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February 21-February 25, 2005
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2005

No events scheduled.


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2005

Tuesday, February 22, 2:00PM (Note day - due to Monday holiday)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Resonant Relaxation in Electroweak Baryogenesis"
Vincenzo Cirigliano
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 4:00 PM
MIT ASTROPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St,
Cambridge, MA
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
” Pulling Signals out of Cosmic Noise”
Jill Tarter
SETI Institute
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM

Tuesday, February 22, 2004, 2:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"A new model for quasars and the M-sigma relation"
Jordi Miralda-Escude
Ohio State University

Tuesday,February 22, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Ultracold atoms
MIT Room 26-214
"Quantum metrology and quantum networking with atomic ensembles"
Alex Kuzmich
Georgia Tech
Tuesday, February 22, 2005, : 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Special Seminar
Kolker Room, 26-414
"The Decade of the Neutrino"
Joseph Formaggio
University of Washington, Seattle
Refreshments @4:00 PM


WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005

Wednesday February 23, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Black hole production, the Froissart bound, the soft Pomeron and the 
RHIC fireball from AdS-CFT"
Horatiu Nastase
Brown University
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, February 23, 2004, 2:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Pratt Conference Room
60 Garden Street
"Cosmic HII Regions and the Reionisation of the Universe"
Stuart Wyithe
University of Melbourne

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005, 3:00pm
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Andreev bound states on the edge of a triangular lattice:
pinning down the order parameter symmetry of the cobaltates"
Tami Pereg-Barnea
University of British Columbia

Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 4:00 PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Spring Colloquia 2005
Olney 218
“Nanoscale Morphology Control Using Ion Beams”
Professor Michael Aziz
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:30 PM

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2005

Thursday, February 24, 2005, 12:30 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Fermionic condensates"
Dr. Markus Greiner
JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder

Thursday, February 24th, 2005, 1PM
Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Chemistry at the Nanoscale: From Synthesis to Potential Applications of 
Multifunctional Nanostructured Materials"
Dr. Teddy Asefa
McGill University

Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Black Hole Demographics in the Local Universe"
Luis Ho
Carnegie Observatories
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:00 p.m
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminars
Barus and Holley 190
"Theory of Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Noble Metal Surfaces with 
Kondo Adsorbates"
Dr. Jaime Merino
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:15 pm
Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Terahertz Spectroscopy of Single Molecule Magnets"
Professor Beth Parks
Colgate University

Thursday, February 24, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Classical and Quantum Theory of Cosmological Perturbations"
Robert Brandenberger
McGill University
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:45


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2005

Friday, February 25, 2005, 4 PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
175 Albany St.
"Supersonically Rotating Plasmas in the Maryland Centrifugal Experiment 
(MCX)"
Richard Ellis
University of Maryland



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