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March 21- March 26, 2005
March 21-March 26, 2005
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2005
Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Nonlinear Optics in Vivo"
Chris Schaffer
University of California, San Diego
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2005
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 12:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Pratt Conference Room
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
“Resonant Rings: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond”
Eugene Chiang
UC Berkeley
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Dept. Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Rm SCI 107
“Out-of-this-World Physics: From Particles to Black Holes”
Greg Landsberg
Brown University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in SCI first floor lounge
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 4:00 pm
Harvard University
The Raymond & Beverly Sackler
Distinguished Lecture
Phillips Auditorium, Harvard College Observatory
"The Sky in Hard X-rays"
Rashid Sunyaev
Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2005
Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 4:00 PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Spring Colloquia 2005
Olney 218
“Radiation Chemistry Studies Using Surface Science Techniques”
Professor Chris Arumainayagam
Wellesley College
Refreshments served at 3:30 PM
Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 7:00 – 9:30 PM
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lectures 1 & 2 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals
First 2 hours of a 4 hour introductory tutorial on:
“Photonic-crystals: Principles, Techniques, and Applications”
Professor Steven G. Johnson
Mathematics Department, MIT
THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2005
Thursday, March 24, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Cosmology, event horizons, and the S-matrix"
Raphael Bousso
UC Berkeley
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45
FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2005
No events scheduled.
SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2005
Saturday, March 26, 2005, 10:00am-6:30pm
Brandeis University
HJSchnitzerfest: Strings, Fields and Life
Physics Building, Room 131
If you are planning to attend please send an email to
mmeyer brandeis edu so that we can arrange for lunch.
10:00am
“Solitons in Neuroscience”
Larry Abbott, Brandeis University
10:45am
“Seiberg-Witten Curves and Matrix Models”
Steven Naculich, Bowdoin College
Coffee: 11:30-11:45
11:45am
“Bethe Ansatz Solution of the Open XXZ Chain”
Rafael Nepomechie, University of Miami
12:30pm
“Quantization and Theta Functions: Old and New”
Joao Nunes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Lunch: 1:15-2:30
2:30pm
“TBA”
Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University
3:15pm
“Quantum Hall Effect in Higher Dimensions”
Dimitra Karabali, Lehman College, CUNY
4:00pm
“Quantum Walking”
Jeffrey Goldstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Coffee: 4:45pm-5:00pm
5:00pm
“Weyl Invariance in Two Dimensions”
Roman Jackiw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5:45pm
“Biophysical Approaches to the Study of Mammalian Learning and Memory”
Mark Schnitzer, Stanford University
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