BAPC September 27-October 1

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September 27-October 1, 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
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Monday, September 27, 2004

Monday, September 27, 2004, 1:30pm

(note change of day and room)
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Department, Room 333
"An alternative to the dark matter paradigm: relativistic MOND gravitation"
Professor J. Bekenstein
Hebrew University, Jerusalem




Monday,  September 27, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Coframe geometry and classic al field models"
Yakov Itin
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Refreshments will be served



Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium
Physics Department, Room 131
"Why is the Universe Accelerating?"
Professor Sean M. Carroll
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Refreshments served in room 333 at 3:30pm





Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 4:00pm

MIT

The Herman A. Haus Room, 36-428

(site of former RLE Conference Room)

Cooling and trapping in strong magnetic fields

Georg Raithel

University of Michigan

 Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Wednesday, September 29, 2004, 4pm

University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Fall Colloquia 2004

Olney 218

"Astrophysical Black Holes"

Professor Ramesh Narayan

Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Refreshments served at 3:30pm



Wednesday, September 29, 2004, 2:30P
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Department B&H 555
"To be Announced"
Prof. Per Berglund

University of  New Hampshire

<http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/hep-th/>



Wednesday, September 29, 2004, 12 noon (note change of day, time and room)
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Department, Room 239
"How Eternal Inflation Can Explain the Second Law of Thermodynamics"
Professor Sean M. Carroll
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago



Wednesday, September 29, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Strings on small radius AdS and higher spin holography"
Massimo Bianchi
University of Rome
Refreshments will be served.



Thursday, September 30, 2004



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 30, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"In Search of Supermassive Black Holes"
Meg Urry
Yale University
* tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. *



Thursday, September 30, 2004, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series
10-250
Larry Abbott, Brandeis University
"Scale-Invariant Dynamics in Neural Systems"
Refreshments in the Physics Common Room (4-339)

at 3:45pm



Thursday, September 30, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
``D branes and phases on string worldsheet''
Takuya Okuda
CalTech
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:45



Thursday, September 30, 2004, 4pm
Physics Colloquium
Northeastern University
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, 12pm
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"The State of Superconductivity in the Organics"
Prof. Mike Naughton
Boston College



Friday, October 1, 2004

Friday, October 1, 2004, 3-5pm

MIT, Department of Mathematics

Room 2-147

"Canonical bases of loop algebras and coherent sheaves on curves"

Olivier Schiffmann

Ecole Normale Superieure



Friday, October 1, 4PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Magnetic Reconnection: From Fusion to Astrophysics"

Prof. Amitava Bhattacharjee
University of New Hampshire





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