BAPC November 8-12, 2004

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November 8-November 12, 2004

      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2004



Monday, Nov. 8, 2004, 10:00AM
Harvard University
Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures
Special Seminar
Maxwell Dworkin Building, 33 Oxford Street
Room 119
"Automated Cryo-Electron Microscopy at NRAMM"
Prof. Clint Potter
The Scripps Research Instiute



Monday, Nov 8, 12:30pm
Boston University
Particles & Fields Seminar
Physics Research Bldg., Room 595
Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays: status of problem
Dmitri Semikoz
UCLA



Monday,  November 8, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Asymptotic freedom in quantum mechanics: exploring two-dimensional
Q-balls"
Dam Thanh son
University of Washington, Seattle
Refreshments will be served



Monday, November 8, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Quest for the Mass of the Neutrino"
Giorgio Gratta
Stanford University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm



TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2004



Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Project LITE"
Professor Kenneth Brecher
Boston University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm



Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 4pm

Physics Department Colloquium

Boston University

590 Commonwealth Avenue , Room 107

"The Physics of Earthquakes"

William Klein

Boston University

Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm



Tuesday, November 9, 4:00pm

CUA seminar
MIT, Room 26-214
"Atom interferometric detection of the pairing order parameter in a Fermi
gas and a scaling solution for the 3D unitary quantum gas"
Yvan Castin, ENS, Paris



Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 4:15pm

Boston University

Mathematical Physics Seminar

111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153

"Introduction to Khovanov's homology II:category O"

Maxim Vybornov

Boston University

Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2004



Wednesday, November 10, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``BPS Deformations of AdS_p x S^q"
Oleg Lunin
Institute for Advanced Study
Refreshments will be served.



Wednesday, 10 November  2004,  2:30 P.M
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
To be announced <http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/hep-th/>
 Prof. Savdeep Sethi

Chicago University



Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
A Curious Truncation of N=4 Yang-Mills <http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/hep-th/>
Prof. Savdeep Sethi

Chicago University



Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 4pm

University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Fall Colloquia 2004

Olney 218

"Left Handed Light"

Professor Srinivas Sridhar

Northeastern University

Refreshments at 3:30pm



Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University
Physics Condensed Matter Seminar
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Polaronic Effects in High-Temperature Superconductors"
Annette Bussmann-Holder
Max-Planck Institut fur Festkoperforschu



Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 4:00 pm
Clark University, Jefferson 218
1st Annual Geller Lecture
"Crude Oil, Climate Change, Coal, Cane and Cars"
Dr. Robert Williams
Senior Research Scientist
Princeton Environmental Institute
Princeton University



Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 4:00 PM

Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St,
Cambridge, MA
"The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection"

Houjun Mo
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.



THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004



Thursday, November 11, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
Title: TBA
Savdeep Sethi
University of Chicago
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:45



Thursday, November 11, 2004, 4:15 pm
Clark University, Dept. of Physics, Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105
"Embedded Learning Modules (ELMO): Reforming the University General Science
Curriculum"
Nick Gross
Northeastern University



FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2004



Friday, Nov. 12, 2004, 4pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 209
"Moore's Law as Ockham's Razor: Electronics and Computing at Nanoscale"
Prof. Sandip Tiwari
Cornell University, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium



Friday, Nov. 12, 2004, 4pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 209
"Moore's Law as Ockham's Razor: Electronics and Computing at Nanoscale"
Prof. Sandip Tiwari
Cornell University, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium



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