May 7- May 13, 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RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.
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Monday, May 8, 2000
Monday May 8, 2000 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room
``Energy-dependent description of gravitation supported an electromagnetic
test of local Lorentz invariance"
Fabio Cardone
Un. degli Studi dell'Aquila

Monday, May 8, 2000 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building26-Kolker Room 414
``Status of the BaBar Experiment at PEPII"
Riccardo Faccini
UC, San Diego
Refreshments served at 4:00p.m.

Monday, May 8,  2000, 4:30PM
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley Room 168
``Black Hole in a Bottle? Condensed Mater Analogies for Horizons and
Hawking Radiation"
Professor Ted Jacobson
University of Maryland
Refreshments served at 4:00p.m.
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Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar

"Life, The Universe, and Nothing: The Future of Life and an Ever
expanding Universe."
Lawrence M. Krauss
Case Western Reserve University
Tuesday, May 9, 2000, 2:30 p.m.
Robinson Hall, Room 250
Refreshments at 2:00 at Knipp Library - Robinson Hall Room 251


Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Tuesday, May 9, 2000, 12 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar
McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252)
``Self-assembled Photonic Crystals"
David Norris
NEC Research Institute
Refreshments served following the seminar

Tuesday, May 9, 2000, 12:45PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Lunch Club
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room
``Vacuum structure of the gauge supersymmetric quantum mechanics"
Andrei Smilga
ITEP/Un. de Nantes

Tuesday, May 9, 2000, 4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room
``Determination of the eta"  mass from lattice QCD"
Klaus Schilling
University of Wuppertal
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m.

Tuesday, May 9, 2000, 4:00PM
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
``Viscous nonlinear dynamics of elastic filaments: twist, kinks, and drag"
Professor Thomas Powers
Harvard University

Tuesday May 9, 2000, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 453
``(2+1)-Dimensional Yang-Mills? Theory: Vacuum State,
String Tension, Etc."
V.P. Nair
City College of New York/MIT
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Wednesday, May10, 2000
Wednesday, May 10 2000, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room
``Life, the Universe and Nothing: The Future of Life and an Eternally
Expanding Universe"
Lawrence M. Krauss
Case Western Reserve
Refreshments served at 4:00pm

Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar

Wednesday, May 10, 2000 - 3:00 pm
Physics Research Building 593 (3 Cummington Street)

"Mission: Impossible --- Can we find new physics in the next five years?"
John Womersley (Fermilab)

for abstract see http://hep.bu.edu/seminar.html
for map see http://www.bu.edu/maps/

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Thursday, May 11, 2000
Thursday, May 11, 2000 12 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 425
``Stresses, force chains and failure in granular materials"
Onuttom Narayan
University of California, Santa Barbara

Thursday, May 11, 2000, 1:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room
``Mirror Symmetry by 03-planes"
Bo Feng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, May 11, 2000 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Discrete fluxes in string theory"
Jan de Boer
Utrecht University
Refreshments at 3:45 in the HET Commons, 450 Jefferson


Thursday, May 11, 2000, 4:30PM
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Gasson Hall, Room305
``Fractional Charges and Other Tales from Flatland"
Professor Hvrst Stvrmer
Columbia University
Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354
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Friday, May 12, 2000
Friday, May 12, 2000 4:00PM.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series
Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218
``AFRL High-Power Microwave Research"
Dr. Thomas Spencer
Air Force Research Laboratory
Refreshments before talk

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