October 3 - October10, 1999 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT. You may send your announcement 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., the Monday of the week preceding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. See below for late announcements. _________________________________________________ Monday, October 4, 1999 Monday, October 4, 1999, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``D-Branes, T-duality and Index Theory" Kentaro Hori Harvard University Monday, October 4, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26- Kolker Room-414 ``Solving the Sign Problem: From Antiferromagnets to QCD" Uwe-Jens Wiese MIT Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, October 4, 1999, 4:15PM Northeastern University High Energy Seminar 114 Dana Research Center `Higgs as a Slepton" Professor Zurab Kakushadze SUNY at Stony Brook Monday, October 4, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Department of Physics Colloguium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Sensors, Amplifiers, Motors and Clocks: From Molecular to Modular Biology" Professor Stanislas Leibler Princeton University Tea served at 4:00p.m.-Jefferson 450 Monday, October 4, 1999, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``The Quantum World of Ultracold Atomic Vapors: from Molecular Formation to BEC" Professor Nick Bigelow University of Rochester Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. ________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 5, 1999 Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Rowland Institute for Science Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Atom Optics'' Tilman Pfau MIT Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, October 5, 1999, , 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 ``Astrophysical limits on extra dimensions" Professor Larry Ford Tufts University Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. Knipp Library-Room 251 Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 3:30PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Sanders Theatre (Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St.) ``Finite but Unbounded" Prof. Stephen W. Hawking University of Cambridge Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 3:45PM Boston University Physics Colloquium SCI, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 107 ``Granular Matter: Friction and Melting" Professor Jerry Gollub Haverford College & University of Pennsylvania Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Quantum Waves in Chaotic Billiards" Professor S. Sridhar Northeastern University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Weakening of quark condensation with increasing number of flavors" Bachir Moussallam University of Paris/MIT Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 5, 1999 , 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar MIT-Building 4, Room 159 ``The Geometry of 3-forms in Six Dimensions" Professor Nigel Hitchin Mathematics Institute - Oxford University ________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 6, 1999 Wednesday, October 6, 1999, 12:00 noon Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg, 3 Cummington St., Room 593 `` Calculation of Epsilon'/Epsilon Using Domain Wall Fermions" Tom Blum Brookhaven National Laboratory Wednesday, October 6, 1999, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6 Third Floor Seminar Room ``On Mirror Symmetry as T-duality" Mina Aganagic Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Wednesday, October 6, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Center for Astrophysics-Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 ``Pulsed-Laser Photoassociation of Ultracord Sodium" Dr. Paul Lett NIST Tea served at 4:00p.m. _______________________________________________ Thursday, October 7, 1999 Thursday, October 7, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey" Professor J. A. Peacock Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, October 7, 1999, 4:00PM Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 ``The Role of Quantum Mechanics in Understanding Magnetic" Professor Werner Wolf Yale University Thursday, October 7, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 ``When Like Charges Attract: Unexpected Dynamics in Charge-Stabilized Colloidal Suspensions" Professor David Grier University of Chicago Refreshments served at 3:45p.m. Room 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, October 8, 1999 Friday, October 8, 1999, 1:00PM Boston University Joint Center for Computational Science and Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington St., Room 593 ``Multiscale Simulations of Complex Phenomena in Materials Physics" Efthimios Kaxiras Harvard University Friday, October 8,1999, 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Nonlinear Neoclassical Theory for the Tokamak Edge" Per Hellander UKAEA Fusion, Culham Science Center Refreshments before talk. Special announcement October 16, 1999, 9:30 am to 3:30pm Brandeis University Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics: In Memory of Eugene P. Gross Physics Building, Room 333 Please register by Monday, October 11 at http://physics.clarku.edu/gbasm/ (so lunch can be provided) 9:30-10:00 - Refreshments 10:00-10:30 - Michael Brenner, MIT ``Toward an effective theory of sedimentation" 10:35-11:05 - Seth Fraden, Brandeis University ``Engineering Entropy: Building order with disorder" 11:10-11:40 - Brad Marston, Brown University ``Using supersymmetry to understand disorder and quantum criticality: successes and failures" 11:45-12:15 -John Straub, Boston University ``Timescales and pathways for kinetic energy relaxation in proteins" 12:30-1:20 - Lunch 1:30-2:00 - Short talks on the life and work of Eugene Gross 2:00-3:30 - 3-5 minute contributed talk ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the October 10-October16 calendar is Monday, October 4, 1999 at 11:00 a.m If you miss the calendar deadline and have a late seminar notice to be sent, please email it to:bapc@cosmos5.phy.tufts.edu It will be automatically forwarded to everyone on the electronic email list. _________________________ 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".