BAPC-events for the week of 3/15-3/21

[Heather Kauth <hkauth buphy bu edu>]

March 15- March 21, 2004
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Monday, March 15, 2004

Monday, March 15, 2004, 1:30 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Electrodynamics Group
Room 38-268 (enter through Room 38-266)
50 Vassar Street
"Relativistic Quasilinear Diffusion in Axisymmetric Geometry"
Professor Alain J. Brizard
Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont

Monday, March 15, 2004, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``On the fate of Lorentz symmetry in quantum spacetime"
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
U Rome/INFN
Refreshments will be served
Monday, March 15, 2004 @4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Transport in a Luttinger Liquid
Leon Glazman
Minnesota University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Monday, March 15, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
ARTHUR O. WILLIAMS LECTURE
Barus and Holley 168,
Small Wonders: The World of Nano Science"
Professor Horst Stormer
Columbia University
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Host: Professor Charles Elbaum
*Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.


Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center - Theory Group
Room NW16-213
167 Albany Street
"A Guiding-Center Fokker-Planck Collision Operator for Nonuniform 
Magnetic Fields"
Professor Alain J. Brizard
Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont

Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Baryon Asymmetry, Dark Matter and Quantum Chromodynamics"
Ariel Zhitnitsky
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 4:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
MIT Center for Space Research ,70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Recent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of the 
Infrared Universe
Dr. Giovanni Fazio
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
*Refreshments are served at 3:45pm

Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 4:30 p.m.*
Harvard/MIT Center for UltraCold Atoms
MIT 26-214
Dr. Margaret Murnane
JILA
Title: "Multiphoton EUV Photonics: Attosecond Science and Applications"
*Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Wednesday, March 17, 2004, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
"Speed and Propagation of Diffusive Signals in Spatially
Inhomogeneous Membranes"
Dr. Douglas Martin
Brandeis University

Wednesday, March 17, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Corrections to Volume Moduli and Inflation in String Theory"
Boris Kors
MIT
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 2:30PM*
Brown University
*Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
To be announced <http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/hep-th/>*
Prof. Massimo Porrati (New York U)

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:00 PM
MIT
Room #36-156
" Theory of Chemical Reaction Rates" Professor William H. Miller
University of California, Berkeley


Thursday, March 18, 2004

Thursday, March 18th, 2004, 12pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Drag Reduction by Polymers in Turbulence"
Prof. Itamar Procaccia
Dept. of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science

Thursday, March 18th, 2004, 1pm
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Cruft 319
"Drag reduction by Polymers in Turbulence"
Prof. Itamar Procaccia
Dept. of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science
Thursday, March 18, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminars
Barus and Holley 190
"Structure and Dynamics of a Polymeric Sponge Phase"
Professor Simon Mochrie
Yale University
Host: Professor Jay Tang

Thursday, March 18, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Characterizing Extrasolar Planets"
Sara Seager (Department of Terrestrial Magnetism)
and
"TBD"
David Charbonneau (Caltech)
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *

Thursday, March 18, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Tachyon effective action"
Josef Klusen
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45

Thursday, March 18, 2004, 4:15 pm
Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium
Room N-105, Sackler Science Center
"Overcoming entropic barriers in Monte Carlo simulations"
Simon Trebst
ETH Zurich
Thursday, March 18, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10-250
New Frontiers with Ultracold Gases
Wolfgang Ketterle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments at 3:45pm, Building 4-339


Friday, March 19, 2004

Friday, March 19, 2:00 pm
Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium
Room N-105, Sackler Science Center
"Wide and universal shear zones in granular materials"
Denis Fenistein
Leiden University

Friday, March 19th, 4pm
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 209
"Single-shot read-out of a single electron spin"
Lieven Vandersypen
Assistant Professor , Delft University of Technology

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