BAPC September 20-24 2004

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September 20-September 24, 2004

      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic
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Monday, September 20, 2004

Monday,  September 20, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``An alternative to the dark matter paradigm: relativistic MOND 
gravitation"
Jacob Bekenstein
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Refreshments will be served



Monday, September 20, 2004, 4:15 pm
Harvard University
Physics Department Colloquium
Jefferson Physical Laboratory, room 250
"Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices and Magnetic Microtraps"
Eugene Demler
Harvard University
Tea will be served in the Physics Library, 4'th floor, Jefferson 450, 3:30
pm



Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Tuesday, September 21, 2:00PM (Note special day)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Non-abelian gauge theories with a mass a la Stueckelberg: some
preliminary results"
Ruggero Ferrari
University of Milan/INFN
Refreshments will be served



Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Birth and Dynamics of Black Holes in Galaxies"
Professor Avi Loeb
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm



Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 4pm

University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Fall Colloquia 2004

Olney 218

"Wrapping Light Around a Hair"

Professor Eric Mazur

Harvard University

Refreshments at 3:30pm



Wednesday, September 22, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Cosmic 1-branes"
Joseph Polchinski
University of California-Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM



Thursday, September 23, 2004

September 23, 2004, 4:15pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10-250
"Cosmic Superstrings"

Joe Polchinski
University of California at Santa Barbara


Thursday, September 23, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Measurements of the Phase Diagram for Unzipping dsDNA at Constant"
Dr. Mara Prentiss
Harvard University



Thursday, September 23, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Cosmology with Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
Uros Seljak
Princeton University
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *



Thursday, September 30, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University

Physics Colloquium
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"The Role of Buried Charged Groups in Proteins"
Dr. Marilyn Gunner
City College of New York



Thursday, September 30, 2004, 4:15pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10-250
"Title to be Announced"

Larry Abbott
Brandeis University


Thursday, September 23, 2004, 12:30 PM
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
College Ave., Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Stress Energy as Seen by Unruh's Detector"
Bjoern Garbrecht
University of Heidelberg



Friday, September 24, 2004

September 24, 2004, 3-5pm

MIT, Department of Mathematics

Infinite-Dimensional Algebra Seminar

Room 2-147

"Genus one conformal field theories"

Kiyokazu Nagatomo

Osaka University





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