S November 14 to November 18, 2005 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 go to:http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html ______________________________________________________________________ Monday, November 14, 2005 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room* "Relaxing to Three Dimensions" Lis Randall Harvard University Refreshments will be served *see our web page for directions to our new location 4:15 pm Harvard University Department of Physics Jefferson 250 "Superfluidity in Solid Helium and Solid Hydrogen" Moses H.W. Chan Penn State University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm ______________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:30pm Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 229 "Non-Abelian Localization For Chern-Simons Theory" Dr. Christopher Beasley Harvard University Tuesday, Nov 15th, 2005 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar, Jefferson 453 "A model dependent and independent look at LHC phenomenology" Patrick Meade (Cornell) 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room* ``String Pair Production in a Time-Dependent Gravitational Field" Daniel Wesley Princeton Refreshments will be served at 2PM, please see our web page for directions to our temporary location. 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107 "Treating Coupled Ferromagnetic Cores as Dynamical Systems for Fun and Profit" Adi Bulsara US Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, CA Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the SCI 1st Floor Lounge 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "MEMS for Optical Telecommunications" Professor Mehmet Dokmeci Northeastern University, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Fall 2005 Marlar Lounge 37-252 "A Large Tully-Fisher Sample of Very Faint Dwarf Galaxies" Dr. Marla Geha Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/colloq.html ______________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:10pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 239 "Polyelectrolyte-Protein Coacervates:Novel Biomacromolecular Fluids" Professor Paul Dubin University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Dept. of Chemistry 2:30 pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "Violation of the Bekenstein Bound in M-Theory" Aleksey Mints Berkeley 2:30 Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "Dynamics of Antimembranes in the Maximally Supersymmetric Lid pp Wave" Dr. Xinkai Wu University of Kentucky 3:00PM...Note time for this week only Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building NE25 Fourth Floor seminar room* "Topological rings and heterotic strings" Allan Adams Harvard University Refreshments will be served *see our web page for directions to our new location 4:00 pm Umass Lowell Colloquia Olney 218 "How Can Physicists Contribute to the (Changing) Oil and Gas Industry?" Dr. Lawrence M. Schwartz Schlumberger Corporation Refreshments at 3:30 p.m ___ The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/ Department of Physics - Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium ___________________________________________ Speaker: Roberto Onofrio (Dartmouth) Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Quantum Vacuum Time: Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005 @ 4:30 p.m. - Tea @ 4:00 p.m. Place : Jefferson Laboratory *Room 356 ____________________________________________________________________ Thursday, November 17, 2005 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CFA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Dwarf Disk Galaxies: Exploring Dynamics and Baryon Content at the Faint-end of the Luminosity Function" Marla Geha Carnegie Observatories tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. 4:15 pm Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 "2D Frustrated Quantum Magnets" Professor Vesna Mitrovic Brown University http://physics.clarku.edu/colloquium/ http://physics.clarku.edu/colloquium/ 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series MIT 10-250 "Understanding the Strong Interactions with Effective Theories" Professor Iain Stewart MIT _______________________________________________________________________ Friday, November 18, 2005 11:45 a.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Flux Compactifications and Moduli" Li-Sheng Tseng University of Utah Lunchtime seminar: pizza, salad and fruit will be available. 3:00 pm Tufts Physics Colloquium Alan Hirshfeld University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth "Starlight Detectives of the Victorian Age: The Rise of Astrophysics in the Nineteenth Century." Anderson 206 Refreshments at 2:30 in the Knipp Library 4:00 Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Pierce 209 "Inverse Design of Metallic and Magnetic Nanostructures" Zhenyu Zhang Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Tennessee 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Name Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218 "Recent Research on Resitive Wall Mode Control" G. Navratil Columbia University _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html