December 11 to December 15, 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, December 11, 2006 2:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar Center for Theoretical Physics seminar room 5 Cambridge Center, 4th floor "Ring Structures,Jets and Accretion in High Energy Astrophysics: Basic Nonlinear Theory" Bruno Coppi MIT Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Information Processing Seminar Building 26, Room 214 "Parallel Repetition of Quantum XOR Proof Systems" Richard Cleve University of Waterloo 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson Physical Lab., Rm 250 Colloquium: "Taking Sides on the Dark Energy Issue" Rocky Kolb University of Chicago Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:30 pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "The scale of gravity and the cosmological constant within a landscape" Michael Graesser Rutgers University Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson Physical Lab., Rm 250 Lecture I: "Inflation and the Origin of Structure" Rocky Kolb University of Chicago ___________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory seminar Center for Theoretical Physics seminar room 5 Cambridge Center, 4th floor "Predictions in the landscape" Raphael Bousso UC, Berkeley Refreshments will be served Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium in Jefferson 356 Forming, Trapping, and Cooling Rydberg Antihydrogen in Strong Magnetic Fields Thomas Pohl, ITAMP Refreshments served at 4:00 PM ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson Physical Lab., Rm 250 Lecture II: "Dark Matters" Rocky Kolb University of Chicago 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Astrobiology and the Biological Universe" Steven Dick NASA Headquarters 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 "Understanding the Adaptive Immune Response to Pathogens: A Crossroad of Physics and Biology" Arup Chakraborty MIT http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html _ Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Mesoscopic Transport in the Quantum-to-Classical Crossover" Stefan Rotter Yale University ___________________________________________________________________________ Friday, December 15, 2006 3:00 pm (CANCELED) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Progress of Resistive Wall Mode Stabilization on DIII-D" Michio Okabayashi Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "Photovoltaics to meet the Terawatt Challenge" Harry Atwater Caltech Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, Pierce 213, following the colloquium http://daedalus.caltech.edu/ Friday, December 15, 2006 12:45 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Black Hole Attractors, Mirror Symmetry, and Marginal Stability" Alex Maloney IAS Lunchtime seminar: refreshments available from 12:35 _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html