* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 09-19-05 to 09-23-05

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

September 19 ? September 23, 2005

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, March 19, 2005

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"DNA Unzipping and Motor Proteins:  Effect of the Genetic Code"
David Nelson
Harvard University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

1:30 PM
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 229
"Black holes and plasma-balls in large N confining gauge theory"
Dr. Toby Wiseman
Harvard University

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107
"Einstein, Ethics and the Atomic Bomb"
Patricia Rife
University of Maryland
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the SCI 1st Floor Lounge

4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge 37-252
"Galaxy Cluster Survey Cosmology: The Pitfalls and the Promise"
Prof. Joe Mohr
University of Illinois
http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/colloq.html

4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Microquasars and the Jets of  SS 433"
Professor David H. Roberts
Brandeis University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

4:15 PM
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153
"What's new with Dyson Schwinger Equations"
Dirk Kreimer
Boston University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 pm

Workshop Announcement:
U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials 
Hyatt Regency Hotel
575 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, Massachusetts
To register see web site:  http://www.ii-viworkshop.org
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

11:00 AM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Name Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar Series
NW17-218
Status of Wendelstein 7-X Construction
Hans-Stephan Bosch
Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany

12:00 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
?Temperature and density dependence of macroscopic pitch in a system of
chiral rod-like particles?
Dr. Svabolcs Varga
University of Veszprém, Veszprém, Hungary

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Barus-Holley Building, Rm 555
"Unstable Giants"
Prof. Robert de Mello Koch
U Wittwatersrand, South Africa

4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room*
"QCD and Holography"
Emanuel (Ami) Katz
Boston University
Refreshments will be served at 4PM *see our web page for directions to our
new location

Workshop announcement:
U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials 
Hyatt Regency Hotel
575 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, Massachusetts
To register see web site:  http://www.ii-viworkshop.org
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Thursday, September 22, 2005

11:00 AM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Name Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar Series
NW17-218
U.S. Burning Plasma Committee Organization
Ray Fonck
University of Wisconsin

12:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
"Breakdown of the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm at quantum phase
transitions"
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University

4:00 PM
Umass Lowell Colloquium
Faculty Alumni Lounge
Tripathy Memorial Lecture (Nobel Lecturer)
"Plastic Electronics and Optoelectronics"
Professor Alan Heeger
University of California, Santa Barbara

4:15 PM
Northeastern University Department of Physics Physics Department Colloquium
Series
114 Dana Research Building
"Interferometric Studies of Extra-Solar Planets"
Ben Lane
MIT
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m.

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Anomalies and Small Black Holes in String Theory"
Finn Larsen
University of Michigan
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45

4:15 pm
Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105
?Surface tension shorts: from A(phids) to Z(ippers)?
L. Mahadevan 
Harvard University
http://physics.clarku.edu/colloquium/

4:15 pm     
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium Series
Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT  
"Observation of High-Temperature Superfluidity in a Gas of Fermionic Atoms"
MIT Building 10, Room 250

Workshop announcement:
U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials 
Hyatt Regency Hotel
575 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, Massachusetts
To register see web site:  http://www.ii-viworkshop.org
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Friday, September 23, 2005
4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Name Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar Series
NW17-218
Does Electron Temperature Gradient Turbulence Matter?
William M. Nevins
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory