December 8- December 15, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 8, 2003 Monday, December 8, 2003 4:00pm University of New Hampshire Physics Department Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B "Xenon - A New Experiment for Sensitive WIMPs Search" Prof. Elena Aprile Columbia University Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F Mon, 12/8, 12:30pm Boston University Particles & Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Room 595 Dark Energy from Mass Varying Neutrinos Neal Weiner University of Washington Monday, December 8th @ 4:15PM MIT -- Lab for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC) 26-505, Kolker Room "The Theory of Nonleptonic B Decays" Iain Stewart MIT *Refreshments served at 4PM - CANCELLED Monday, December 8, 2003,2:45pm Northeastern University Physics High Energy Colloquium Room 114 Dana Research Building "Standard Models and Exotic Physics with Electrons and Muons at the DZero Detector" Daniel Whiteson UC Berkeley Monday, December 8, 2003,4:15pm - CANCELLED Northeastern University Special Physics CIRCS Seminar Room 114 Dana Research Building "Impenetrable Bosons and Topological Quantum Computing" Professor Maxim Olshanii University of South Carolina Monday, December 8, 2003 4:15 pm Boston University Algebra Seminar Series Dept. of Mathematics, 111 Cummington St., MCS Room B33 "Numbers from Nature - the Algebras of Quantum Field Theory" Dirk Kreimer Boston University Tea and cookies at 3:45 pm in MCS Room 153 Monday, December 8, 2003 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Polymer Physics and the Cell" Fred MacKintosh Frie University of Amsterdam tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Tuesday, December 9, 2003 Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``An analysis of B->pi From Factors in the framework of QCD-Factorization" Bjorn Lange Cornell Refreshments will be served Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 4:00 PM MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Prof. Vassiliki (Vicky) Kalogera Northwestern University X-Ray Binary Populations in Nearby Galaxies Wednesday, December 10, 2003 Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Statistics of String and M Theory Vacua" Michael Douglas Rutgers University Refreshments will be served Wednesday, December 10, 2003 Brown University Theoretical Seminar, Room 555 - B&H 2:30 p.m. "Chirally Extended QCD (XQCD)" Prof. Richard Brower (Boston U) Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 6 p.m. Boston University School of Management The Frederick S. Pardee Center 595 Commonwealth Avenue, First Floor Auditorium "Regularities and Randomness in the Past and the Future" Murray Gell-Mann Nobel Prizewinner in Physics Reception held at 7 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 10th, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Joint Theory Seminar Harvard University (Jefferson 256) "Deconstructing instantons?" Erich Poppitz (Toronto U.) Thursday, December 11, 2003 Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003, 12:00pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Cobalt Oxide Superconductors as Strongly Correlated Materials" Prof. Patrick Lee MIT Thursday, December 11, 2003, 4pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Room 114 Dana Research Building "Nanomechanics: Quantum and Other Aspects" Professor Pritiraj Mohanty Boston University Thursday, December 11, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Distance and authority in early telescopic astronomy" Mario Biagioli History of Science Department, Harvard University * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, December 11, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Planar diagrams and Calabi-Yau spaces Frank Ferrari CERN/Univ. of Neuchatel Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, December 12, 2003 Tuesday, December 12, 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 Friday, December 12, 2003, 4:00pm Harvard University Pierce 209 Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences Professor John Rodgers UIUC `Soft' Materials and Patterning Techniques for Photonics Refreshments will be served following the seminar in the Brooks room To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html