October 18-October 22, 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  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE
PUBLISHED.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 18, 2004

Monday October 18, 2004
Barus and Holley 168
Professor Joel Primack
University of California, Santa Cruz
"TBA"
Professor Chung-I tan
Refreshments at 4 pm


Monday, October 18, 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Room 26-414, Kolker Room (Building 26, 4th floor)
Production of W Bosons in Polarized pp Collisions at RHIC
PAVEL NADOLSKY
Argonne National Laboratory

Monday,  October 18, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Split Supersymmetry and signals for fine-tuning at the LHC"
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Harvard
Refreshments will be served


Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"The dynamical Basis of Auditory Acuity"
Professor Marcelo Magnasco
The Rockefeller Institute


Tuesday, October 19, 2004 3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium

Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107
"Much Ado About Almost Nothing:
Experimental Searches for Neutrino Mass and Mixing"
Prof. Mark Messier
Indiana University
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.



Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Protein Polymerization, Polymer Networks and Crystals:  Variations on the
Theme of Actin"
Francois Amblard
Laboratory "Physics of the Cytoskeleton", Institut Curie, Paris
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm



Tuesday, October 19, 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
II
Christoph Bergbauer
Freie Universitat, Berlin
Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm


Tuesday, October 19, 4:00pm
Harvard University

CUA seminar
Jefferson Lab 356
"A Molecular Probe of the BEC/BCS Crossover in 6Li"
Randall Hulet, Rice University


Wednesday, October 20, 2004


Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 4pm
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Fall Colloquia 2004
Olney 218
"Impedance of Skeletal Muscle"
Professor Ronald Aaron
Northeastern University
Refreshments at 3:30pm


Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter/High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Department, Room 239
"Random Shapes and Random Maps:  A Case for Stochastic Loewner Evolution"
Professor Ilya Gruzberg
University of Chicago

Wednesday , October 20, 2004
Brown University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Department,  BH555, 2:30 p.m.
"Counting Enhanced Symmetries in Flux Vacua"
Dr. Oliver DeWolfe (Princeton)


Wednesday, October 20, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``A Curious Truncation of N=4 Yang-Mills"
Savdeep Sethi
University of Chicago
Refreshments will be served.



Thursday, October 21, 2004

October 21, 2004, 4:15pm

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

Thursday, October 21, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Target space in minimal string theory"
Nathan Seiberg
IAS
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45 


Thursday, October 21, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Two-point Resistance in a Resister Network-A New Formulation"
Professor Fa Y. Wu
Northeastern University



Thursday, October 21, 2004, 12pm
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


Friday, October 22, 2004
 
Friday, October 22, 4PM  (CANCELLED)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Microplasma Physics and Applications"
Jeffrey Hopwood
Northeastern University



Friday, October 22nd, 2004, 4pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
 Pierce 209
"PHASE BEHAVIOR, STRUCTURE AND 3-D ASSEMBLY OF MICROSPHERE-NANOPARTICLE
MIXTURES AND POLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEXES"
Prof. Jennifer A. Lewis
Materials Science and Engineering Department
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium