October 11-October 15, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, October 11, 2004 No events scheduled Tuesday, October 12, 2004 Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 1:30pm Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Department, Room 229 "Mirrors for Twisted Supermodels" Dr. Allan Adams Harvard University Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 4:00pm Brandeis University Colloquium Physics Building – Abelson 131 “Unified Model of High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena” Dr. Alvaro de Rujula CERN Tuesday, October 12, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``The String Landscape at Finite Temperature" Scott Watson Brown University Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, October 12th, 2004, 4:00PM Brandeis University Colloquium Physics Building - Abelson 131 "Unified Model of High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena" Dr. Alvaro de Rujula CERN Tuesday, October 12, 4:00pm MIT Room 26-214 "Spontaneous macroscopic spin polarization in independent spinor Bose-Einstein condensates" David S. Hall, Amherst College Tuesday, October 12, 4:00PM (NOTE DAY AND TIME) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Lattice QCD and Nuclear Physics: things to think about" Martin Savage U of Washington/MIT Refreshments will be served Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 4:15pm Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar 111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153 "The Hopf Algebra of Rooted Trees in Epstein-Glaser Renormalization", Part I Christoph Bergbauer Freie Universitat, Berlin Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm Tuesday, October 12, 2004,4pm Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Room 114 Dana Research Building "Cell Division A Kin I Dependent Pacman-Flux Mechanism for Anaphase A" Professor David Sharp Albert Einstein College of Medicine Wednesday, October 13, 2004 Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 4pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Zoltan Fried Memorial Lecture Olney 218 "Experimental Gravitation: Gravity Probe B and Other Adventures" Professor Rainer Weiss MIT Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Department, Room 239 "Simple Models of Rigid Multifilament Biopolymer's Growth Dynamics" Professor Anatoly Kolomeisky Rice University Wednesday, October 13, 9am Harvard University Phillips Auditorium, CfA, 60 Garden St. "The Chandra Fellows Symposium." The Fellows are (in order of presentation): Julia Lee (Harvard), Eric Pfahl (Virginia), Peter Jonker (SAO), Anatoly Spitkovsky (Stanford), David Pooley (Berkeley), Taotao Fang (Berkeley), Benjamin Maughan (CfA), Sebastian Heinz (MIT), Franz Bauer (Columbia), Doron Chelouche (Institute for Advanced Studies), Mateusz Ruskowski (Colorado), Enrico Ramierez-Ruiz (Institute for Advanced Studies), and Weiqun Zhang (Stanford). The detailed program can be found at http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2004.html. Wednesday, October13, 2004, 2:30PM Brown University Physics Department B&H 555 ``Sponteneous Lorentz Violation at High Scales" Jesse Thaler Harvard University Wednesday, October 13, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Supersymmetric Black Rings and Supertubes" David Mateos Perimeter Institute Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM Wednesday, October 13, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``What does Inflation really predict?" Mark Tegmark Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM Wednesday, October 13, 3:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-BU-MIT Theoretical Chemistry Seminar 77 Massachusetts Ave, Room 36-153 "Fluctuations of Permanent and Induced Dipoles in Liquids, with Applications to Wavevector Dependent Dielectric Permitivity, Light Scattering, and Optical Kerr Effect." Branka Ladanyi Colorado State University Wednesday, October 13, 4:00 p.m MIT Harvard-MIT Inorganic Chemistry Seminar Room 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Ave "TBA." Michael Scott University of Florida Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory Room 256 "Processing Quantum Information in Molecular Wavepackets" Dr. Evgeny Shapiro NRC - Canada Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, October 14, 2004 October 14, 2004, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series Building 10-250 "The Double Simplex: Envisioning Particles and Interactions" Chris Quigg Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 12pm, Thursday, October 14, 2004 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Transport in nonintegrable, strongly-interacting quantum lattice models" David Huse Princeton University, and Bauer Center for Genomics Research October 14, 4:00 pm Harvard University Physical Chemistry Seminar Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St. "Insights into the Complex Dynamics of Water Probed with Vibrational Echo Correlation Spectroscopy." John Asbury Stanford University Thursday, October 14, 2004, 4pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building "Imaging Checkerboards in a High-Temperature Superconductor" Dr. Jenny Hoffman Harvard University Thursday, October 14, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Galaxy Evolution Explorer (Galex)" Chris Martin Caltech * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, October 14, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "D-branes and holography in N=2 Liouville and its mirror" Ari Pakman Hebrew University of Jerusalem Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, October 15, 2004 Friday, October 15, 2004, 4PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 "Theory and Simulation of Turbulence Spreading" Taik Soo Hahm Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory October 15, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-BU-MIT Theoretical Chemistry Seminar Room 36-153, 77 Massachusetts Ave "Can We Understand the Complex Dynamics of Motor Protein Using Simple Stochastic Models?" Anatoly B. Kolomeisky Rice University Friday, October 15th, 2004, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "NOT MERELY THE SECRET OF LIFE: DNA AND NANOTECHNOLOGY" Prof. Nadrian C. Seeman Department of Chemistry, New York University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium