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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 3, 2004 Monday, May 3, 2004, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Gapless Color-Flavor Locked Quark Matter" Krishna Rajagopal MIT Refreshments will be served Monday, May 3, 2004, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Building, Rm. 250 "How Auditory Space is Represented in the Brain" Mark Konishi California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) Tea will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Jefferson Library, Rm. 450 Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 2:00PM (note time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Supersymmetry relics in QCD from a new large-N limit" Gabriele Veneziano CERN Refreshments will be served Tuesday, May 4, 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 Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Results from the First Year" Professor Chris Martin California Institute of Technology *Refreshments served at 3:45pm" Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 4:30 p.m.* Harvard University, Room: Jefferson 356, Center for Ultra-Cold Atoms Seminar Professor Susanne Yelin University of Connecticut Title: "Atom-atom correlations in optically dense media: Where many-body physics meets quantum optics" Host: Professor E. Heller *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tue, May 4th Joint Cosmology Seminar of Harvard/MIT/Tufts Vicky Kaspi (McGill University) (Anomalous) X-ray Pulsars The "Anomalous X-ray Pulsars" (AXPs) have been mysterious for over two decades. Although these unusual objects are clearly young neutron stars, what powers their X-ray emission has been unknown. In this talk, we review the observational properties of the AXPs, namely their spin behaviour, spectra and fluxes, their pulse morphologies, their multiwavelength properties, as well as their recently discovered bursting behaviour. We contrast these properties with those of the soft gamma repeaters, a source class argued, on a variety of grounds, to be identified as "magnetars," isolated ultra-high-magnetic-field neutron stars. We show that the distinction between the two classes of object, particularly in light of AXP bursts, appears largely superficial. This clearly points to both classes being magnetars. We also discuss the issue of high-magnetic-field radio pulsars, which, according to the magnetar model, ought to produce some anomalous X-ray emission, like the AXPs. The seminar will be held in Pratt Conference Room (G04) of CfA (60 Garden St.) at 12:30pm. Wednesday, May 5, 2004 Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``A new anomalous contribution to the central charge of the N=2 susy monopole" Peter van Nieuwenhuizen SUNY- Stony Brook Refreshments will be served *Wednesday, 5 May 2004 Brown University Physics Department *Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM Prof. Per Berglund (U New Hampshire) "To be announced" Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 4pm Higgins 310 Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Professor Jagdish Mehra, University of Houston (formerly UNESCO Sir Julian Huxley Distinguished Professor of Physics and History of Science, Trieste Paris) "The creation of unified quantum mechanics" Refreshments 3:30 Higgins 230 Thursday, May 6, 2004 Thursday, May 6, 2004, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Mesoscopic Magnetic Imaging of Unconventional Superconductors" Prof. Kathryn Moler Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series Dr. Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse “Imaging the Addicted Brain: From Molecules to Behavior” May 6, 2004 4:15pm in Building 10, Room 250 Refreshments at 3:45 in Building 4 room 339 Thursday, May 6, 2004, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium60 Garden Street, Cambridge " A Magic Scale in Galaxy Formation" Avishai Dekel The Hebrew University, Israel tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, May 6, 2004, 4:15 pm Clark University, Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Joint Colloquium Room N-105, Sackler Science Center "Fragility, spatial heterogeneity, and cooperative relaxation in glass-forming liquids: old problems and many new twists" Professor Udayan Mohanty Boston College Thursday May 6, 2004, 4:30 PM Boston College Physics Dept. SPS Seminar Higgins 235 Professor Jagdish Mehra University of Houston (formerly UNESCO Sir Julian Huxley Distinguished Professor of Physics and History of Science, Trieste Paris) "My last encounter with Richard Feynman" Friday, May 7, 2004 Friday, May 7, 2004, 12:30 PM Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Tufts University Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Determining the Regimes of Warm and Cold Inflation" Arjun Berera University of Edinburgh Friday, May 7th, 4:00 PM HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Wrapping Light around a Hair" Professor Eric Mazur Harvard University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar. Friday, May 7, 2004, 4:00 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Room NW17-218 "Fast Ion Physics in Tokamak Plasmas" Frank Cheng Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Refreshments at 3:45pm