* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 12-12-05 to 12-16-05

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

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

12/12/05 to 12/16/05

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Monday, December 12, 2005

2:30 p.m.
Northeastern University
High Energy Seminar
114 Dana Research Building
"Is There New Physics in B Decays?"
Alakabha Datta
University of Toronto
Refreshments will be served.

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Monday Colloquia
Jefferson 250
"The Neutrinos as a Window into the Dark"
Ann Nelson
University of Washington, Seattle
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm

4:15PM
MIT
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
26-414, Kolker Room

"The High Intensity y-ray Source Facility--A Free-Electron 
Laser generated Gamma-ray Beam for Nuclear Physics"
Henry Weller, Duke
*Refreshments at 4PM
http://pierre.mit.edu/seminars/nppc.html
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Large non-Gaussianity from inflation"
Bartjan van Tent
Cambridge University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

4:00 pm
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
"Saturn's Rings"
Prof. Richard French
Wellesley College
http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/colloq.html
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Harvard University
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"The Cold Rydberg Gas -- Atoms, Solids or Plasma?"
Professor Thomas Gallagher
University of Virginia
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

4:30 PM
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and Harvard
University Physics Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 356
"The Cold Rydberg Gas - Atoms, Solid or Plasma?"
Tom Gallagher
University of Virginia
Refreshments served at 4:00 PM

4:30 pm
The Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics/Department of Physics
Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium
Jefferson, Room 356
Tom Gallagher (Virginia)
"The Cold Rydberg Gas-Atoms, Solid or Plasma?"
Tea @ 4:00 p.m.
* Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department
(http://www.physics.harvard.edu)
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Thursday, December 15, 2005

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA Colloquium Series Phillips
Auditorium, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Darkest Galaxies: Kinematics and Dark Matter in the Dwarf Spheroidal
Satellites of the Milky Way"
Mario Mateo
University of Michigan
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
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Friday, December 16, 2005

11:45 a.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Matrix Factorizations and Kauffman Homology"
Johannes Walche
IAS
Lunchtime seminar: pizza, salad and fruit will be available

2:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Name Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar Series
NW17-218
Visualizing Electromagnetic Fields in Research and Teaching
John W. Belcher
Kavli Center for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT