September 25 to September 29, 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
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Monday, September 25, 2006

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Monday Colloquia
Jefferson 250
"Ultrafast Quantum Control"
Philip H. Bucksbaum
Stanford University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 @ 3:30 pm

4:30 PM
Brown University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Barus & Holley Building, Room 168
182 Hope Street
"A Directed Random Walk through Models of Gravitational Clustering"
Professor Ravi Sheth
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

2:30 pm
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Bldg. NE25
5 Cambridge Center,
4th Floor seminar room
"Structure Formation in the String Gas Cosmology Scenario"
Ali Nayeri
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 2:00 pm in the same room

4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium Physics Building
Abelson 131
Dr. Nathaniel Tagg
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Tufts University
"Neutrino Oscillations and the MINOS Experiment"
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm


4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
Dr. Nathaniel Tagg 
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Tufts University
"Neutrino Oscillations and the MINOS Experiment"
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm


5:30 pm
Boston University
Applications of Mathematics in Exact Sciences Seminar
BU Center for Einstein Studies
Cecile DeWitt-Morette
University of Texas, Austin
"Functional Integration, A Mathematical Tool"
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 541
Tea & Coffee @ 5:00 pm  
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
"Split Polar Attractors"
Gregory Moore
Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location

Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 4:30PM
Boston University
Physics Department
Joint Theory Seminar
PRB  Room 595
3 Cummington St.
TBA
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Harvard University
Refreshments served.


4:00 pm
UMass Lowell
OH218
"Feshbach resonances in ultracold fermionic atoms"
Dr. Boris Gelman
SUNY Stony Brook
Refreshments at 3:30 pm.
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 

3:00 pm
Math-Physics Seminar
Boston University
111 Cummington St.
Math Dept., Room MCS 135
"Locality and Self-Similarity"
Dirk Kreimer
IHES and BU
Tea at 2:45pm
http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html


4:00pm 
Northeastern University 
Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Photonics with Bacteriorhodopsin Films" 
Prof. Gopal Rao 
UMASS Boston 
Refreshments will be served


4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Post-starburst Galaxies and Fossil Galactic Winds: new constraints on
feedback and the starburst-AGN connection"
Christy Tremonti
University of Arizona
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

 Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Cruft 318
"Out-of-plane spin polarization from in-plane electric and magnetic fields”
Hans-Andreas Engel
Harvard University


4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Weekly Physics Colloquium Series 
Building 10, Room 250 
"Paths of Nuclear Structure"
Donald F. Geesaman 
Argonne National Laboratory
http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html
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Friday, September 29, 2006

11:45 am
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Split Polar Attractors"
Gregory Moore
Rutgers
Lunchtime seminar:refreshments provided


3:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Extended MHD at Low Collisionality"
Jesus Ramos
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center


4:00 pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
29 Oxford Street
Pierce 209
Cambridge, MA 02138
"Reciprocating Balls and the Chaotic Transition to Irreversibility"
David Pine
New York University
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium
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