September 11 to September 15, 2006

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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year by the Department of Physics at Harvard University.  Entries should
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Monday, September 11, 2006

12:00 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room
"Testing AdS/CFT at String Loops"
Gianluca Grignani
Perugia University/INFN
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Monday Colloquia
Jefferson 250
"New Forms of Quantum Matter Near Absolute Zero Temperature"
Wolfgang Ketterle
MIT
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 @ 3:30 pm

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Building, Room 107
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter"
Prof. J. C. Se'amus Davis
Cornell University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson
131 "Physics at 14 TeV: An LHC Preview"
Professor Craig Blocker
Brandeis University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

11:00 AM
Boston University
Physics Department
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Building, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Is the 'Hidden Electronic Order' in Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered?"
Professor J.C. Se`amus Davis
Cornell University

4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room
"Closed string tachyons and dimensional reduction"
Oren Bergman
Technion University
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location
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Thursday, September 14, 2006

2:30 pm (Note day change)
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"A Marginal Deformation of the D=3 N=8 SCFT and Vacuum Decay"
Dr. Ioannis Papadimitriou  (DESY)

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips
Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron
Stars: Laboratories for Extreme Physics"
David Kaplan
MIT
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250 
"Quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm."
Senthil Todadri 
MIT 
For more information:
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html 
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Friday, September 15, 2006

12:00 noon
Boston University
Physics Department
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
"Spin transport and spin-Hall effect in 2DEG"
Ewelina Hankiewicz
University of Missouri-Columbia


September 15, 3PM:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Reconnection and the Response of Toroidal Plasmas to Perturbations"
Allen Boozer
Columbia University

September 15, 3PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Reconnection and the Response of Toroidal Plasmas to Perturbations"
Allen Boozer
Columbia University