March 14-March 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, MARCH 14, 2005 Monday, March 14, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Spin-orbit interactions, Chern-Simons forms and quantum criticality" George Chapline Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Refreshments will be served Monday, March 14, 2005,4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Quantum Criticality and Event Horizons" George Chapline Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, March 14, 2005, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Einstein Lecture Barus and Holley 166 "Some Physics that E.Coli Knows" Professor Howard Berg Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. 2:00pm, Monday, March 14th Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Fractionalization and topological order" Prof. Masaki Oshikawa Tokyo Institute of Technology TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2005 Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 2:30 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Mining the holes in the sky: prospects for SZ surveys" Gil Holder McGill University Tuesday, March 15th, 2005, 4:30PM MIT Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center, Room 123 "When Freezing Cold is not Cold Enough..." Professor Wolfgang Ketterle Tuesday, Mar 15th, 2005 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar Jefferson 453 "Hadronic decay of gravitinos and the implications for cosmology" Kazunori Kohri (CfA) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2005 Wednesday, March 16, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``New Insights into QCD: String/Gauge Duality and the BFKL Resummation" Matt Strassler University of Washington Refreshments will be served . Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar BH - Room 555 "Nontrival Space-Time in 2D String Theory from Matrices" Prof. Sumit Das (U Kentuckey) Wednesday, Mar 16th, 2005 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "Scalar interactions in the dark sector" Steven Gubser (Princeton) THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2005 Thursday, March 17, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Science with the Submillimeter Array" Paul Ho Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Fun with Random Polynomials" Jacques Distler University of Texas, Austin Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2005 "QFT and QCD: Past, Present and Future" dedicated to Sidney R. Coleman March 18 and 19, 2005 Times are TENTATIVE For parking information, please see www.physics.harvard.edu Friday, March 18, 2005, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University, Science Center B Opening Remarks Friday, March 18, 2005, 1:45 p.m. Harvard University, Science Center B Title to be Announced David Gross Director, Kavli Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara Friday, March 18, 2005, 2:30 p.m. Harvard University, Science Center B "Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox to Paradigm" Frank Wilczek M. I. T. Friday, March 18, 2005, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University, Science Center B "Cosmology in a False Vacuum" Paul Steinhardt Princeton University Friday, March 18, 2005, 4:45 p.m. Harvard University, Science Center B Title to be Announced Murray Gell-Mann Santa Fe Institute and "Small Matrices, Sidney and Me" Sheldon Glashow Boston University Friday, March 18, 2005, 4:00 P.M. Harvard University Condensed Matter/Applied Physics Colloquium Series and MRSEC/PPG Lecture for 2005 Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall 209, 29 Oxford Street "From Nanostructured Plastics to Green Supramolecular Rubbers: Joys of Self-assembling" Ludwik Leibler Laboratoire Matière Molle et Chimie ESPCI, Paris France Refreshments served following colloquium. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2005 "QFT and QCD: Past, Present and Future" dedicated to Sidney R. Coleman March 18 and 19, 2005 Times are TENTATIVE For parking information, please see www.physics.harvard.edu Saturday, March 19, 2005, 9:30 a.m. Harvard University, Jefferson 250 "Vacuum Tunneling in de Sitter Space--QFT in the Past and in the Future" Erick Weinberg Columbia University Saturday, March 19, 2005, 10:45 a.m. Harvard University, Jefferson 250 "Perturbation Theory for Non-Gaussian Correlations in Cosmology" Steven Weinberg University of Texas at Austin Saturday, March 19, 2005, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University, Jefferson 250 "Symmetry and Sidney" Gerard 't Hooft Spinoza Institute, University of Utrecht Saturday, March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m. Title to be Announced Edward Witten Institute for Advanced Study