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March 14 - March 19, 2005



March 14-March 18, 2005
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2005

Monday, March 14, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Spin-orbit interactions, Chern-Simons forms and quantum criticality"
George Chapline
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served

Monday, March 14, 2005,4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Criticality and Event Horizons"
George Chapline
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Monday, March 14, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Einstein Lecture
Barus and Holley 166
"Some Physics that E.Coli Knows"
Professor Howard Berg
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.


TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2005

Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 2:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
“Mining the holes in the sky: prospects for SZ surveys”
Gil Holder
McGill University

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005, 4:30PM
MIT
Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center, Room 123
"When Freezing Cold is not Cold Enough..."
Professor Wolfgang Ketterle

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2005

Wednesday, March 16, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``New Insights into QCD: String/Gauge Duality and the BFKL Resummation"
Matt Strassler
University of Washington
Refreshments will be served .


THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2005

Thursday, March 17, 2005, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Science with the Submillimeter Array"
Paul Ho
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.


FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2005

"QFT and QCD: Past, Present and Future" dedicated to Sidney R. Coleman
March 18 and 19, 2005
Times are TENTATIVE
For parking information, please see www.physics.harvard.edu <http://www.physics.harvard.edu>

Friday, March 18, 2005, 1:30 p.m.
Harvard University, Science Center B
Opening Remarks

Friday, March 18, 2005, 1:45 p.m.
Harvard University, Science Center B
Title to be Announced
David Gross
Director, Kavli Center for Theoretical Physics, University of
California, Santa Barbara

Friday, March 18, 2005, 2:30 p.m.
Harvard University, Science Center B
"Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox to Paradigm"
Frank Wilczek
M. I. T.

Friday, March 18, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University, Science Center B
"Cosmology in a False Vacuum"
Paul Steinhardt
Princeton University

Friday, March 18, 2005, 4:45 p.m.
Harvard University, Science Center B
Title to be Announced
Murray Gell-Mann
Santa Fe Institute
and
"Small Matrices, Sidney and Me"
Sheldon Glashow
Boston University

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2005

"QFT and QCD: Past, Present and Future" dedicated to Sidney R. Coleman
March 18 and 19, 2005
Times are TENTATIVE
For parking information, please see www.physics.harvard.edu <http://www.physics.harvard.edu>

Saturday, March 19, 2005, 9:30 a.m.
Harvard University, Jefferson 250
"Vacuum Tunneling in de Sitter Space--QFT in the Past and in the Future"
Erick Weinberg
Columbia University

Saturday, March 19, 2005, 10:45 a.m.
Harvard University, Jefferson 250
"Perturbation Theory for Non-Gaussian Correlations in Cosmology"
Steven Weinberg
University of Texas at Austin

Saturday, March 19, 2005, 1:30 p.m.
Harvard University, Jefferson 250
"Symmetry and Sidney"
Gerard 't Hooft
Spinoza Institute, University of Utrecht

Saturday, March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.
Title to be Announced
Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study



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