BAPC events for week of 2/16-2/20

[Heather Kauth <hkauth buphy bu edu>]

February 16- February 22, 2003
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Monday, February 16, 2004

Monday, February 16, 2004, 4:30 p.m.*
Brown Physics Department Colloquiums
Barus and Holley 168
Professor Charles Rosenblatt
Case Western Reserve University
Title: "Dancing Liquids in Simulated Microgravity"
Host: Professor Robert Pelcovits
*Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, February 17, 2004


Tuesday, February 17, 2:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Building 26, Room 414 (Kolker Room)
"Frontiers in Neutrino Astrophysics"
John Beacom, Fermilab
Refreshments served at 2:00 pm in the same room.

Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 2:30PM(Note day and time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Strong-coupling lattice QCD at high density"
Barak Bringoltz
Tel Aviv University
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Lab. Rm. 250
"Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions"
Peter Zoller
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck

Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 3:30 pm
Boston University Physics Department
Colloquium
Rm107 Metcalf Science Center
Quantum Information and Non-Locality
Sandu Propescu, Bristol
*Refreshments served at 3:15pm in Metcalf Lounge*
*Please call 617-353-2600 24 hours in advance for parking*

Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 4:00PM (note time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Strong-coupling lattice QCD at high density"
Barak Bringoltz
Tel Aviv University
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 4:00pm
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Jupiter-Like Planets Around Other Stars: A Closer Look
Prof. Dimitar Sasselov
Harvard University
*Refreshments are served at 3:45pm

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

*Wednesday, 18 February 2004 *
Brown University
Physics Department
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM
"To be Announced"
Dr. Tadashi Takayanagi (Harvard U)

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``New results on the ``a-theorem" in four dimensional supersymmetric 
field theory"
David Kutasov
University of Chicago
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 4pm
Boston College
Department of Physics
Higgins 310
"Experimental Studies of the Elementary Excitations in Strongly 
Correlated Materials"
Dr. Peter Johnson
Brookhaven National Laboratory


Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 4:30pm
Boston University Physics Department
Joint Theory Seminar
Rm 595 Physics Research Building
The LHC (Little Higgs Collider)
Aaron Pierce (SLAC)
*Refreshments will be served at 4pm
*Please call 617-353-2600 24 hours in advance for parking*

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256
"Making Condensates with a Fermi Gas of Atoms"
Dr. Deborah Jin
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) & National Institute 
of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.


Thursday, February 19, 2004

Thursday, February 19, 2004
New England Section
Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org)
Sheraton Lexington Hotel
Bose-Einstein condensates - the coldest matter in the universe --
Wolfgang Ketterle - Nobel Prize winner in Physics 2001
Networking at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Meeting at 7:30
Dinner reservations by Noon, MONDAY, February 16, 2004 at www.nesosa.org or
by e-mail to nesosa lambdares com

Thursday, February 19, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"WMAP and Beyond"
David Spergel
Princeton University
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *

Thursday, February 19, 2004, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Lab., Rm. 250
"The Quantum Repeater"
Peter Zoller
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck

12pm, Thursday, February 19, 2004
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Physics in Cell Biology: Cytoskeletal Networks and Intracellular 
Transport "
Prof. Dr. Erwin Frey
Hahn-Meitner-Institut and Freie Universität Berlin

Thursday, February 19, 2004, 4:15 pm
Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium
Room N-105, Sackler Science Center
"Old forgotten problems in Physics:
Part I : Branly's effect in granular materials.
Part II : Antibubbles and coated drops"
Stephane Dorbolo
Post-doctoral Researcher
FNRS/University of Liege, Belgium and Clark University

Friday, February 20, 2004

Friday, February 20, 4:00 PM
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Pierce 209
Disorder and Interactions in Electronic Systems
Professor Boris L. Altshuler
Department of Physics, Princeton University
Fellow, NEC Research Institute
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks room, following the seminar.






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