November 8-November 12, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 8, 2004 Monday, Nov. 8, 2004, 10:00AM Harvard University Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures Special Seminar Maxwell Dworkin Building, 33 Oxford Street Room 119 "Automated Cryo-Electron Microscopy at NRAMM" Prof. Clint Potter The Scripps Research Instiute Monday, Nov 8, 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 8, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Asymptotic freedom in quantum mechanics: exploring two-dimensional Q-balls" Dam Thanh son University of Washington, Seattle Refreshments will be served Monday, November 8, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "The Quest for the Mass of the Neutrino" Giorgio Gratta Stanford University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2004 Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "LITE, Physics and Vision" Professor Kenneth Brecher Boston University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 4pm Physics Department Colloquium Boston University 590 Commonwealth Avenue , Room 107 "The Physics of Earthquakes" William Klein Boston University Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm Tuesday, November 9, 4:00pm CUA seminar MIT, Room 26-214 "Atom interferometric detection of the pairing order parameter in a Fermi gas and a scaling solution for the 3D unitary quantum gas" Yvan Castin, ENS, Paris Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 4:15pm Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar 111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153 "Introduction to Khovanov's homology II:category O" Maxim Vybornov Boston University Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 4:00 PM Astrophysics Colloquium Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA "The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection" Houjun Mo University of Massachusetts, Amherst Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM. Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 1:30pm Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Structure and Safety from Warped Compactifications" Professor Raman Sundrum Johns Hopkins University Tuesday, Nov 9th, 2004 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar Jefferson 453 "Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: status of the problem" Dmitry Semikoz (UCLA) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2004 Wednesday, Nov 10th, 2004 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "Solving a puzzle: How the D=5 Yang-Mills Chern-Simons term morphs into the full Wess-Zumino-Witten term for a D=4 Chiral Theory via Bianchi-Improved Deconstruction (also, a new WZW term and currents)" Chris Hill (Fermilab) Refreshments before from 4pm. Wednesday, November 10, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``BPS Deformations of AdS_p x S^q" Oleg Lunin Institute for Advanced Study Refreshments will be served. Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 2:30 P.M Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 To be announced Prof. Savdeep Sethi Chicago University Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 4pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Fall Colloquia 2004 Olney 218 "Left Handed Light" Professor Srinivas Sridhar Northeastern University Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 4pm Northeastern University Physics Condensed Matter Seminar Room 114 Dana Research Building "Polaronic Effects in High-Temperature Superconductors" Annette Bussmann-Holder Max-Planck Institut fur Festkoperforschu Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 4:00 pm Clark University, Jefferson 218 1st Annual Geller Lecture "Crude Oil, Climate Change, Coal, Cane and Cars" Dr. Robert Williams Senior Research Scientist Princeton Environmental Institute Princeton University THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004 Thursday, November 11, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: TBA Savdeep Sethi University of Chicago Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, November 11, 2004, 4:15 pm Clark University, Dept. of Physics, Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 "Embedded Learning Modules (ELMO): Reforming the University General Science Curriculum" Nick Gross Northeastern University FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2004 Friday, Nov. 12, 2004, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Moore's Law as Ockham's Razor: Electronics and Computing at Nanoscale" Prof. Sandip Tiwari Cornell University, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium Friday, Nov. 12, 2004, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Moore's Law as Ockham's Razor: Electronics and Computing at Nanoscale" Prof. Sandip Tiwari Cornell University, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium Friday, November 12, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Special Seminar High Energy Theory Group Commons, 4th Floor Jefferson Lab "Attractors & the Holomorphic Anomaly"" Erik Verlinde University of Amsterdam