November 13 to November 17, 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 Subscribe/unsubscribe to bapc: http://www.cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Monday, November 13,2006 12:00 noon MIT Department of Physics: Chez Pierre Talk Room 12-132 @ 12:00 p.m. Antonio Castro Neto Boston University 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Enhanced Non-local Power Corrections to the B->X_s+gamma Decay Rate" Gil Paz IAS Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Information Processing Seminar Building 26, Room 214 "Phase map decomposition for unitaries" Elham Kashefi U. Waterloo and U. Oxford 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Searching for New Physics in CP Violation with BABAR" Masahiro Morii Harvard University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Searching for New Physics and CP Violation in Charm and Beauty Mixing and Decay" Dr. Brendan Casey Fermilab, Brown University Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:00 p.m. Harvard University Solid Earth Physics Seminar 20 Oxford Street Hoffman Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 "Spontaneous shear localization in a model brittle solid" Craig Maloney Johns Hopkins University Refreshments will be available in the Hoffman Faculty Lounge during the talk http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~cmaloney 3:30 PM Boston University Phsyics Department Colloquium Series "Quantum gravit and the standard model" Lee Smolin Perimeter Institute, Canada Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the 1st floor lounge 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building Abelson 131 "Reflections of AGN Outbursts in the Hot Gas in Galaxies and Clusters" Dr. Christine Jones Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:00 p.m. Colloquium Department of Physics Boston College Professor David R. Nelson Harvard University Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30 p.m. Mugar Atrium 4:00 pm UMASS Lowell OH218 "From atoms to planets - a geological view of earthquake" Professor Nelson Eby Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Joint Theory Seminar "Improving Event Generators with Effective Theories" Christian Bauer LBL Refreshments will be served ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:30 p.m. Boston University Mathematics-Physics Seminar 111 Cummington St. Math Dept., Room MCS 135 Matt Szczesny Boston Univ. "The Langlands program: from arithmetic to conformal field theory" Tea at 3:00 p.m. http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Funnels, Siphons, and Winds, "Oh, My!" The Weird and Wonderful World of Magnetic Accretion" Gary Schmidt University of Arizona tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Dark Energy - A Cosmic Mystery" Christof Wetterich Institut fu"r Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universita"t http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/index.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, November 17, 2006 12:45 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Dressing the Giant Magnon" Anastasia Volovich Brown University Lunchtime seminar: refreshments available from 12:35 3:00 pm - (CANCELLED) Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Room 211 The Casimir Force: Still Mysterious after nearly 60 Years Steve Lamoreaux Yale University Refreshments served in Knipp Library, Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm Friday, November 17, 2PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics 5 Cambridge Center, 4th floor seminar room Special Seminar ``Flying saucer" solitons in supersymmetric Yang-Mills" Mikhail Shifman University of Minnesota 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Carbon Migrations Studies in JET" James Strachan Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratory 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "Artificial Nanosolids" Igor Beloborodov Argonne National Laboratory Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, Pierce 213, following the colloquium http://mti.msd.anl.gov/homepages/IgorBeloborodov _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html