BAPC Events for week of 12/1-12/6

["Heather Kauth" <hkauth bu edu>]

December 1- December 6, 2003
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Monday, December 1, 2003

Monday, December 1, 2003, 12:30PM
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building Rm 595
John Womersley
(FNAL)
?Postcards from the High Energy Frontier?

Monday, December 1, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Supersymmetry and Dark Matter"
Leszek Roszkowski
University of Sheffield
Refreshments will be served

Monday, December 1, 2003   4:00pm
University of New Hampshire
Physics Department Colloquium
DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B
"On the Magnetic Connectivity of Magnetic Clouds to the Sun"
Prof. Charles Farrugia
Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire
Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F

Monday, December 1, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Rm. 250
Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium
"The Physics of Light Transport"
Georg Maret
University of Konstanz
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.


Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Non-Relativistic deSitter Physics"
Professor Gary Gibbons
DAMTP, Cambridge, currently at MIT

Tuesday, December 2, 2003

Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Rm. 250
Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture I
"Multiple Light Scattering in Anisotropic Media: Principles and
Applications"
Georg Maret
University of Konstanz

Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 3:30 p.m.
Boston University Physics Department
COLLOQUIUM
Metcalf Science Center, Rm 107
Thomas Russell
U. Mass. Amherst
?TBA?
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 in the Metcalf Lounge

Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Exotic pentaquarks in chiral models"
Michal Praszalowicz
Jagellonian University/BNL
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, December 2, 2003  4:00 pm
Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar Series
Dept. of Mathematics, 111 Cummington St., MCS Room 153
"An introduction to spin foam models and the problems of their low energy
limits"
Fotini Markopoulou
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Quasar Host Galaxies: Growing Up with Monstrous Middles"
Professor Kim K. McLeod
Wellesley College
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Tuesday,  December 2, 2003, 4:00 PM
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Adam Burgasser
University of California, Los Angeles
Seeing Double: The Science Yield of Brown Dwarf Binaries

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Wednesday, December 3, 11:00 a.m.
Harvard University
Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures (CIMS) Seminar
Maxwell Dworkin 119 (Grace Murray Hopper Room)
"Nanometer-scale Analysis of Grain Boundry Segregation in
Metals and Alloys"
Professor David B. Williams
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Lehigh University
Coffee and cookies will be available

Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"The dynamics of granular fluids: From gasses to pattern formation"
Dr. Dan Blair
Harvard, DEAS

Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Black holes with compact extra dimensions"
Toby Wiseman
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served

Thursday, December 4, 2003

Thursday, December 4, 2003, 12:00pm
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
'Cellular Epitaxy' and the Patterning of the Fly's Eye
Dr. David Lubensky
BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University and Bell Labs

Thursday, December 4, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Rm. 250
Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture II
"Melting and Glass Transition in 2D Model Colloids"
Georg Maret
University of Konstanz

Thursday, December 4, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Holography beyond the pp-wave"
Ian Swanson
Caltech
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45


Friday, December 5, 2003

 Friday, December 5, 2003  4:00 pm
Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar Series
Dept. of Mathematics, 111 Cummington St., MCS Room 153
"Hyper-symplectic structures on Integrable Systems"
Igor Mencattini
Boston University
Refreshments will be served

Friday,  December 5, 2003, 4:00 PM
Harvard University
Pierce 209
Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Jerome Bibette
ESPCI, Paris
?Self-Assembly of Magnetic Colloids as Biosensors?
Refreshments will be served following the seminar in the Brooks Room.
(Dr. Bibette is also  keynote speaker at Harvard?s Workshop ?New England
Complex Fluids?)



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