April 18-April 22, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 18, 2005 Monday, April 18, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Doing Quantum Optics on a Superconducting Chip" Robert Schoelkopf Yale University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, April 18, 2005, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Arthur O. Williams Lecture Barus and Holley 166 182 Hope Street "The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design" Professor Lenny Susskind Stanford University Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2005 BAPC LATE NOTICE Tuesday, April 19th at 2:30PM MIT Lab for Nuclear Science LNS Special Seminar 26-414, Kolker room DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF THE GAS ELECTRON MULTIPLIER Fabio Sauli, CERN Contact: S. Marston at 617-253-2361 for more info Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Hartle-Hawking Wave function and String Theory" Cumrun Vafa Harvard University Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, Arpil 19, 2005, 3:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``AdS/QCD" Misha Stephanov University of Illinois-Chicago Refreshments will be served Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 3:30 PM Boston University 2004-2005 Colloquia Metcalf Science Center: Room SCI-107 "Biocomplexity in Action: Pattern Formation and Microbial Ecology and Evolution at Yellowstone's Hot Springs" Nigel Goldenfeld University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the SCI 1st floor Lounge WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2005 Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Flux Compactifications, Cosmology and the Standard Model of Elementary Particles" Melanie Becker University of Maryland Refreshments will be served Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 6:30 pm Boston Public Library, Johnson Building, 700 Boylston Street Mezzanine Conference Room, 1 level up A Celebration of Richard Feynman: Alan Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research Free and open to the public Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Lessons from supersymmetric lattice quantum mechanics" Erich Poppitz University of Toronto Refreshments will be served at 4PM Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Atoms with Non-Zero Electronic Orbital Momenta in a Magnetic Trap: Expanding the Cold Atom Physics Frontiers" Dr. Roman Krems Center for Ultra Cold Atoms & ITAMP Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 7:00 - 8:00 PM MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lecture 9 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals "Omni-Guide Photonic Crystal Fiber: From Theory to Production." Dr. Marin Soljacic Physics Department, MIT & Omni-Guide Communications Inc. Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 8:00 p.m. Harvard University David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics Science Center, Hall C 1 Oxford St. "The Expanding Universe" P. James E. Peebles Princeton Refreshments following lecture in Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments gallery Science Center Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 8:15 - 9:15 PM MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lecture 10 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals "Left-handed Electromagnetism in Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials." Dr. Patanjali Parimi, Research Scientist Physics Department, Northeastern University THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2005 Thursday, April 21, 2005, 12pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Superconductivity, as orderly as it gets (from cuprates to gravity)" Professor Jan Zaanen Stanford University, and Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Accretion onto black holes: from galactic binaries to AGN" Chris Done University of Durham Tea and cookies served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:00pm Northeastern University Dana 111 Physics Colloquium "Exploring the Universe Beyond the Phonto Window" Luis Anchordoqui Northeastern University Refreshments available at 3:45pm Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Series in conjunction with the MIT Astrophysics Colloquia The Bruno Rossi Lecture in Astrophysics 10-250 "The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays" James Cronin, Nobel Laureate, 1980 University of Chicago, Emeritus Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Anomalies in the Standard Model for Galaxy Formation and a Possible Remedy in the Dark Sector" Jim Peebles Princeton Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2005 Friday, April 22, 2005, 4 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "Recent MRX Results with a focus on the global physics of magnetic reconnection" Stefan Gerhardt Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory