September 20-September 24, 2004

      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 12:00 p.m. the Tuesday of the week proceeding
the week of the event.  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE
PUBLISHED.



Monday, September 20, 2004

Monday,  September 20, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``An alternative to the dark matter paradigm: relativistic MOND gravitation"
Jacob Bekenstein
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Refreshments will be served


Monday, September 20, 2004, 4:15 pm
Harvard University
Physics Department Colloquium
Jefferson Physical Laboratory, room 250
"Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices and Magnetic Microtraps"
Eugene Demler
Harvard University
Tea will be served in the Physics Library, 4'th floor, Jefferson 450, 3:30
pm



Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Tuesday, September 21, 2:00PM (Note special day)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Non-abelian gauge theories with a mass a la Stueckelberg: some
preliminary results"
Ruggero Ferrari
University of Milan/INFN
Refreshments will be served



Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Birth and Dynamics of Black Holes in Galaxies"
Professor Avi Loeb
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Speaker: David DeMille (Yale)
Title: Fundamental physics with diatomic molecules
Time: Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 4:00pm
Place: Harvard University, Jefferson Lab 256


Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 4pm
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Fall Colloquia 2004
Olney 218
"Wrapping Light Around a Hair"
Professor Eric Mazur
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:30pm

Wednesday, September 22, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Holography in the pp-wave limit"
Tamiaki Yoneya
University of Tokyo
Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM 

Wednesday, September 22, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Cosmic 1-branes"
Joseph Polchinski
University of California-Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM


Thursday, September 23, 2004

September 23, 2004, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10-250
"Cosmic Superstrings"
Joe Polchinski
University of California at Santa Barbara


Thursday, September 23, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Measurements of the Phase Diagram for Unzipping dsDNA at Constant"
Dr. Mara Prentiss
Harvard University

Thursday, September 23, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"The phase transition between caged black holes and black strings"
Barak Kol
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Thursday, September 23, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Cosmology with Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
Uros Seljak
Princeton University
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *

Friday, September 24, 2004, 9:00am-4:30pm
Brandeis University
20th New England Complex Fluids Workshop
Shapiro Theater
Invited Speakers:
Robert Hurt, Brown University
Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, MIT
L. Mahadaven, Harvard University
JaneKondev, Brandeis University
Topics of Invited Talks:
carbon nanotubes; nano - bio technology;
poroelasticity of cells and tissue; genetic control
Registration is required by September 19, 2004
at www.complexfluids.org


Thursday, September 30, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"The Role of Buried Charged Groups in Proteins"
Dr. Marilyn Gunner
City College of New York



Thursday, September 30, 2004, 4:15pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10-250
"Title to be Announced"

Larry Abbott
Brandeis University


Thursday, September 23, 2004, 12:30 PM
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
College Ave., Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Stress Energy as Seen by Unruh's Detector"
Bjoern Garbrecht
University of Heidelberg



Friday, September 24, 2004

September 24, 2004, 3-5pm
MIT, Department of Mathematics
Infinite-Dimensional Algebra Seminar
Room 2-147
"Genus one conformal field theories"
Kiyokazu Nagatomo
Osaka University