November 1-November 5, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 NOVEMBER 1, 2004 Monday, November 1, 2004, 12pm Northeastern University Joint Biology/CIRCS Seminar Snell Library "Visual processing in the "Developing Zebra Fish" Professor Florian Engert Harvard University Monday, Nov 1, 12:30pm Boston University Particles & Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Room 595 Flavor Physics in Randall-Sundrum I Gilad Perez UC Berkeley & LBNL Monday, November 1, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Motives attached to Feynman Graphs?" Spencer Bloch University of Chicago Refreshments will be served Monday, November 1, 2004 4:15pm (refreshments at 4PM) MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 1, Room 190 (1-190) "Women and the Future of Physics" Howard Georgi Harvard University Monday, November 1, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Mallinckrodt Building, Pfizer Lecture Room, 12 Oxford St. "Enzymes as Macromolecular Machines." (The Frank H. Westheimer Medal and Prize Lecture.) Thomas A. Steitz Yale University. Monday, November 1, 2004, 4:15pm Building 1, Room 190 (1-190) MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium "Women and the Future of Physics" Howard Georgi Harvard University refreshments at 4PM Monday, November 1, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "From NMR to the Imaging of the Diffusion Tensor Field in the Brain and Beyond" Andrew Kiruluta Harvard University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2004 Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 1:30pm Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Conformal Technicolor" Dr. Takemichi Okui Boston University T Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Mathematical Physics Seminar Science Center 507 "Localization in Schroedinger Operators" Professor Jean Bourgain Institute for Advanced Study ASTROPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM Tuesday, November 2, 2004 4:00 PM Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM. Prof. Charles Alcock Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Fishing in the Dark: Searching for Extremely Faint Objects in the Solar System Tuesday, November 2, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Exorcising w <-1" Nemanja Kaloper University of California at Davis Refreshments will be served at 2PM Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Why are Viruses (Almost Always) Icosahedral?" Professor William M. Gelbart UCLA, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 4:00 PM ASTROPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 "Fishing in the Dark: Searching for Extremely Faint Objects in the Solar System" Prof. Charles Alcock Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM. Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 4pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building CIRCS Seminar "Predictive Information: From Definition to Applications to Biological Systems" Dr. Ilya Nemenman Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Columbia University Tuesday, November 2, 4:00pm CUA seminar Harvard, Jefferson Lab 356 "Fractional quantum Hall states in optical lattices" Anders Sorensen, Niels Bohr Institute Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 4:15pm Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar 111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153 "Cern-Simons Theory over Loop Spaces" Fabian Torres-Ardila Boston University Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm Tuesday, Nov 2nd, 2004 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar Jefferson 453 "Twisted split fermions: From flavor to CP hierarchy" Gilad Perez (LBL, Berkley) Tuesday, November 2, 2004 Harvard University Mathematical Physics Seminar Science Center 507 "Localization in Schroedinger Operators" Professor Jean Bourgain Institute for Advanced Study WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 3, 2004 Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 239 "The onset of jamming as the sudden emergence of an infinite $k$-core cluster" Dr. Jennifer Schwartz University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 1:30pm Clay Research Fellow Lecture Series Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Counting field extensions of the rational numbers" Manjul Bhargava Princeton University/CMI Wednesday, November 3, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Flux compactifications, supersymmetry breaking and soft terms" Angel Uranga Autonoma University-Madrid Refreshments will be served. Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 3:00pm Clay Research Fellow Lecture Series Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Counting simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and intersection theory on the moduli spaces of curves" Maryam Mirzakhani Princeton University/CMI Wednesday, November 3, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``What is inside a black hole?" Samir Mathur Ohio State University Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 4:30pm Clay Research Fellow Lecture Series Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Two faces of geometric Eisenstein series" Dennis Gaitsgory University of Chicago/CMI Wednesday, 3 November 2004, * 2:30 P.M. Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 To be announced Dr. Radu Roiban (Princeton U) THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2004 Thursday, November 4, 2004, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Topological phases, conformal quantum critical points and Cantor deconfinement in 2D Quantum Dimer Models" Dr. Eduardo Fradkin Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana IL Thursday, November 4, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Soft SUSY breaking and FI D-terms in type II models" Albion Lawrence Brandeis University Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series 11/4/2004 Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin "Cosmological Controversies" Time: 4:15pm Place: Room 10-250 Thursday, November 4, 2004, 1:30pm Clay Research Fellow Lecture Series Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Counting field extensions of the rational numbers" Manjul Bhargava Princeton University/CMI Thursday, November 4, 2004, 3:00pm Clay Research Fellow Lecture Series Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Counting simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and intersection theory on the moduli spaces of curves" Maryam Mirzakhani Princeton University/CMI Thursday, November 4, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Stars as Artists: The Shaping of Planetary Nebulae" Bruce Balick University of Washington * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, November 4, 2004, 4pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building Physics Colloquium "Gamma-Ray Astrophysics" Professor Guy Blaylock U-Mass Amherst Thursday, November 4, 2004, 4:15 pm Clark University, Dept. of Physics, Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 "Franchising Self-Paced Web-Enabled K-12 Schools: Applications to Non-Profit and Public Schools" David Andersen Stellar Schools Project Franchising Thursday, November 4, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Mallinckrodt Building, Pfizer Lecture Room, 12 Oxford St "Sunlight Initiated Reactions in Atmospheric Chemistry." (Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Harvard-MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar.) Veronica Vaida, University of Colorado at Boulder. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2004 Friday, November 5, 2004, 2:00 pm Clay Mathematics Institute Annual Meeting Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall C "The Fundamental Lemma for Unitary Groups" Gerard Laumon CNRS and Universite Paris-Sud November 5, 2004, 3pm MIT, Department of Mathematics Infinite-Dimensional Algebra Seminar Room 2-147 "McKay equivalence for symplectic quotient singularities" Rman Bezrukavnikov Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education Friday, November 5, 2004, 3:45 pm Clay Mathematics Institute Annual Meeting Harvard University Science Center Lecture Hall C "Linear Equations in the Primes: Past, Present, and Future" Ben Green Trinity College, Cambridge Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Friday, November 5, 2004 Pierce 209 4pm "Single molecule transistors: Transport, Kondo physics and inelastic processes" Prof. Doug Natelson Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium