February 14-February 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 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, FEBRUARY 14, 2005 Monday, Feb. 14, 2005, 12 PM Harvard University Special Seminar at Harvard University Lyman 425 "Transport and Charge Sensing in Few Electron Coupled Quantum Dots " Michel Pioro-Ladriere Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council, Ottowa; Centre de Recherche sur les Proprie'te's E'lectroniques de Mate'riaux Avance's, Universite' de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Que'bec Monday, February 14, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Nucleons on the Lattice" Kostas Orginos MIT-CTP Refreshments will be served Monday, 14 February 2005, 12:00 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Lyman Hall 425, 17 Oxford Street "Transport and Charge Sensing in Few Electron Coupled Quantum Dots" Michel Pioro-Ladriere Institute for Microstructural Sciences National Research Council Ottawa, ON Canada Monday, 14 February 2005, 12:00 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Lyman Hall 425, 17 Oxford Street "Transport and Charge Sensing in Few Electron Coupled Quantum Dots" Michel Pioro-Ladriere Institute for Microstructural Sciences National Research Council Ottawa, ON Canada Monday, February 14, 2005at 4:15PM MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium 26-414, Kolker Room "Probes of Color Deconfinement at RHIC " Berndt Mueller Duke University Refreshments served at 4PM Monday, February 14, 2005 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Quantum Cyclotron Yields New Value for the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant" Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2005 Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 1:30pm Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Black hole non-formation in the c=1 matrix model" Dr. Joanna Karczmarek Harvard University Tuesday, February 15, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Can Cosmology Test String Theory?" Richard Easther Yale University Refreshments will be served at 2PM Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 3:30 PM Boston University Colloquium Series Metcalf Science Center Rm 107 "The BU Physics Graduate Meeting Showcase - Spin Physics at Boston University" Chang-Yu Hou, Guiti Zolfagharkhani, Joeseph Howard, Professor Antonio Castro-Neto Boston University Refreshments served in First Floor Lounge at 3:15 pm Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Long-range cooperativity in yeast mating polarization" Dr. Chin-Lin Guo Harvard University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, Feb 15th, 2005 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar Jefferson 453 "Dark Energy from Mass Varying Neutrinos and Neutrino Oscillations" Ann Nelson (Washington U.) WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2005 Wednesday February 16, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``An Infinite Family of Superconformal Quiver Gauge Theories with Sasaki-Einstein Duals" James Sparks Harvard University Refreshments will be served Wednesday, 16 February 2005 Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM "Black Hole Production, the Froissart Bound, the Soft Pomeron, and the RHIC Fireball from AdS-CFT Dr. Horatiu Nastase Brown University Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 4:00 PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Spring Colloquia 2005 Olney 218 "Fishing in the Dark: Searching for extremely faint objects in the outer Solar System" Professor Charles Alcock Harvard Smithsonian Refreshments served at 3:30 PM Wednesday February 16, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Effective field theory of gravity for extended objects" Walter Goldberger Yale University Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2005 Thursday, February 17, 2005, 12 pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Intrinsic Anomalous Transport" Prof. Allan MacDonald The University of Texas at Austin Thursday, February 17, 2005, 2:30pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Single-molecule measurements of the motor protein FtsK" Dr. Omar Saleh Ecole Normale Superieure Refreshments will be served Thursday, February 17, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Hierarchical Assembly of Massive Black Holes" Marta Volonteri Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, February 17, 2005, 4:15pm MIT Department of Physics Physics Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "Jamming" Andrea Liu University of California, Los Angeles Thursday, February 17, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Detecting Cosmic Superstrings " Mark Jackson Frmilab Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2005 Friday, February 18, 2005, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "Microplasma: Physics and Applications" Jeffrey Hopwood Northeastern University Friday, February 18, 2005, 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS Special Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "B Meson Decays to Vector Particles: a New Window on Fundamental Interactions" Andrei Gritsan SLAC Refreshments @4:00 PM