March 22- March 28, 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 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 22, 2004 Monday, March 22, 2004 12:00 PM CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES Cumrun Vafa, Harvard Uuniversity, a^?SPhysics and Math of Crystal Meltinga^?? Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge Monday, March 22, 2004 4:30 PM CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES Robert Devaney, Boston University, a^?SThe Mandelbrot Set, the Farey Tree, and the Fibonacci Sequencea^?? Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge Monday, March 22, 2004, 7:00pm Harvard Science Center, Hall A Clay Public Lecture a^?SIs there such a thing as infinity?a^?? Timothy Gowers University of Cambridge, UK Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Exotica" Professor Robert L. Jaffe Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:30 PM CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES Timothy Gowers, Cambridge University (UK), a^?SThe largest positive integer you have ever contemplateda^?? Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge Wednesday, March 24, 2004 *Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 2:30 pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 To be announced * Dr. Justin Khoury (Columbia U) Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Supertubes vs. closed timelike curves" Nadav Drukker Niels Bohr Institute Refreshments will be served Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Dept. of Physics Olney 218 Ultrafast Dynamics and Optical Control of Coherent Phonons in Tellurium Chris Roeser Lincoln Laboratory *refreshments served at 3:30pm Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 4: 30 PM CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES Peter Shor, MIT, a^?SQuantum Computinga^?? Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge Wednesday, March 24th, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Joint Theory Seminar at Harvard University Jefferson 356 Robert Jaffe, "Exotica: A New Spectroscopy" Thursday, March 25, 2004 Thursday, March 25, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Jets in Active Nuclei: what are we learning?" Annalisa Celotti SISSA - Italy * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, March 25, 2004 4: 30 PM CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES AndrA~?s Vasy, MIT, a^?SDistributions-Generalized Functions" Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge Friday, March 26, 2004 Friday, March 26, 2004 4:30 PM CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES James Carlson, CMI, a^?SThe mathematics of googlea^?? Clay Mathematics Institute, One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".