November 24- November 30, 2003
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic
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Monday, November 24, 2003

Monday, November 24, 2003   4:00pm
University of New Hampshire
Physics Department Colloquium
DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B
"Exploring Nanoscience & Nanotechnology with Nano-Optics - From Carbon
Nanotubes to Si Chip Inspection"
Prof. Anna Swan
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Boston University
Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F

Monday, November 24, 2003 @ 4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Towards a Complete Theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Alvaro De Rujula
CERN
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Monday, November 24, 2003, 4:00pm                        
 Northeastern University                                  
 Room 114 Dana Research Building                          
 Special CIRCS Seminar                                    
 "Rheology of Composite Actin Networks"                   
 David Weitz                                              
 Physics Department                                       
 Harvard University                                       
 Refreshments available 3:45pm                            
                                           
Monday, November 24th @ 4:15PM
MIT --  Lab for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC)
26-505, Kolker Room

"Exotic Diquark Spectroscopy"
Bob Jaffe
MIT

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Cosmology in a Trabant"
Dr. David Tong
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                                                       
                                                          
 Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 4:00pm                       
 Northeastern University                                  
 Room 114 Dana Research Building                          
 Special Physics Colloquium                               
 "Isotopically Engineered Si as a Promising Material for  
 Nuclear Spin-based Spintronics and Quantum Computation"  
 Professor Issai Shlimak                                  
 Bar-Ilan University, Israel   
                
Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 3:30pm
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center Rm 107
"The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming"
Brad Marston
Brown University
*Refreshments will be served at 3:10 in the Metcalf Lounge

Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``CP symmetry and the strong interactions"
Michael Creutz
Brookhaven National Lab
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday,  November 25, 2003, 4:00 PM
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Joshua Bloom
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Optical/Infrared Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst and X-Ray Flash Transients

Joint Cosmology Seminar of Harvard/MIT/Tufts
Tuesday, Nov 25
Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute)
The most powerful cosmic accelerators:
       puzzles, models and giga-ton neutrino telescopes
The existence  of cosmic-rays of energies exceeding  10^{20} eV is one
of the  great  mysteries  of  high  energy astrophysics.  Recent   new
experimental results, and   their implications to  theoretical models,
will be  reviewed.  It  will  be shown that   model predictions may be
tested with  high energy gamma-ray,  cosmic-ray and neutrino detectors
under  construction.   Combined  gamma-ray,  neutrino   and cosmic-ray
observations may resolve  the high energy  cosmic ray  puzzle and will
shed light on the nature and physics of the most powerful accelerators
in the universe.

The seminar  will  be held  in the  Gilman    room in Agassiz   house,
Radcliffe Institute (at the corner of Mason and Garden St. 10 min walk
from CfA) at 2:30pm.





Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Wednesday, November 26,2003, 2:30p.m.*
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar:
B&H 555
"Matrix Cosmology"
*Dr. Joanna Karczmarek  (Harvard)

2pm, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2003
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 330
"Two-component Bosons in Optical Lattice. Groundstates and Phase Transitions"
Prof. Nikolai Prokof'ev
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 



Thursday, November 27, 2003

Thanksgiving Day

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