October 6-October 12, 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  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE
PUBLISHED.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 6, 2003

Monday 6 October, 1pm
Boston University
Polymer Center Seminar
Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
Metcalf Science Center
Speaker: Professor Srikanth Sastry, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore India
Title:  Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Supercooled Silicon


Tuesday, October 7, 2003

Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Integrability of long conformal operators"
Andrei Belitsky
University of Maryland
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday,  October 7, 2003, 4:00 PM
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Dale Frail
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Diversity in Cosmic Explosions
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM


Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``A New Hat for the c=1 Matrix Model"
Igor Klebanov
Princeton

Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``A New Hat for the c=1 Matrix Model"
Igor Klebanov
Princeton
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
?Photonic Bandgaps in a Period Array of Carbon Nanotubes?
Dr. Zhifeng Ren
Boston College
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"The energy landscape approach to the study of glass forming liquids"
Dr. Sri Sastry
JNCASR, Bangalore, India


Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Colloquium
Department of Physics
Boston College
Professor Andrey Czubukov
University of Wisconsin
"Can superconductivity emerge out of a non-Fermi liquid?"
4:00 pm
Higgins 310
Refreshments 3:30

October 8th, 2003 (Wednesday) BU-Harvard-MIT Joint seminar series:
Venue: Room 36-112, MIT
Time:   3:00pm to 5:00pm
"WHAT IS THE PRESSURE IN A VIRUS, AND WHY?"
Prof. William Gelbart
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, LosAngeles, U.S.A.
Wednesday, 8 October 2003
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Department,  B&H 555 2:30PM
"Dimensionally Reduced Gravitational Chern-Simons Term
and its Kink"
Dr. Alfredo Iorio(MIT)

Wednesday, October 8,  9:00 a.m. to 4:40 p.m.
Chandra X-ray Center
The Chandra Fellows Symposium
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, 60 Garden St. Phillips Auditorium
Keynote  speaker is:
Martin Weisskopf (Chandra Project Scientist).

Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 4:30pm
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Building, Room 595
3 Cummington Street
"Ghost condensation and a consistent infrared modification of gravity"
Prof Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard)
Refreshments at 4:00 pm
Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance

Oct 8,2003,  3:30 PM  Refreshments; Talk at 4:00 PM
UMASS LOWELL
PHYSICS  COLLOQUIUM
OH 218
Rapid Analysis of DNA Biopolymers Using Nanopore Based Method
Dr. Amit Meller
Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University


Thursday, October 9, 2003

Thursday, October 9, 2003, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Scientific highlights of the HETE-2 mission"
Don Lamb
Astrophysics Department, University of Chicago
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *

October 9, 2003, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 10 - room 250
The Distinguished Pappalardo Lecture in Physics
Robert P. Kirshner
"The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the
Accelerating Cosmos"
Refreshments prior to lecture at 3:45pm.

Thursday, October 9, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"On Dp-D(p+4) systems, QCD dual and phenomenology"
Horatiu Nastase
Brown University
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45

Friday, October 10, 2003

CCS Seminar
Friday ? October 10, 2003
12:00 noon
Room 595, Physics Research Building
3 Cummington Street
Applying Neural Networks to Remote Sensing and Robotic Sensor Fusion
Siegfried Martens