March 8- March 14, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 8, 2004 Monday, March 8, 2004, 4:00pm MIT Media Lab CBA Colloquium 20 Ames Streeet, The Bartos Theater Building E15 Cambridge, MA To Err is Genetic ... To Function Divine Dr. Elebeoba May Sandia National Laboratories *followed by refreshments Monday, March 8, 2004 @ 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Manipulating Quantum Information with Semiconductor Spintronics" David Awschalom University of California, Santa Barbara tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, March 8, 2004,4:30 p.m. Brown University Quantum Foam and String Theory" Barus and Holley, 168 Professor Cumrun Vafa Harvard University Host: Professor David Lowe *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, March 8th, 4:15PM MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC) Kolker Room , 26-414 "Outlook: The Next Twenty Years " HITOSHI MURAYAMA Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University of California, Berkeley Monday, March 8, 2004, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Cracking the Unitarity Triangle: B Physics at the B factories" Gabriella Sciolla MIT-LNS Refreshments will be served Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Generalized parton distributions: ways to investigate hadron structure" Markus Diehl DESY Refreshments will be served Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Gravitational Lensing and Cosmology" Professor Bhuvnesh Jain University of Pennsylvania *refreshments served in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, March 9, 2:30 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Building 26, Room 414 (Kolker Room) "A Different Source of Perturbations During Inflation: Implications for Gaussianity" Matias Zaldarriaga Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics *refreshments served at 2:00 pm. Tuesday, March 9, 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 Microlensing Searches for Extrasolar Planets Dr. Scott Gaudi Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics *Refreshments served at 3:45pm Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Dept. of Physics Olney 218 Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Microstructuring of Silicon Surfaces for Novel Detector, Sensing, and Display Technologies Professor Eric Mazur Harvard University *refreshments served at 3:30 p.m Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Dynamical Control of Entanglement and Decoherence: From Nano- to Macro- Systems" Dr. Gershon Kurizki Weizmann Institute of Science Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Pushing the Higgs Away" Hitoshi Murayama UC-Berkeley Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, March 11, 2004 Thursday, March 11, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Closed Strings in Misner Space" Boris Pioline LPTHE, Paris Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, March 11, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence in the Globular Cluster Messier 4" Brad Hansen UCLA * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, March 11, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series Building 10-250 Cosmic Acceleration: New Gravitational Physics or Mysterious Dark Energy Michael Turner University of Chicago Refreshments at 3:45pm, Building 4-339 12pm, Thursday, March 11, 2004 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Landau Forbidden Phase Transitions and Emergent Photons in Quantum Magnets" Dr. Ashvin Vishwanath MIT Friday, March 12, 2004 Friday, March 12, 2004, 4PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 Dick Majeski Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Title: Lithium for the treatment of bipolar disorder in tokamaks - some clinical observations Friday, Mar. 12th, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Science Pierce 209 Quantum Phase Transitions: From Mott Insulators to the Cuprate Superconductors Professor Subir Sachdev Yale University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, following the seminar. Friday, March 12, 2004 at 3:30 p.m. Tea at 3:00 p.m., Room 112, Anderson Hall, Tufts University “The Rise of Complexity in Nature” Professor Eric J. Chaisson H. Dudley Wright Center Tufts University