October 24 - October 30, 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 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _________________________________________________ Monday, October 25, 1999 Monday, October 25, 1999, 12:30PM Boston University Biophysics Seminar SCI, Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Complex Signal Dynamics During Sleep: A Challenge to Physicists and Physiologists" Dr. Thomas Penzel Medical Polyclinic, Philipps University, Germany Monday, October 25, 1999, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Gauge Fixing on the Lattice" Silvano Petrarca INFN Monday, October 25, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26-Kolker Room 414 ``Production and Stability of the Heaviest Elements" Victor Ninov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday October 25, 1999 @ 3:45pm Boston University Colloquium Center for Space Physics, College of Arts and Science 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 500 "Jupiter's Rings: Signs of the Source" Professor Joseph Burns Cornell University Monday, October 25, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe" Professor Saul Perlmutter University of California, Berkeley Tea served at 4:00p.m. Jefferson Lab. 450 Monday, October 25, 1999, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Quantum Phase Transitions in Antiferromagnets and Superfluids" Professor Subir Sachdev Yale University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m ________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 26 1999 Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Neutrino Mass Measurement from T2 Decay" Ernst Otten University of Mainz Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 3:45PM Boston University Physics Colloquium SCI, Room 107, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Tales of the Quantum Hall Regime" Professor Shivaji Sondhi Princeton University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6-3rd fl seminar room ``Violation of Sum Rules for Higher-Twist Parton Distributions" Matthias Burkardt New Mexico State University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 4:00PM Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center ``Information capacity of unital quantum channels, in quantum computers" Prof. C. King Northeastern University Coffee at 3:45p.m. Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard University High Energy Physics Seminar HEP Labs, 42 Oxford Street ``B-Bbar mixing: On Beyond X" Andrew Foland Cornell University Tuesday, October 26, 1999 4:30 p.m. Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar "Principal Actions in Non-Commutative Geometry" David Ellwood Mathematics Department, Harvard University at M. I. T. 4-159 _________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 27, 1999 Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 2:00PM Harvard University High Energy Physics Seminar HEP Labs, 42 Oxford Street ``Searches for Exotic Particles at NuTeV" Eric Zimmerman Columbia University Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center ``Recent photoemission results in high temperature superconductors" Professor Hong Ding Boston College Refreshments served at 3:45p.m. Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Scientific Creativity and Technology Development Superconductors and SAWS" Dr. Paul H. Carr Hanscom AFB & U Mass Lowell Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 4:30PM Boston College Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room 305 ``Tunneling into High-Temperature Superconductors: Spectroscopy of Broken Symmetries" Dr Laura Greene University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6-3rd fl seminar room ``Supersymmetry, Chiral Symmetry and Domain Wall Fermions on the Lattice" David Kaplan University of Washington Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. _________________________________________________ Thursday, October 28, 1999 Thursday, October 28, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Reionization and the Early Intergalactic Medium" Dr Piero Madau Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, October 28, 1999, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Ctr., Room N-105 ``Scanning near-field infrared microscope based on a free electron laser" Professor Shyamsunder Erramilli Boston University Thursday, October 28, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Finite N gauge theory and Small N Supersymmetry" Eva Silverstein SLAC/Stanford University Refreshments in HET Commons,4th fl Jefferson at 3:30pm Thursday, October 28, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10, Room 250 ``Physics for the Farsighted: Effective Field Theory from Blue Skies to the Nucleus" David Kaplan University of Washington The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar will host Danny Kandel from the Weizmann Institute. Title: Polymer induced pearling and coiling instabilities in bilayer membranes. October 28, 1999 Lyman 424/425 12 noon Harvard University _____________________________________________ Friday, October 29, 1999 Friday, October 29, 1999, 12 noon Boston University Center for Computational Science Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593 ``Theory of the Viscoelasticity of Gases and Simulations with a Viscoelastic, Two-Component Lattice Boltzmann Method" Alexander Wagner Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday, October 29, 1999, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar MSC, Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``How to divide a fundamental particle: condensed matter physics tells the story" Professor Alexei Tsvelik Oxford University Friday, October 29,1999, 3:30PM. Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium-Anderson Hall ``Quantum Waves in Chaotic Billiards" S. Sridhar Northeastern University Refreshments served before talk in Knipp Reading Room Friday, October 29,1999, 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Critical Beta for Onset of a Neoclassical Tearing Mode" Robert Lahaye General Atomics Refreshments before talk. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1999, 3:00 pm Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of the Physical Sciences Room 226, Harvard Science Center "From the Phenomenon of the Ellipse to an Inverse-Square Force: Why not?" George Smith Tufts University The answer to why Newton never inferred inverse square variation of celestial gravitation from the Keplerian ellipse brings out how the science coming out of the Principia contrasts with the science preceding it and, more importantly, with standard descriptions of science offered by philosophers of science. Special Announcement Monday, October 25, 1999, 9:00a.m. to 5:15p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics First Chandra Fellows Symposium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. 9:00- Welcome 9:30- Tiziana Di Matteo: ``Quiescent Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies" 10:00- Kristen Menou: ``Identifying Black Holes in X-ray Binaries" 10:30- Coffee 10:45- Rudy Wijnands:``The Very Short-lived September 1999 Outburst of GM Sgr." 11:15- Ann Esin: ``X-ray Irradiation of Outer Disks in Black Hole X-ray Transients" 11:45- Eliot Quataert:``The Cooling Flow to Accretion Flow Transition" 12:15- Lunch 2:00- Jimmy Irwin: ``The Contribution of Low Mass X-ray Binaries to the X-ray Emission of Early-type" 2:30- Edward Moran: ``Faint Radio Sources and the Origin of the Hard X-ray Background" 3:00- Markus Boettcher: ``Afterglows and Iron Lines or What Does Chandra Have to do with Gamma-Ray Bursts?" 3:30- Tea 3:45- Joseph Mohr: ``Measuring Absolute Distances to High Redshift Galaxy Clusters" 4:15- David Buote: ``The Metal Abundances of the Hot ISM in the Centers of Elliptical Galaxies and Galaxy Groups" 4:45- Amy Barger: `` Unveiling AGN and Star Formation Activity in Dusty Clusters" (Street parking permit only-Public transportation is recommended) Details at: http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/programs.html ___________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the October 31- November 6 calendar is Monday, October 25, 1999 at 11:00. ________________________ 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". 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