February 16- February 22, 2003 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 11:00 a.m. the Monday of the week proceeding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Monday, February 16, 2004 Monday, February 16, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Brown Physics Department Colloquiums Barus and Holley 168 Professor Charles Rosenblatt Case Western Reserve University Title: "Dancing Liquids in Simulated Microgravity" Host: Professor Robert Pelcovits *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Tuesday, February 17, 2:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Building 26, Room 414 (Kolker Room) "Frontiers in Neutrino Astrophysics" John Beacom, Fermilab Refreshments served at 2:00 pm in the same room. Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 2:30PM(Note day and time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Strong-coupling lattice QCD at high density" Barak Bringoltz Tel Aviv University Refreshments will be served Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson Lab. Rm. 250 "Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions" Peter Zoller Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 3:30 pm Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Rm107 Metcalf Science Center Quantum Information and Non-Locality Sandu Propescu, Bristol *Refreshments served at 3:15pm in Metcalf Lounge* *Please call 617-353-2600 24 hours in advance for parking* Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 4:00PM (note time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Strong-coupling lattice QCD at high density" Barak Bringoltz Tel Aviv University Refreshments will be served Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 4:00pm MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Jupiter-Like Planets Around Other Stars: A Closer Look Prof. Dimitar Sasselov Harvard University *Refreshments are served at 3:45pm Wednesday, February 18, 2004 *Wednesday, 18 February 2004 * Brown University Physics Department Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM "Flux Backgrounds in 2D String Theory" Dr. Tadashi Takayanagi (Harvard U) Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``New results on the ``a-theorem" in four dimensional supersymmetric field theory" David Kutasov University of Chicago Refreshments will be served Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "The LHC (Little Higgs Collider)" Aaron Pierce (SLAC) Refreshments at 4:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Dept. of Physics Olney 218 Structure and Dynamics of Organic Semiconductors by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Professor Marcel Utz University of Connecticut *refreshments served at 3:30 p.m Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 4pm Boston College Department of Physics Higgins 310 "Experimental Studies of the Elementary Excitations in Strongly Correlated Materials" Dr. Peter Johnson Brookhaven National Laboratory Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 4:30pm Boston University Physics Department Joint Theory Seminar Rm 595 Physics Research Building The LHC (Little Higgs Collider) Aaron Pierce (SLAC) *Refreshments will be served at 4pm *Please call 617-353-2600 24 hours in advance for parking* Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Making Condensates with a Fermi Gas of Atoms" Dr. Deborah Jin Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) & National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, February 19, 2004 Thursday, February 19, 2004 New England Section Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org) Sheraton Lexington Hotel Bose-Einstein condensates - the coldest matter in the universe -- Wolfgang Ketterle - Nobel Prize winner in Physics 2001 Networking at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Meeting at 7:30 Dinner reservations by Noon, MONDAY, February 16, 2004 at www.nesosa.org or by e-mail to nesosa@lambdares.com Thursday, February 19, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "WMAP and Beyond" David Spergel Princeton University * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, February 19, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson Lab., Rm. 250 "The Quantum Repeater" Peter Zoller Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck Thursday, February 19, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Where are the states of a black hole?" Samir Mathur Ohio State Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 12pm, Thursday, February 19, 2004 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Physics in Cell Biology: Cytoskeletal Networks and Intracellular Transport " Prof. Dr. Erwin Frey Hahn-Meitner-Institut and Freie UniversitA~?t Berlin Thursday, February 19, 2004, 4:15 pm Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium Room N-105, Sackler Science Center "Old forgotten problems in Physics: Part I : Branly's effect in granular materials. Part II : Antibubbles and coated drops" Stephane Dorbolo Post-doctoral Researcher FNRS/University of Liege, Belgium and Clark University Friday, February 20, 2004 Friday, February 20, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Science Pierce 209 Disorder and Interactions in Electronic Systems Professor Boris L. Altshuler Department of Physics, Princeton University Fellow, NEC Research Institute Refreshments will be served in the Brooks room, following the seminar.