BAPC- Events for week of 11/17-11/23

["Heather Kauth" <hkauth bu edu>]

November 17- November 23, 2003
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Monday, November 17, 2003

Monday, November 17, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Towards a complete theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Alvaro De Rujula
CERN and BU
Refreshments will be served

Monday, November 17, 2003  @4:15p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"An Update on the Linear Collider: Comments on its Status and Thoughts
on Novel uses for the Spent Beams"
Sekazi K. Mtingwa
Harvard University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Kolker Room -26-414
``Chameleons and awaiting surprises for tests of gravity"
Justin Khoury
Columbia University
Refreshments served at 2:00PM


Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 2:00pm
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Vacua of three-dimensional gauged maximal
supergravity models"
Dr. Thomas Fischbacher
AEI Potsdam

Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Localization Lattice QCD"
Maarten Golterman
San Francisco State University
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday,  November 18, 2003, 4:00 PM
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA THE 2003 BRUNO
ROSSI LECTURE IN ASTROPHYSICS
Prof. Roger Blandford
Stanford University
Astrophysical Black Holes: The Current View

Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:00pm
 Northeastern University
 CIRCS
 Room 114 Dana Research Building
 "A 'budding' problem: the design principles in the
 establishment of cell polarity"
 Professor Rong Li
 Harvard Medical School
 Refreshments available 3:45pm

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Forced crumpling of thin sheets"
Narayanan Menon
University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Quantum Geometry and the Fate of Cosmological Singularities"
Martin Bojowald
Penn State University
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday,  November 19,  2003 2:30PM
Brown University
 Theoretical Seminar
Physics Department, B&H 555
To be announced
Prof. Arkady Tseytlin (Ohio State)

Wednesday, November 19, 2003  3:00 pm
Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar Series
Dept. of Mathematics, 111 Cummington St., MCS Room 153
"Aspects of 4-loop massive bubble computations"
York Schroder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 3:00 pm
MIT, Room #36-112
Professor Herschel A. Rabitz
Charles Phelps Smyth Professor of Chemistry
Princeton University
"SHAPED LASER PULSES AS ADAPTIVE REAGENTS"

WED NOV 19 REFRESHMENTS 3:30 PM; TALK AT 4:00 PM
UMASS LOWELL
PHYSICS COLLOQUIA
OH 218
`Biology: What's There for a Theorist to Do?"
Professor  Boris Shraiman
Rutgers University

Wednesday, November 19, 4:00pm
FALL COLLOQUIA 2003
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS at LOWELL Olney 218
?Biology: What?s There for a Theorist to Do??
Professor Boris Shraiman
Rutgers University
refreshments at 3:30 p.m


Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 4:30pm
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Building, Room 595
3 Cummington Street
"Footprint of new physics in B decays"
Prof Yuval Grossman (Technion & SLAC)
Refreshments at 4:00 pm
Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance

 Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
?Attosecond Atomic Physics?
Dr. Ferenc Krausz
Vienna University of Technology
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.



Thursday, November 20, 2003

 12pm, Thursday, November 20, 2003
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Coulomb drag between quantum wires"
Michael Pustilnik
Georgia Institute of Technology

Thursday, November 20, 2003, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Cooling Flows Sing the Blues"
Mitch Begelman
Astronomy Department, University of Colorado
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *

Thursday, November 20, 2003, 4:00pm
 Physics Colloquium
 Northeastern University
 Room 114 Dana Research Building
 "Graphite as a highly correlated electron liquid: a
 theoretical review"
 Maria Vozmediano
 Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid
 Refreshments available 3:45pm

Thursday, November 20, 2003, 4:15pm,
Building 10, room 250
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics Colloquium Series
Andrea Ghez, University of California - Los Angeles
"Unveiling a Galactic Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy"
Refreshments: Building 4, room 339 at 3:45pm.


Friday, November 21, 2003

Friday, November 21, 2003,4:00 PM
 Harvard University Pierce 209
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
(Co-sponsored by the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Ctr)
Zhenyu Zhang
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 ?Quantum Size Effects and Magic Length Scales in Metallic Nanostructures?
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.









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