November 10- November 16, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, November 10, 2003 Monday, Nov. 10, 12:30pm Boston University Particles&Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Room 595 Cosmological Signal of Neutrino Mass Generation Takemichi Okui Boston University Monday, November 10, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``The Interpretation of Exotic Baryons" Robert L. Jaffe MIT-CTP Refreshments will be served Monday, November 10, 2003 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "The Double Simplex: Envisioning Particles and Interactions" Christopher Quigg Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, November 10, 2003, 4:30 p.m. COLLOQUIUM: Brown University Barus and Holley 168, Dr. Wolfgang Keterley MIT Title: "TBA" Host: Professor Jay Tang *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 11, 2003 Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:00 pm - CANCELLED Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar Series Dept. of Mathematics, 111 Cummington St., MCS Room 153 "Hyper-symplectic structures on Integrable Systems" Igor Mencattini Boston University Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 11, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Single-Molecule Nanomagnets: Tunneling, Interference and Quantum Computing" Professor Jonathan Friedman Amherst College Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Non-equilibrium phase behaviour of fd virus dispersions in shear flow" Dr. Pavlik Lettinga Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich, Germany Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``G-structures, fluxes and Calibrations in M-Theory" Dario Martelli Imperial College, London Refreshments will be served Wednesday, November 12, 2003 4:00 pm Higgins 310 Higgins 230 at 3:30 pm COLLOQUIUM Department of Physics Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Professor William Schaich Indiana University On the possibility of negative refraction Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Brown University Theoretical Seminar Physics Department, B&H 555 2:30PM To be announced Dr. Toby Wiseman (Harvard) Wednesday, November 12th, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Joint Theory Seminar Harvard University (Jefferson 256) "Inflation and Short Distance Physics" Nemanja Kaloper (UC Davis) Thursday, November 13, 2003 Thursday, November 13, 2003, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Non-Hermitian Luttinger Liquids and Vortex Physics" Dr. Walter Hofstetter MIT Thursday, November 13, 2003,4:00pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building Physics Colloquium "Beauty in the Mirror: CP violation at the B Factories" Professor Gabriella Sciolla MIT Host: Prof. E. Barberis Refreshments available 3:45pm Thursday, November 13, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Fake supergravity and domain wall stability" Martin Schnabl MIT Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, November 13, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Chaotic Case Studies: Sensitive dependence on initial conditions in star formation and planet formation" Fred Adams Physics Department, University of Michigan * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * THURSDAY NOV 13, REFRESHMENTS 3;30 PM ; TALK AT 4:00 PM UMASS LOWELL Tripathy Endowed Memorial Lecture FACULTY ALUMNI LOUNGE Polymers for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Professor Robert S. Langer MIT Friday, November 14, 2003 Friday, November 14, 2003, 2:00 - 5:00PM CLAY MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE ANNUAL MEETING Bartos Auditorium, MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge 2:00 - Presentation of the Clay Research Awards 2:30 - Talk by Richard Hamilton: The Ricci Flow - Refreshments 4:00 - Talk by John Morgan: Perelman's work on the Poincare' Conjecture and Geometrization of 3-manifolds For more information: www.claymath.org Friday, November 14, 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 Ralf Bundschuh Ohio State University "Quantitative modeling of single-molecule RNA force-extension experiments" Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.