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BAPC events for week of 09/15/03



The Boston Area Physics Calendar for the week of 9/15/03 to 9/21/03

Monday, September 15, 2003
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Department, B&H 555 2:30PM
"Mesons in the AdS/CFT Correspondence"
Dr. David Mateos
Perimeter Institute

Monday, September 15, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research  Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``From Bare to Renormalized Polyakov Loops, and onto Matrix Models,
for the Deconfining Phase Transition"
Robert Pisarski
Brookhaven National Lab
Refreshments will be served

Monday September 15, 2003
Emlyn Hughes, Cal Tech,  Parity Violation in Electron-Electron Scattering
Host: Janet Conrad

Monday, September 15, 2003
Brown University Physics Department
Barus and Holley 168, 4:30 p.m.*
COLLOQUIUM
Professor David Kaiser
MIT
Title:  "Teaching Feynman's Tools:  The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in
Postwar Physics"
*Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Micromechanical Study of  DNA Organization:
Protein-DNA Interactions, Chromatin, and Chromosomes"
Professor John F. Marko
University of Illinois at Chicago
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Tuesday, September 16th, 12pm
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Impurity Quantum Phase Transitions: Theories and Applications"
Matthias Vojta
Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany


Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107
"Shooting Neutrinos Across a Country for Fun and Profit"
Chris Walter
Boston University
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.

Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 4:00PM not new time
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Effective Theories of Dense Hadronic Matter"
Thomas Schaefer
North Carolina State University
Refreshments will be served

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Wednesday, 17 September 2003
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Department, B&H 555 2:30PM
"Non-Gaussianities in the Primordial Fluctuations"
Dr. Paolo Creminelli
Harvard

Wednesday, 17 September 2003
Boston College
Department of Physics
Higgins 310
Prof. Gordon Baym,
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
"Vortex Phases of Rapidly
Rotating Trapped Bose Gases"

Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Physics of Red Blood Cell Shapes"
Professor Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Clark University

12pm, Thursday, September 18th, 2003
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"The fluctuating ribbon model of biopolymers"
Yitzhak Rabin
Bar Ilan University and the Rowland Institute


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Thursday, September 18, 2003, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
"Photoreflectance spectroscopy of low-dimensional semiconductor structures
and devices"
Jan Misiewicz, Department of Physics, Worclaw, Poland
Host: Don Heiman
Refreshments at 3:45pm

Thursday, September 18, 2003, 4:15 pm
Clark University, Physics Department, Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"From sliding paper to crawling snails: novel applications of thin films"
Professor Anette (Peko) Hosoi
Department of Mechanical Engineering
MIT

Thursday, September 18, 2002, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Stellar Halos and Hierarchical Structure Formation"
Kathryn Johnston
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wesleyan University
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *