October 27-November 2, 2003 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Boston University. You may send your announcement by e-mail (bapc-events@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu ) or FAX (617-353-9393). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. the Monday of the week proceeding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Monday, October 27, 2003 Monday, October 27, 2003 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Analogy as the Central Motor of Discovery in Physics" Douglas Hofstadter University of Indiana *tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, October 27, 2003 4:00pm University of New Hampshire Physics Department Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B "Scientific Issues in Building Transistors From Carbon Nanotubes" Dr. Richard Martel Physical Sciences, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F Monday, October 27, 2003 Barus and Holley 168, 4:30 p.m.* Brown University Colloquium Dr. Matthias Newbert Cornell University Title: "TBA" *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, October 27, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Exploring the 4d Superconformal Zoo" Brian Wecht UCSD Refreshments will be served Monday, October 27, 2003 @2:00 PM Rowland Institute at Harvard 100 Edwin H Land Blvd Cambridge, MA 02142 "Two-color Femtosecond Spectroscopy: Quantum Interference between Virtual and Real Excitations in Two-level and Interacting Multi-level Systems." Dr. Yeonghwan Ahn Seoul National University Refreshments following the seminar Monday, October 27th @4:15PM MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC) Kolker Room, 26-414 "Searches for Leptonic Decays of the B-meson at B-Factories" Stephen J. Sekula University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, October 28, 2003 Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 4:00PM Note new time Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Nuclear Physics and Lattice QCD" Silas Beane University of New Hampshire Refreshments will be served Tuesday, October 28, 2003 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department COLLOQIUM Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Rm 107 Douglas Hofstader University of Indiana "Reminiscences and Musings of an Ex-Quasi-Physicist" *Refeshments will be served at 3:15 in the Lounge **Please telephone 617-353-2600 1 day in advance for parking. Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:00 PM Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar Series Department of Mathematics & Statistics, MCS Room 153 "The Epstein-Glaser approach to QFT in terms of Hopf algebras" Alexander Lange Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Refreshments will be served Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Physics of Quantum Computation: Superconducting Quantum Bits & Cavity QED"_ Professor Steven Girvin Yale University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 4pm Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar "Waiting for the Bus" Scott Hill Northeastern University Wednesday, October 29, 2003 Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 11:00am Brandeis University Astrophysics Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Imaging the Afterglows from Gamma-Ray Bursts" Dr. Greg Taylor NRAO Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Chiral Gauged Six-Dimensional Supergravity: From String theory to Four Dimensions" Chris Pope Texas A&M University Refreshments will be served Wednesday, October 29, 2003 FAll COLLOQUIA 2003 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS at LOWELL Most colloquia are held in Olney 218; refreshments at 3:30 p.m and the colloquium at 4:00 p.m. Colloquia coordinator: Professor Albert Altman "Gravitational Lensing: Multiple Images and Caustics" Professor Arlie Petters MIT Center for Space Research and Duke University Wednesday, October 29, 2003 (CANCELLED) Higgins Hall, Room 310, 4:00 p.m. COLLOQUIUM Departments of Physics/Chemistry Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Professor James J. Watkins University of Massachusetts Amherst "Supercritical Fluid Technology for the Fabrication of Nanostructured Devices: Deposition of Metals and Mesoporous Silicates from Carbon Dioxide." Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "The More or Less Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model" Prof David E. Kaplan (Johns Hopkins) Refreshments at 4:00 pm Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Thursday, October 30, 2003 October 30, 2003, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 10 - room 250 John Schwarz "Superstring Theory: Past, Present, and Future" Refreshments at 3:45pm in Building 4 room 339 12pm, Thursday, October 30, 2003 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Quantum Frustration of Decoherence in Some Open Quantum Systems" Prof. Antonio H. Castro Neto Department of Physics Boston University Thursday, October 30, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Fishing in the Dark: Searching for extremely faint objects in the outer Solar System" Charles Alcock Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvanis * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, October 30, 2003, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Super-weakly interacting dark matter" Arvind Rajaraman University of California, Irvine Refreshments in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, October 30th 4:15pm Room 10-250 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series John Schwarz, Caltech "Superstring Theory: Past, Present, and Future" Friday, October 31, 2003 4:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Co-sponsored by the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Ctr) Pierce 209 Francesco Stellacci Department of Materials Science and Engineering MIT "Ligand Coated Metal Nanoparticles: new tool for electronic and optical devices" Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar. Friday, October 31, 2003, 3:00PM NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME Massachusetts Institute of Technology SPECIAL String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Quantizing String Theory in ADS (5) X S5: Beyond the PP Wave" John Schwarz California Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html