April 12- April 18, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, April 12, 2004 Monday, April 12, 2004, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Anomalous U(1) Symmetry and a Solution to the Standard Model Puzzles" K.S. Babu Oklahoma State University Refreshments will be served Monday, April 12, 2004, 4:00pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building "Observation of Charge Ordering in the High Temperature Superconductor BSCCO by STM" Professor Eric Hudson MIT Monday, April 12, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Searches for Extraterrestrial Life" Freeman Dyson Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 12th at 4:15PM MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Bumps and Bangs: Looking for Dark Matter in Our Neighborhood" Peter Fisher MIT *Refreshments at 4PM Monday, April 12, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Brown University Physics Dept. Harlow Shapley Colloquium Lecture Barus and Holley 168 Professor Eileen Friel, National Science Foundation Title: "The Evolution of the Galactic Disk: Clues from its Star Clusters" Host: Professor Greg Tucker *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 12, 2004, 5:15 p.m. Harvard University Paul Tillich Lecture Science Center, B 1Oxford St. "Paul Tillich, Albert Einstein, and the Quest for the Ultimate" Gerald Holton Harvard University Monday, April 12, 2004, 4:00pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building "Observation of Charge Ordering in the High Temperature Superconductor BSCCO by STM" Professor Eric Hudson MIT Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 12:30pm Joint Cosmology Seminar of CfA/MIT/Tufts Pratt Conference Room, 60 Garden St., CfA "When Was the Universe Reionized?" Prof. Abraham Loeb Harvard University Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 3:30pm Boston University Physics Department 590 Commonwealth Avenue Rm 107 COLLOQUIUM A Bose Condensate in an Optical Lattice: Cold Atomic Gases Meet Solid State Physics Bill Phillips, Nobel Laureate NIST Refreshments served at 3pm in Lounge Tuesday, April 13, 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 The Search for Missing Baryons in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium Professor Todd Tripp University of Massachusetts at Amherst *Refreshments served at 3:45pm Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Mass. Inst. of Tech., Room: 26-214, Center for Ultra-Cold Atoms Seminar Professor Tom Killian Rice University Title: "Imaging an Ultracold Plasma" Host: Professor Wolfgang Ketterle *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Special Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 453 "Random Matrices and Hyperbolic Symmetry" Thomas Spencer Institute for Advanced Study Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 8:00p.m. Harvard University David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics Science Center, Hall D 1 Oxford St. "How We Might Have Gone to Mars in 1965: History of Project Orion" Freeman Dyson Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Refreshments following lecture at Special Exhibition Gallery, of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Science Center, Room 251 Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Dept. of Physics Olney 218 Making Things with Light Professor John Fourkas Boston College *refreshments served at 3:30 p.m Wednesday, April 14, 4:30 Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 356 An Approach to the Cosmological Constant Problem(s) Gordon Kane University of Michigan Refreshments at 4:00 Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 4:00 p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 310 Professor Alexander Fetter Stanford University "Stability and dynamics of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate" Refreshments Higgins Hall, Room 230L 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 4:00 Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Dr. Alexander Fetter, Stanford "Stability and dynamics of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate" Higgins 310 at 4:00 Refreshments 3:30, Higgins 230 Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Dynamics of Nonlinear Raman Processes in Atomic Ensembles" Dr. Irina Novikova Center for Astrophysics Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Professor Alexander Fetter Stanford University "Stability and dynamics of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate" Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Higgins Hall, Room 310 4:00 p.m. Refreshments Higgins Hall, Room 230L 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 4:00pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building "Phase Diagram of Extended t-j Model" Dr. T. K. Lee Institute of Physics Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan Thursday, April 15, 2004 Thursday, April 15, 2004, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 190, Dr. Manouk Abkarian, Harvard University Title: "Lift and Tumbling of Soft Shells Under a Bounded Shear Flow" Host: Professor Tom Powers Thursday, April 15, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "New Trends in Interstellar Chemistry: From Nucleosynthesis to Nucleic Acids" Lucy Ziurys Steward Observatory, University of Arizona * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, April 15, 2004, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10-250 Physics Colloquium Series Stanislas Leibler, The Rockefeller University "Are Bacteria Individuals?" 3:45pm, refreshments, 4-339 Thursday, April 15, 2004, 4:15 pm Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium Room N-105, Sackler Science Center "Nonlinear Elasticity of alpha helical domains" Buddhapriya Chakrabarti UMass, Amherst 12pm, Thursday, April 15th, 2004 Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Minimal Paths and Signal Propagation in a Model Cortex" Dr. Rava da Silveira Harvard University Thursday, April 15, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "The standard model from intersecting brane worlds" Christos Kokorelis INP, NCRPS Demokritos, Athens Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, April 16, 2004 Friday, April 16, 2004 at 3:30 PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium, Room 112 a^?STrue 3D Micro- and Nanofabrication via Two-Photon Polymerizationa^?? Professor Michael J. Naughton Boston College Refreshments in Anderson Hall, Burden Lounge, Room 108 at 3:00 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Friday, April 16 at 4PM in NW17-218 175 Albany Street Juan Fernandez Los Alamos National Laboratory Ion Acceleration to MeV/Nucleon with Short Pulse Lasers -- Interactions with Dense Matter Friday, Apr. 16th, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 307 (Note: one time room change) The Glass Transition and Dynamics in Thin Polymer Films James A. Forrest University of Waterloo Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, following the seminar. Friday, April 16, 2004 at 11:00 am Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Extracting Electron Wavefunctions from Materials Dr. Bernardo Barbiellini Physics Department, Northeastern University