January 24-January 28, 2005 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 12:00 p.m. the Tuesday of the week proceeding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2005 Monday, January 24, 2:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Lattice chiral gauge theories" Yigal Shamir University of Tel Aviv Refreshments will be served Monday, January 24, 2005, 4:15 PM Harvard University Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Organic Chemistry Seminar Pfizer Lecture Auditorium, Mallinckrodt Building, Lower Level, 12 Oxford St. "Chemical Synthesis and Synthetic Biology." Dirk Trauner University of California, Berkeley TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2005 Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 1:30 PM Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Spin chains and semiclassical strings" Joseph Minahan Uppsala Tuesday, January 25, 2005 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "The Science of Optics; The History of Art" Prof. Charles Falco U. Arizona Refreshments will be served at 3:15 PM Please call (617-353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Chromosome Architecture, Mechanics and Function" Dr. Michael Guy Poirier Northwestern University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2005 Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 4:30 p.m Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Engineering atomic superfluids: Preparation and stability of topological excitations" Janne Ruostekoski University of Hertfordshire Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2005 Thursday, January 27, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The Kuiper Belt as a Planetary Debris Disk" Renu Malhotra University of Arizona Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2005