October 23 -27, 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 to or unsubscribe from the bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Monday, October 23, 2006 11:00 am Harvard University CNS Special Seminar "The Synergy of Nanofabrication Technology Development and Applications" Henry I. Smith, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA http://www.cns.fas.harvard.edu 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Determining the fundamental parameters of QCD on the lattice" Harvey Meyer MIT-CTP Refreshments will be served 3:30 pm Brandeis University Physics Building Abelson 239 "The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project" Kirk Gilmore LSST Camera Manager 4:00 pm MIT Room 26-214 Quantum Information Processing Seminar Mortin Roetteler NEC Labs "Quantum convolutional codes" 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Complex Networks: From the Web to the Cell" Laszlo Barabasi University of Notre Dame tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:00 pm Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus and Holley 168 "How DNA Worms through Protein Channels" Prof. M. Muthukumar Polymer Science and Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Refreshments commence at 4:00 pm ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:30 pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "On Incipient Black Holes and Information Loss" Tanmay Vachaspati Case Western Reserve Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Solid Earth Physics Seminar 20 Oxford Street Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 "Paleoseismology and Earthquake Surface Ruptures: Could We Learn Anything about Earthquake Processes?" Yann Klinger Institut de Physique du Globe Paris, France Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Heavy Electron Quantum Criticality: signs of a new universality ” Piers Coleman Harvard University Tuesday, October 24 4:15 PM Harvard University, Jefferson 453 Harvard Phenomenology Seminar "Inflation without inflaton(s)" Scott Watson Univ. of Toronto Refreshments served at 3:45 PM 3:00 pm Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Boston College Department of Physics Professor Yayu Wang UC, Berkeley Higgins 235 3:00 pm 3:30 pm Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 Chertok Lecture "Quantum Computing" Ray Laflamme University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Refreshments served at 3:00 pm in 1st floor lounge 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building Abelson 131 "Giant number fluctuations and cooperative phenomena in self propelled particles" Dr. Arshad Kudrolli Clark University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 pm ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:00 am Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Active MHD Spectroscopy on the Joint European Torus" Alex Klein JET 2:30 pm Brown University Physics Department Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Aspects of Factorized Scattering in Ads/CFT" Dr. Ian Swanson IAS, Princeton University 4:00 pm Umass Lowell OH218 "Strange Beauty and the Matter/AntiMatter Puzzle" Professor Christopher Paus MIT Refreshments at 3:30 pm 4:00 pm Department of Physics Colloquium Boston College Professor David R. Smith Duke University "The Power of Metamaterials: From Negative Refraction to Invisibility Cloaks" Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30 pm, Mugar Atrium 4:30 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Joint Theory seminar ``Geometrically Induced Metastable Vacua" Cumrun Vafa Harvard Refreshments will be served ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:30 pm....(Note Special Day) Brown University Physics Department Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Magnon Bounstates in Gauage/String Duality" Heng-Yu Chen DAMTP, Cambridge 3:00 pm Boston University Math-Phys Seminar 111 Cummington St. Mathematics Dept. Room MCS 135 "Quantization and Chiralization" Victor Kac MIT Tea at 2:45 pm http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Detection of Low-Mass Extrasolar Planets by Gravitational Microlensing" David Bennett University of Notre Dame tea and cookies at 3:30 pm http://www.cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:00pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Structure and property studies on carbon nanotubes" Prof. Z.F. Ren Boston College Refreshments will be served Special String Seminar: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:45 pm Harvard University Special Seminar Jefferson 453 "Supersymmetric renormalization prescription and finitness in N = 4 super-Yang--Mills theory" Laurent Balieu LPTHE Lunchtime seminar: refreshments available from 11:40 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "The Quark-Gluon Liquid at RHIC" Gunther Roland Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, October 27, 2006 12:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Friday Lunch Club "Ruminations of A Centenarian" Laszlo Tisza MIT, Professor of Physics, Emeritus 12:45 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Lunchtime Seminar Jefferson 453 "On the CFT/AdS Correspondence and Massive Gravitons" Ofer Aharony Weizmann Institute/IAS refreshments available at 12:35 pm 4:00 pm Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "MEMS-Based Lasers" Carol Livermore Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, Pierce 213, after the talk http://www.me.mit.edu/people/personal/livermor.htm _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html