin Harvard University 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics String/Gravity Theory Seminar "Black holes, modular forms and marginal stability" Ashoke Sen MRI, India Refreshments will be served. http://ctp.lns.mit.edu 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar Room NW17-218 "Improved H-mode (Hybrid scenario) results from ASDEX Upgrade" A.C.C. Sips IPP - Garching 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar MIT 3-270 "21st Century Tohoku University and its thrust in Advanced Materials" Professor Akihisa Inoue Tohoku University, Japan Contact: Ai Ishitobi a.ishitobi@cgjbos.org 4:00 p.m. Boston College Colloquium Higgins 310 "Strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma state in relativistic heavy ion collisions" Peter Levai KFKI Research Inste. for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Mugar Atrium, Higgins Hall Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218 Refreshments served at 3:30 pm "Nanomechanical oscillators for signal processing” Raj Mohanty Boston University Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Dept of Physics and Applied Physics OH218 "Nanomechanical oscillators for signal processing” Raj Mohanty Boston University Refreshments served at 3:30 pm Thursday, September 20, 2007 3:30 p.m. Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar MCS 180, Math Dept, 111 Cummington St. "Nonperturbative aspects of QFT" Dirk Kreimer IHES and Boston University Refreshments served at 2:45 p.m. http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "A New "Twist" in Biopolymer Condensation: The Role of Chirality in Wigner Crystallization" Greg Grayson University of Massachusetts, Amherst Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 “’Naturalness’ in Field Theory, String Theory and Nature” Shamit Kachru Stanford University http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html Thursday, September 20, 2007, 4:00 pm. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 256 "An algorithmic approach to heterotic compactification" Lara Anderson Oxford Lunchtime seminar; refreshments will be available. "Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics" The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Andrea Ghez, University of California, Phillips Auditorium, Harvard College Observatory, 4:00 pm ____________________________________________________________________ Friday, September 21, 2007 Friday, September 21, 2007, 12 Noon Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Building, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Opto-Mechanics of deformable Fabry-Pérot Cavities" Pizza served at 11:30 AM