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BAPC events for week of 11/3/03-11/9/03



November 3-9, 2003
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Monday,  November 3, 2003

Monday, November 3, 2003   4:00pm
University of New Hampshire
Physics Department Colloquium
DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B
"A New Look at Driven Magnetic Reconnection at the Terrestrial Subsolar
Magnetopause"
Dr. John Dorelli
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F

Monday, November 3, 2003
Brown University
COLLOQUIUM
Barus and Holley 168, 4:30 p.m.*
Dr. Leonid Levitov
MIT
Title:  "TBA"
Host:  Professor Dmitri Feldman
 *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Monday,  November 3, 2003  @ 4:15p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Neutrino Oscillations: What We Know, What We Want to Know, and How We
Get From Here to There"
Gary Feldman
Harvard University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Monday, November 3, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Seeking the Truth and Beauty of Single-Top Quark Production"
Zack Sullivan
Fermi National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday,  November 4, 2003

Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Event Shapes and Deep Inelastic Scattering"
Aneesh Manohar
University of California, San Diego
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, November 4,  2003 2:00 PM
Rowland Institute at Harvard Seminar Series
100 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA 02142
"Transport of DNA and proteins through nuclear pores"
Yitzhak Rabin
Bar Ilan University, Israel
Refreshments served following the seminar

Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 7:30 pm
Clark University, President's Lecture Series
Traina Center for the Arts, Razzo Hall
"Einstein's Biggest Blunder? A Cosmic Mystery Story"
Professor Lawrence M. Krauss
Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics
Case Western Reserve University
Reception to follow.

Tuesday,  November 4, 2003, 4:00 PM
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Mike Gladders
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Optically Selected High-Redshift Galaxy Clusters

Tuesday, November 4, 2003   4:00 PM
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar Series
Dept. of Mathematics, 111 Cummington St.,  MCS Room 153
"From Baxter to Baxter"
Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard
Bonn University and Boston University
Refreshments will be served


Wednesday,  November 5, 2003

Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"TBA"
Professor Andrea Liu
UCLA

Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
?Problems at a Cocktail Party and Other Nonlinear Stories?
Dr. Dana Z Anderson
University of Colorado
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.


Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Harvard University
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
?Information Processing Using Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Systems?
Dr. Dana Anderson
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Kaluza-Klein Monopoles in M-theory"
James Sparks
Imperial College, London
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Two-Loop Superstrings"
Eric D'Hoker
University of California, Los Angeles
Refreshments will be served

Thursday,  November 6, 2003

Thursday, November 6, 2003
Brown University
CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR
Barus and Holley 190, 4:00 p.m.
Professor Ido Braslavsky
Ohio University
Title:  "Step by step up the DNA Ladder:  From Visualization of DNA
Polymerase Activity to Single Molecule DNA Sequencing"
Host:  Professor Sean Ling

12pm, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Crossover from Non-Equilibrium to Equilibrium Behavior in the
Time-Dependent Kondo Model"
Dr. Stefan Kehrein, University of Augsburg

Thursday, November 6, 2003 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Cosmic censorship violation and negative energy in string theory"
Gary Horowitz
University of California, Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45


Friday,  November 7, 2003

Friday, November 7, 2003
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
(Co-sponsored by the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Ctr)
Pierce 209
4:00 PM
Louis Bruis
Columbia University
?Single Molecule Raman spectroscopy at the Junctions of Large Ag 
particles.?

Friday, November 7, 2003   4:00pm
University of New Hampshire
Physics Department Colloquium
DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B
"Challenges for Ion Implementation in the Semi-Conductor Industry"
Dr. John Poate
Axcelies Technology, Inc.
Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F

Friday, November 7, 2003, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series
Building NW17, Room 218
"What the Quiet Times Tell Us About the Storms"
Benjamin Carreras
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:45PM



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