April 26- May 2, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 26, 2004 Monday, April 26, 2004, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Neutrino Masses Shedding Light on Unification and Our Origin" Jogesh Pati University of Maryland Refreshments will be served Monday, April 26, 2004 Center for Bits and Atoms Colloquium 4:00pm - 5:00pm M.I.T. Bldg E15, Bartos Theater, Lower Level "Secure Physical Identity" Jean-Jacques Quisquater UCL Crypto Group Louvain-la-Neuve Belguim Monday, April 26, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Colloquium Hall B, Harvard Science Center 1 Oxford St. "Searching for the Unified Theory" Brian Greene (Columbia University) Tea in Physics Library, Jefferson 450, at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 27, 2004 Tuesday, April 27, 2003, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Is the large-scale microwave background cosmic?" Dr. Dragan Huterer Case Western Reserve University Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lecture I Jefferson 250 "String Theory and Geometry" Brian Greene (Columbia University) Tuesday, April 27, 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 "Galaxy Formation and the Formation of the Galaxy" Professor Julio Navarro University of Victoria *Refreshments served at 3:45pm" Wednesday, April 28, 2004 Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Variable-range hopping in electronic crystals" Dr. Sofian Teber University of Minnesota Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``AdS5 Solutions of M-theory and New Sasaki-Einstein Metrics" Jerome Gauntlett Perimeter Institute Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 2:30PM Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 Physics Department Brown University To be announced Prof. Hong Liu (MIT) Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:00 pm Higgins 310 Department of Physics Boston College Elaine Chandler LLNL "Stockpile Issues: Making the Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship Program Work" Wednesday, April 28, 4:00pm Special CIMS Seminar Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures Harvard University 17 Oxford St. Jefferson Lab, Room 250 Prof. Uri Sivan Technion-Israel Institute of Technology "Transistor in a Test Tube - Harnessing Molecular Biology to the Self-Assembly of Molecular Scale Electronics" Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Indirect detection of TeV scale dark matter candidates" Daniel Hooper Oxford University Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Photoassociation of Mixed Atomic Species in a MOT" Dr. Nicholas Bigelow University of Rochester Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Photoassociation of Mixed Atomic Species in a MOT" Dr. Nicholas Bigelow University of Rochester Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, April 29, 2004 Thursday, April 29th, 2004, 12pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Wrinkling, draping and crumpling" L. Mahadevan DEAS, Harvard University Thursday, April 29, 12:30 PM Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Tufts University Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Lifshitz Theory of the van der Waals and Casimir Forces and Thermodynamics" G.L. Klimchitskaya and V.M. Mostepanenko Universidade Federal de Paraiba, Brazil Thursday, April 29, 2004, 1:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Lattice Club lunch talk Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Triviality and the Higgs mass lower bound" Kieran Holland UC-San Diego Thursday, April 29, 2004, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lecture II Jefferson 250 "String Theory and Cosmology" Brian Greene Thursday, April 29, 2004, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 190 Dr. Sofian Teber, TPI, University of Minneapolis Title: "TBA" Host: Professor Jay Tang Thursday, April 29 ,2004, 4:00 pm. "Final Stages of Planet Formation." (Astronomy) The Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture by Peter Goldreich, Institute for Advanced Study, Philips Auditorium, Harvard College Observatory Thursday, April 29, 2004, 4:00 pm arvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The Final Stages of Planet Formation" (2004 Sackler Lecture) Peter Goldreich Caltech * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, April 29, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "The Simplest Superstring Orientifolds with Torsion, and their N=2 Calabi-Yau Duals" Michael B. Schulz Caltech Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, April 29, 2004, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series 10-250 Dan Akerib, Case Western Reserve University "Looking for WIMPs in the Galactic Halo: the Search for Dark Matter using Ultra-Cold Particle Detectors and Other Techniques" 3:45pm, refreshments, 4-339 Friday, April 30, 2004 Friday, April 30, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Real-Time Electron Counting in Semiconductor Nanostructures" Professor Alex Rimberg Rice University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.