October 16 -20, 2006 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Harvard University. Entries should reach us no later than 2:00 pm the Wednesday of the week preceding the week of the actual event. NOTE: Entries that are past the deadline will have to be sent by you to the bapc late entry email address listed below. On time entries send to: bapc-events@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu Late entries send to: bapc-late@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the bapc please go to: http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Monday, October 16, 2006 12:00 pm MIT Department of Physics: Chez Pierre Talk Room 12-132 Alex Kamenev University of Minnesota "One-dimensional Fermions: Going beyond the Luttinger Model" 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar "Strings, black hole and relativistic heavy ion collisions" Hong Liu MIT-CTP Refreshments will be served 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Search for Ykawa-Type Gravity-like Forces at Sub-mm Distance" Aharon Kapitulnik Stanford University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm http://www.physics.harvard.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:30 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar ``Fading Gravity and Self-Inflation" Justin Lange Perimeter Institute Refreshments will be served at 2:00 pm Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar ``Fading Gravity and Self-Inflation" Justin Khoury (was incorrect last name) Perimeter Institute Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "A New Era of UHE Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Astrophysics" Angela Olinto University of Chicago Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Understanding the Adaptive Immune Response to Pathogens: A Crossroad to Physics and Biology" Dr. Arup Chakraborty MIT Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm 4:00 pm Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Monte Carlo simulations of supercoiled DNA with intrinsic bends" Andreas Hanke Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Texas at Brownsville Refreshments will be served ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room String/Gravity Theory seminar "Quantum mechanics and classical spacetimes" Vijay Balasubramanian University of Pennsylvania Refreshments will be served 2:30 pm Brown University Physics Department Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "To be announced" Dr. N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr Princeton University 4:00 pm UMASS LOWELL Zoltan Fried Memorial Lecture, OH218 "Shallow water waves" Professor Alex Sachs Refreshments at 3:30 pm 4:30 PM Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics & Harvard University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium Jefferson 356 "Exact Properties of Strongly Correlated Ultracold Gases in Tight Waveguides" Marvin Girardeau University of Arizona Refreshments served at 4:00 PM ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:00 pm Boston University Math-Physics Seminar 111 Cummington St. Math Dept., Room MCS 135 "On the Cutkosky Rules for Feynman Graphs" Christoph Bergbauer FU Berlin Tea at 2:45 pm http://math.bu.edu/research/mathphys/seminar.html 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street Cambridge "The principle of mediocrity" Alexander Vilenkin Tufts University tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/colloquia Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:00 pm Harvard University Women, Science, and Society Seminar Series Jefferson 250 "Analyzing the Leaky Pipeline: Why are Women Scientists Under-represented in Senior Positions?" hoebe Leboy University of Pennsylvania 4:00 pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Quantum-Dot Computing and Decoherence" Dr. Leonid Fedichkin Clarkson University Refreshments will be served 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Celestial Engineering: Resonance and the Dynamical Architecture of Planetary Systems" Eugene Chiang University of California, Berkeley http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html 6:00 pm Harvard University Women, Science, and Society Seminar Series Jefferson 250 "Analyzing the Leaky Pipeline: Why are Women Scientists Under-represented in Senior Positions?" Phoebe Leboy University of Pennsylvania http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hgwise/upcoming.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, October 20, 2006 12:45 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: TBA John McGreevy MIT Lunchtime seminar refreshments available from 12:35 Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 1:30 pm Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 Evolving Black Holes and the Growth of Horizons Alex Nielsen University of Canterbury, New Zealand 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "Nature's Renewable Energy Blueprint: Future Fuel from Photosynthesis & Biomimics" Charles Dismukes Princeton University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium http://www.princeton.edu/~catalase Friday, October 20, 2006 12:45 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: "Stringy Instantons and Quiver Gauge Theories" John McGreevy MIT Lunchtime seminar: refreshments available from 12:35 Friday, October 20, 2006 at 3:00 pm Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 253 Many Universes in One Alex Vilenkin Tufts University Author of the recently published book Many Universes in One Coffee and cookies served in Robinson 251 at 2:30 pm _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html