February 7-February 11, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 7, 2005 Monday, February 7, 2005,12:30 PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar PRB-595 "Plans for the Reactor Neutrino Experiment Double-CHOOZ" Maury Goodman Argonne National Laboratory Monday, February 7, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Fermion Masses, Neutrino Oscillations and SUSY Grand Unification" Mu-Chun Chen Brookhaven National Laboratory Refreshments will be served Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:15 PM Harvard University Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Organic Chemistry Seminar Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St. "Reflections on Process Research." Edward J. J. Grabowski Merck Co. Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Advances in Magnetic Fusion Science and the ITER Project" Robert Goldston Princeton University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Proton in Light of Parity Violation and Two-Photon Exchange" Frank Maas Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitaet Mainz Refreshments @4:00 PM Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:30 PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots" Professor Leonid Glazman University of Minnesota TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2005 Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 1:30pm Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Quivers for Metrics" Professor Amihay Hanany Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, February 8, 2004, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Brane inflation and Defect Production" Dr. Horace Stoica McGill University Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 3:30 PM Boston University 2004-2005 Colloquia Metcalf Science Center: Room SCI-107 "Research as a Guide for Improving Student Learning in Physics" Paula R. L. Heron University of Washington Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the SCI 1st floor Lounge Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Probing the Mind of an Amoeba: Individuality in directional sensing mechanism of single cells" Dr. Azadeh Samadani Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2005 Wednesday February 9, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Black holes and extra dimensions" Harvey Reall KITP, UC-Santa Barbara Refreshments will be served * Wednesday, 9 February 2005 Brown University *Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM * Fixing all the Moduli in a Simple F-Theory Compactification* Dr. Bogdan Florea Rutgers University Wednesday, February 9, 4:00 PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Spring Colloquia 2005 Olney 218 "Boost-Phase Intercept Systems and the National Missile Defense" Professor Daniel Kleppner MIT Refreshments served at 3:30 PM Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "BEC with ions and scalable quantum computation with neutral atoms" Ignacio Cirac - Max-Planck Institut fu"r Quantenoptik Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2005 Thursday, February 10, 2005, 2:30pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Biophysical Studies of Chemotaxis Signal Transduction" Dr. Peter M. Wolanin Princeton University Refreshments will be served Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Star Formation in Context" Neal Evans University of Texas Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Physics Colloquium Series MIT Department of Physics Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:15pm Room 10-25 Victoria Kaspi, McGill University "Magnetars" http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/physics_colloquia_sched_spring_05.html Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:00 PM Harvard University Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/ Physical Chemistry Seminar Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St. "The Chemistry of Star Formation." Eric Herbst Ohio State University Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:00 PM Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley 190 "Bending the Rules" Professor Randy Kamien University of Pennsylvania Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Measuring and predicting cosmological parameters" Max Tegmark MIT Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, February 10, 2005, 1:00 P.M. Harvard University Materials Science Series Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford Street "Problems and Solutions in Organic/Flexible Electronics: Photostability of Organic Semiconductors, and New Nanocomposite Gate Dielectrics" Ashok Maliakal Bell Laboratories 12pm, Thursday, Feb. 10th Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Keldysh study of point-contact tunneling between low-dimensional (organic) superconductors" Dr. Carlos Bolech University of Geneva FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2005 Friday, February 11, 2005, 4 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "Opportunities of Reactor Plasma Development in ITER" Michiya Shimada ITER Friday, February 11, 2005, 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS Special Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "Evidence of New Physics in Neutrino Experiments" Karsten M. Heeger Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Refreshments @4:00 PM Friday, February 11, 2005, 4:00 P.M. Harvard University Condensed Matter/Applied Physics Colloquium Series Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford Street "Spin Polarized Tunneling and Spin Transport in Mesoscopic Metal Systems" Sergio O. Valenzuela Physics Department Harvard University Refreshments served following colloquium.