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BAPC events for week of 5/10-5/16



May 10- May 16, 2004

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Boston University. You may send your announcement by e-mail (bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu <mailto:bapc lns mit edu>) or FAX (617-353-9393). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 5:00pm on the Tuesday of the week proceeding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.

Monday, May 10, 2004

Monday, May 10, 2004, 2:30PM note special time
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Cosmic Superstrings II"
Rob Myers
Perimeter Institute
Refreshments will be served


         Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Kolker Room- 26-414
``Tuning Locked Inflation"
Justin Khoury
Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM

Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 3:30PM
Boston University Physics Department
Special Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center Rm 107
"HANBURY BROWN AND TWISS INTENSITY INTERFEROMETRY:
FROM STARS TO NUCLEAR COLLISIONS TO ATOMS."
Professor Gordon Baym
University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign
Refreshments will be served at 3:00 pm in the lounge

Tuesday, May 11, 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
(title to be announced)
Professor Rebecca Bernstein
University of Michigan
*Refreshments served at 3:45pm”

Tuesday, May 11, 4:00 PM
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter & Applied Physics Seminar (SPECIAL)
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Maxwell-Dworkin G135
“How to make a VERY thin nozzle: viscous entrainment from a nozzle”
Dr. Wendy ZhangJames Franck Institute, University of Chicago
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.


Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 2:30PM
Brown University
Physics Department
*Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Prof. Thomas Blum (U Connecticut)
"Lattaice Calculation of the Hadronic Contributions to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment"


Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 2:30PM (Note new time)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Some Aspects of closed string tachyons and the McKay correspondence"
Tapobrata Sarkar
ICTP, Trieste/Harvard
Refreshments will be served

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Thursday, May 13, 2004, 12pm
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Dynamics of Molecular Motors on Heterogeneous Tracks"
Yariv Kafri
Harvard University

Thursday, May 13, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The History of Water on Mars"
Phil Christenson
Geology Dept, Arizona State University
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *

Thursday, May 13, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"a-maximization and RG flows"
Kenneth Intriligator
UCSD
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45

Friday, May 14, 2004

Friday, May 14, 2004, 10:00AM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Theta-Vacua Effects in 2-d CP(N-1) Models derived from (2+1)-d SU(N)
Antiferromagnetic Spin-Ladders"
Uwe-Jens Wiese
University of Bern

Friday, May 14, 2004, 11:00AM
Boston University Physics Department
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center Rm 352
"HOW DO RAPIDLY ROTATING BOSE GASES CARRY ANGULAR MOMENTUM?"
Professor Gordon Baym
UI-UC

Friday, May 14, 2004, 4:00 PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Room NW17-218
"Toroidal Magnetic Plasma Confinement at the Limit: Results from the National Spherical Torus Experiment"
Mike Bell
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Refreshments at 3:45pm

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