November 17- November 23, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 17, 2003 Monday, November 17, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Towards a complete theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts" Alvaro De Rujula CERN and BU Refreshments will be served Monday, November 17th @ 4:15PM MIT -- Lab for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC) 26-505, Kolker Room "Evidence for an Exotic, S = +1 , Baryon State in Exclusive Photoproduction Reactions with CLAS" Stepan Stepanyan, Jefferson Lab Monday, November 17, 2003 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "An Update on the Linear Collider: Comments on its Status and Thoughts on Novel uses for the Spent Beams" Sekazi K. Mtingwa Harvard University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Kolker Room -26-414 ``Chameleons and awaiting surprises for tests of gravity" Justin Khoury Columbia University Refreshments served at 2:00PM Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 2:00pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Vacua of three-dimensional gauged maximal supergravity models" Dr. Thomas Fischbacher AEI Potsdam Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Ships on a surfactant sea: Interfacial microrheology and membrane hydrodynamics " Professor Alex Levine University of Massachusetts-Amherst Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Localization Lattice QCD" Maarten Golterman San Francisco State University Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:00 PM MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA THE 2003 BRUNO ROSSI LECTURE IN ASTROPHYSICS Prof. Roger Blandford Stanford University Astrophysical Black Holes: The Current View Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS Room 114 Dana Research Building "A 'budding' problem: the design principles in the establishment of cell polarity" Professor Rong Li Harvard Medical School Refreshments available 3:45pm Wednesday, November 19, 2003 Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Forced crumpling of thin sheets" Narayanan Menon University of Massachusetts-Amherst Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Quantum Geometry and the Fate of Cosmological Singularities" Martin Bojowald Penn State University Refreshments will be served Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Physics Department, B&H 555 To be announced Prof. Arkady Tseytlin (Ohio State) Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:00 pm Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar Series Dept. of Mathematics, 111 Cummington St., MCS Room 153 "Aspects of 4-loop massive bubble computations" York Schroder Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 3:00 pm MIT, Room #36-112 Professor Herschel A. Rabitz Charles Phelps Smyth Professor of Chemistry Princeton University "SHAPED LASER PULSES AS ADAPTIVE REAGENTS" WED NOV 19 REFRESHMENTS 3:30 PM; TALK AT 4:00 PM UMASS LOWELL PHYSICS COLLOQUIA OH 218 `Biology: What's There for a Theorist to Do?" Professor Boris Shraiman Rutgers University Wednesday, November 19, 4:00pm FALL COLLOQUIA 2003 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS at LOWELL Olney 218 "Biology: What's There for a Theorist to Do?" Professor Boris Shraiman Rutgers University refreshments at 3:30 p.m Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "Footprint of new physics in B decays" Prof Yuval Grossman (Technion & SLAC) Refreshments at 4:00 pm Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Attosecond Atomic Physics" Dr. Ferenc Krausz Vienna University of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, November 20, 2003 12pm, Thursday, November 20, 2003 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Coulomb drag between quantum wires" Michael Pustilnik Georgia Institute of Technology Thursday, November 20, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Superstrings with intrinsic torsion" Dario Martelli Imperial College, London Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, November 20, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Cooling Flows Sing the Blues" Mitch Begelman Astronomy Department, University of Colorado * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, November 20, 2003, 4:00pm Physics Colloquium Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building "Graphite as a highly correlated electron liquid: a theoretical review" Maria Vozmediano Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid Refreshments available 3:45pm Thursday, November 20, 2003, 4:15pm, Building 10, room 250 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series Andrea Ghez, University of California - Los Angeles "Unveiling a Galactic Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy" Refreshments: Building 4, room 339 at 3:45pm. Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Thursday November 20, 2003 1:15pm Robinson Hall Room 250 Tomislav Prokopek, University of Heidelberg "Massless Fermion Production in Inflation" Friday, November 21, 2003 Friday, November 21, 2003,4:00 PM Harvard University Pierce 209 Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Co-sponsored by the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Ctr) Zhenyu Zhang Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Quantum Size Effects and Magic Length Scales in Metallic Nanostructures" Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar. Tufts University Special Seminar Friday November 21, 2003 2:30pm Robinson Hall Room 250 Fabio Finelli, IASF/CNR, Bologna, Italy "The Energy-Momentum Tensor of Quantum Fluctuations during Inflation" _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html