BAPC events for week of 3/1-3/7

[Heather Kauth <hkauth buphy bu edu>]

March 1- March 7, 2003
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Monday, March 1, 2004

Monday, March 1, 12:00pm
Harvard University
Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures (CIMS) Seminar
Maxwell Dworkin 119 (Grace Murray Hopper Room)
"Decoherence in Disordered Conductors at Low temperatures, the effect of 
Soft Local Excitations"
Y. Imry
The Weizmann Institute
Coffee and cookies will be available

Monday, March 1, 2004, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
`` Neutrino mass and minimal SO (10) grand unification"
Rabindra Mohapatra
University of Maryland
Refreshments will be served

Monday, March 1, 2004, 4:00pm
CBA Colloquium
MIT Media Lab
20 Ames Streeet, The Bartos Theater
Building E15 Cambridge, MA
“Knowing what you know: estimation and control in nanoscale systems”
Prof. Hideo Mabuchi
Caltech
*followed by refreshments

Monday, March 1, 2004, 4:30 p.m.*
Barus and Holley 168
Professor Rene Ong
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "The Extreme Universe: The Limits of Particle Physics and Astronomy"
Host: Professor Richard Gaitskell
*Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.
Monday, March 1, 2004, 4:30 p.m.*
Brown Physics Department Colloquiums
Barus and Holley 168
Professor Rene Ong
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "The Extreme Universe: The Limits of Particle Physics and Astronomy"
Host: Professor Richard Gaitskell
*Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 3:30pm
Boston University Physics Department
COLLOQUIUM
Rm 107, Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
“Discoveries Ahead in Particle Physics”
Dr. Michael Witherell, Director
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 in the Lounge

Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 4:00pm
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
(title to be announced)
Prof. Joachim Wambsganss
Universitat Potsdam
*Refreshments are served at 3:45pm


Wednesday, March 3, 2004

Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``TBA"
Leopolo Pando Zayas
University of Michigan
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2:30pm
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Jefferson 250
"Entanglement and teleportation in the Fermi Sea"
Carlo Beenakker
Instituut - Lorentz, Leiden University

Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256
"Collective Friction Forces Due to Spatial Self-Organization of Atoms: 
From Rayleigh to Bragg Scattering"
Dr. Dr. Vladan Vuletic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 4, 2004

Thursday, March 4, 2004, 12pm
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Mesoscopic physics of photons in cold atomic gases"
Prof. Eric Akkermans
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.


Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
Barus and Holley 190
Dr. Rolfe Petschek
Case Western University
Title: "Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Gels"
Host: Professor Robert Pelcovits
Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The formation of star clusters - 3D simulations of
hydrodynamic turbulence in self-gravitating gas"
Ralph Pudritz
McMaster University
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *

Thursday, March 4, 2004, 4:15 pm
Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium
Room N-105, Sackler Science Center
"Short ranged attractions in jammed liquids: How cooling can melt a glass"
David Reichman
Harvard University

Friday, March 5, 2004

Friday, March 5, 2004, 4PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
NW17-218
Bill Daughton
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Dynamics of the Lower-hybrid Drift Instability in a Thin Current 
Sheet

Friday, Mar. 5th, 4:00 PM
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Pierce 209
“Toward Real-Time Detection of Trace Biological and Chemical Agents in 
the Atmosphere Using Quantum Coherent Spectroscopy”
Professor Marlan O. Scully
Texas A&M University
Princeton University
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks room, following the seminar.


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