The Boston Area Physics Calendar for the week of 9/8/03 to 9/14/03 Monday September 8, 2003 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2003, 4:15 PM ROOM 428 PUPIN HALL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PHYSICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIA Dr. John Womersley Fermilab "Greetings from the Energy Frontier" Monday, September 8th, 2003, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26-414, Kolker Room ``Rare Beauty and Charm Decays and Indirect Searches for New Physics" Matthew Herndon Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Monday, September 8, 2003, 4:30 p.m.* Brown University Physics Department Colloquium Barus and Holley 168 Brown University Title: "The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming" Professor Brad Marston *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. ___________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 9, 2003 Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Tales from the Red Planet" Professor John F.C. Wardle Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics,Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Finite-volume techniques for the low-energy constants of QCD" Mikko Laine U Bielefeld ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Wednesday, 10 September 2003 Brown University Theoretical Seminar Physics Department, B&H 555 2:30PM "Regularization of Newton Constant, Trans-Planckian Dispersion Relation and Symmetry of Particle Spectrum" Prof. Pei-Ming Ho Harvard Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Poking Membrane Necking Tether" Professor Greg Huber University of Massachusetts, Boston Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics,Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``TBA" Shiraz Minwalla Harvard University Refreshments to be served ___________________________________________________ Thursday, September 11, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Model Atmospheres of M, L, and T dwarfs" Peter Hauschildt Astronomy Dept, University of Hamburg * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * 9/11/2003 Title: The Physics of the Piano Nicholas Giordano, Purdue University MIT - Building 10- Room 250 4:15 pm Thursday, September 11, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Matrix models from unstable D-branes" John McGreevy Princeton Thursday, September 11, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Matrix models from unstable D-branes" John McGreevy Princeton Refreshments will be offered in Jefferson 453 at 3:45. 12pm, Thursday, September 18th, 2003 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "The fluctuating ribbon model of biopolymers" Yitzhak Rabin Bar Ilan University and the Rowland Institute