April 4-April 8, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 4, 2005 Monday, April 4, 2005, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``SU_3 x SU_2 x U_1 and SU_5 from first principles" Victor Kac MIT-Math Refreshments will be served Monday, April 4, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Colloquium Jefferson 250 "The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision of Physics, Economics, and Sociology" Eli Yablonovitch UCLA Tea served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 4, 2005, 4:30 PM Brown University Brown Physics Colloquium Barus and Holley 168 "The Search for Relativity Violations" Professor Alan Kostelecky Indiana University Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2005 Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``TBA" Robert Caldwell Dartmouth College Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Einstein's Unknown Insight and the Problem of Quantizing Chaotic Motion" Professor A. Douglas Stone Yale University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar, Jefferson 453 "A(QCd)S/(CCWZ)FT HLS/LH" Jesse Thaler (Harvard) Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar, Jefferson 453 "Probabilities in the landscape" Alex Vilenkin (TUFTS) (Refreshments will be served from 4pm) Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 1:30pm Brandeis University High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 “Towards a c-theorem in Four Dimensions” Dr. Brian Wecht Massachusetts Institute of Technology WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2005 Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Reconnection of Colliding Cosmic Strings" Koji Hashimoto MIT/U Tokyo Refreshments will be served Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley 555 "TBA" Prof. Barton Zwiebach MIT Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Coherent Control and Precision Spectroscopy" Dr. Jun Ye Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 7:00 - 9:30 PM MIT Lincoln Laboratory Combined lectures 5 & 6 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals Overview of the whole photonic crystal field: "New Age Fiber Crystals" Professor Philip Russell Department of Physics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2005 Thursday, April 7, 2005, 12:30 PM (CANCELLED) Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Glueballs and the universal energy spectrum of tight knots and links" Tom Kephart Vanderbilt University Thursday, April 7, 2005, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lecture I Jefferson 250 "What Specific Physics Will the End-of-Roadmap Technology Consist Of?" Eli Yablonovitch UCLA Thursday, April 7, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "A New Handle on Stringy Spacetime Dynamics" Eva Silverstein Stanford University Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, April 7, 2005, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Bok Prize Lecture Gas Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei: Starbursts and AGN Fueling" Eliot Quataert Univ. of California, Berkeley Tea and cookies served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7, 2005, 4:00pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium "Molecular Mousetraps & Protease Inhibition: Single Molecule Studies of Serpins" 110 Forsyth St, Dana Research Center, Rm. 111 Anne Gershenson Brandeis University Refreshments available at 3:45pm FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2005 Friday, April 8, 2005, 3:00pm Boston University Lecture and Book Signing Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary's St. "A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down" Robert Laughlin Stanford University Friday, April 8, 2005, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lecture II Jefferson 250 "What New Roadmap Concept Might Emerge Afterward?" Eli Yablonovitch UCLA Friday, April 8, 2005, 4 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "First Plasma Results on the Levitated Dipole Experiment" Darren Garnier Columbia University