November 20 to November 24, 2006

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, November 20, 2006

2:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
``Threshold resummation in momentum space from effective theory"
Thomas Becher
Fermi National Accelerator Lab
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Physics of Viruses"
Robijn Bruinsma
UCLA
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu

4:30 p.m.
Brown University 
Weekly Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Observation of Biological Physics at the Nanometer Scale"
Professor Ching-Hwa Kiang
Rice University
Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m.
http://physics.brown.edu

4:30 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Applied Math Colloquium
Building 2, Room 105
(Princeton)
"Quantum computing and instantaneous radar polarimetry"
refreshments at 4:00 pm in Room 4-174
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:30PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Colloquium Series
"The Quest for an X-ray zlaser"
David Moncton
MIT
2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Reheating in brane inflation, hidden dark matter and high energy cosmic
rays"
Xingang Chen
Cornell University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Order-by-disorder and 'spiral spin liquid' physics in frustrated 
diamond lattice antiferromagnets"
Jason Alicea
University of California, Santa Barbera

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 209
"Hard Hexagons and the Doubled Fibonacci Theory"
Lukasz Fidkowski
Stanford University



3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Colloquium Series
"The Quest for an X-ray Laser"
David E. Moncton
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson
131 "Microbes, patches and plumes: investigating microbial ecology with
microfluidics"
Roman Stocker
Environmental Microfluidics Laboratory
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering MIT Refreshments outside
Abelson 131 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

2:30 pm
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"Black Hole Attractors, Marginal Stability & Mirror Symmetry"
Dr. Alexander Maloney
IAS- Princeton
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
" Quantum phase transition, self-duality, boson liquid, and dimensional 
reduction
in systems with one dimensional gauge symmetries "
Cenke Xu
University of California, Berkeley___________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, November 23, 2006

There were no talks submitted for today
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Friday, November 24, 2006