May 10- May 16, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, May 10, 2004 Monday, May 10, 2004, 2:30PM note special time Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Cosmic Superstrings II" Rob Myers Perimeter Institute Refreshments will be served Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series at MIT 5/13/2004 Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT "The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity" Time: 4:15pm Place: Room 10-250 Refreshments will be served in the Physics Common Room (4-339) at 3:45pm Tuesday, May 11, 2004 Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Kolker Room- 26-414 ``Tuning Locked Inflation" Justin Khoury Columbia University Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 3:30PM Boston University Physics Department Special Colloquium Metcalf Science Center Rm 107 "HANBURY BROWN AND TWISS INTENSITY INTERFEROMETRY: FROM STARS TO NUCLEAR COLLISIONS TO ATOMS." Professor Gordon Baym University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign Refreshments will be served at 3:00 pm in the lounge Tuesday, May 11, 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 (title to be announced) Professor Rebecca Bernstein University of Michigan *Refreshments served at 3:45pm" Tuesday, May 11, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar (SPECIAL) Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Maxwell-Dworkin G135 "How to make a VERY thin nozzle: viscous entrainment from a nozzle" Dr. Wendy ZhangJames Franck Institute, University of Chicago Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 2:30PM Brown University Physics Department *Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 Prof. Thomas Blum (U Connecticut) "Lattaice Calculation of the Hadronic Contributions to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment" Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Some Aspects of closed string tachyons and the McKay correspondence" Tapobrata Sarkar ICTP, Trieste/Harvard Refreshments will be served Thursday, May 13, 2004 Thursday, May 13, 2004, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Dynamics of Molecular Motors on Heterogeneous Tracks" Yariv Kafri Harvard University Thursday, May 13, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The History of Water on Mars" Phil Christenson Geology Dept, Arizona State University * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, May 13, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "a-maximization and RG flows" Kenneth Intriligator UCSD Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, May 14, 2004 Friday, May 14, 2004, 10:00AM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Theta-Vacua Effects in 2-d CP(N-1) Models derived from (2+1)-d SU(N) Antiferromagnetic Spin-Ladders" Uwe-Jens Wiese University of Bern Friday, May 14, 2004, 11:00AM Boston University Physics Department Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center Rm 352 "HOW DO RAPIDLY ROTATING BOSE GASES CARRY ANGULAR MOMENTUM?" Professor Gordon Baym UI-UC Friday, May 14, 2004, 4:00 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Room NW17-218 "Toroidal Magnetic Plasma Confinement at the Limit: Results from the National Spherical Torus Experiment" Mike Bell Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Refreshments at 3:45pm T