BAPC October 11-15, 2004

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October 11-October 15, 2004

      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic
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Monday, October 11, 2004

 No events scheduled



Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Department, Room 229
"Mirrors for Twisted Supermodels"
Dr. Allan Adams
Harvard University



Tuesday, October 12, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``The String Landscape at Finite Temperature"
Scott Watson
Brown University
Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM



Tuesday, October 12, 4:00pm
MIT Room 26-214
"Spontaneous macroscopic spin polarization in independent spinor
Bose-Einstein condensates"
David S. Hall, Amherst College



Tuesday,  October 12, 4:00PM (NOTE DAY AND TIME)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Lattice QCD and Nuclear Physics: things to think about"
Martin Savage
U of Washington/MIT
Refreshments will be served



Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 4:15pm

Boston University

Mathematical Physics Seminar

111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153

"The Hopf Algebra of Rooted Trees in Epstein-Glaser Renormalization", Part 
I

Christoph Bergbauer

Freie Universitat, Berlin

Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm





Tuesday, October 12, 2004,4pm
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Cell Division A Kin I Dependent Pacman-Flux Mechanism for Anaphase A"
Professor David Sharp
Albert Einstein College of Medicine



Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 4pm

University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Zoltan Fried Memorial Lecture

Olney 218

"Experimental Gravitation: Gravity Probe B and Other Adventures"

Professor Rainer Weiss

MIT

Refreshments at 3:30pm



Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Department, Room 239
"Simple Models of Rigid Multifilament Biopolymer's Growth Dynamics"
Professor Anatoly Kolomeisky
Rice University



Wednesday, October 13, 9am

Harvard University

Phillips Auditorium, CfA, 60 Garden St.

"The Chandra Fellows Symposium."

The Fellows are (in order of presentation): Julia Lee (Harvard), Eric Pfahl
(Virginia), Peter Jonker (SAO), Anatoly Spitkovsky (Stanford), David Pooley
(Berkeley), Taotao Fang (Berkeley), Benjamin Maughan (CfA), Sebastian Heinz
(MIT), Franz Bauer (Columbia), Doron Chelouche (Institute for Advanced
Studies), Mateusz Ruskowski (Colorado), Enrico Ramierez-Ruiz  (Institute 
for
Advanced Studies), and Weiqun Zhang (Stanford).
The detailed program can be found at
http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2004.html.


Wednesday,  October13, 2004, 2:30PM
Brown University
Physics Department  B&H 555
``Sponteneous Lorentz Violation at High Scales"
Jesse Thaler

Harvard University



Wednesday, October 13, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Supersymmetric Black Rings and Supertubes"
David Mateos
Perimeter Institute
Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM


Wednesday, October 13, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``What does Inflation really predict?"
Mark Tegmark
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM



Wednesday, October 13,  3:00pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard-BU-MIT Theoretical Chemistry Seminar

77 Massachusetts Ave, Room 36-153

 "Fluctuations of Permanent and Induced Dipoles in Liquids, with
Applications to Wavevector Dependent Dielectric Permitivity, Light
Scattering, and Optical Kerr Effect."

Branka Ladanyi

Colorado State University

Wednesday, October 13, 4:00 p.m

 MIT

Harvard-MIT Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Room 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Ave

"TBA."

Michael Scott

University of Florida



Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar

Harvard University

Jefferson Laboratory Room 256

"Processing Quantum Information in Molecular Wavepackets"
Dr. Evgeny Shapiro

NRC - Canada

Refreshments at 4:00 p.m.





Thursday, October 14, 2004

October 14, 2004, 4:15pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10-250
"The Double Simplex: Envisioning Particles and Interactions"

Chris Quigg
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory



October 14, 4:00 pm

Harvard University

Physical Chemistry Seminar

Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St.

"Insights into the Complex Dynamics of Water Probed with Vibrational Echo
Correlation Spectroscopy."

John Asbury

Stanford University



Thursday, October 14, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Imaging Checkerboards in a High-Temperature Superconductor"
Dr. Jenny Hoffman
Harvard University



Thursday, October 14, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"D-branes and holography in N=2 Liouville and its mirror"
Ari Pakman
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:45





Friday, October 15, 2004

Friday, October 15, 2004,  4PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Theory and Simulation of Turbulence Spreading"

Taik Soo Hahm
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory



October 15, 2004, 3:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard-BU-MIT Theoretical Chemistry Seminar

Room 36-153, 77 Massachusetts Ave

 "Can We Understand the Complex Dynamics of Motor Protein Using Simple
Stochastic Models?"

Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

Rice University



Friday, October 15th, 2004, 4pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
 Pierce 209
 "NOT MERELY THE SECRET OF LIFE:  DNA AND NANOTECHNOLOGY"
Prof. Nadrian C. Seeman
Department of Chemistry, New York University
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium





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