December 1- December 6, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, December 1, 2003 Monday, December 1, 2003, 12:30PM Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building Rm 595 John Womersley (FNAL) "Postcards from the High Energy Frontier" Monday, December 1, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Supersymmetry and Dark Matter" Leszek Roszkowski University of Sheffield Refreshments will be served Monday, December 1, 2003 4:00pm University of New Hampshire Physics Department Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B "On the Magnetic Connectivity of Magnetic Clouds to the Sun" Prof. Charles Farrugia Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F Monday, December 1, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Rm. 250 Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium "The Physics of Light Transport" Georg Maret University of Konstanz Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. Monday, December 1, 2003, 12:00pm Snell Library Northeastern University Special Joint Biology Dept./CIRCS Seminar "Beyond Hebb: Optimizing with Synapses" Professor Sebastian Seung Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Refreshments available 3:45pm Monday, December 1st @ 4:15PM MIT -- Lab for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC) 26-414, Kolker Room "The Theory of Nonleptonic B Decays" Iain Stewart, MIT Tuesday, December 2, 2003 Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Rm. 250 Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I "Multiple Light Scattering in Anisotropic Media: Principles and Applications" Georg Maret University of Konstanz Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 1:30pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Non-Relativistic deSitter Physics" Professor Gary Gibbons DAMTP, Cambridge, currently at MIT Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 4:00pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building "Collisions, Hot Gas and Hidden Monsters: The Case of Galaxy NGC 4438" Professor Marie Machacek Northeastern University Emeritus Refreshments available 3:45pm Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 3:30 p.m. CANCELLED Boston University Physics Department COLLOQUIUM Metcalf Science Center, Rm 107 Thomas Russell U. 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Amherst "TBA" Refreshments will be served at 3:15 in the Metcalf Lounge Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Exotic pentaquarks in chiral models" Michal Praszalowicz Jagellonian University/BNL Refreshments will be served Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Cosmology of M theory vacua" John Donoghue UMass, Amherst Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, December 2, 2003 4:00 pm Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar Series Dept. of Mathematics, 111 Cummington St., MCS Room 153 "An introduction to spin foam models and the problems of their low energy limits" Fotini Markopoulou Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Refreshments will be served Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Quasar Host Galaxies: Growing Up with Monstrous Middles" Professor Kim K. McLeod Wellesley College Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 4:00 PM MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Dr. Adam Burgasser University of California, Los Angeles Seeing Double: The Science Yield of Brown Dwarf Binaries Wednesday, December 3, 2003 Wednesday, December 3, 2003 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar room ``Through the (0,2) Looking Glass" Allan Adams Harvard Refreshments will be served COLLOQUIUM Department of Physics Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Professor Andrzej Herczynski Boston College "Bend it unlike Beckham - Inverse Magnus effect" Wednesday, December 3, 2003 Higgins Hall, Room 310 4:00 p.m. Refreshments Higgins Hall, Room 230L 3:30 p.m. 1:15pm, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 330 "Spin and pseudospin quantum computation" Sankar Das Sarma University of Maryland Wednesday, December 3, 11:00 a.m. Harvard University Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures (CIMS) Seminar Maxwell Dworkin 119 (Grace Murray Hopper Room) "Nanometer-scale Analysis of Grain Boundry Segregation in Metals and Alloys" Professor David B. Williams Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University Coffee and cookies will be available Wednesday, December 3, 2003 Brown University Theoretical Seminar Physics Department , B&H Room 555 2:30 p.m. Professor Jun'ichi YHokoyama Osaka University "Reconstruction of the Primordial Spectrum from WMAP Data by the Cosmic" Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "The dynamics of granular fluids: From gasses to pattern formation" Dr. Dan Blair Harvard, DEAS Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 2:30 p.m. Harvard University Special Seminar Jefferson 256 "Determinism in quantum mechanics" Gerard 't Hooft Universiteit Utrecht, Spinoza Instituut Refreshments in the hetg coffee area: 2:00 pm Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Black holes with compact extra dimensions" Toby Wiseman Harvard University Refreshments will be served Thursday, December 4, 2003 Thursday, December 4, 2003, 12:00pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 'Cellular Epitaxy' and the Patterning of the Fly's Eye Dr. David Lubensky BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University and Bell Labs Thursday, December 4, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Globular Cluster Sub-Populations and Galaxy Assembly" Jean Brodie Lick Observatory/Department of Astronomy, UC-Santa Cruz * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, December 4, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Rm. 250 Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II "Melting and Glass Transition in 2D Model Colloids" Georg Maret University of Konstanz Thursday, December 4, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Holography beyond the pp-wave" Ian Swanson Caltech Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, December 4, 2003, 4:00pm Dana 114 Northeastern University Physics Colloquium "Observing Cold Antihydrogen" Professor Gerard Gabrielse Spokesperson for ATRAP Leverett Professor of Physics a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics, 6-113 Physics Colloquium Series Thursday, December 4th 4:15pm Room 10-250 Professor Gerard 't Hooft Universiteit Utrecht, Spinoza Instituut "Black holes and Particle Physics" Friday, December 5, 2003 Friday, December 5, 2003 4:00 pm 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 Friday, December 5, 2003, 4:00 PM Harvard University Pierce 209 Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences Jerome Bibette ESPCI, Paris "Self-Assembly of Magnetic Colloids as Biosensors" Refreshments will be served following the seminar in the Brooks Room. 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