* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 10-10-05 to 10-14-05

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

October 10 to October 14, 2005

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic
year by the Department of Physics at Harvard University.  Entries should
reach us no later than 2:00 pm the Wednesday of the week preceding the week
of the actual event.  NOTE: Entries that are past the deadline will have to
be sent by you to the bapc late entry email address listed below.

On time entries send to: bapc-events cosmos phy tufts edu
                         
Late entries send to: bapc-late cosmos phy tufts edu

To subscribe to or unsubscribe from the bapc go
to:http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html
______________________________________________________________________

Monday, October 10, 2005
Holiday - Columbus Day

______________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, October 11, 2005

9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St.
Chandra Fellows Symposium
Phillips Auditorium
Presentations by Jan-Uwe Ness (Arizona State), Elena Gallo (UC Santa
Barbara), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (Institute for Advanced Studies), Elena Rossi
(Colorado), Weiqun Zhang (Stanford), David Pooley (UC Berkeley), Doron
Chelouche (Institute for Advanced Studies), Gordon Garmire (keynote 
speaker,
Penn State), Taotao Fang (UC Berkeley), Sebastian Heinz (MIT), David Sand
(Arizona), Benjamin Maughan (SA), Mateusz Ruskowski (Colorado), and Franz
Bauer (Columbia).
Detailed program at http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2005.html


1:30pm
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 229
"Exploring type II flux vacua: SUSY, non-SUSY, and non-geometric"
Professor Washington Taylor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Taming gravity at short distances"
Anupam Mazumdar
Nordita
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251


3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107
"Liquid Crystals: What They are and Why You Should Know about Them"
Tom Lubensky
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in the SCI 1st Floor Lounge


4:15p.m.
Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar
Jefferson 453
Exotic Baryons and Bound States of the Skyrme Model"
Peter Ouyang
UCSB
______________________________________________________________________

Wednesday, October 12, 2005


2:30 pm
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
*To be announced*
Dr. Yuji Okawa
MIT


4:00 pm
IIC Seminar
Harvard University
Maxwell Dworkin Room G115
?Multiscale Modelling of Materials from Atomic Bonding to Shipwrecks?
Tim Kaxiras
Harvard University
For more info see:  http://www.iic.harvard.edu/seminars.html


7:15 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Terahertz Systems Workshop
"Terahertz Transceivers & Potential Applications"
Dr. Eric Mueller
Coherent Inc, Santa Clara, CA
coffee, Tea, soft drinks, & cookies will be served at 7:00 pm


8:15 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Terahertz Systems Workshop
"Chemical Recognition & Remote Sensing in the Terahertz Region"
Dr. Mark Allen
Physical Science Inc, Andover MA
______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Thursday, October 13, 2005

12:00 PM 
Harvard University 
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Lyman 425 
"Linear and nonlinear conductivity of disordered Luttinger liquids " 
Bernd Rosenow
The University of Cologne


1:15 PM
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 251
"Bouncing Universes from Stringy Physics"
Tirthabir Biswas
McGill University


4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips
Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Evolution of Evolved Galaxies"
Giuseppe Gavazzi
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.


4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Hydrodynamics and String Theory"
Andrei Parnachev
Rutgers
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:45

______________________________________________________________________

Friday, October 14, 2005

1:30pm (note change of day)
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 229
"Kahler Anomalies, Fayet-Iliopoulos Couplings, and Flux Vacua"
Professor Daniel Z. Freedman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


3:00 PM
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 206
"Einstein:  The Science, Politics, and Personal Life of the Man of the
Century"
A lecture for general audience.
Professor Gary Goldstein
Tufts University
Refreshments in Knipp Library, Robinson 251 at 2:30 PM