April 19- April 25, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 19, 2004 Monday, April 19, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Brown University Barus and Holley 168 Professor R. Blankebecler, SLAC/Stanford University Title: "TBA" Host: Professor Herbert Fried *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 19th @ 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250 "Recent Progress Toward the Realization of Quantum Networks" Professor H. Jeff Kimble California Institute of Technology Monday, April 19, 2004 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Virus-Based Genetic Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and Semiconducting Nanowires and Self-assembling Structures" Angela Belcher MIT tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Kolker Room- 26-414 `Looking for Inflation in Warped Compactifications of String Theory" Oliver DeWolfe Princeton University Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity" Professor Frank Wilczek Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Harvard University, Room: Jefferson 356, Center for Ultra-Cold Atoms Seminar Professor G. Shlyapnikov Orsay Title: "Quantum degenerate regimes in ultracold Fermi gases" Host: Professor John Doyle *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Giant Hedge-hogs: Spikes on Giant Gravitons" Mohammad Sheikh-Jabbari Stanford Refreshments will be served Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 4:00 p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 310 Dr. Costas Soukoulis Ames Labs "The Strange properties of left-handed materials" Refreshments Higgins Hall, Room 230L 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 21st, 2004 at NOON MIT Lab for Nuclear Science Special Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "Depolarization and Spin Transfer in pbar + p -> lambdabar + lambda with Polarized Target" Dr. Paul Kingsbury University of New Mexico Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Cold Atoms Without Laser Cooling: The Frontier of Buffer-Gas Cooling" Dr. Jack Harris Center for Astrophysics Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 2:30PM Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 Physics Department Brown University To be announced * Prof. Daniel Kabat (Columbia U) Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Cold Atoms Without Laser Cooling: The Frontier of Buffer-Gas Cooling" Dr. Jack Harris Center for Astrophysics Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, April 22, 2004 Thursday, April 22nd, 2004, 12pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Evaporation-driven assembly of colloidal particles" Eric Lauga Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 1:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Theoretical Physics, Building 6, third floor seminar room Special Lattice Lunch club Talk ``Transport Coefficients on the Lattice" Sourendu Gupta TATA Institute Thursday, 22 April 2004, 2:30PM Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 Physics Department Brown University Non-Renormalization Theorems, Holography, and the Non-Abelian DBI Action in a Curved Background * Dr. Zachary Guralnik (Humboldt Univ.) Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The Feeding of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes" Paul Martini Clay Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ? tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:00 p.m Brown University Barus and Holley 190. Dr. Kerwyn Casey Huang, MIT Title: "TBA" Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series 10-250 Charles Holbrow, Colgate University "Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Essentials of Physics Teaching" 3:45pm, refreshments, 4-339 Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: TBA Jerome Gauntlett Perimeter Institute Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "AdS5 Solutions of M-theory and New Sasaki-Einstein Metrics" Jerome Gauntlett Perimeter Institute Friday, April 23, 2004 Friday, April 23, 2004 at 3:30 PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium, Room 112 Anthropic Predictions for Dark Energy and Neutrino Masses Professor Alex Vilenkin Tufts University Refreshments in Anderson Hall, Burden Lounge, Room 108 at 3:00 Friday, Apr. 23rd, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Critical Casimir Effect in 3D Ising Systems: Measurements on Thin Binary Wetting Films" Masafumi Fukuto Brookhaven National Laboratory Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.