* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 10-24-05 to 10-28-05

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

October 24 to October 28, 2005

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, October 24, 2005

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University Physics/NSEC Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Physics of Semiconductor Nanowires"
Lars Samuelson
Lund University, Sweden
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

4:15PM
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Where do the constraints of nature come from?"
Max Tegmark
MIT
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107
"The Origins of Lattice Gauge Theory"
Ken Wilson, Nobel Laureate
The Ohio State University
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
"Gamma-Ray Burst Discoveries of SWIFT"
Dr. Neil Gehrels
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/colloq.html

4:15 pm
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153
"Counting recursive classes of rooted trees"
Karen Yeats
Boston University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 pm

4:15p.m.
Harvard University Phenomenology seminar
Jefferson 453
"The Minimal Model for Dark Matter and Unification"
Leonardo Senatore
MIT
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

4:00 pm
Umass Lowell Colloquia
Olney 218
"How DNA Worms through Protein Channels"
Professor Murugappan Muthukumar
UMass Amherst
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

4:30 PM
Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"Weird Things Happen at Low Energy"
Eric Heller
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

7:15 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Terahertz Systems Workshop
"Generating, Guiding, and Detecting Terahertz Radiation"
Dr. Jason Deibel
EE & CS Dept, Rice University, Houston TX
7:00 p.m.: coffee, Tea, soft drinks, & cookies will be served

8:15 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Terahertz Systems Workshop
"DOD Terahertz Applications"
Dr. Sumanth Kaushik
MIT Lincoln Lab, Lexington MA
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Thursday, October 27, 2005

12:00 PM 
Harvard University 
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Lyman 425 
"Effects of competing orders and quantum criticality on the quasiparticle
tunneling spectroscopy and vortex dynamics of Cuprate superconductors" 
Nai-Chang Yeh
California Institute of Technology

4:00 pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Pierce 209
"Morphological Control and Applications of Nanoporous Metals"
Jonah Erlebacher
Johns Hopkins University

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"AGN Evolution"
Amy Barger
University of Wisconsin
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"A New Endpoint for Hawking Evaporation"
Gary Horowitz
UCSB
Refreshments served in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45

4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pappalardo Lecture in Physics
Building 10-250
"Shadows of Faint Objects:  the use of indirect search techniques in
astronomy"
Professor Charles Alcock
Harvard University

4:15 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Dept. Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Measuring the Elusive: Neutrino Oscillations at MINOS"
Mayly Sanchez
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.
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Friday, October 28, 2005

No talks scheduled