March 5, 2000  - March11, 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
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Monday, March 6, 2000

Monday, March 6, 2000 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room
"Infrared surprises in noncommutative field theories"
Mark Van Raamsdonk
Princeton University

Monday, March 6, 2000 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26-Kolker Room 414
``The 29 Parameters of the Standard Model: Clues to  What Lies Beyond"
Professor Ann Nelson
University of Washington, Seattle
Refreshments served at 4:00p.m.

Monday, March 6, 2000 4:30PM
Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
``The shape of gravity with extra dimensions"
Professor Lisa Randall
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Princeton
Refreshments served at 4:00pm
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JOINT TUFTS/CfA/MIT
COSMOLOGY SEMINAR
Direct Massive Radiation from Cosmic Strings
Ken D. Olum
Tufts University
Tuesday, March 7, 2000 at 2:30 p.m.
Robinson Hall, Room 250
Tufts University
Refreshments served at 2:00 p.m. In Knipp Library, Room 251

Tuesday, March 7,2000

Tuesday, March 7, 2000, 12 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Spring Seminar
McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252)
``Atom Optics on a Chip"
Mara Prentiss
Harvard University
Refreshments served following the seminar

Tuesday, March 7, 2000, 12:45PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Lunch Club
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room
``On the non-abelian Born-Infeld acton"
Jan Troost
University of Brussels

Tuesday, March 7, 2000, 4:00PM
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Bldg, Abelson 131
``String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime"
Professor Brian Greene
Columbia University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm
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Wednesday, March 8, 2000

Wednesday, March 8, 2000, 4:00PM
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
``Science or Nonsence? What small children teach us about how we learn science.
Dr. Matthew Schneps
Smithsonian/Harvard University

Wednesday, March 8, 2000, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room
``Naturalness Re-Examined: Resolving the Tension between Supersymmetry and
Experiment"
Jonathan Feng
IAS
Refreshments served at 4:00pm

Wednesday, March 8, 2000, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Lab, Room 356
``Spectroscopy of Metal Atoms and Oligomers in and on Liquid Helium
nanodroplets"
Professor Giacinto Scoles
Princeton University
Tea will be served at 4:00pm
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MIT Physics Colloquium
Thursday, March 9, 2000
MIT Room 10-250
4:15pm
 
Prof. Marc Kamionkowski
Theoretical Astrophysics
California Institute of Technology
 
"The First 10^{-36} Seconds"


Thursday, March 9, 2000
Thursday, March 9, 2000, 12:00Noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
``Magnetisation plateaus as superfluid-insulator transitions in quantum
antiferromagnets"
Tsutomu Momoi
Harvard University

Thursday, March 9, 1000, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room
``Supersymmetric Domain Wall World(s)"
Mirjam Cvetic
University of Pennsylvania



Thursday, March 9, 1000, 4:00PM
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Room 114
``Recent Results in Pattern Formation: Localized Structures"
Herman Riecke
Northwestern University

Thursday, March 9, 1000, 4:00PM
Harvard University
Scientific Colloquium
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St
``Kinematics of the Galaxy and Halo Substructure"
Dr. Timothy C. Beers
Michigan State University
Tea served at 3:30pm

Thursday, March 9, 2000, 4:15PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
``More on D-geometry"
Michael Douglas
Rutgers
Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET Commons, 4th fl Jefferson

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Friday, March 10, 2000

Friday, March 10, 2000, 3:00PM
Harvard University
Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science
Science Center 226
``What's in a name? Nonclassical ions and the post-World War II struggle
over chemical theory"
Professor Stephen Weininger
Worcester Polytechnical University



Friday, March 10, 2000, 4:00PM.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series
Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218
``Tokamaks with Lithium Walls"
Leonid Zakharov
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Refreshments at 3:45pm