April 18- April 22, 2005

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April 18-April 22, 2005
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2005

Monday, April 18, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Doing Quantum Optics on a Superconducting
Chip"
Robert Schoelkopf
Yale University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm


Monday, April 18, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Arthur O. Williams Lecture
Barus and Holley 166
182 Hope Street
"The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent 
Design"
Professor Lenny Susskind
Stanford University
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.


TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2005

Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Hartle-Hawking Wave function and String Theory"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

Tuesday, Arpil 19, 2005, 3:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``AdS/QCD"
Misha Stephanov
University of Illinois-Chicago
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 3:30 PM
Boston University
2004-2005 Colloquia
Metcalf Science Center: Room SCI-107
“Biocomplexity in Action: Pattern Formation and Microbial Ecology and 
Evolution at Yellowstone’s Hot Springs”
Nigel Goldenfeld
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the SCI 1st floor Lounge


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2005

Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Flux Compactifications, Cosmology and the Standard Model of Elementary 
Particles"
Melanie Becker
University of Maryland
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Lessons from supersymmetric lattice quantum mechanics"
Erich Poppitz
University of Toronto
Refreshments will be served at 4PM

Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Harvard University
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
“Atoms with Non-Zero Electronic Orbital Momenta in a Magnetic Trap: 
Expanding the Cold Atom Physics Frontiers”
Dr. Roman Krems
Center for Ultra Cold Atoms & ITAMP
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 7:00 – 8:00 PM
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lecture 9 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals
"Omni-Guide Photonic Crystal Fiber: From Theory to Production."
Dr. Marin Soljacic
Physics Department, MIT & Omni-Guide Communications Inc.

Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 8:00 p.m.
Harvard University
David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics
Science Center, Hall C
1 Oxford St.
"The Expanding Universe"
P. James E. Peebles
Princeton
Refreshments following lecture in
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments gallery
Science Center

Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 8:15 – 9:15 PM
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lecture 10 of special 10 lecture Workshop on Photonic Crystals
"Left-handed Electromagnetism in Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials."
Dr. Patanjali Parimi, Research Scientist
Physics Department, Northeastern University


THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2005

Thursday, April 21, 2005, 12pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"Superconductivity, as orderly as it gets (from cuprates to gravity)"
Professor Jan Zaanen
Stanford University, and Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, 
Leiden University, The Netherlands

Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Accretion onto black holes: from galactic binaries to AGN"
Chris Done
University of Durham
Tea and cookies served at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
Dana 111
Physics Colloquium
"Exploring the Universe Beyond the Phonto Window"
Luis Anchordoqui
Northeastern University
Refreshments available at 3:45pm

Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series in conjunction with the MIT Astrophysics 
Colloquia
The Bruno Rossi Lecture in Astrophysics
10-250
"The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays"
James Cronin, Nobel Laureate, 1980
University of Chicago, Emeritus

Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Anomalies in the Standard Model for Galaxy Formation and a Possible 
Remedy in the Dark Sector"
Jim Peebles
Princeton
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:45


FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2005

Friday, April 22, 2005, 4 PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
175 Albany St.
"Recent MRX Results with a focus on the global physics of magnetic 
reconnection"
Stefan Gerhardt
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory



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