May 16-May 20, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, MAY 16, 2005 Monday, May 16, 2005 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Progress Towards Single Atom Qubits in Silicon" Robert Clark University of New South Wales, Australia Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2005 Tuesday, May 17, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Dark Insights from Light- Addressing Different Perspectives on Dark Energy" Rachel Bean Princeton Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 1:30pm Brandeis University Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Moving Fluid with Bacterial Carpets" Dr. Nicholas Darnton Harvard University WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2005 No events scheduled. THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2005 Thursday, May 19th, 2005, 12 PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Quantum hydrodynamics in one dimension. Quantizing deep water waves." Alexander Abanov SUNY Stony Brook Thursday, May 19, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Non-Abelian Localization For Chern-Simons Theory" Christopher Beasley Princeton University Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2005 No events scheduled.