* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 09-12-05 to 09-16-05

["Dayle Maynard" <maynard physics harvard edu>]

September 12 - September 16, 2005

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, September 12, 2005

4:15PM
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
26-414 (Building 24, 4th floor, Kolker Room)
Iain Stewart, MIT
"QCD Effects in Weak Decays"
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

1:30pm
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 229
"de Sitter Entropy by State Counting"
Professor David Lowe
Brown University

3:30 pm
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107
"Composite Actin Networks: Mechanics of Living Cells"
David Weitz
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the SCI 1st Floor Lounge

4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"The Materials Science of a Forgery - the $25M Vinland Map. 
What? When? Why? How? Who?"
Professor Michael Henchman
Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge 37-252
The MUSYC Census of Protogalaxies at z=3
Dr. Eric Gawiser
Yale University
http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/colloq.html

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

12:00 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Intermolecular Bonding in Conjugate Polymers"
Dr. Jeremy Schmit
Brandeis University

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building NE25, fourth floor seminar room*
"Black Holes, Black Rings and Topological Strings"
Andrew Strominger
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served
*see our web page for directions to our new location

4:00 PM
Umass Lowell Colloquia
Olney 218
"Casimir Forces and the Wetting of Liquids on Solid Surfaces"
Professor Rafael Garcia
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
refreshments at 3:30 p.m

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Thursday, September 15, 2005
4:15 pm      
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series
Pier Oddone, Fermi National Laboratory
"The future of Accelerator Based Particle Physics"      
MIT Building 10, Room 250

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Friday, September 16, 2005

4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Name Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar Series
NW17-218
Creating Artificial Radiation Belts in the Laboratory
Michael E. Mauel
Columbia University