April 25 - April 29, 2005

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April 25-April 29, 2005
THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2005

Monday, April 25, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Determining V(ub) with exclusive B decays"
Ben Grinstein
University of California, San Diego
Refreshments will be served

Monday, April 25, 2005, 2:30 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Pratt Conference Room
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound"
Daniel Eisenstein
University of Arizona

Monday, April 25, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Higher Superconductivity in the Dense Lower Elements"
Neil W. Ashcroft
Cornell University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

Monday, April 25, 2005, 4:30 PM
Clay Mathematics Institute
CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
“Bott Periodicity in Topological, Algebraic and Hermitian K-Theory (Part 
I)”
Max Karoubi
University of Paris VII, France

TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2005

Tuesday, April 26, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``The Eot-Wash Axion Search"
Seth Hoedl
University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM

Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 4:30 PM
Clay Mathematics Institute
CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
“Bott Periodicity in Topological, Algebraic and Hermitian K-Theory (Part 
II)”
Max Karoubi
University of Paris VII, France

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2005

Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 12pm
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
”A Survey of the Stringy Landscape “
Michael Douglas
Rutgers University

Wednesday, April 27, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Mapping flux to Geometry"
Michael Schulz
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 2:30PM
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Barus & Holley 555
"Reconnection of Cosmic Strings: D Branes Versus Vortices"
Prof. Hanany
MIT

Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 4:00 PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Spring Colloquia 2005
Olney 218
“Spin and Politics at the Femtoscale: Competition and Coexistence in 
Heavy Ion Excitations”
Professor Partha Chowdhury
Umass Lowel
Refreshments served at 3:30 PM

Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 4: 30 PM
Clay Mathematics Institute
CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
“Sizes and Scales in the Subatomic World”
Gerard ’t Hooft
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, Netherlands,

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Science Center C
“The Power of the Picture Visual Thinking and Communication in Science”
Felice Frankel, MIT
Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University

THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2005

Thursday, April 28, 2005, 12pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 425
"The Enigma of Low-Density 'Metallic' Transport in Two Dimensional 
Semiconductors: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"
Sankar Das Sarma
University of Maryland

Thursday, April 28, 2005, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Recent results in Statistics of String Vacua"
Michael Douglas
Rutgers University
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor 
Jefferson, at 3:45

Thursday, April 28, 2005, 4: 30 PM
Clay Mathematics Institute
CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
“Prime Numbers”
Peter Sarnak
Princeton University

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2005

Friday, April 29, 2005, 4 PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
175 Albany St.
"Probing implosion dynamics at OMEGA and modeling electron stopping for 
Fast Ignition"
Chikang Li
MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center

Friday, April 29, 2005, 4:30 PM
Clay Mathematics Institute
CLAY RESEARCH ACADEMY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
One Bow Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
“Quivers in Algebra, Geometry, and Representation Theory”
Victor Ginzburg
University of Chicago




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