September 12 - September 18, 1999 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT. You may send your announcements by e-mail (bapc@lns.mit.edu) or FAX (617-253-8674). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. on the Monday of the week preceding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _________________________________________________ Monday, September 13, 1999 Monday, September 13, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquim Building 26 - Kolker Room 414 ``The Accelerating Universe: Enigmas and Nostrums" Sean Carroll University of Chicago Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. _________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 14 1999 Tuesday, September 14 1999, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics- Seminar Room Building 6-Third Floor ``Dimensional Reduction and the Infrared Properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Lattice Results" Bengt Peterson University of Bielefeld Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 4:00PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquim Physics Building, Abelson 131 ``Insulators, superconductors, and maybe even metals in 2D" Prof. James M. Valles, Jr. Brown University Refreshment in Room 333 at 3:30p.m. _________________________________________________ Wednesday, September 15, 1999 Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 3:00PM Boston University Biophysics Seminar Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue ``Predicting Protein Binding" Dr. Michael R. Shlesinger, Director of Physics Office of Naval Research _________________________________________________ Thursday, September 16, 1999 Thursday, September 16, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson-453 ``Field theory, non-local observables and space-time" Dr. Simon Ross University of California, Santa Barbara Refreshments in the High Energy Common Area at 3:30p.m. Thursday, September 16, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquim Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St., Cambridge ``First Results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory-Presented on behalf of the Chandra Team" Dr. Harvey Tananbaum Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tea will be served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, September 16 1999, 4:15PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquim Building 10, Room 250 ``Searching for Dark Matter Axions" Leslie Rosenberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics _____________________________________________ Friday, September 17, 1999 Friday, September 17, 1999 , 12:30PM. Boston University Physics Department, Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf SCI 352 ``Electron Spectroscopic Studies GaN(0001)" Prof. Brian Thoms Rutgers University Friday, September 17, 1999 , 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series 175 Albany Street, NW17-218 "Electron Temperature Gradient Driven Turbulence" Dr. William D. Dorland University of Maryland, Institute for Plasma Research Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the September 19-September 25 calendar is Monday, September 13, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. ________________________ Ms. Joyce Berggren email : berg@mitlns.mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology berg@pierre.mit.edu Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg. 6-314A 77 Massachusetts Avenue phone : -617-253-4827 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA fax : -617-253-8674 - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos5.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".