Feb. 7- Feb.11, 2005

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February 7-February 11, 2005
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2005

Monday, February 7, 2005,12:30 PM
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
PRB-595
"Plans for the Reactor Neutrino Experiment Double-CHOOZ"
Maury Goodman
Argonne National Laboratory

Monday, February 7, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Fermion Masses, Neutrino Oscillations and SUSY Grand Unification"
Mu-Chun Chen
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served

Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:15 PM
Harvard University
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Organic Chemistry Seminar
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St.
“Reflections on Process Research.”
Edward J. J. Grabowski
Merck Co.

Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Advances in Magnetic Fusion Science and the ITER Project"
Robert Goldston
Princeton University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm




Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"The Proton in Light of Parity Violation and Two-Photon Exchange"
Frank Maas
Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitaet Mainz
Refreshments @4:00 PM


Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:30 PM
Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots"
Professor Leonid Glazman
University of Minnesota


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2005

Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
“Quivers for Metrics”
Professor Amihay Hanany
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, February 8, 2004, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Brane inflation and Defect Production"
Dr. Horace Stoica
McGill University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 3:30 PM
Boston University
2004-2005 Colloquia
Metcalf Science Center: Room SCI-107
“Research as a Guide for Improving Student Learning in Physics”
Paula R. L. Heron
University of Washington
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the SCI 1st floor Lounge

Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Probing the Mind of an Amoeba: Individuality in directional sensing 
mechanism of single cells"
Dr. Azadeh Samadani
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm


WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2005

Wednesday February 9, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Black holes and extra dimensions"
Harvey Reall
KITP, UC-Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, February 9, 4:00 PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Spring Colloquia 2005
Olney 218
“Boost-Phase Intercept Systems and the National Missile Defense”
Professor Daniel Kleppner
MIT
Refreshments served at 3:30 PM

Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"BEC with ions and scalable quantum computation with neutral atoms"
Ignacio Cirac - Max-Planck
Institut für Quantenoptik
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2005

Thursday, February 10, 2005, 2:30pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
“Biophysical Studies of Chemotaxis Signal Transduction”
Dr. Peter M. Wolanin
Princeton University
Refreshments will be served

Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Star Formation in Context"
Neal Evans
University of Texas
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:00 PM
Harvard University
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/ Physical Chemistry 
Seminar
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St.
“The Chemistry of Star Formation.”
Eric Herbst
Ohio State University

Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:00 PM
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley 190
"Bending the Rules"
Professor Randy Kamien
University of Pennsylvania


Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Measuring and predicting cosmological parameters"
Max Tegmark
MIT
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:45



FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2005

Friday, February 11, 2005, 4 PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
175 Albany St.
"Opportunities of Reactor Plasma Development in ITER"
Michiya Shimada
ITER

Friday, February 11, 2005, 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Special Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Evidence of New Physics in Neutrino Experiments"
Karsten M. Heeger
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Refreshments @4:00 PM




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