March 29- April 4, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 29, 2004 Monday, 3/29, 12:30pm Boston University Particles & Fields Seminar Physics Reserch Bldg., Room 595 Cosmic String Production in Brane Inflationary Scenarios Saswat Sarangi Cornell University Monday, March 29, 2004, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC) "Quadruple Amplitudes in the (virtual) gamma + N --> delta Transition" Shalev Gilad MIT Refreshments at 4:00PM Monday, March 29, 2004, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Bloch oscillations, Hawking radiation, and the infinite redshift puzzle" Ted Jacobson University of Maryland Refreshments will be served Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Tuesday, March 30, 2004, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Kolker Room- 26-414 `The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory" Leonard Susskind Stanford University Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, March 30, 2004, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Astrophysics Colloquia  Spring 2004 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 Bumps, Wiggles, and Holes in the Sky: Exploring the Early Universe Professor Amber Miller Columbia University *Refreshments served at 3:45pm Monday, March 29, 2004,4pm - 5pm CBA Colloquium MIT, Bldg E15, Bartos Theater "Fault-Tolerance in Biochemical Systems: From Molecular-Scale to Avogadro-Scale Engineering" Prof. Erik Winfree Computer Science and Computation & Neural Systems California Institute of Technology Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Wednesday, March 31, 2004, 12 noon Brandeis University Joint Theory/Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Field theory for trees and forests" Professor Jesper L. Jacobsen Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay Wednesday, March 31, 2004, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Dept. of Physics Olney 218 Phase Transitions in the Early Universe Carmen Gagne Clark University University *refreshments served at 3:30 p.m Wednesday, March 31, 2003, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "New perspectives on the cosmological constant problem" Josh Erlich (U. Washington) Refreshments at 4:00 pm Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Thursday, April 1, 2004 Thursday, April 1, 2004, 4:15 pm Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium Room N-105, Sackler Science Center "Electrically Addressable Nanopore Arrays for DNA Sequencing: A Cutting-Edges Approach" Sean Ling Brown University Thursday, April 1, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Dulity Seminar Jefferson 453 "Twistors, CFT and Holography" Kirill Krasnov Max Planck Institute Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series Thursday, April 1st 4:15pm Room 10-250 “Information Storage and Propagation in Genetic Networks” Alexander van Oudenaarden, Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering & Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT Refreshments at 3:45 (4-339) 12pm, Thursday, April 1st, 2004 Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Spin-charge separation and topological phase transitions in Aharonov-Bohm Rings of interacting electrons" B. Normand University of Fribourg, Switzerland Harvard University Experimental High Energy Physics Seminar "Physics with Ultra-Cold Neutrons (UCN) at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble" Peter Geltenbort Institute Laue-Langevin Greneoble, France High Energy Physics Lab 3rd Floor Conference Room 42 Oxford Street Thursday, April 1, 2004 12:00 noon cookies will be served Friday, April 2, 2004 Friday, April 2, 2004 at 3:30 PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium, Room 112 a^?SSpin Electronics: Magnetic Moments and Amorphous Semiconductorsa^?? Professor Frances Hellman Department of Physics, UCSD, La Jolla Refreshments in Anderson Hall, Burden Lounge, Room 108 at 3:00 PM To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". -- ?I"a`??a' _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html