February 21-February 25, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 21, 2005 No events scheduled. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2005 Tuesday, February 22, 2:00PM (Note day - due to Monday holiday) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Resonant Relaxation in Electroweak Baryogenesis" Vincenzo Cirigliano California Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 4:00 PM MIT ASTROPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 " Pulling Signals out of Cosmic Noise" Jill Tarter SETI Institute Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM Tuesday, February 22, 2004, 2:30 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "A new model for quasars and the M-sigma relation" Jordi Miralda-Escude Ohio State University Tuesday,February 22, 2005, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Ultracold atoms MIT Room 26-214 "Quantum metrology and quantum networking with atomic ensembles" Alex Kuzmich Georgia Tech Tuesday, February 22, 2005, : 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS Special Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Decade of the Neutrino" Joseph Formaggio University of Washington, Seattle Refreshments @4:00 PM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005 Wednesday February 23, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Black hole production, the Froissart bound, the soft Pomeron and the RHIC fireball from AdS-CFT" Horatiu Nastase Brown University Refreshments will be served Wednesday, February 23, 2004, 2:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Pratt Conference Room 60 Garden Street "Cosmic HII Regions and the Reionisation of the Universe" Stuart Wyithe University of Melbourne Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005, 3:00pm Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Andreev bound states on the edge of a triangular lattice: pinning down the order parameter symmetry of the cobaltates" Tami Pereg-Barnea University of British Columbia Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 4:00 PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Spring Colloquia 2005 Olney 218 "Nanoscale Morphology Control Using Ion Beams" Professor Michael Aziz Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30 PM Wednesday, Feb 23th, 2005 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "Twistors and Gauge-Theory" David Kosower (Saclay) Refreshments will be served from 4pm. 4:00pm, Wednesday, Feb. 23rd Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Andreev bound states on the edge of a triangular lattice: pinning down the order parameter symmetry of the cobaltates" Tami Pereg-Barnea University of British Columbia (Start time has been changed from 3pm to 4pm) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2005 Thursday, February 24, 2005, 12:30 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Fermionic condensates" Dr. Markus Greiner JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder 12:30pm, Thursday, Feb. 24th Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Jefferson 250 "Fermionic condensates" Dr. Markus Greiner JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder Thursday, February 24th, 2005, 1PM Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Pierce 100F "Chemistry at the Nanoscale: From Synthesis to Potential Applications of Multifunctional Nanostructured Materials" Dr. Teddy Asefa McGill University Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Black Hole Demographics in the Local Universe" Luis Ho Carnegie Observatories Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series Thursday, February 24th David Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT "Precision Mass Measurement: $B&X (Bcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?" 4:15pm Room 10-250 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:15pm Room 10-250 David Pritchard, MIT "Precision Mass Measurement: omega_cyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc^2? Refreshments at 3:45pm in 4-339 Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:00 p.m Brown University Condensed Matter Seminars Barus and Holley 190 "Theory of Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Noble Metal Surfaces with Kondo Adsorbates" Dr. Jaime Merino Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:15 pm Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Terahertz Spectroscopy of Single Molecule Magnets" Professor Beth Parks Colgate University Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Classical and Quantum Theory of Cosmological Perturbations" Robert Brandenberger McGill University Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2005 Friday, February 25, 2005, 4 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "Supersonically Rotating Plasmas in the Maryland Centrifugal Experiment (MCX)" Richard Ellis University of Maryland