* BAPC - CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 04/03/06 to 04/07/06

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

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

04/03/06 to 04/07/06

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic
year by the Department of Physics at Harvard University.  Entries should
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Monday, April 3, 2006 

4:00pm 
Northeastern University 
Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Shear Banding in Solids and Complex Fluids; Hints from Colloidal 
Crystals" 
Dr. Benny Davidovitch 
Physics Department 
Refreshments will be served

4:15 pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Monday Colloquia
Jefferson 250
Lawrence Krauss
"Science Under Attack, from the White House to the Classroom: Public 
Policy,
Science Education, and the Emperors New Clothes"
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 @ 3:30 pm
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Tuesday, April 4, 2006 

4:00pm 
Northeastern University 
CIRCS 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Physics of Polyelectrolytes with Connected Counterions" 
Per Lyngs Hansen 
University of South Denmark 
Refreshments will be served

2:30 pm
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Bldg. NE25
5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor seminar room
"New cosmic string simulations and their implications"
Vitaly Vanchurin, Tufts University
Refreshments served at 2:00 pm in the same room.

3:00 pm
Boston College
Seminar
Dr. Ian Spielman, 
NIST
"2D Bosons in an Optical Lattice: An Experimental Study"
Higgins Hall 235

3:30 pm
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI-107
"Ghost busting: Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians"
Carl Bender
Washington University, St. Louis
Refreshments served at 3:15 PM in 1st floor lounge

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building NE25, Fourth Floor seminar room*
``A theorem about Casimir forces between dielectric bodies"
Israel Klich
CalTech
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location
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Wednesday, April 5, 2006

2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building NE25
Fourth Floor seminar room
"Dynamical SUSY Breaking in Meta-Stable Vacua"
Ken Intriligator
UCSD/IAS
Refreshments will be served
see our web page for directions to our new location

2:30 p.m.
Brown University
High Energy Theory Seminar
B&H 555
"Ineffective Field Theories"
Dr. Allan Adams (Harvard U)

3-5 P.M
UMASS LOWELL
Alumni Hall
One Hundred Years of Light Quanta
Professor Roy Glauber
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 3:00 p.m and the talk is at 4:00 p.m

4:00 pm
Boston College
Colloquium
Dr. Angel Garcia,
RPI
"Temperature and Pressure effects on Folding/unfolding of Proteins"
Higgins Hall 310
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Thursday, April 6, 2006 

4:00pm 
Northeastern University 
Physics Colloquium 
114 Dana Research Center 
"Andreev Reflection and Spin Polarization Measurements in Ferromagnets" 
Professor Boris Edward Nadgorny 
Wayne State University 
Refreshments will be served

4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CfA Colloquium Series Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge
"Clay Fellowship Lecture: Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic
Center"
Warren Brown
CfA
tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

4:15 pm
Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105
"Physics of Genome Management"
Jane Kondev     
Brandeis University
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Friday, April 7, 2006

11:45 am
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
Title: TBA
Ken Intriligator
IAS/UCSD
Lunchtime seminar: refreshments will be provided 

3:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Anderson Hall, Room 206
"First MINOS Results from the NuMI Neutrino Beam"
Nathaniel Tagg
Tufts University
Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 2:30 pm

4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium
Pierce 209
"Nanomagnetics and Spin Dynamics"
Dan Ralph
Department of Physics
Cornell University
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the colloquium

4:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science & Fusion Center Seminar
"Technical challenges and solution in NCSX Construction"
Hutch Neilson
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory