January 30 - February 5, 2000 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, January 31, 2000 Monday, January 31, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Holonomies and Quantum Computation" Jiannis Pachos University of Torino, Italy Monday, January 31, 2000 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Improved Kogut-Susskind fermion actions" Konstantinos Orginos University of Arizona Monday, January 31, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``A Global Galactic Plane H I Survey" John Dickey University of Minnesota Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, January 31, 2000, 12-noon Harvard University High Energy Seminar HEP Lab, 42 Oxford St. ``First Year of BaBab/PEP-II" Masahiro Morii SLAC ________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 1,2000 Tuesday, February 1, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Spring Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``New Ways to Cool Old Atoms" Vladan Vuletic Stanford University Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, February 1, 2000, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Cosmic Acceleration as the Solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem" Philip Mannheim University of Connecticut and MIT Refreshments served at 2:00pm Tuesday, February 1, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Two Skyrmion Dynamics with Omega Mesons" Adam Halasz University of Pennsylvania Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Tuesday, February 1, 2000, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 107 "Engineering Entropy: Building Order With Disorder" Prf. Seth Fraden Brandeis University TUESDAY, February 1, 2000, 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "On Models and Modeling in Physics" Professor Silvan S. Schweber Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 pm _________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 2, 2000 Wednesday, February 2, 2000, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Entropy and Phases of Chiral Gauge Theories" Francesco Sannino Yale University Wednesday, February 2, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 ``Magnetic fields in color-superconducting neutron star cores" Mark Alford Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments at 4PM in HEP Commons area Wednesday, February 2, 2000, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium (organized jointly with Dept. of Chemistry) Gasson Hall, Room305 ``Materials Science of One-dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Properties and Applications" Dr. Otto Zhou University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 _________________________________________________ Thursday, February 3, 2000 Thursday, February 3m 2000, 12 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 ``Statistical physics of RNA folding" Ralf Bundschuh University of California, San Diego Thursday, February 3, 2000, 1:30PM Harvard University Material Science Seminar Gordon McKay Lab, Room 402 ``Nanoscale Controlled Growth, Properties and Novel Device Applications of Epitaxial Complex Oxide Heterostructures: Prof. Change-Beon Eom Duke University Thursday, February 3, 2000, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Progress in the Improvement Programme in Lattice QCD" Weonjong Lee Los Alamos National Lab Thursday, February 3, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Gamma-Ray Bursts and their Afterglows: Some Recent Developments" Peter Meszaros Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, February 3, 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Super-Poincare Covariant Quantization of the Superstring" Nathan Berkovits Sao Paulo Refreshments at 3:45 in the HET Commons, 4th fl. Jefferson _____________________________________________ Friday, February 4, 2000 Friday, February 4, 2000, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Ctr. Rm 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. Solitons and breathers in the 1-dimensional antiferromagnet Cu benzoate" Ian Affleck UBC and ITP-UCSB Friday, February 4, 2000, 3:30PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall ``The Revolution in Optical Communications" Alice E. White Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Refreshments served at 3:00pm in Robinson 251 Friday, February 4, 2000, 4:00PM. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Frontiers in Compound Semiconductor Epitaxy: Science-Based Tools and Technologies" Jeffrey Y. Tsao Sandia National Laboratories Refreshments served following the seminar. ____________________________