BAPC announcements for week of 9/29-10/05

["Heather Kauth" <hkauth bu edu>]

September 29-October 5, 2003
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Monday, September 29, 2003

Monday, September 29, 2003, 11AM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series
Building NW17, Room 218
"Wendelstein - achievements of W7-AS and goals of W7-X"
Thomas Klinger
Max Planck Institute
Refreshments served at 10:45PM

Monday,  September 29, 2003  @4:15p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"On the Trail of the Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC"
Barbara Jacak
SUNY
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Monday, September 29, 2003
Barus and Holley 168, 4:30 p.m.*
Professor Sean Ling
Brown University
Physics Department
Title:  "Towards Nanopore DNA Sequencing: Developing Nanotechnology for
Molecular Biophysics (My Sabbatical Report)"
Host:  Professor David Cutts
*Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Kolker Room 26-414
``Back-Reaction of Cosmological Perturbations on a Local Measure of
the Expansion Rate"
Ghazal Geshnizjani
Brown University
Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM

Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 4:00PM Note new time
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``A new window on Strange Quark Matter as the ground state of matter
(and Strange Stars)"
Vikram Soni
New Delhi Physics Laboratory
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Stochastic decision-making in the brain: time integration
and (not so fatal) attraction"
Professor X-J. Wang
Brandeis University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 4:00PM Note new time
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``A new window on Strange Quark Matter as the ground state of matter
(and Strange Stars)"
Vikram Soni
New Delhi Physics Laboratory
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday September 30, 4:00PM
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Prof. Scott Hughes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(title to be announced)
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.
Sponsored by the Astrophysics Division
of the MIT Department of Physics
and the MIT Center for Space Research

Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Wednesday, 1 October 2003
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Department,  B&H 555 2:30PM
``Matrix Models from Unstable D-branes"
Dr. John McGreevy (Princeton U)
Wednesday, October 1, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``A New Hat for the c=1 Matrix Model"
Igor Klebanov
Princeton
Refreshments will be served


Thursday, October 2, 2003

12pm, Thursday, October 2, 2003
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Momentum resolved tunnel spectroscopy: A tool to investigate
interaction physics at quantum Hall edges"
Dr. Matthew Grayson
Walter Schottky Institut
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany


Friday, October 3, 2003

Friday, October 3, 2003, 4:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce Hall, Room 209
?Nanosilicon a la carte?
Dr. Ulrich M. Goesele
Mikrostrukturphysik Halle, Germany
Refreshments will be served in Brooks Room following the seminar

Friday, October 3, 2pm
Harvard University
Eaton-Peabody Lab Seminars in Auditory Physiology
MEEI, ENT conference room, 4th floor
Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions: Evidence for cellular Hopf
oscillators in the organ of Corti?
Christopher A. Shera
Harvard Medical School



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