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April 11 - April 15, 2005
April 11-April 15, 2005
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005
Monday, April 11, 2005, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Wave equations for non-relativistic anyone"
Peter Horvathy
University Tours
Refreshments will be served
Monday, April 11, 2005, 2:30 PM
Harvard University
2005 Eli Lily Symposium
Mallinckrodt Building, Pfizer Lecture Room
12 Oxford St.
“Discovery and Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small
Molecules, Polymers, and Natural Products.”
Geoffrey Coates
Cornell University
“New Catalyst Systems for Challenging Problems in Enantioselective
Synthesis.”
Amir Hoveyda
Boston College
“Recent Trends in Chemistry at Eli Lilly.”
Thomas R. Verhoeven
Eli Lilly & Co.
Monday, April 11, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Particle Physics Circa 2010"
Savas Dimopoulos
Stanford University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
“TBA”
Dr. Koenraad Schalm
Columbia University
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
MIT-Harvard Center of Ultracold Atoms
Harvard-Jefferson 356
"Entanglement as a resource for quantum communication and quantum
measurement"
Professor Alexander Sergienko
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Physics
Boston University, Boston, USA
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 6 PM
New Scientist Magazine
Red Line Bar, 56 JFK Street, Cambridge
“Cosmology and the Meaning of Life”
Max Tegmark
Professor of Physics, MIT
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2005
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Cosmological effective actions and new physics in the CMB"
Koenraad Schalm
Columbia
Refreshments will be served
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 2:00pm-5:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin A. Fisher Lectures in Physics
“Einstein’s Legacy: A Centennial Celebration”
Silver Auditorium of the Sachar International Center
Lectures one and two in a series of three lectures
2:00pm
“Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps”
Professor Peter Galison
Harvard University
3:30pm
“General Relativity Updated: Settling the Promised Land”
Professor Stanley Deser
Brandeis University
Refreshments will be served prior to each lecture
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 2:30PM
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Barus & Holley 555
"Cascade Inflation in M-Theory"
Dr. Axel Krause
U Maryland
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 4:00 PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Spring Colloquia 2005
Olney 218
“Parity-Violating Gamma-ray Asymmetries in the Radiative n-p Capture”
Dr. Pil-Neo Seo
North Carolina State University
Refreshments served at 3:30 PM
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 7:00 – 8:00 PM
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lecture 7 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals
"Novel Photonic Crystal Quantum Cascade Lasers."
Dr. Marko Loncar
Physics Department, DEAS
Harvard University
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 8:15 – 9:15 PM
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lecture 8 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals
"Micro-fabricated Probes for Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy and
Visible-Wavelength Photonic Crystal Slabs.”
Prof. Kenneth B. Crozier
Electrical Engineering Department, DEAS
Harvard University
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2005
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 12pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Quantum Spin Hall effect"
Prof. S.C. Zhang
Stanford University
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 4:00 PM
Harvard University
Woodward Lecture Series in the Chemical Sciences/Physical Chemistry Seminar
Mallinckrodt Building, Pfizer Lecture Room
12 Oxford St.
“Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials.”
Younan Xia
University of Washington
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Clay Fellow Symposium What Can Nearby, Young Stars Tell Us About Star
and Planet Formation?"
Eric Mamajek
Center for Astrophysics Clay Fellow
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics Colloquium Series
Room 10-250
"The Physics of Frustration in Quantum Magnets."
Professor Young Lee
MIT
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2005
Friday April 15, 2005, 4 PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
175 Albany St.
"Can Understanding Plasma Physics Yield a Better Injector for the RIA
Accelerator?"
Timothy Antaya
MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center
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