October 30 to November 3, 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 30, 2006 12:00 noon MIT Department of Physics: Chez Pierre Talk Room 12-132 Alexei Tsvelik Brookhaven National Laboratory 12:30 pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 3 Cummington St, room 595 "Can we see unification at the LHC?" Tuhin Roy Boston University 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Singularities and Mode Factorization in Field Theories" Iain Stewart MIT-CTP Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Information Processing Seminar Building 26, Room 214 "Quantum Simulations of Quantum and Classical Systems" Rolando Somma Los Alamos National Laboratory 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Extrasolar Planets: Seeing the Light" David Charbonneau Harvard University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:30 pm Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus and Holley 168 "Gauge Theories, Strings and Cosmology" Professor Igor Klebanov Princeton University ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:30 pm Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "Multiple Rhythms and Switches in the Nervous System" Nancy Kopell Boston University Refreshments served at 3:15 in the 1st floor lounge ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 1, 2006 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room String/Gravity Theory seminar "Liouville theory, modular forms and elliptic genera" Tohru Eguchi University of Tokyo/Princeton Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Department of Physics Boston College Professor Raj Mohanty Boston University "Quantum Nanomechanics: Quantized Motion and Stochastic Resonance" Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30 p.m. Mugar Atrium Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium in Jefferson 356 "Quantum Information Processing with dispersive interactions in atomic ensembles" Dr. Anders Sorensen, Nils Bohr Institute Refreshments served at 4:00 PM _ ____________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, November 2, 2006 3:00 pm Boston University Math-Physics Seminar 111 Cummington St. Math Dept., Room MCS 135 "Quasi-modular forms and mirror symmetry for elliptic curves" Noriko Yui Queen's, Canada Tea at 2:45 pm http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html 4:00 pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "The Dark Energy Survey" Dr. Brenna Flaugher Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory Refreshments will be served Thursday, November 2, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Dynamic Mechanisms of Working Memory ” Haim Sompolinsky Hebrew University and Harvard University 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Generation and Quantum Storage of Single Photons" Vladan Vuletic MIT http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html 4:00 pm - CANCELLED Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Probing Near-Earth Asteroid Characteristics: The Japanese Hayabusa Mission to Asteroid 25143 Itokawa" Faith Vilas MMT Observatory tea and cookies at 3:30 pm http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, November 3, 2006 12:00 noon Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Using x-ray speckle to test dynamical scaling" Mark Sutton McGill University 12:45 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "A warm-up for noncompact integrable sigma models: The Sinh-Gordon model" Joerg Teschner DESY Lunchtime seminar: refreshments available from 12:35 Friday, November 3, 2006 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "Physical, chemical and mechanical aspects of lateral fluid phase coexistence in model and biological membranes" Tobias Baumgart University of Pennsylvania