April 11-April 15, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, APRIL 11, 2005 Monday, April 11, 2005, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Wave equations for non-relativistic anyone" Peter Horvathy University Tours Refreshments will be served Monday, April 11, 2005, 2:30 PM Harvard University 2005 Eli Lily Symposium Mallinckrodt Building, Pfizer Lecture Room 12 Oxford St. "Discovery and Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules, Polymers, and Natural Products." Geoffrey Coates Cornell University "New Catalyst Systems for Challenging Problems in Enantioselective Synthesis." Amir Hoveyda Boston College "Recent Trends in Chemistry at Eli Lilly." Thomas R. Verhoeven Eli Lilly & Co. Monday, April 11, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Particle Physics Circa 2010" Savas Dimopoulos Stanford University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2005 Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 1:30pm Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "TBA" Dr. Koenraad Schalm Columbia University Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 1:30pm (POSTPONED) Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 “TBA” Dr. Koenraad Schalm Columbia University Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 4:00 p.m. MIT-Harvard Center of Ultracold Atoms Harvard-Jefferson 356 "Entanglement as a resource for quantum communication and quantum measurement" Professor Alexander Sergienko Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Physics Boston University, Boston, USA Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 6 PM New Scientist Magazine Red Line Bar, 56 JFK Street, Cambridge "Cosmology and the Meaning of Life" Max Tegmark Professor of Physics, MIT WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2005 Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 2:00PM (CANCELLED) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Cosmological effective actions and new physics in the CMB" Koenraad Schalm Columbia Refreshments will be served Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 2:00pm-5:00pm Brandeis University Martin A. Fisher Lectures in Physics "Einstein's Legacy: A Centennial Celebration" Silver Auditorium of the Sachar International Center Lectures one and two in a series of three lectures 2:00pm "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare''s Maps" Professor Peter Galison Harvard University 3:30pm "General Relativity Updated: Settling the Promised Land" Professor Stanley Deser Brandeis University Refreshments will be served prior to each lecture Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley 555 "Cascade Inflation in M-Theory" Dr. Axel Krause U Maryland Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 4:00 PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Spring Colloquia 2005 Olney 218 "Parity-Violating Gamma-ray Asymmetries in the Radiative n-p Capture" Dr. Pil-Neo Seo North Carolina State University Refreshments served at 3:30 PM Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 7:00 - 8:00 PM MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lecture 7 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals "Novel Photonic Crystal Quantum Cascade Lasers." Dr. Marko Loncar Physics Department, DEAS Harvard University Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 8:15 - 9:15 PM MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lecture 8 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals "Micro-fabricated Probes for Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy and Visible-Wavelength Photonic Crystal Slabs." Prof. Kenneth B. Crozier Electrical Engineering Department, DEAS Harvard University Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 2:00pm-5:00pm Brandeis University Martin A. Fisher Lectures in Physics “Einstein’s Legacy: A Centennial Celebration” Silver Auditorium of the Sachar International Center Lectures one and two in a series of three lectures 2:00pm “Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps” Professor Peter Galison Harvard University 3:30pm “General Relativity Updated: Settling the Promised Land” Professor Stanley Deser Brandeis University Refreshments will be served prior to each lecture THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2005 Thursday, April 14, 2005, 12pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Quantum Spin Hall effect" Prof. S.C. Zhang Stanford University Thursday, April 14, 2005, 2:00pm Brandeis University Martin A. Fisher Lectures in Physics “Einstein’s Legacy: A Centennial Celebration” Silver Auditorium of the Sachar International Center Final lecture in a series of three lectures “The Dark Side of the Universe: Beyond Stars and the Star-Stuff We Are Made Of” Professor Michael Turner University of Chicago and the National Science Foundation Refreshments will be served prior to the lecture 12pm, Thursday, April 14 Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Quantum Spin Hall effect" Prof. S.C. Zhang Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series Thursday, April 14, 2005 Professor Young Lee, MIT "The Physics of Frustration in Quantum Magnets." 4:15pm Room 10-250 Thursday, April 14, 2005, 4:00 PM Harvard University Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Physical Chemistry Seminar Mallinckrodt Building, Pfizer Lecture Room 12 Oxford St. "Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials." Younan Xia University of Washington Thursday, April 14, 2005, 2:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 250 "Lost Behind the Horizon" Stephen Shenker Stanford University Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 1:30 Thursday, April 14, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Clay Fellow Symposium What Can Nearby, Young Stars Tell Us About Star and Planet Formation?" Eric Mamajek Center for Astrophysics Clay Fellow Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, 2005, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "The Physics of Frustration in Quantum Magnets." Professor Young Lee MIT FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2005 Friday April 15, 2005, 4 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "Can Understanding Plasma Physics Yield a Better Injector for the RIA Accelerator?" Timothy Antaya MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center