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 4, 2006 2:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "The order of the T\neq 0 QCD transition and its transition temperature" Zoltan Fodor U Wuppertal/U Eotvos Refreshments will be served 3:00pm (special day) Boston University Math-Physics Seminar 111 Cummington St. Math Dept., Room MCS 135 "Feynman diagrams and Lax pair equations" Gabriel Baditoiu (Boston Univ.) (Tea at 2:45pm) http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Quantum Information Processing Seminar Building 26, Room 214 "Quantum parameter estimation with atomic hyperfine spins" Hideo Mabuchi Caltech 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Defects in Diamond: New Hardware for the Quantum World?" Joerg Wrachtrup University of Stuttgart, Germany Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu Monday, December 4, 2006 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Flexoelectricity in Nematic and Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals: Symmetry, Geometry, and Devices" Professor Robert Meyer Brandeis University Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ Monday, December 4, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University, Dept. of Physics Special Condensed Matter Seminar Maxwell Dworkin 221 Silicon-Germanium based Spintronics Dr. Dominique Bougeard Walter Schottky Institute, TU Munich Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 12:00 PM Harvard University, Dept. of Physics Special Condensed Matter Seminar Jefferson 453 "Fluxoid transitions and magnetic response of mesoscopic, superconducting Al rings" Hendrik Bluhm Stanford University ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, December 5, 2006 3:00 pm Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Department of Physics Boston College "A-Site Disorder and Phase Separation of Manganites" Higgins 235 J. M. Liu Chinese Academy of Science 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Avenue "Science on the National Agenda: How it Happened" Mike Lubell American Physical Society Refreshments served at 3:15 in the 1st floor lounge 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building Abelson 131 "Life at low Reynolds number Revisited" Dr. Tom Powers Brown University 3:30 PM Refreshments outside Abelson 131 4:00 pm Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Nanoscale Imaging of Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins: Breaking the Diffraction Barrier" Samuel T. Hess University of Maine Refreshments will be served ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, December 6, 2006 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room String/Gravity Seminar "Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory" Chris Beasley Harvard Refreshments will be served 2:30 pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Phase Tansitions of N=4 Super Yang-Mills with Flavor" Andy O'Bannon University of Washington 4:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Rm. 595 3 Cummington St. "Modifying the properties of the Higgs boson" Mark Wise Cal tech Refreshments served at 4:15 PM ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, December 7, 2006 2:30 pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 (Note Day) "To be announced" Dr. Daniel Grumiller MIT Thursday, December 7, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Topology, Matrix Field Theory, and RNA Structures" Anthony Zee Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara -- 3:00pm Boston University Math-Physics Seminar 111 Cummington St. Math Dept., Room MCS 135 Karen Yeats Boston Univ. "Recursive equations and growth estimates in Quantum Field Theory" Tea at 2:45pm http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html 4:00pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Discovery of a New Class of Particles in Condensed Matter" Prof. Jainendra K. Jain Pennsylvania State University Refreshments will be served 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "The First Negative Molecular Ion in the Interstellar Gas" Michael McCarthy CfA 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 Qweak Experiment at Jefferson Lab: Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model via Parity-Violating Electron-Proton Scattering" Shelley Page University of Manitoba For more information: http://mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, December 8, 2006 11:00 am The Rowland Institute at Harvard 100 Edwin H.Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA "Doing Nanotechnology Out of the Box" Room: 1st floor auditorium Dr. James Gimzewski UCLA 11:00 am The Rowland Institute at Harvard 100 Edwin H.Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA 02142 Room:1'st floor auditorium "Doing Nanotechnology Out of the Box" James Gimzewski UCLA 12:45 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Intersecting D-Branes" Jeff Harvey University of Chicago Lunchtime seminar: 12:35 PM refreshments available 1:00 PM Boston University Physics Department Joint Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Building Room 352 "Life at low Reynolds number" Tom Powers Brown University Pizza served at 12:30 PM 1:00 pm Boston University Physics Department Joint Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Building Room 352 "Life at low Reynolds number" revisited Tom Powers Brown University Pizza served at 12:30 PM 3:00 PM (CANCELLED) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Dust, Deposition and Dynamic Retention in NSTX" Charles Skinner Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "Diffusing, Growing, Swimming: Multiscale Simulations Using Particles" Petros Koumoutsakos ETH Zurich Refreshments will be served following the colloquium in the Brooks Room, Pierce 213 www.icos.ethz.ch/cse/people/koumoutsakos Friday, December 8, 2006 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "TBA" Eran Sela Weizmann Institute for Science, Israel _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html