BAPC events for week of 4/25-5/2

[Heather Kauth <hkauth buphy bu edu>]

April 26- May 2, 2004

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Monday, April 26, 2004

Monday, April 26, 2004, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Neutrino Masses Shedding Light on Unification and Our Origin"
Jogesh Pati
University of Maryland
Refreshments will be served

Monday, April 26, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Colloquium
Hall B, Harvard Science Center
1 Oxford St.
"Searching for the Unified Theory"
Brian Greene (Columbia University)
Tea in Physics Library, Jefferson 450, at 3:15 p.m.


         Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Tuesday, April 27, 2003, 2:30pm

Tufts University

Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar

Robinson 250

"Is the large-scale microwave background cosmic?"

Dr. Dragan Huterer

Case Western Reserve University

Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lecture I
Jefferson 250
"String Theory and Geometry"
Brian Greene (Columbia University)

Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 4:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia – Spring 2004
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar

Street, Cambridge, MA

Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
“Galaxy Formation and the Formation of the Galaxy”
Professor Julio Navarro
University of Victoria
*Refreshments served at 3:45pm”


         Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
"Variable-range hopping in electronic crystals"
Dr. Sofian Teber
University of Minnesota

Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``AdS5 Solutions of M-theory and New Sasaki-Einstein Metrics"
Jerome Gauntlett
Perimeter Institute

Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 2:30PM

Theoretical Seminar:
B&H 555
Physics Department
Brown University
To be announced
<http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/hep-th/>
Prof. Hong Liu (MIT)

Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:00 pm
Higgins 310
Department of Physics
Boston College
Elaine Chandler
LLNL
"Stockpile Issues: Making the Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship 
Program Work"

Wednesday, April 28, 4:00pm
Special CIMS Seminar
Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures
Harvard University
17 Oxford St.
Jefferson Lab, Room 250
Prof. Uri Sivan
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
"Transistor in a Test Tube - Harnessing Molecular Biology to the 
Self-Assembly of Molecular Scale Electronics"

Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Indirect detection of TeV scale dark matter candidates"
Daniel Hooper
Oxford University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM

Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Harvard University
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256

"Photoassociation of Mixed Atomic Species in a MOT"
Dr. Nicholas Bigelow

University of Rochester
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.


Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Harvard University
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256
"Photoassociation of Mixed Atomic Species in a MOT"
Dr. Nicholas Bigelow
University of Rochester
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Thursday, April 29th, 2004, 12pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Wrinkling, draping and crumpling"
L. Mahadevan
DEAS, Harvard University

Thursday, April 29, 12:30 PM

Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar

Tufts University

Robinson Hall, Room 250

"Lifshitz Theory of the van der Waals and Casimir Forces and

Thermodynamics"

G.L. Klimchitskaya and V.M. Mostepanenko

Universidade Federal de Paraiba, Brazil

Thursday, April 29, 2004, 1:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Lattice Club lunch talk
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Triviality and the Higgs mass lower bound"
Kieran Holland
UC-San Diego

Thursday, April 29, 2004, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Loeb Lecture II
Jefferson 250
"String Theory and Cosmology"
Brian Greene

Thursday, April 29, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
Brown University
Barus and Holley 190
Dr. Sofian Teber, TPI, University of Minneapolis
Title: "TBA"
Host: Professor Jay Tang

Thursday, April 29 ,2004, 4:00 pm.

"Final Stages of Planet Formation."

(Astronomy) The Raymond & Beverly Sackler

Distinguished Lecture by Peter Goldreich,

Institute for Advanced Study, Philips Auditorium,

Harvard College Observatory

Thursday, April 29, 2004, 4:00 pm

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Phillips Auditorium

60 Garden Street, Cambridge

"The Final Stages of Planet Formation" (2004 Sackler Lecture)

Peter Goldreich  

Caltech  

* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * 

Thursday, April 29, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"The Simplest Superstring Orientifolds with Torsion,
and their N=2 Calabi-Yau Duals"
Michael B. Schulz
Caltech
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:45

Thursday, April 29, 2004, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Physics Colloquium Series

10-250

Dan Akerib, Case Western Reserve University

“Looking for WIMPs in the Galactic Halo: the Search for Dark Matter using 
Ultra-Cold Particle Detectors and Other Techniques”

3:45pm, refreshments, 4-339

Friday, April 30, 2004

Friday, April 30, 4:00 PM
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 209
“Real-Time Electron Counting in Semiconductor Nanostructures”
Professor Alex Rimberg
Rice University
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.

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