* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 10-31-05 to 11-04-05

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

October 31 to November 04, 2005

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, October 31, 2005

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room
"Effective Boundary Field Theories for Superconducting Quantum Devices"
Pasquale Sodanno
University of Perugia/INFN
Refreshments will be served
*see our web page for directions to our new location

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics
Jefferson 250
"Spectroscopy of Correlated Electrons: Techniques, Insights, Perspectives"
Prof. Bernhard Keimer
Max Planck
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

4:15PM
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"A Snapshot of Hadron Spectroscopy"
Jonathan L. Rosner
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005

1:30pm
Brandeis University
High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 229
"Black Rings"
Dr. Henriette Elvang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Impact cratering in loose granular media"
Professor Douglas Durian
University of California-Los Angeles
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge 37-252
"The Origin of Quasars and the Population of Red Galaxies"
Prof. Lars Hernquist
Harvard University
http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/colloq.html

4:15p.m.
Harvard University Phenomenology seminar
Jefferson 453
"Geometry, the MSSM and searching for evidence of new physics"
James Gray
IAP, Paris

6:00pm to 7:30pm
Boston University
School of Management Auditorium
Pardee Distinguished Lecture
595 Commonwealth Avenue, Kenmore Square
"Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society"
Freeman Dyson
Institute for Advanced Studies
followed by a brief reception outside lecture hall
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Wednesday, November 2, 2005

12:00 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 239
"Rectification in Quantum Wires"
Professor Dmitri Feldman
Brown University

2:30 pm
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"The Geometry of M-branes Wrapping Cycles in Calabi-Yau 3-Folds"
Prof. Ansar Fayyazuddin
CUNY 

4:00 pm
IIC Seminar
Maxwell Dworkin G115
33 Oxford Street
"Habitat for Virtuality: Building Communities for eScience"
Carl Kesselman
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
For more info see our website:  http://iic.harvard.edu

4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
NE25, 4th floor seminar room Joint Theory Seminar
"B Physics Beyond CKM"
Zoltan Ligeti
LBNL/MIT
Cookies to be served at 4PM, note new location see our web page

7:15 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Terahertz Systems Workshop
"Low-Noise THz Receivers for Space & Terrestrial Imaging Applications"
Dr. Prof. Sigfrid Yngvesson
EE & CS Dept, UMASS, Amherst, MA
7:00 p.m.: coffee, Tea, soft drinks, & cookies will be served

8:15 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Terahertz Systems Workshop
"Measurement Aspects of Terahertz Technologies"
Dr. Eval Gerecht
NIST, Boulder, CO

9:15 p.m.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Terahertz Systems Workshop
"High Power Terahertz Generation"
Dr. Gwyn Williams
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA
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Thursday, November 03, 2005

12:00 PM 
Harvard University 
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Lyman 425 
"Metal-insulator transition in a weakly interacting many-electron system
with localized single-particle states"
Igor Aleiner
Columbia University

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"From Hot Jupiters to Hot Neptunes and below"
Stephane Udry
University of Geneva
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David & Edith Harris Lecture in Physics
Building 10-250
"Inflation, Dark Energy, and String Cosmology"
Professor Andrei Linde
Stanford University

4:15 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Dept. Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Cracking the Unitarity Triangle: A Quest in B Physics"
Masahiro Morii
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served
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Friday, November 4, 2005

11:45 a.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Bethe Ansatz for a Quantum Supercoset Model"
Nelia Mann
UCSB
Refreshments provided.

3:00 pm
Tufts Physics Colloquium
Max Tegmark
MIT
"Where Do The Constraints of Nature Come From?"
Anderson 206
Refreshments at 2:30 in the Knipp Library.

4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Name Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar Series
NW17-218
Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas: Celestial Phenomena in the Laboratory
Jan Egedal
Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT

4:15 pm
Boston University
Mathematical Physics Seminar
111 Cummington Street, MCS Room 153
"Motives associated to Feynman Graphs"
Spencer Bloch
University of Chicago
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 pm