February 23- February 29, 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 5:00pm on the Tuesday of the week proceeding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Monday, February 23, 2004 Monday, February 23, 2004, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment revisited" Kirill Melnikov University Hawaii/UCSB Refreshments will be served Monday, February 23, 2004, 4pm Artisans are Instrumental to Science: Why 19th Century Germany Got it Right Myles Jackson Willamette University Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT *followed by refreshments Monday, February 23rd @ 4:15PM MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-505 "The Universe from the Bottom of the World: Physics with the AMANDA Detector" Dr. Jodi Cooley MIT * Refreshments at 4:00PM. Call 253-2395 for more info. Monday, February 23, 2004 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Carbon Nanotubes  Electrons in a 1D World" Paul McEuen Cornell University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Tuesday, February 24, 2004 Tuesday, Feb.24, 2:30 PM Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Tufts University College Ave. Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Softly Massive Gravity" Prof. Gregory Gabadadze New York University *Refreshments at 2:00 Robinson Hall, Room 251 Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 4:00pm MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Cosmology with a Low-Frequency Radio Array Prof. Jacqueline Hewitt Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Refreshments are served at 3:45pm Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Single-Molecule Dynamics of Molecular Machines that Replicate DNA" Dr. Anita Goel Harvard University *Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 4:00pm MIT Astrophysics Colloquia MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Cosmology with a Low-Frequency Radio Array Prof. Jacqueline Hewitt Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Refreshments are served at 3:45pm Thursday, February 26, 2004, 3:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "The Shear Excitement of Confined Colloidal Suspensions" Dr. Itai Cohen Harvard University Refreshments in Room 333 at 2:30pm Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Thursday, February 26, 2004, 3:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "The Shear Excitement of Confined Colloidal Suspensions" Dr. Itai Cohen Harvard University Refreshments in Room 333 at 2:30pm