May 9-May 13, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 9, 2005 Monday, May 9, 2005 at 4:00PM Northeastern University Special CIRCS/Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Spin Currents. Old Ideas in a New Light" Alexander Khaetskii Institute of Microelectronics Technology RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, Russia Monday, May 9, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Heavy Quark Physics in 2+1 Flavor Lattice QCD" Andreas Kronfeld Fermilab Refreshments will be served Monday, May 9, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Magnetically Driven Isentropic and Shock Experiments on the Z Pulsed Power Generator and the Prospects for Isentropic Compressions to 1 TPa 10 Mbar" Christopher Deeney Sandia Laboratory Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2005 Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 11:00am Northeastern University Special CIRCS/Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Spin Currents. Old Ideas in a New Light" Alexander Khaetskii Institute of Microelectronics Technology RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, Russia Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 3:30 PM Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI107 TBA Rajiv Kalia University of Southern California Refreshments served at 3:15 pm in 1st floor lounge WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2005 Wednesday, May 11, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Cosmological effective actions imply new physics in the CMB" Koenraad Schalm Columbia University Refreshments will be served at 4PM THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2005 Thursday, May 12, 2005, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Fundamental Astrophysics: Current Projects and Future Plans" Chris Stubbs Harvard University 12pm, Thursday, May 12th (today) Harvard University Department of Physics Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "Mesoscopic Kondo Problem" Denis Ullmo Abstract: This talk describes recent work on the effect of mesoscopic fluctuations on a magnetic impurity coupled to a spatially confined electron gas. Performing Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for model chaotic quantum dots, we find that the fluctuations destroy the one-parameter scaling of thermodynamic correlators familiar from the bulk Kondo problem. The mesoscopic fluctuations of the Kondo properties can nevertheless be reproduced in the high temperature regime within a poor man's scaling framework. FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2005 Friday, May 13, 2005, 4 PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 175 Albany St. "A new paradigm for plasma transport based on the resolution of the isotope scaling paradox" Amiya Sen Columbia University