September 22-28, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, September 22, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Building NW17, Room 218 "Recent Results from the Livermore SSPX Experiment" David Hill Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Refreshments served at 1:45PM Monday, September 22nd, 2003, 4:15PM *Refreshments at 4PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar Building 26-414, Kolker Room ``Inflation and Eternal Inflation" Alan Guth, MIT Monday, September 22, 2003 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Why Keep Doing B Physics?" Helen Quinn SLAC, Stanford University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:45 pm Monday, September 22, 2003,4:30 p.m.* Barus and Holley 168 Dr. Robert L. Jaffe MIT Title: "The Casimir Effect: Theory and Practice" *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Current and future CMB measurements and new physics" Levon Pogosian Tufts University Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:00 p.m. Special Seminar Harvard University Lyman Laboratory, Room 330 “Nonlinear Quantum Resonances in Atom Optics” Professor Shmuel Fishman Technion - Israel Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity" Professor Frank Wilczek Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 4:00PM MIT Department of Physics and the MIT Center for Space Research Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Dr. Todd Thompson University of California, Berkeley Supernovae, Protoneutron Star Winds, and the Origin of the Heavy Elements Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:00PM Note new time Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``The observational appearance of strange stars" Vladimir Usov Weismann Institute-Israel Refreshments will be served ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Non-Supersymmetric Gauge/Gravity Duals with Flavor" Ingo Kirsch Humboldt U.- Berlin Refreshments will be served Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Supersymmetry without Supersymmetry" Markus Luty U. Maryland/Harvard/BU Refreshments will be served at 4:15PM Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, 4:00pm Dana 114 Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar "Various facets of Chalker-Coddington network model" Dr. Victor Kagalovsky Negev Academic College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel Host: Sergey Kravchenko Refreshments at 3:45pm Wednesday, 24 September 2003 Brown University Theoretical Seminar Physics Department, B&H 555 2:30PM "Hidden Symmetries and Generalized Holonomy in M-Theory" Prof. Michael Duff University of Michigan September 24 The Extravagant Universe Professor Robert Kirshner Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Univrsity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thursday, September 25, 2003, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Rotating trapped atoms" Prof. N. Read Yale University Thursday, September 25, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Primordial Nucleosynthesis in Light of the Cosmic Microwave Background" Brian Fields Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, September 25, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Matrix (string) theory of pp-waves " Jeremy Michelson University of Kentucky Refreshments will be offered in Jefferson 453, at 3:45 Thursday, September 25, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Hidden symmetries and generalized holonomy in M-theory" Michael Duff University of Michigan Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, September 25, 2003, 4:15pm Title: Ripples in a D-wave Sea: Quasiparticle Interference Imaging in Cuprate Superconductors Seamus Davis, Cornell MIT - Building 10- Room 250 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Friday, September 26, 4pm HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Order on Curved Surfaces: Scars in Sphereland" Prof. Mark Bowick Syracuse University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.