May 2-May 6, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 2, 2005 Monday, May 2, 11 a.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory: Successes and Challenges" Kieron Burke Rutgers University Monday, May 2, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Nuclear interactions from the renormalization group" Achim Schwenk Indiana University Refreshments will be served Monday, May 2, 2005 @4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Spectral Hole Burning for Wideband Optical Signal Processing" Kelvin Wagner University of Colorado, Boulder tea will be served in Jefferson 450 @ 3:30 pm TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2005 Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center: Room SCI-107 "Capturing neural dynamics in the human brain, using SQUIDs" Jonathon Simon University of Maryland Refreshments served in the SCI 1st fl. Lounge at 3:15 PM WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2005 Wednesday, May 4, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String/Gravity Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Semiclassical strings and gauge-string duality" Arkady Tseytlin Ohio State University Refreshments will be served Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 4:30 PM Boston University Department of Physics Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington St. "Orbifold Projections and Duality Webs in Large N Gauge Theories" Larry Yaffe University of Washington Refreshments served at 4:00 PM Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Abelian and Non-Abelian Gauge Potentials for Cold Atoms Using Electromagnetically INduced Transparency: Dr. Michael Fleischhauer Uni Kaiserslautern Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2005 Thursday, May 5, 2005, 12:30pm Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Glueballs and the Universal Energy Spectrum of Tight Knots and Kinks " Tom Kephart Vanderbilt University Thursday, May 5, 2005 @ 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series Building 10-250 "Matter vs. Antimatter: What Have We Learned?" Jeffrey Richman, University of California at Santa Barbara Thursday, May 5, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Geometric Transitions and Integrable Systems" Emanuel Diaconescu Rutgers University Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday May 5, 2005, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "Matter vs. Antimatter: What Have We Learned?" Jeffrey Richman University of California at Santa Barbara FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2005 Friday, May 6, 2005, 4 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "Novel Numerical Algorithms for Multiscale Plasma Physics Problems" William Dorland University of Maryland