December 6-December 10, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, DECEMBER 6, 2004 Monday, December 6, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room "Fantastic Realism - The Vienna School of 2D dilaton Gravity" Daniel Grumiller University of Leipzig Refreshments will be served Physics Colloquium Series at MIT 12/9/2004 Amihay Hanany, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Branes and Gauge Theory Dynamics" 4:15pm Building 10-250 Monday, December 6, 2004 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Feeling the Magnetism of Individual Spins: Recent Results from Magnetic Resonance for Microscopy" Daniel Rugar IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2004 Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 12:30 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Pratt Conference Room 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Ghosts of Saturn: understanding the ring spokes" Alison Farmer CalTech Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time" Sean Carroll University of Chicago Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Taking the temperature of sand" Professor N. Menon University of Massachusetts-Amherst Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 4:15pm Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar 111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153 "Self-similarity in QFT" Dirk Kreimer Boston University Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm CUA seminar Tuesday, December 7, 4:00pm MIT, Room 26-214 "Recent Results in Quantum Optics with Electrical Circuits" Steven Girvin, Yale Tuesday, December 7, 2004 2:00PM Note day and time Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special String/Gravity Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6 Third floor, seminar room Causality and Time in String Field Theory Ted Erler UC Santa Barbara Refreshments will be served Tuesday, Dec 7th, 2004 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar Jefferson 453 "Higgs phenomenology in Left-Right symmetric Randall-Sundrum Models" Ben Lillie (SLAC) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2004 Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 12pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 239 "Fluctuations in the aging of glassy systems" Professor Horacio Castillo Ohio University Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 2:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Pratt Conference Room 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The Effect of Baryons on Cosmic Structures" Stelios Kazantzidis Chicago/Zurich Wednesday, December 8, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room "Distributions of string vacua" Frederik Denef Rutgers University Refreshments will be served. Wednesday, Dec 8th, 2004 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "Lorentz violating field theories and supersymmetry" Maxim Pospelov (Victoria U.) (Refreshments from 4pm) Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 2:30 P.M Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Comments on Low Dimensional Supergravity" Dr. Carlos Nunez MIT Wednesday, December 8, 3:00 - 5:30 p.m. Harvard University Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Harvard-BU-MIT Theoretical Chemistry Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 36-153 "Computing the Free Energy of Biomolecular Systems Using Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo." Eric Darve Stanford University Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 4:00pm Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar Room 114 Dana Research Building "Studying Electronic Structure with Positrons and Synchrotron Light" Dr. Stephen Dugdale H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory University of Bristol, UK Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 4:00 PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Fall Colloquia 2004 Olney 218 "Prospecting for the First Stars in the Universe" Professor Robert Simcoe MIT Refreshments at 3:30 PM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2004 Thursday, December 9, 2004, 2:30 P.M Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555. "Distributions of Nonsupersymmetric Flux Vacua"* Dr. Frederik Denef Rutgers University Thursday, December 9, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "What Spitzer is teaching us about star formation and disk evolution" Lori Allen Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, December 9, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Magnetars" Chryssa Kouveliotou Marshall Space Flight Center Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, December 9, 2004, 4pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Room 114 Dana Research Building "Designing Magnetic Sensors with Extraordinary Geometric Magnetoresistance" Professor L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan Worcester Polytechnic Institute Thursday, December 9, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Causality in string field theory" Ted Erler Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, December 9, 2004, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Harvard-MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St. "Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Catalysis." Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Pennsylvania State University 12pm, Thursday, December 9, 2004 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Anyons in a spin model on the honeycomb lattice" Alexei Kitaev California Institute of Technology FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2004 Friday, December 10, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 "H-mode pedestal and edge physics in NSTX" Rajesh Maingi Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html