October 25-October 29, 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  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE
PUBLISHED.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 25, 2004


Monday October 25, 2004
Barus and Holley 168
Professor Zlato Tesanovic
John Hopkins University
"Beauty and the Beast: Gauge Theories in Condensed Matter"
Professor Vesna Mitrovic
Refreshments at 4pm


Monday, October 25, 2004, 4:30 p.m. (note time change)
Harvard University
Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium
Jefferson Lab, Rm. 250
"A Standard Model for Solids"
Marvin L. Cohen
Univ. of California, Berkeley
& Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.


Monday, October 25, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Neutrino Masses from the Top Down"
Paul Langacker
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served.


Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Racetrack Inflation"
Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado
New York University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

CUA seminar
Tuesday, October 26, 4:00pm
MIT, Room 26-214
"Fermionic condensates"
Markus Greiner, JILA

Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 4:00 PM
ASTROPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St,
Cambridge, MA
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
"Seismology of Accreting White Dwarfs"
Dr. Phil Arras
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.

Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 10:30am (Not change of room and time)
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
"Racetrack Inflation"
Dr. Marta Gomez-Reino
Brandeis University


Tuesday,  October 26, 2004  @4:30p.m.
Harvard University
Phenomenology Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Looking for strings"
Levon Pogosian (Tufts)

Wednesday, October 27, 2004


Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 4pm
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Fall Colloquia 2004
Olney 218
"Surface Science from the Nanometer to the Kilometer Range"
Professor Theodore Madey
Rutgers University
Refreshments at 3:30pm



Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture I
Jefferson Lab., Rm. 250
"Nanoscience:  Small is Sometimes Different"
Marvin L. Cohen
University of California, Berkeley


Wednesday, October 27, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Anomalies, Five-branes and Self-Dual Strings"
David Berman
DAMTP
Refreshments will be served.



Thursday, October 28, 2004

October 28, 2004, 4:15pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pappalardo Lecture in Physics
Building 10-250
"Seasonal Changes and Present-day Volatile Abundances on Mars"

Maria Zuber
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Thursday, October 28, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"The Morphological and Special Evolution of Galaxies in Groups and Clusters"
Dr. Esther Zirbel
Tufts University



Thursday, October 28, 2004, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture II
Jefferson Lab., Rm. 250
"Mostly Superconductivity"
Marvin L. Cohen
Uiversity of California, Berkeley



Thursday, October 28, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"New phases of near-extremal branes on a circle: connecting Kaluza-Klein
black holes to phases of gauge theories and little string theory"
Troels Harmark
Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:45



Thursday, October 28, 2004, 4:15 pm
Clark University, Dept. of Physics, Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105
"Casimir forces and the wetting of thin films"
Professor Rafael Garcia
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
WPI Physics Department



Thursday, October 28, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Gravitational Waves: A Tool for Studying Black Hole Physics"
Scott A. Hughes
MIT
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *


Friday, October 29, 2004

Friday, October 29, 4PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Inertial Confinement Fusion Research on the Z Pulsed Power Facility"

Keith Matzen
Sandia National Laboratory



Friday, October 29, 2004, 4pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
"Fabrication of Advanced Materials Using Atomic Layer Deposition"
Prof. Charles Musgrave
Stanford University
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium