September 24, 2007 to September 28, 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-events@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 24, 2007 Monday, September 24, 2007, 12:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Particles and Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Constraints on the S parameter" Matthew Reece Cornell University 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 Nuclear and Particle Seminar "Towards the baryon spectrum using lattice QCD" Colin Morningstar Carnegie Mellon University Refreshments will be served. http://ctp.lns.mit.edu 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Trapping and Manipulating Single Molecules in Solution" Adam Cohen 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 NO COLLOQUIUM 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology" Professor David Charbonneau Harvard University Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu ________________________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Ave. "The pseudogap and the phase diagram of the cuprate superconductors" Phuan Ong Princeton University Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m. in 1st floor lounge 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Department of Physics Colloquium Abelson 131 "Dynamics in the Metaphase Spindle: Cell Division and Single Molecules" Dr. Dan Needleman Harvard Medical School Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. outside Abelson 131 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 6c-442 String/Gravity Seminar "Generalized (non)-geometric flux vacua" Mariana Grana CEA/Saclay Refreshments will be served. http://ctp.lns.mit.edu 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Non-commutative Field Theory with Twistor-like Coordinates" Tomasz Taylor Northeastern University 4:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Department of Physics and Applied Physics OH218 "Chasing solar eclipses--great science and great adventures" Martina Arndt Bridgewater State College Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. 4:00p.m. Boston College Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 "Quantum Spin Liquid: From Drought to Deluge" Professor Patrick Lee Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30, Mugar Atrium. For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu _________________________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, September 27, 2007 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Spin and Magnetic Evolution of Millisecond X-ray Pulsars" Deepto Chakrabarty MIT tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/colloquia 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Michelson and the Development of Modern Physics" Daniel Kleppner MIT http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2007.html Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "Disorder, Interactions, and Crossovers in Quantum Dots " Ganpathy Murthy University of Kentucky and Harvard Thursday, September 27, 2007, 4:00 pm. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Emergent geometry and strong coupling SCFT from first principles (Towards a proof of the AdS-CFT correspondence)" David Berenstein UCLA ________________________________________________________________________ Friday, September 28, 2007 Event to be rescheduled at a later date. 12 noon Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. TBA Nathalie Gulbahce Northeastern University Pizza served at 11:30 a.m. Friday, September 28, 2007, 12 Noon Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Length Scales in Glass Forming Liquids" Sri Sastry Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore Pizza served at 11:30 AM Friday, September 28, 2007 4:00 p.m. Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences The Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "Femtosecond Lasers: From Frequency Metrology to Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion" Franz Kaertner M.I.T. _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html