November 29-December 3, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 29, 2004 Monday, November 29, 12:30pm Boston University Particles & Fields Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 "Opening Windows for Technicolor" Deog-Ki Hong Pusan U. & MIT Monday, November 29, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Effective theory approach to unstable particle production" Giulia Zanderighi Fermi National Lab Refreshments will be served Monday, November 29, 2004 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Cold Atoms: from Quantum Information to Condensed Matter Physics" Peter Zoller Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, and Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004 Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 2:30 P M MIT Department of Mathematics PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR Building 2, Room 338 "DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF A SOLID STATE QUBIT SYSTEM " RUSSEL CAFLISCH University of California, LA Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 3:30pm Boston University Physics Department Colloquium 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 107 "Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics: Searches for Electric Dipole Moments of Elementary Particles" David deMille Yale University Tuesday, November 30, 4:00 PM Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Room 114 Dana Research Building "Mechanisms of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry" Professor E. De la Cruz Yale University Tuesday, November 30, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Symmetry considerations in the visual cortex and in natural images" Professor Mehran Kardar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 PM Tuesday, November 30, 4:00pm Harvard University CUA seminar Harvard, Jefferson Lab 356 "A Collider for Ultracold Atoms - Imaging Partial-wave Interference in Quantum Scattering" Adrew C. Wilson JLA WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2004 Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 2:00 PM Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics, Pierce 209 "Pattern formation in quantum Hall systems" Prof. Cristiane de Morais Smith Lehner University of Fribourg Wednesday, December 1, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Towards a Dual Description of Cosmological Singularities" Gary Horowitz UC, Santa Barbara Refreshments will be served. Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 2:30 P.M Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "To be Announced" Richard Easther Yale University Wednesday, December 1, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``A Quantum Cloak for a Classical Singularity" Alex Maloney Stanford/SLAC Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Mixing quantum gases to achieve the potion of everlasting current: cold atom alchemy" Eddy Timmermans Los Alamos National Laboratory eddy@t4.lanl.gov THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2004 Thursday, December 2, 4:00 PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Multidisciplinary applications with state-selected atoms" Ron Walsworth CfA Tea and cookies at 3:30 P Physics Colloquium Series at MIT 12/2/2004 Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics "Progress in Quantum Gravity: Theory and Phenomenology" Time: 4:15pm Place: Room 10-250 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2004 Friday, December 3, 2004, 3:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Theoretical Physics Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room "Cosmological Gravitomagnetism and Mach's Principle" Christoph Schmid Swiss Federal Institute of Technology The CMAP colloquium will be held in Maxwell Dwokin G115 tomorrow. See revised advertisement below. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Friday, Dec. 3, 2004 MD G115 4pm Cytoskeletal Systems Integration in Cell Migration Dr. Clare M. Waterman-Storer Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium Thursday, December 2, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Holographic Cascades for D-branes on Singularities" Sebastian Franco MIT Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, December 3, 2004, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Kolker Room 26-414 ``Cosmological Gravitomagnetism and Mach's Principle" Christoph Schmid Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Friday, December 3, 4:00 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences "Cytoskeletal Systems Integration in Cell Migration" Dr. Clare M. Waterman-Storer Deprtment of Cell Biology The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium Friday, December 3, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building NW17-218 Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar "Two-Fluid Effects in Stellarators and Tokamaks" Lida Sugiyama Massachusetts Institute of Technology