*reformatted* BAPC February 28-March 4, 2005

[Physics Front Office <office buphy bu edu>]

We apologize for the formatting problems in last email. Hopefully this 
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February 28-March 4, 2005

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2005

Monday, February 28, 2005, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``A non perturbative formulation of the Witten-Veneziano mechanism: 
solution to the U_A(1) problem in QCD"
Leonardo Giusti
CERN and Marseilles
Refreshments will be served

Monday, February 28, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Foam and Melting Crystal"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Monday, February 28, 2005, 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Do Ordinary Nuclei Contain Exotic States of Matter?"
John Arrington
Argonne National Laboratory
Refreshments @4:00 PM

Monday, February 28th, 2005, 4:15PM
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
26-414, Kolker room
"Do Ordinary Nuclei Contain Exotic States of Matter?"
John Arrington
Argonne National Laboratory
Refreshements at 4PM

Monday, February 28, 2005, 4:15 PM
Harvard University
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Organic Chemistry Seminar
Pfizer Lecture Hall, 12 Oxford St.
“Semisynthesis of Post-translationally Modified Antibiotics.”
Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Monday, February 28, 2005, 4:30 PM
Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley 168
"Measuring and Predicting Cosmological Parameters"
Professor Max Tegmark
UPenn/MIT

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2005

Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 1:30 PM
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
“Chameleon Scalar Fields: Detecting Dark Energy
with Tests of Gravity”
Dr. Justin Khoury
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, March 1, 2:00 PM Note day
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``New Techniques in Perturbative Gauge Theory: Tree and One-Loop 
Calculations"
Freddy Cachazo
IAS-Princeton
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, March 1, 2004, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"The Q0957 Cosmic string Candidate and Other Related Brightness Anomalies"
Dr. Rudy Schild
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 4:00 PM
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Impact Cratering in Loose Granular Media"
Professor Douglas Durian
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2005

Wednesday, March 2, 2:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Non-gaussianities of primordial fluctuations"
Paolo Creminelli
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 4:30 PM
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminars
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington St., Room 595
"Little Higgs and perturbative tumbling gauge theories"
David Kaplan
Johns Hopkins
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005

Thursday, March 3, 2005, 4:15 PM
MIT Department of Physics
Physics Colloquium Series
Room 10-250
"Dynamics of Random Packings in Granular Flow"
Martin Bazant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, March 3, 2005, 4:15 pm
Clark University,
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
'THE ENTROPIC LATTICE BOLTZMANN EQUATION (or "Why Numerical Analysts have
Started Caring about Boltzmann's H Theorem")'
Professor Bruce M. Boghosian
Department of Mathematics
Tufts University

Thursday, March 3, 2005, 4:15 PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Attractors on Landscape"
George Dvali
NYU
Refreshments served at 3:45
High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson,

Thursday, March 3, 2005, 5:00 PM
Harvard University
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Harvard-MIT Physical 
Chemistry Seminar
MIT, Room 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Ave.
“Energy Landscapes for Cooperative Processes: Nearly Ideal Glass 
Transitions, Liquid-liquid Transitions and Folding Transitions.”
C. Austen Angell
Arizona State University.

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2005

Friday, March 4, 2005, 4:00 PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
175 Albany St.
"The Importance of Electron Kinetic Effects in Understanding Shear 
Alfvén Waves"
Stephan Vincena
UCLA

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