* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 10-03-05 to 10-08-05

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

October 03 to October 07, 2005

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, October 03, 2005

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room*
``Quantum actions and energies on the worldline"
Holger Geis
University of Heidelberg
Refreshments will be served *see our web page for directions to our new
location

3:00pm (Note day and time change)
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"The Library of Babel:  On the origin of gravitational thermodynamics"
Professor Vijay Balasubramanian
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments in Room 333 at 2:30pm

4 p.m.
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
"The Game of Life: How Protein Universe Emerged"
Eugene Shakhnovich
Harvard
Refreshments will be served.

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics: Searching for the Electric Dipole Moment
of the Electron"
David DeMille
Yale University
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107
"Dark Matter Searches"
Laura Baudis
University of Florida
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
"The Spitzer Space Telescope and Star Formation"
Prof. Neal Evans
University of Texas
http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/colloq.html
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room*
``Compactifications on Generalized Geometries"
Jan Louis
DESY
Refreshments will be served *see our web page for directions to our new
location
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Thursday, October 06, 2005

11:00 am
IIC Seminar - Harvard University
Maxwell Dworkin Room 125
"Service-Oriented Science"
Ian Foster, PhD
Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
For more info see: http://www.iic.harvard.edu/seminars.html

12:00 PM 
Harvard University 
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Lyman 425 
"How worms navigate thermal gradients " 
Aravinthan Samuel 
Harvard University

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"To be or not to be active"
Peter Barthel
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,Groningen
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

4:15 pm 
Clark University 
Physics Colloquium 
Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 
"Physicists Keeping the Cold War Cold - A Tale of ZORC" 
Professor Charles Holbrow     
Colgate University
http://physics.clarku.edu/colloquium/

4:15 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Dept. Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Inelastic X-Ray Scattering and Beyond: Applications in Condensed Matter 
and
Biophysics"
Esen Ercan Alp
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 in 114 DA

7:30 pm
Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
http://www.improbable.com/ig/2005/2005-details.html
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Friday, October 07, 2005

4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Name Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar Series
NW17-218
Resonant Heating of a Cluster Plasma by Intense Laser Light
Thomas M. Antonsen Jr.
University of Maryland, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied
Physics

4:00 pm
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Harvard University
Pierce Hall 209
Scientific Applications of High-Resolution X-Ray Scattering: Inelastic 
X-Ray
Scattering and Beyond
Dr. Esen Ercan Alp
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
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Saturday, October 8, 2005

1:00 pm
Ig Informal Lectures
MIT 10-250
http://www.improbable.com/ig/2005/2005-details.html#informal-lectures