November 27 to December 1, 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, November 27, 2006 10:30 AM Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Jefferson 453 "Spin Qubits in Carbon Nanomaterials" Prof. Andrew Briggs University of Oxford 11:10am - 12:00pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 333 "Liquid-crystalline collagen phase leading to dense ordered matrices" Dr. Fre'de'ric Gobeaux Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matie`re Condense`e de Paris 2:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Hadron physics from lattice QCD" Will Detmold University of Washington Refreshments will be served 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "QED In A Pencil Trace" Andre Geim University of Manchester, UK 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 "A New View of the Infrared Universe: Recent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope" Professor Giovanni G. Fazio Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu _ MIT Quantum Information Processing Seminar. Monday, November 27, 4pm Building 26, Room 214, "Quantum computation for quantum chemistry," Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard)___________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Interference of fluctuating condensates" Adilet Imambekov Harvard University Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:00 am The Rowland Institute at Harvard 100 Edwin H.Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02142 "High-Performance Quantum Dot Optoelectronic Devices" Room:1st floor auditorium Pallab Bhattacharya University of Michigan 11:00 am The Rowland Institute at Harvard 100 Edwin H.Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02142 "High-Performance Quantum Dot Optoelectronic Devices" Room:1st floor auditorium Pallab Bhattacharya University of Michigan 11:00 am "High-Performance Quantum Dot Optoelectronic Devices" Professor P.Bhattacharya University of Michigan Rowland Institute Methods Seminar 100 Edwin H.Land Blvd www.rowland.harvard.edu 2:00pm Northeastern University High Energy Particle Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "The Search for Majorana Neutrinos" Anupama Atre University of Wisconsin, Madison Refreshments will be served 2:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar "Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?" Edmund Bertschinger MIT Refreshments will be served 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS Talk 114 Dana Research Center "Interfacial phenomena in the formation of nanoporous gold by dealloying" Prof. Jonah Erlebacher John Hopkins University Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Evolution of Signaling Pathways: MAP Kinases as a Case Study" Dr. Sharad Ramanathan Bauer Center for Genomic Research, Harvard University Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 29, 2006 Wednesday, November 29, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special seminar Center for Theoretical Physics seminar room 5 Cambridge Center, 4th floor ``Heavy Quark Masses and the Top Threshold" Andrea Hoang Max Planck Institute Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:30 PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "AdS/QCD in dimensions two and four" Emanuel Katz Boston University 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 2:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room String/Gravity Seminar "Holographic Description of Nonlocal Operators in Gauge Theory" Jaume Gomis Perimeter Institute 2:30 pm Brown University Physics Department Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "To be announced" Prof. Chris Beasley Harvard University 4:00 pm UMASS Lowell OH218 "The shape dependence of fluctuation-induced forces" Professor Mehran Kardar MIT Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson 356 "Nonlinear Dynamics and Critical Phenomena in Driven Cold Atoms" Wonho Jhe Seoul National University Refreshments served at 4:00 PM ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:00pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "BOSE AND EINSTEIN: Discovery of Bose-Einstein Statistics" Prof. Kameshwar C. Wali Syracuse University Refreshments will be served 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "HERA and the Structure of Matter" Allen Caldwell Max-Planck-Institute for Physics Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Interference of fluctuating condensates" Adilet Imambekov Harvard University ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, December 1, 2006 12:45 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "To be announced" Frederik Denef KU Leuven Lunchtime seminar: refreshments available from 12:35 2:30 pm (Note the day) Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "To be announced" Prof. Anthony Zee University of California, Santa Barbara 3:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Proton Beam Radiation Therapy" Kenneth Gall Still River Systems Friday, December 1, 2006 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Pierce 209 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 "Synthetic Biology: from Bacteria to Stem Cells" Ron Weiss Princeton University _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html