October 9, 2006 to October 13, 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, 9, 2006 No talks today (Columbus Day Holiday) ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, 10, 2006 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Proof of Dark Matter Existence and Other Results from a Collision of Galaxy Clusters" Dr. Maxim Markevitch Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm 4:15 PM Harvard University, Jefferson 453 Harvard Phenomenology Seminar "Standard 4-D gravity on a brane in six dimensional flux compactifications" Lorenzo Sorbo Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst Refreshments served at 3:45 PM ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room String/Gravity Theory seminar ``TBA" Finn Larsen University of Michigan Refreshments will be served 2:30 pm Brown University Physics Department Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "How a Black Hole Emerges from a Pure State" Dr. Masaki Shigemori Caltech 4:00 pm UMASS, LOWELL OH218 "Optical biopsy: noninvasive detection of early cancer with elastic- scattering spectroscopy" Professor Irving J. Bigio Boston University Refreshments at 3:30 pm Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:30 PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 Gravitational Backreaction and Hubble Flow Matthew Kleban New York University 4:00 pm Colloquium Department of Physics Boston College Dr. Mike Norman Argonne National Laboratory "Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity?" Higgins 310 Refreshments Mugar Atrium 3:30 ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:00 pm Boston University Special Seminar Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry Departments Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Dynamics of Detachment of Real and Artificial Cells" Professor Francoise Brochard Institute Curie, Paris Pizza lunch discussion 12-1PM 3:30 pm Boston University Special Colloquium Physics and Chemistry Departments Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "Neural growth via self organization of axons" Professor Pierre-Gilles De Gennes Institute Curie, Paris Refreshments served at 3:00 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Search for the Higgs boson at the Tevatron" Dr. Gregorio Bernardi Laboratoire the Physique Nucleaire et de Hautes Energies - Paris Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "The Spin of the Near-Extreme Kerr Black Hole GRS 1915+105" Jeff McClintock CfA tea and cookies at 3:30 pm http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distinguished Pappalardo Lecture Building 10, Room 250 "Cosmology: Man's Place in the Universe" Virginia Trimble University of California, Irvine http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, 13, 2006 12:45 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Small black holes in string theory: Some puzzles" Aninda Sinha DAMTP Lunchtime seminar; refreshments available from 12:35. Friday, October 13, 2006 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St. Chandra Fellows Symposium Phillips Auditorium Presentations by: Jan-Uwe Ness (Arizona State), Masahiro Tsujimoto (Penn State), Carlos Badene (Rutgers), Franz Bauer (Columbia), Shane Davis (Institute for Advanced Studies), Elena Gallo (UC Santa Barbara), Jifeng Liu (SAO), Elena Rossi (Colorado), William Forman (Keynote Speaker, SAO), Weiqun Zhang (Stanford), Doron Chelouche (Institute for Advanced Studies), Elena Rasia (Univ. Michigan), Benjamin Maughan (SAO), David Sand (Univ. Arizona), and David Pooley (UC Berkeley). Detailed program at: http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2006.html Friday, October 13, 2006 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 17A Oxford Street Jefferson 250 (New location) Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Nature of Memory Objects in the Brain: Example of Olfaction" Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Institut Curie, Paris, France Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, PIerce 213, following the colloquium 3:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Chaos Generated Inward Pinch" Roscoe White Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 4:00 pm Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Nature of Memory Objects in the Brain: example of olfaction" Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Institut Curie, Paris, France Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium website: http://www.espci.fr/usr/pgg