March 7-March 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, MARCH 7, 2005 Monday, March 7, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``The Cosmology of Split Supersymmetry" Aaron Pierce SLAC Refreshments will be served Monday, March 7, 2005 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Electrons in One Dimension * Spin-Charge Separation and Localization" Amir Yacoby Weinmann Institute tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, March 7, 2005, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Quantum Information Processing Seminar Series Building 4, room 237 "The Computational Universe: Quantum gravity from quantum computation" Seth Lloyd MIT Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Monday, March 7, 2005,4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Electrons in One Dimension * Spin-Charge Separation and Localization" Amir Yacoby Weinmann Institute Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, March 7, 2005, 4:30 p.m Brown University Einstein Lecture Barus and Holley 166 "Albert Einstein and Constitutional Law: One Hundred Years" Professor Leon Cooper Brown University. Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2005 Tuesday, March 8, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Direct Determinations of the Expansion and Acceleration History of the Universe" Ruth Daly Penn State University Refreshments will be served at 2PM ASTROPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM Tuesday March 8, 2005 3:00pm Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Refreshments are served at 2:45 PM. Geoffrey Bower University of California, Berkeley The Main Event: A Three Round Fight with Sagittarius A* Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Some physics that E. coli knows" Howard Berg Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 4:00 p.m. MIT-Harvard Center of Ultracold Atoms MIT Room 26-214 "Bi-photons: entanglement, indistinguishability, and quantum computing" Franco Wong MIT Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science LNS Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Road to Bs Mixing" Steve Nahn Fermilab Refreshments @4:00 PM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2005 Wednesday, March 9, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Bubbling AdS-type solutions of ten and six dimensional supergravity" Diana Vaman University of Michigan Refreshments will be served Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar Department of Physics - B&H 555 "To be announced" Dr. Toby Wiseman Harvard University Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 4:00 PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Spring Colloquia 2005 Olney 218 "The Physics of Gene Regulation" Professor Ja`ne Kondev Brandeis University Refreshments served at 3:30 PM Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 4:00pm Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar Dana 114 "Two Ways to Destroy a Fermi Liquid" Andre'-Marie Tremblay Universite de Sherbrooke Wednesday, March 9, 4:15 PM MIT LNS Special Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "Recent Discoveries at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider" Kirill Filimonov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Refreshments @4:00 PM Wednesday, March 9, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room `Gravity duals of marginal deformations of some large N field theories" Juan Maldacena Institute for Advanced Study Refreshments will be served at 4PM THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005 Thursday, March 10, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Searching For Cosmic Superstrings" Henry Tye Cornell University Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics The David and Edith Harris Distinguished Lecture 2005 Peter Goldreich, Institute for Advanced Study "Progress and Problems in Understanding Planet Formation" Thursday, March 10, 2005 Building 10-250 @ 4:15pm Refreshments in 4-339 @3:45pm Thursday, March 10, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "History of Astronomy Lecture A Few Lessons from Kepler: The Role of Mytho-Poetic Imagination in Science" Marcelo Gleiser Dartmouth College * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, March 10, 2005, 4:00pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana 114 "Recent Results from the Fermilab Tevatron Collider" Professor Robert Hirosky University of Virginia 12pm, Thursday, March 10th Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Melting Crystal and Geometry of Spacetime" Prof. Cumrun Vafa Harvard University FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2005 Friday, March 11, 2005, 4 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "Simple pictures of tokamak turbulence, and noise effects on simulations" Gregory Hammett Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 2:30pm, Friday, March 11th Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic semiconductors in the hopping transport regime" Anton Burkhov University of California at Santa Barbara