October 2, 2006 to October 6, 2006 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Harvard 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/unsubscribe from the bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Monday, October 2, 2006 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Bringing Hearing to the Deaf: Cochlear Implants: A Technical and Personal Account" Ian Shipsey Purdue University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm http://www.physics.harvard.edu Monday, October 2, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar ``Nucleon properties: from lattice QCD to the chiral limit" Massimiliano Procura University of Munich Refreshments will be served ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 3, 2006 2:30 pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Eternal Inflation in Realizations of Brane Inflation" Saswat Sarangi Columbia Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 3:30 pm Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107 "Physics at the CERN Large Hadron Collider" James W. Rohlf Boston University Refreshments served at 3:15 in 1st floor lounge ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 4, 2006 2:30 pm Brown Univesity Physics Department Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "On the CFT/AdS Correspondence" Dr. Ofer Aharony Weizmann Institute and IAS/Princeton _ Wednesday, October 4, 4:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Joint Theory seminar ``Landscape Predictions for Higgs Boson and Top Quark Masses" Lawrence Hall University of California, Berkeley/LBNL Refreshments will be served -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, October 5, 2006 4:00 pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Nanoscale Building Blocks for Functional Materials and Devices" Prof. Hao Zeng SUNY Buffalo Refreshments will be served _Wednesday, October 4, 2006 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson 356 Eugene Demler Harvard University, Physics Department Refreshments served at 4:00 PM 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Inflation and the String Theory Landscape" Alan Guth Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html Thursday, October 5, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University Lyman 425 "Formation of a nematic fluid at high fields in Sr3Ru2O7" Andrew Mackenzie University of St. Andrews ___________________________________________________________________________ Friday, October 6, 2006 12:45 am Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Holography and renormalization in Lorentzian signature" Amit Sever Brandeis University Lunchtime seminar; refreshments available from 12:35. Friday, October 6, 2006, 12 Noon Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Formation of nematic fluid at high fields in Sr3Ru207" Andy Mackenzie University of St. Andrews, Scotland 1:30 pm Brown University Physics Department Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 (Note day and time) "*Intelligent Design of Quark Gluon Plasma: An Overview of RHIC Physics Prof. Rudy Hwa University of Oregon 3:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "The Plasma Physics of Meteors:from Ionization to Turbulence to Dissipation" Meers Oppenheim Boston University October 4, 2006 4:00 p.m. Colloquium Department of Physics Professor Gang Xiao Brown University Coherent Spin-Dependent Tunneling and Spintronics Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30, Mugar Auditorum 4:00 pm Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "Mathematical models of hurricanes, dust storms and similar natural phenomena" Grigory Barenblatt University of California at Berkeley Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium http://math.berkeley.edu/~gibar/