October 31 - November 6, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, November 1, 1999 Monday, November 1, 1999, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6, 3rd fl. Seminar Room ``Two dimensional QCD revisited: localization, instantons and the perturbative expansion" Luca Griguolo INFN Monday, November 1, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Supersymmetry, M-Theory and the Brane Universe" Burt Ovrut University of Pennsylvania Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, November 1, 1999, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``The Fault-tolerant Quantum Computer" Professor John Preskill California Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. ________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 2, 1999 Tuesday, November 2, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Order, Orientation and Chirality at the Liquid/Solid Interface; The view from a Few Billionths of an Inch" George Flynn Columbia University Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 2, 1999, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall Room 250 ``Signature for Exotic Cosmological Parity Violation" Arthur Lue Columbia University Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. Robinson Hall, Room 251 Tuesday, November 2, 1999, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``From Integrable Particle Theory to Condensed Matter Experiment" Professor Paul Fendley University of Virginia Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, November 2, 1999, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar Building 4, Room 159 ``Heterotic M-Theory and Holomorphic Vector Bundles" Burt Ovrut University of Pennsylvania _______________________________________________ Wednesday, November 3, 1999 Wednesday, November 3, 1999, 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114DA ``Inflationary Cosmology and why Fluid Viscosity is more fundamental than Strings" Professor A. Widom Northeastern University Refreshments served at 3:45p.m. Wednesday, November 3, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 ``Natural heirarchies from extra dimensions and warp factors" Raman Sundrum Stanford University Refreshments - 4:00 p.m. HET commons, 4th fl Jefferson Wednesday, November 3, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson 356 ``Laser-Enhanced Ultracold Collisions" Professor Philip Gould University of Connecticut Tea served at 4:00p.m Wednesday, November 3, 1999, 4:30PM Boston College Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room305 ``Predictive Modeling of Ion Implanted Dopant Density Profiles in Semiconductors" Dr. Niels Gronbech Jensen Los Alamos National Laboratory Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 _________________________________________________ Thursday, November 4, 1999 Thursday, November 4, 1999, 3:45PM Boston University Space Physics Colloquium Room 500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``Equatorial Spread-F: Cause & Effects" Dr. Shantimay Basu NRL Thursday, November 4, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Back to the Bulk" Stephen Shenker Stanford University Refreshments - 3:30 p.m. HET Commons, 4th Fl. Jefferson Thursday, November 4, 1999, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 ``Mixing Antiferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic Interactions on a Chain - Does it make a Random Spin Paramagnet?" Professor Kara Beauchamp Wesleyan University Thursday, November 4, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Astrophysics and Cosmology from Space Telescope Observations of Gravitational Lenses" Dr. Emilio Falco-Acosta Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tea served at 3:30p.m Thursday, November 4 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10, Room 250 ``The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer" Professor John Preskill California Institute of Technology _____________________________________________ Friday, November 5, 1999 Friday, November 5, 1999, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar SCI, 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 352 ``Multilayer adsorption on fractal surfaces" Professor Po-zen Wong University of Massachusetts-Amherst Friday, November 5, 10:00 a.m. American Academy of Arts & Sciences 136 Irving St., Cambridge Conference on Methods of Understanding in Art and Science (open to the public) Poincarei, Duchamp, and the Process of Discovery Gerald Holton Harvard University Friday, November 5, 1999, 3:30PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 250 ``Microlensing Searches for Dark Matter: Have we found MACHO's? Will we find planets?" Roseanne DiStephano Tufts Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served in Knipp Reading Room prior to talk Friday, November 5,1999, 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Cold Pulses and Other Constraints on Critical-Gradient Transport Models" Ken Gentle University of Texas Refreshments before talk. Friday, November 5,1999, 4:00PM. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``The Micromechanical Cantilever: A Tool for Studying the Domain of Nanoscale Structures" Professor C. F. Quate Stanford University Refreshments will be served following seminar. Special Announcement National Academy of Sciences Cambridge Regional Symposium Friday, November 5, 1999 1:00PM to 3:30PM Harvard University -Lowell Lecture Hal Daniel Kleppner, MIT -Welcome and Introductions James G. Anderson, Harvard University ``How Free Radical Catalysis Couples to Tropical Oscillations and Climate" Bonnie A. Berger, MIT ``Mathematical Challenges in Protein Motif Recognition" Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard University ``Is the Universe Accelerating?" The Academy extends a special invitation to students and postdoctoral fellows. This symposium is open to the public and free of charge; registration is not required. http://national-academies.org/nas/cambridge99 ___________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the November 7-November 13 calendar is Monday, November 1, 1999 at 11:00a.m. _________________________ -