April 5- April 11, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 5, 2004 Monday, April 5, 2004, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Electric dipole moments and supersymmetry" Maxim Pospelov University of Victoria Refreshments will be served Monday, April 5, 2004 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Quantum-Mechanical Entanglement and Raising Schro"dingers Cat " David Wineland NIST tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, April 5th, 2004, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (NPPC) Kolker Room - 26-414 Neutrino Oscillations at High Energy: from Super-K to K2K to T2K Kate Scholberg MIT Monday, April 5, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus and Holley 168 Professor Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago Title: "Thoughts on Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Inflation" Host: Professor Richard Gaitskell *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Tuesday, April 6, 2003, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Holography and Eternal Inflation" Prof. David Lowe Brown University Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, April 6, 2004, 3pm Harvard University High Energy Physics Seminar Harvard Univ HEPL, 42 Oxford St, 3rd Floor Conf Room "Evidence for pair production of jets with an anomalous lepton content at the Tevatron" Paolo Giromini Frascati Tuesday, April 6, 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 Puzzles Posed by the Nearest Neutron Stars Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk University of Toronto *Refreshments served at 3:45pm Tuesday, April 6, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Harvard University, Room: Jefferson 356, Center for Ultra-Cold Atoms Seminar Professor Ignacio Cirac Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik Title: "Quantum behavior in ion traps and atoms in optical lattices" Host: Professor Misha Lukin *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, 2004 Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Non-renormalization theorems, holography and the non-ableian DBI action in a curved background" Zach Guralnik Humboldt University-Berlin Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM Colloquia Electrical polarity in nanosystems Philip B. Allen SUNY, Stony Brook Wednesday, April 7, 2004 4:00 pm, Higgins 310 Refreshments precede the talk, Higgins 230, 3:30 pm Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 2:30PM Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 Physics Department Brown University Geometric Transitions for Non-Kahler Compactifications Dr. Radu Tatar (Berkeley) Wednesday, 4/7/2004 3:00 PM BU-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar Lecture Series MIT, Room #36-156 "Structure & Dynamics of Many-Body Systems: Concepts, Tools and Applications" Professor Jimmie Doll Brown University Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 4:00 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Room NW17-218 "What the quiet times tell us about the storms" Ben Carreras Oak Ridge National Laboratory Refreshments at 3:45pm Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Creation of particles, Cosmology and Moduli trapping" Lev Kofman University of Toronto Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM Wednesday, April 7, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256 "Superfluid Pairing in Degenerate Atomic Fermi Gases" Dr. G. 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Shlyapnikov FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, April 8, 2004 Thursday, April 8, 2004, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Semiclassical theory for spin transport in spin-orbit coupled systems" Prof. Qian Niu University of Texas at Austin Thursday, April 8, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The Stellar Structure of Irregular Galaxies" Deidre Hunter Lowell Observatory *tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, April 8, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: TBA Anastasia Volovich KITP Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series 4/8/04 4:15pm, MIT - Building 10-250 Refreshments @ 3:45, Building 4-339 Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University “Measurements of Gravity-like Forces at Sub-mm Distances” Friday, April 9, 2004 Friday, April 9, 2004 at 3:30 PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium, Room 112 a^?SRecent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of the Infra-red Universea^?? Professor Giovanni Fazio Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments in Anderson Hall, Burden Lounge, Room 108 at 3:00 PM Friday, Apr. 9th, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Science Pierce 209 Nanopore Unzipping of DNA Hairpin Molecules Amit Meller Rowland Institute Harvard University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room, following the seminar.