Week of Nov. 29-Dec. 3

[Winna Somers <wsomers buphy bu edu>]

November 29-December 3, 2004

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004

Monday, November 29, 12:30pm
Boston University
Particles & Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building, Room 595
"Opening Windows for Technicolor"
Deog-Ki Hong
Pusan U. & MIT

Monday, November 29, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Effective theory approach to unstable particle production"
Giulia Zanderighi
Fermi National Lab
Refreshments will be served

Monday, November 29, 2004 @4:15 p.m.

Harvard University

Department of Physics Colloquium

Jefferson 250

"Cold Atoms: from Quantum Information to Condensed Matter Physics"

Peter Zoller

Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, and 
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian 
Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria

Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004

Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 2:30 P M

MIT Department of Mathematics
PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS SEMINAR
Building 2, Room 338
”DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF A SOLID STATE QUBIT SYSTEM “
RUSSEL CAFLISCH
University of California, LA

Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 3:30pm

Boston University

Physics Department Colloquium

590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 107

“Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics: Searches for Electric Dipole Moments 
of Elementary Particles”

David deMille

Yale University

Tuesday, November 30, 4:00 PM
Northeastern University

CIRCS Seminar
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Mechanisms of Molecular Biophysics
and Biochemistry"
Professor E. De la Cruz
Yale University

Tuesday, November 30, 4:00 PM
Brandeis University

Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Symmetry considerations in the visual cortex and in natural images"
Professor Mehran Kardar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 PM

Tuesday, November 30, 4:00pm

Harvard University

CUA seminar

Harvard, Jefferson Lab 356

"A Collider for Ultracold Atoms - Imaging Partial-wave Interference in 
Quantum Scattering"

Andrew C. Wilson

JILA

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2004

Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 2:00 PM
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics, Pierce 209
"Pattern formation in quantum Hall systems"

Prof. Cristiane de Morais Smith Lehner
University of Fribourg

Wednesday, December 1, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Towards a Dual Description of Cosmological Singularities"
Gary Horowitz
UC, Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 2:30 P.M
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar

B&H 555
"To be Announced"
Richard Easther

Yale University

Wednesday, December 1, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``A Quantum Cloak for a Classical Singularity"
Alex Maloney
Stanford/SLAC
Refreshments will be served at 3:45PM

Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University

Joint Atomic Physics Seminar

Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256

"Mixing quantum gases to achieve the potion of
everlasting current: cold atom alchemy"
Eddy Timmermans
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2004

Thursday, December 2, 4:00 PM
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Multidisciplinary applications with state-selected atoms"
Ron Walsworth
CfA
Tea and cookies at 3:30 PM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2004

Friday, December 3, 2004, 3:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Special Theoretical Physics Seminar

Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor
seminar room

“Cosmological Gravitomagnetism and Mach's Principle”
Christoph Schmid
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Friday, December 3, 4:00 PM

Harvard University

Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium

Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences

"Cytoskeletal Systems Integration in Cell Migration"

Dr. Clare M. Waterman-Storer

Department of Cell Biology

The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium

Friday, December 3, 4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building NW17-218

Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
"Two-Fluid Effects in Stellarators and Tokamaks"

Linda Sugiyama
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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