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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 4, 2004 Monday, October 4, 2004 Barus and Holley 168 Professor Richard Gaitskell Brown University "A Known Unknown: Directly Detecting the Missing Mass of the Universe" Refreshments at 4pm Monday, October 4, 2004 @4:15pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Making an Effort to Listen: Mechanical Amplification by Myosin Motors and Ion Channels in Hair Cells of the Internal Ear " James Hudspeth The Rockefeller University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, October 4, 12:30pm Boston University Particles & Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Room 595 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Alvaro de Rujula CERN & Boston University Monday, October 4, 12:30pm Boston University Particles & Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Room 595 Conformal Technicolor Takemichi Okui Boston University Monday, October 4, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Nuclear interactions and lattice QCD" Paulo Bedaque Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Refreshments will be served Monday, October 4, 2004 "Triptycene: Translation of a Simple Chemical Structure into New Structural and Electronic Materials." (Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Organic Chemistry Seminar.) Timothy Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St., 4:15 p.m. Monday, October 4, 2004, 4:15pm MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Lab for Nuclear Science, Kolker Room, 26-505 "The Status of Magnetic Monopole Searches" Michael Mulhearn MIT Tuesday, October 5, 2004 Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 4:00pm Harvard (Jefferson Lab 356) "On the road towards new quantum gases - Ultracold Chromium and a Rubidium-Ytterbium Mixture" Axel Goerlitz University of Duesseldorf Tuesday, October 5, 2004 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium "The Brane World, the Super World, and Our World" Prof. Raman Sundrum Johns Hopkins University Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 1:30pm Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Fine structure of the Hagedorn transition" Professor Hong Liu Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "DNA in a tight spot: The physics of viruses and gene regulation" Professor Jane' Kondev Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, October 5, 2004 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar Jefferson 453 "LISA in the skay with dark matter" Allan Adams (Harvard) Tuesday, October 5, 2003, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "New landscapes for variable constants" Joao Magueijo Imperial College Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 239 "Crystallization, Melting, and Jamming in Colloidal Systems with External Fields" Dr. Charles Reichardt Los Alamos National Laboratory Wednesday, October 6, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``The origin of the inflationary universe, a string theory perspective" Henry Tye Cornell Refreshments will be served. Thursday, October 7, 2004 Thursday, October 7, ?2004 "Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of a Single Biomolecule." (Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Harvard-MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar.) Christopher Jarzynski, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St. 5:00 p.m. Thursday, October 7, 2004, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Non-equilibrium Fermi Gas as a Reimann-Hilbert Problem" Boris Muzykantskii University of Warwick Thursday, October 7, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Behavior of the Open Magnetic Flux of the Sun" Len Fisk University of Michigan * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, October 7, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Geometric transitions and non-Calabi-Yau manifolds" Radu Tatar UC Berkeley Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, October 8, 2004