April 16, 2007to April 20, 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, April 16, 2007 3:00 pm Boston College Department of Physics Condensed Matter Seminar Series Prof. Ansgar Liebsch Forschungszentrum Juelich "Hybrid Mott Band Metal Insulator Transitions" Higgins 235 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Cold Atoms In Flatland" Jean Dalibard Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris, France Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. http://www.physics.harvard.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series-Physics Colloquium Physics Building - Abelson 131 "Quasicrystals: Some of nature's most intriguing forms of matter" Dr. Ron Lifshitz Tel Aviv University and Caltech Refreshments outside Abelson 131 at 3:30pm Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Deriving Marginal Fermi-liquid: Solution of a dissipative quantum xy model" Chandra Varma University of California, Riverside Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Search for Nagaoka ferromagnetism in doped semiconductors without magnetic ions " Ravin Bhatt Princeton University 2:30 pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Consistent Lorentz violation and domain walls in massive gravity" Oriol Pujolas NYU Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "Micromechanical study of DNA-protein interactions and chromosome structure" John F. Marko Northwestern University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:00 Noon Boston University Particles & Fields Seminar 3 Cummington St., Room 595 "Transport properties of the hot N=4 plasma" Andreas Karch Washington University 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room String/Gravity Theory seminar "New Transitions and Dualities in Supercritical String Theory" Ian Swanson IAS Refreshments will be served 2:30 pm Brown University Department of Physics Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Hopf Algebra and the Ads-CFT-S-Matrix" Alessandro Torrielli MIT 4:00 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Higgins 310 Bob Hallock UMass Amherst Refreshments 3:30 Mugar Atrium 4:30 pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "Gamma Ray Bursts and Cosmic Rays: two venerable conundra being solved?" Alvaro DeRujula CERN Refreshments at 4:00 pm Call (617)353-2600 24 hours in advance for parking ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, April 19, 2007 1:30 pm Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Random Observers in the Landscape" Vitaly Vanchurin University of Munich Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Dirty bosons: Twenty years later " Peter B. Weichman BAE Systems Thursday, April 19, 2007; 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Dirac Particles in a Pencil Trace" Alessandra Lanzara University of California, Berkeley http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html 3:00 pm Boston College Condensed Matter Seminar Gergely Zimany UC Davis Higgins 235 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "Clumpy Galaxies in the Early Universe" Debra Meloy Elmegreen Vassar College tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/colloquia ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, April 20, 2007 1:15 pm. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 256 Title: TBA Albion Lawrence Brandeis University Lunchtime seminar; refreshments served in 256 at 1:10. Friday, April 20, 2007, 3:00 pm Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Public Lecture Robinson Hall, Room 253 "Some Unanswered Questions in Physics: Extra Dimensions to Dark Energy" Krzysztof Sliwa Tufts University Refreshments served in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm 3:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Excitation of THz Radiation by Laser Pulses in Miniature Corrugated Plasma Channels" Thomas Antonsen University of Maryland Friday, April 20, 2007 4:00 p.m. Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 307 (Note special location for this week) Cambridge, MA 02138 "Femtosecond Laser Assisted Plasmonic 3D-Imaging and Nano-Ablation: When Femtonics meets Plasmonics" Adela Ben-Yakar The University of Texas at Austin Tufts University Friday, April 20, 2007, 3:00 PM Anderson Hall, Room 211 Public Lecture Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “Some Unanswered Questions in Physics: Extra Dimensions to Dark Energy” Krzysztof Sliwa Refreshments at 2:30 PM in Knipp Library, Robinson 251 Friday, April 20, 2007, 12 Noon Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Freezing, aging, and coarsening in long range glasses" Gergely Zimanyi UC Davis Pizza served at 11:40 AM ______