November 6 to November 10, 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 6, 2006 12:00 Noon MIT Department of Physics Chez Pierre Talk Room 12-132 Konstantin Matveev Argonne National Laboratory 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "How can AdS/CFT be useful for heavy-ion physics?" Pavel Kovtun UCSB Refreshments will be served Monday, November 6, 2006 1:00 PM Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Maxwell Dworkin G135 "Superconducting Junctions in Carbon Electronics ” Dr. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Columbia University and Delft University 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Information Processing Seminar Building 26, Room 214 Ben Reichardt U.C. Berkeley "A probabilistic mixing lemma and quantum fault tolerance" 4:00 pm Northeastern University High Energy Particle Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Models of Baryogenesis Below the TeV Scale" Frederico Urban University of Ferrera and INFN-Section of Ferrara Refreshments will be served 4:15 pm Harvard University Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson 250 Colloquium: "Testing the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale" Eric Adelberger University of Washington Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. 4:40 pm Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium "Using Nanopores to Analyze DNA and DNA-protein Interactions" Professor Amit Meller Boston University Barus and Holley 168 Refreshments commence at 4:00 P.M. ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 7, 2006 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar Center for Theoretical Physics seminar room 5 Cambridge Center, 4th floor "Non-Gaussianities in Multi-field Inflation" Thorsten Battefeld Brown Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "DNA: More than its sequence (The mechanics and condensation of DNA)" Dr. Paul Wiggins Whitehead Institute Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson 250 Loeb Lecture I: "Modern Tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle" Eric Adelberger University of Washington 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon" Philip Kim Columbia University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the 1st floor lounge 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Special Theory seminar "Predicting Protein Folding Pathways from Quantum Path Integrals" Pietro Faccioli University of Trento/INFN Refreshments will be served ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 8, 2006 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room String/Gravity Seminar "Non-perturbative Couplings of String Vacua--Intersecting D-brane Story" Mirjam Cvetic University of Pennsylvania 2:30 pm Brown University Physics Department Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 To be announced Professor Radu Roiban Penn State 4:00 pm UMASS Lowell Ball 214 "New forms of quantum matter near absolute zero temperature" Professor Wolfgang Ketterle MIT Refreshments at 3:30 pm _Wednesday, November 8, 4:30 pm Boston University Physics Department - Joint Theory Seminar 3 Cummington Street, PRB 595 Title: "TBA" Freddy Cachazo Perimeter Institute, Canada Refreshments at 4 pm (please call 617-353-2600 24hrs in advance for parking) Wednesday, November 8, 2006 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson 356 Strongly Correlated 2D Quantum Phases with Cold Polar Molecules Professor Hans Peter Buchler University of Innsbruck Refreshments served at 4:00 PM -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, November 9, 2006 2:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lectures in Physics Maxwell Dworken, Rm 119 Loeb Lecture II: "Probes of Lorentz-Symmetry Violation and other Exotica using a Spin Pendulum" Eric Adelberger University of Washington Thursday, November 9, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Projective symmetry, quantum order, and quantum phase transitions" Xiao-Gang Wen MIT -- 3:00 pm Boston University Mathematics-Physics Seminar 111 Cummington St. Math Dept., Room MCS 135 "The Connes-Kreimer Hopf Algebra as a Combinatorialist's Playground" Michael Hoffman US Naval Academy Tea at 2:45pm http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html 4:00 pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "The Amazing Properties of Two-Dimensional Carbon" Prof. Antonio Castro Neto Boston University Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Adventuring Through the Distant X-ray Universe: Recent Results from the Chandra Deep Field Surveys" Niel Brandt Penn State University tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "The Nus from MiniBooNE" Janet Conrad Columbia University http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, November 10, 2006 No talks were submitted for today because it is a holiday - Veterans Day