November 15-November 19, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE
PUBLISHED.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 15, 2004
Monday, November 15, 12:30pm
Boston University
Particles & Fields Seminar
Physics Research Bldg, Room 595
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Status of Problem
Dmitri Semikoz
UCLA
Monday, November 15, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Warped Supersymmetric Models and Fine Tuning"
David Tucker-smith
Williams College
Refreshments will be served
Monday, Nov 15th, 2004, 4:15pm
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, Bld. 26, 26-414
"Recent Results from STAR at RHIC"
Nu Xu
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Monday, November 15, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Exploring Mars"
Dniel J. McCleese
JPL
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2004
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 2:00pm (Note change of time)
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Dualizing gravitation? An M-theory perspective"
Professor Bernard Julia
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de l'Ecole
Normale Superieure and Harvard University
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Lorentz-Violating Vector Fields Slow the Universe Down"
Eugene Lim
Yale University
Refreshments served at 2pm in Knipp Library, Room 251
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University
Room 114 Dana Research Building
CIRCS Seminar
"Talking to the Brain: Using Real-Time Experimental Control to Study
Coherent Activity in the Hoppocampal Formation"
Professor John A. White
Boston University
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 4:00 PM
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St,
Cambridge, MA
"Observing the insides of black holes"
Prof. Andrew Hamilton
University of Colorado, Boulder
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.
CUA seminar
Tuesday, November 16, 4:00pm
Harvard, Jefferson Lab 356
"Guiding light in sparse media"
Mara Prentiss, Harvard University
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Technical Aspects of Space Weapons"
Dr. David Wright
Union of Concerned Scientists
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm
Tuesday, Nov 16th, 2004 @4:30p.m.
Harvard University
Phenomenology Seminar
Jefferson 453
"A possible test of Split Supersymmetry"
Carlos Nunez (MIT)
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 4:15pm
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153
"Rota-Baxter type operators, shuffle type products and congruences"
Li Guo
Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 2:00pm (Note change of time)
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Dualizing gravitation? An M-theory perspective"
Professor Bernard Julia
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de l'Ecole
Normale Superieure and Harvard University
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2004
Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 239
"Glassiness in classical and quantum systems subjected to hard constraints"
Claudio Castelnovo
Boston University
Wednesday, November 17, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Holomorphic Anomaly and One-loop Amplitude"
Bo Feng
Institute for Advanced Study
Refreshments will be served
Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 4pm
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Fall Colloquia 2004
Olney 218
"The Role of Serendipity in Science"
Professor Sheldon Glashow
Boston University
Refreshments at 3:30pm
Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 4:30pm
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Building, Room 595
3 Cummington Street
"Do Chiral Soliton Models Predict Pentaquarks?"
Igor Klebanov (Princeton U.)
Refreshments at 4:00 pm
Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance
Wednesday, November 17, 4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Harvard University
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256
"Development of a Quantum Tweezer for Atoms"
Dr. Mark Raizen
University of Texas, Austin
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004
Thursday, November 18, 2004 , 4pm
Northeastern University
Room 114 Dana Research Building
Physics Colloquium
"Optimizing Exchange Interaction in Artificial Molecular Hydrogen: Quantum
Dots and Quantum Computing"
Dr. Mike Stopa
Harvard University
Thursday, November 18, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
``c=1 Matrix Model for a Big Bang/Big Crunch Universe in Two Dimensions''
Umut Gursoy
MIT
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45
Thursday, November 18, 2004, 4:15 pm
Clark University, Dept. of Physics, Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105
"Structure and dynamics of live cells
quantified by Fourier Phase Microscopy"
Gabriel Popescu
George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, November 18, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
Title: TBA
Umut Gursoy
MIT
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2004
Friday, 19 November 2004, 2:30 P.M.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
To be announced
Prof. Igor Klebanov (Princeton U)
Friday, November 19th, 2004, 2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555.
"Variations on the Warped Deformed Conifold"
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Prof. Igor Klebanov
Princeton University
FRIDAY, Nov. 19 at 14:00 hours in room 4-153, and features:
Testing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: Motivation, State of Play, and Prospects
by Anthony Leggett (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ABSTRACT
I present the motivation for experiments which attempt to generate,and verify the existence of,quantum superpositions of two or more states which are by some reasonable criterion "macroscopically" distinct,and show that various a priori objections to this program made in the literature are flawed.I review the extent to which such experiments currently exist in the areas of free-space molecular diffraction,magnetic biomolecules, quantum optics and Josephson devices,and sketch possible future lines of development of the program.
Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, 4pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 209
"Nonlinear optics at short wavelengths: attosecond science and applications"
Professor Margaret Murnane
University of Colorado at Boulder