BAPC Dec.6-10, 2004

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December 6-December 10, 2004
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2004

Monday, December 6, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
“Fantastic Realism - The Vienna School of 2D dilaton Gravity"
Daniel Grumiller
University of Leipzig
Refreshments will be served

Monday, December 6, 2004 @4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Feeling the Magnetism of Individual Spins: Recent Results from Magnetic 
Resonance for Microscopy"
Daniel Rugar
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2004

Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 12:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Pratt Conference Room
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Ghosts of Saturn: understanding the ring spokes"
Alison Farmer
CalTech

Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time"
Sean Carroll
University of Chicago
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Taking the temperature of sand"
Professor N. Menon
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 4:15pm
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153
"Self-similarity in QFT"
Dirk Kreimer
Boston University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2004

Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 12pm
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 239
"Fluctuations in the aging of glassy systems"
Professor Horacio Castillo
Ohio University

Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 2:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Pratt Conference Room
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Effect of Baryons on Cosmic Structures"
Stelios Kazantzidis
Chicago/Zurich

Wednesday, December 8, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
“Distributions of string vacua"
Frederik Denef
Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 2:30 P.M
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Comments on Low Dimensional Supergravity"
Dr. Carlos Nunez
MIT

Wednesday, December 8, 3:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Harvard-BU-MIT 
Theoretical Chemistry Seminar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 36-153
“Computing the Free Energy of Biomolecular Systems Using Molecular 
Dynamics and Monte Carlo.”
Eric Darve
Stanford University

Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Studying Electronic Structure with Positrons and Synchrotron Light"
Dr. Stephen Dugdale
H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory
University of Bristol, UK

Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 4:00 PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Fall Colloquia 2004
Olney 218
“Prospecting for the First Stars in the Universe”
Professor Robert Simcoe
MIT
Refreshments at 3:30 PM

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2004

Thursday, December 9, 2004, 2:30 P.M
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555.
"Distributions of Nonsupersymmetric Flux Vacua"*
Dr. Frederik Denef
Rutgers University

Thursday, December 9, 2004, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Magnetars"
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Marshall Space Flight Center
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 9, 2004, 4pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Designing Magnetic Sensors with Extraordinary Geometric Magnetoresistance"
Professor L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Thursday, December 9, 2004, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Causality in string field theory"
Ted Erler
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:45

Thursday, December 9, 2004, 5:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical
Sciences/Harvard-MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St.
“Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Catalysis.”
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Pennsylvania State University

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2004

Friday, December 10, 4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
“H-mode pedestal and edge physics in NSTX”
Rajesh Maingi
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory




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