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* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 03/20/06 to 03/24/06

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

03/20/06 to 03/24/06

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
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Monday, March 20, 2006

12:00 PM
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Cruft 318
"First-principles calculations for optical properties and reactivity of Si
surfaces and nanoclusters"
Hanchul Kim
Korea Research Institute for Standards and Science (KRISS)

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room*
"Higgs production with heavy quarks at hadron colliders"
Laura Reina
Florida State University
Refreshments will be served
See our web page for directions to our new location

4:15 p.m.
Harvard University 
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium
Jefferson Lab, Rm. 250
"Quantum Universe"
Persis Drell (SLAC)
(Tea in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 p.m.)


1:00 pm (Note date and time)
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
?Pu**re Spinor Type Covariant Quantization of Superbrane?
Prof. Yoichi Kazama
U Tokyo
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

10:30 AM
Lyman 330
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Title TBA
Vladimir Juricic
Institute of Theoretical Physics
University of Utrecht

1:30 PM
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Cruft 318
"Ab initio simulation of BN-derived materials for hydrogen storage"
Dr. Stephen Shevlin
Queen Mary, University of London

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture I
Jefferson Lab, Rm. 250
"GLAST:  The Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope"
Persis Drell (SLAC)

3:30 PM
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107
"Statistical Physics of Citations"
Sidney Redner
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge 37-252
?The New Pluto-Sized Planets: Discovery, Characterization, and 
Implications?
Dr. David Rabinowitz
Yale University
http://web.mit.edu/astrophysics/colloq.html

4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"The Dark Side of the Universe"
Professor David Gerdes
University of Michigan
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

4:00 pm 
Northeastern University 
CIRCS
114 Dana Research Building 
"A Single-Molecules View of DNA Replication"
Antoine van Oijen
Harvard Medical School 
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Refreshments will be served
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

2:30 pm
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
?The Phenomenlogy of Pi-Stability and an Infinite Number of Vacua?
Dr. Jason Kumar
Texas A&M

4:00 pm
U-Mass Lowell Colloquium
Olney 218
"Strange Beauty and the Matter/AntiMatter Puzzle"
Professor Christopher Paus
MIT
Refreshments at 3:30 pm

4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room
"Anthropic Bounds on Curvature"
Leonard Susskind
Stanford
Refreshments will be served at 4:15
See our web page for directions to our new location
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Thursday, March 23, 2006

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University 
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II
Jefferson Lab, Rm. 250
"The Future of High Energy Physics: A Personal Perspective"
Persis Drell (SLAC)

3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Special Seminar
Science Center Lecture Hall E
"Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics"
Professor Juerg Froehlich
ETH-Hoenggerberg, Zurich

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Testing Relativity"
Alan Kostelecky
Indiana University
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.
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Friday, March 24, 2006

ALL DAY EVENT FOR BOSTON UNIVERSITY:
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM INFORMATION AND ENTANGLEMENT Photonics Center
8 St. Mary's St., 9th Floor Colloquium Room
Moderator: Alisa Bokulich (Boston University
*Morning Session: 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.* "Opening Remarks"
Abner Shimony (Boston University)
"The Early History of Quantum Entanglement: 1905-1935"
Don Howard (University of Notre Dame)
"Entanglement as an Observer-dependent Notion: Entanglement and Subsystems,
Entanglement beyond Subsystems, and All That"
Lorenza Viola (Dartmouth College)
"Nonlocality Beyond Quantum Mechanics"
Sandu Popescu (University of Bristol)
*Afternoon Session: 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.*
"Probabilities from Entanglement: Born's Rule from Invariance"
Wojciech Zurek (Los Alamos National Laboratory) "Information, 
Immaterialsim,
Instrumentalism : Old and New in Quantum Information"
Chris Timpson (University of Leeds)
"Quantum Information and Entropy"
Leah Henderson (MIT)
Refreshments will be served; http://www.bu.edu/philo/centers/cphs

11:45 a.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Probing Inflation with AdS/CFT"
Stephen Shenker
Stanford University
Lunchtime seminar: refreshments provided

4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"The 20 MW ECH System for ITER"
Michael Shapiro
Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT
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SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2006
ALL DAY EVENT FOR BOSTON UNIVERSITY:
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM INFORMATION AND ENTANGLEMENT Photonics Center
8 St. Mary's St.
9th Floor Colloquium Room
Moderator: Gregg Jaeger (Boston University) *Morning Session: 9 a.m. - 12
p.m.* "There and Back Again: from Physics to Information Theory and Back"
Wayne Myrvold (University of Western Ontario) "Otherworldly Information
Theory"
Hans Halvorson (Princeton University)
"Beyond Quantum Theory: Information and Entanglement in General 
Probablistic
Frameworks"
Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute)
*Afternoon Session: 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.*
"Relations Between Cryptographic and Physical Principles"
Adrian Kent (University of Cambridge)
"Quantum Computation: Where Does the Speed-up Come From?"
Jeffrey Bub (University of Maryland)
"Experimental Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation with Entangled
Photons"
Anton Zeilinger (Universität Wien)
Refreshments will be served; http://www.bu.edu/philo/centers/cphs