March 21-March 26, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 21, 2005 Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Nonlinear Optics in Vivo" Chris Schaffer University of California, San Diego Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, March 21, 2005 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Nonlinear Optics in Vivo" Chris Schaffer University of California, San Diego tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2005 Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 12:30 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Pratt Conference Room 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Resonant Rings: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond" Eugene Chiang UC Berkeley Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Dept. Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Rm SCI 107 "Out-of-this-World Physics: From Particles to Black Holes" Greg Landsberg Brown University Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in SCI first floor lounge Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard University The Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture Phillips Auditorium, Harvard College Observatory "The Sky in Hard X-rays" Rashid Sunyaev Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2005 Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 4:00 PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Spring Colloquia 2005 Olney 218 "Radiation Chemistry Studies Using Surface Science Techniques" Professor Chris Arumainayagam Wellesley College Refreshments served at 3:30 PM Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 7:00 - 9:30 PM MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lectures 1 & 2 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals First 2 hours of a 4 hour introductory tutorial on: "Photonic-crystals: Principles, Techniques, and Applications" Professor Steven G. Johnson Mathematics Department, MIT THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2005 Thursday, March 24, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Cosmology, event horizons, and the S-matrix" Raphael Bousso UC Berkeley Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2005 No events scheduled. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2005 Saturday, March 26, 2005, 10:00am-6:30pm Brandeis University HJSchnitzerfest: Strings, Fields and Life Physics Building, Room 131 If you are planning to attend please send an email to mmeyer@brandeis.edu so that we can arrange for lunch. 10:00am "Solitons in Neuroscience" Larry Abbott, Brandeis University 10:45am "Seiberg-Witten Curves and Matrix Models" Steven Naculich, Bowdoin College Coffee: 11:30-11:45 11:45am "Bethe Ansatz Solution of the Open XXZ Chain" Rafael Nepomechie, University of Miami 12:30pm "Quantization and Theta Functions: Old and New" Joao Nunes, Instituto Superior Te'cnico, Portugal Lunch: 1:15-2:30 2:30pm "TBA" Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University 3:15pm "Quantum Hall Effect in Higher Dimensions" Dimitra Karabali, Lehman College, CUNY 4:00pm "Quantum Walking" Jeffrey Goldstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coffee: 4:45pm-5:00pm 5:00pm "Weyl Invariance in Two Dimensions" Roman Jackiw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5:45pm "Biophysical Approaches to the Study of Mammalian Learning and Memory" Mark Schnitzer, Stanford University