January 29, to February 2, 2007 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, January 29, 2007 12:30 PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminars Physics Research Building(3 Cummington St) room 595 "Diquark correlations in baryons on the lattice." Ron Babich BU 2:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar Center for Theoretical Physics seminar room 5 Cambridge Center, 4th floor "New black hole solutions of Einstein's equations, inspired by noncommutative geometry" Piero Nicolini University of Trieste Refreshments will be served 4:15 pm ERROR......THIS TALK IS HAPPENING ON 2/5/07 and NOT today Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "TBD" Maria Spiropulu CERN Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "New Era in UHE AstroParticle Physics" Professor Angela Olinto University of Chicago and APC Refreshments begin at 4:00 p.m. http://physics.brown.edu/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Building 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107 " Shedding Light on Dark Matter: Seeing the Invisible with Gravitational Lensing" Marusa Bradac KIPAC Institute, Stanford Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 pm Martin Weiner Lecture Series--Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 Dr. Christopher Herzog "Applied String Theory: Viscosity, Drag, and RHIC" Refreshments at 3:30 outside Abelson 131 ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "New Black Hole solutions of Einstein's Equations, Inspired by Noncommutative Geometry" Dr. Piero Nicolini U Trieste 4:00 p.m. Department of Physics Boston College Professor Bennett Goldberg Boston University Higgins 310 Refreshments 3:30 p.m. Mugar Atrium ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, February 1, 2007 Thursday, February 1, 2007 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 Professor Henriette Elvang MIT Exploring higher dimensional black holes" Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm Thursday, February 1, 2007 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 Professor Henriette Elvang MIT "Exploring higher dimensional black holes" Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, February 2, 2007 Friday, February 2, 2007, 11:45 a.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "The Wave Function Behavior of the Open Topological String" Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor Amsterdam Lunchtime seminar; refreshments available at 11:35. Friday, February 2, 2007 1:30pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 333 Professor Henriette Elvang MIT "Fake Supergravity" Friday, February 2, 2007 1:30pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 333 rofessor Henriette Elvang MIT "Fake Supergravity" Friday, February 2, 2007 2:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Vortices, critical currents and Fermionic bound states in BCS-BEC crossover " Rajdeep Sensarma Ohio State University