September 18 to September 22, 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, September 18, 2006 12:30 PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminars Physics Research Building 3 Cummington St., room 595 "A Universe without Weak Interactions" Graham Kribs University of Oregon September 18, 2006, Monday 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Monday Colloquia 17 Oxford Street Jefferson Laboratory Building Jefferson Lecture Hall, Room 250 Cambridge, MA 02138 "TBA" Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Tea will be served in Jefferson Library, 4'th. flr., room 450 @ 3:30pm http://www.physics.harvard.edu 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room "Bethe ansatz techniques in N=2 SYM and DLCQ strings" Valentina Forini University of Trento Refreshments will be served see our web page for directions to our new location ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "Quantum Choregraphy: Exotica Inside Crystals" Matthew Fisher UCSB Refreshments served at 3:15PM in the 1st floor lounge 4:30 PM Brown University Physics Department Colloquium Series Barus & Holley Building, Room 168 182 Hope Street "Melting of the Nanocrystalline Vortex Matter in High-Temperature Superconductors" Professor Yadin Goldschmidt University of Pittsburgh Refreshments served at 4:00 PM ____________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 Professor James Moran Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Megamasers, Super Massive Black Holes, and the Extragalactic Distance Scale" Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm ____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, 20, 2006 1:00 pm (Note time change) Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 TBA Prof. Tamiaki Yoneya University of Tokyo 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room "Dressing the Giant Magnon" Marcus Spradlin Brown University Refreshments will be served see our web page for directions to our new location 4:30 pm Harvard University Jefferson 453 "Brane Inflation: Observational Signatures and Non-Gaussianities" Gary Shiu Univ. of Wisconsin _ Wednesday, September 20,2006 UMASS LOWELL 4:00P.M. OH218 "Constraints on dark matter halos from satellite galaxies" Tereasa Brainerd Boston University Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. ___________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street Cambridge "New Insights into the Physics of Supernovae and their Remnants: A Comprehensive X-ray Study of SN 1572" Jack Hughes Rutgers University tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. 4:00 pm Northeastern University CIRCS/Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "The role(s)of water in structure, dynamics and function of a noncoding RNA" Nils Walter University of Michigan Refreshments will be served 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weekly Physics Colloquium Series Building 10, Room 250 "Decoding Cosmic Cryptography in Search for the Holy Grail" Amber Miller Columbia University For more information: http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/fall2006.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, September 22, 2006 12:45 a.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "A Farey Tail for Attractor Black Holes" Robbert Dijkgraaf University of Amsterdam Lunchtime seminar 3:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar "Kinetic Frequency-Sweeping Events: Heuristic Models and Experimental Observations" Roderick Vann University of York 4:00 pm Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium 29 Oxford Street Pierce 209 Cambridge, MA 02138 "3D Optics" George Barbastathis Department of Mechanical Engineering MIT Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium http://www.deas.harvard.edu/newsandevents/calendars/ Friday, September 22, 2006, 12 Noon Boston University Physics Department Metcalf Science Center 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 352 Condensed Matter Seminar "Spin liquid in two dimensional organics" Patrick Lee MIT _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html