February 2- February 8, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 2, 2004 Monday, February 2, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Brown University Colloquium Barus and Holley 168, Dr. Tom Reinecke Naval Research Laboratory Title: "Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing" Host: Professor See-Chen Ying *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 3, 2004 Wednesday, February 4, 2004 Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 2:30 p.m. Brown University BH555 Physics Department Theoretical Seminar Dr. Diana Vaman (Princeton U) "To be announced" Wednesday, February 4, 2004,3:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room #36-156 "Some Modeling Notions for Molecular Nanostructure Assembly" Professor Mark Ratner Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University Wednesday, February 4, 2004 , 4:00 p.m. Boston College JOINT PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM Higgins Hall, Room 310 Supercritical fluids (SCFs) in sub-100nm devices Professor James J. Watkins Department of Chemical Engineering and Co-Director, MassNanoTech University of Massachusetts, Amherst *Refreshments will be served at 3:00pm Wednesday, February 4, 2003 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor seminar room ``Little hierarchy, little Higgs and a little symmetry" Hsin-Chia Cheng Harvard University Wednesday, February 4, 2004 2:30PM (note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``TBA" Andrew Cohen Boston University Thursday, February 5, 2004 Thursday, February 5, 2004, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Asymmetric Quantum Shot Noise in Quantum Dots" Dr. Hans-Andreas Engel University of Basel, Switzerland Thursday, February 5, 2004 Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Anti de Sitter black holes" Harvey Reall KITP, Santa Barbara Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics - Colloquium Series Thursday, February 5th 4:15pm Building 10-250 Refreshments - 3:45pm Building 4-339 Michael Peskin - Stanford University "Linear Collider: the Next Step in High-Energy Electron Physics" Thursday, February 5, 2004, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Title TBA (see http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia/latest.html)" Claire Max UC Santa Cruz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratroy * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, February 12, 2004, 4:00 pm Thursday, February 5, 2004, 4:15 pm Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium Room N-105, Sackler Science Center "Nanoscale d-wave superconductivity: surface, impurity and finite-size effects" Dr. Shan-Wen Tsai Boston University Friday, February 6, 2004 Friday, February 6, 2004, 11am Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm 352 "Bound Spinons in an Antiferromagnetic S=1/2 Chain with a Staggered Field" Dr. Michel Kenzelmann NIST Friday, Feb. 6th, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Science Pierce 209 Wiring the Brain: Theoretical Physics Meets Neurobiology Dmitri "Mitya" Chklovskii Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Refreshments will be served in the Brooks room, following the seminar. 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