April 25-April 29, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 25, 2005 Monday, April 25, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Determining V(ub) with exclusive B decays" Ben Grinstein University of California, San Diego Refreshments will be served Monday, April 25, 2005, 2:30 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Pratt Conference Room 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound" Daniel Eisenstein University of Arizona Monday, April 25, 2005, 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Roomm, Room 26-414 "Brane Cosmology" Gia Dvali New York University Refreshments at 4:00 PM Monday, April 25, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Higher Superconductivity in the Dense Lower Elements" Neil W. Ashcroft Cornell University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, April 25, 2005, 4:30 PM Clay Mathematics Institute CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Bott Periodicity in Topological, Algebraic and Hermitian K-Theory (Part I)" Max Karoubi University of Paris VII, France TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2005 Tuesday, April 26, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``The Eot-Wash Axion Search" Seth Hoedl University of Washington Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, April 26, 3:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Plasma Science & Fusion Center and Physics Department Seminar Room 4-370 "The Fast Track to Fusion Power" Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith Director, UKAEA Culham Division Head, Euratom/UKAEA Fusion Association Tuesday, Apr 26th, 2005 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar Jefferson 453 "Moduli entrapment with primordial black holes" Lorenzo Sorbo (UC, Davis) Wednesday, Apr 27th, 2005 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "Twisting, Kahler-Dirac Fermions and lattice SUSY" Simon Caterall (Syracuse) Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 4:30 PM Clay Mathematics Institute CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Bott Periodicity in Topological, Algebraic and Hermitian K-Theory (Part II)" Max Karoubi University of Paris VII, France WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2005 Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 12pm Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "A Survey of the Stringy Landscape " Michael Douglas Rutgers University Wednesday, April 27, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Mapping flux to Geometry" Michael Schulz California Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served Wednesday, Apr 27th, 2005 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "Twisting, Kahler-Dirac Fermions and lattice SUSY" Simon Caterall (Syracuse) Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley 555 "Reconnection of Cosmic Strings: D Branes Versus Vortices" Prof. Hanany MIT Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 4:00 PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Spring Colloquia 2005 Olney 218 "Spin and Politics at the Femtoscale: Competition and Coexistence in Heavy Ion Excitations" Professor Partha Chowdhury Umass Lowel Refreshments served at 3:30 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 4: 30 PM Clay Mathematics Institute CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Sizes and Scales in the Subatomic World" Gerard 't Hooft Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Science Center C "The Power of the Picture Visual Thinking and Communication in Science" Felice Frankel, MIT Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2005 Thursday, April 28, 2005, 12pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "The Enigma of Low-Density 'Metallic' Transport in Two Dimensional Semiconductors: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" Sankar Das Sarma University of Maryland Thursday, April 28, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Recent results in Statistics of String Vacua" Michael Douglas Rutgers University Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, April 28, 2005, 4: 30 PM Clay Mathematics Institute CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Prime Numbers" Peter Sarnak Princeton University Physics Colloquium Series at MIT Thursday, 4/28/2005 Time: 4:15pm Place: Room 10-250 Ian Shipsey, Purdue University "Bringing Hearing to the Deaf / Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account" For a complete list of upcoming colloquia, please visit the Physics website: http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/physics_colloquia_sched_spring_05.html FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2005 Friday, April 29, 2005, 4 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "Probing implosion dynamics at OMEGA and modeling electron stopping for Fast Ignition" Chikang Li MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center Friday, April 29, 2005, 4:30 PM Clay Mathematics Institute CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge "Quivers in Algebra, Geometry, and Representation Theory" Victor Ginzburg University of Chicago