March 1- March 7, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 1, 2004 Monday, March 1, 12:00pm Harvard University Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures (CIMS) Seminar Maxwell Dworkin 119 (Grace Murray Hopper Room) "Decoherence in Disordered Conductors at Low temperatures, the effect of Soft Local Excitations" Y. Imry The Weizmann Institute Coffee and cookies will be available Monday, March 1st MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room , 26-414 Studies of the Top Quark at sqrt(s) = 2 TeV Robert Kehoe Michigan State University Monday, March 1, 2004, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room `` Neutrino mass and minimal SO (10) grand unification" Rabindra Mohapatra University of Maryland Refreshments will be served Monday, March 1, 2004, 4:00pm CBA Colloquium MIT Media Lab 20 Ames Streeet, The Bartos Theater Building E15 Cambridge, MA "Knowing what you know: estimation and control in nanoscale systems" Prof. Hideo Mabuchi Caltech *followed by refreshments Monday, March 1, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Barus and Holley 168 Professor Rene Ong University of California, Los Angeles Title: "The Extreme Universe: The Limits of Particle Physics and Astronomy" Host: Professor Richard Gaitskell *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, March 1, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Brown Physics Department Colloquiums Barus and Holley 168 Professor Rene Ong University of California, Los Angeles Title: "The Extreme Universe: The Limits of Particle Physics and Astronomy" Host: Professor Richard Gaitskell *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, 2004 Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 3:30pm Boston University Physics Department COLLOQUIUM Rm 107, Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston "Discoveries Ahead in Particle Physics" Dr. Michael Witherell, Director Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Refreshments will be served at 3:15 in the Lounge Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 4:00pm MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA (title to be announced) Prof. Joachim Wambsganss Universitat Potsdam *Refreshments are served at 3:45pm Joint Cosmology Seminar of Harvard/MIT/Tufts Tue, Mar 2nd, 2:30pm Masataka Fukugita (U. Tokyo, ICRR/ Institute for Advanced Study) Cosmic Inventories: A New Look at the Evolution of the Universe The evolution of Universe and the formation of cosmic structure redistribute dark matter and baryons. They are associated with creation and relocation of energies. I attempt to make the inventory of the matter budget and the energy distribution, and discuss what we learn from it concerning the physics in the Universe. The seminar will be held in the Gilman room in Agassiz house, Radcliffe Institute (at the corner of Mason and Garden St. 10 min walk from CfA and Harvard Sq.) at 2:30pm. Wed, Mar 3rd, 12:30pm Masataka Fukugita (U. Tokyo, ICRR/ Institute for Advanced Study) Mrphologically Classified Galaxies --- SDSS Visual Classification Project The SDSS project produces a large, photometrically-homogeneous catalogue of galaxies with spectroscopic information. I have been conducting a visual morphological classification project for bright galaxies for years. I discuss why this somewhat old-fashioned project is necessary and present some recent results from this work, especially for star formation properties. The seminar will be held in Phillips Auditorium at 12:30pm. Wednesday, March 3, 2004 Wednesday, March 3, 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" Leopolo Pando Zayas University of Michigan Refreshments will be served Wednesday, March 3rd, 2:30pm Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Jefferson 250 "Entanglement and teleportation in the Fermi Sea" Carlo Beenakker Instituut - Lorentz, Leiden University Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Collective Friction Forces Due to Spatial Self-Organization of Atoms: From Rayleigh to Bragg Scattering" Dr. Dr. Vladan Vuletic Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, March 4, 2004 Thursday, March 4, 2004, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Mesoscopic physics of photons in cold atomic gases" Prof. Eric Akkermans Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Joint Physics/CIRCS Seminar Northeastern University Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:00pm Room 114 Dana Research Building "Minimal Paths and Signal Propagation in a Model Cortex" Dr. Rava de Silveira Harvard University Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "Cosmic D-strings and inflation" Prof. Georgi Dvali (NYU) Refreshments at 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series Paul McEuen, Cornell University “Carbon Nanotubes: Electrons in a 1D World” March 4th 4:15pm in Building 10-250 Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Progress in closed string tachyon condensation in C/Z_n" Matthew Headrick MIT Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:00 p.m. Barus and Holley 190 Dr. Rolfe Petschek Case Western University Title: "Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Gels" Host: Professor Robert Pelcovits Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The formation of star clusters - 3D simulations of hydrodynamic turbulence in self-gravitating gas" Ralph Pudritz McMaster University * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:15 pm Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium Room N-105, Sackler Science Center "Short ranged attractions in jammed liquids: How cooling can melt a glass" David Reichman Harvard University Friday, March 5, 2004 Friday, March 5, 2004, 4PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 Bill Daughton Los Alamos National Laboratory Title: Dynamics of the Lower-hybrid Drift Instability in a Thin Current Sheet Friday, Mar. 5th, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Science Pierce 209 "Toward Real-Time Detection of Trace Biological and Chemical Agents in the Atmosphere Using Quantum Coherent Spectroscopy" Professor Marlan O. Scully Texas A&M University Princeton University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks room, following the seminar.