October 15-21, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, October16, 2000 Monday, October 16, 2000, 12:45PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Supergravity and a confining gauge theory-Klebanov & Strassler(hep-th/0007191)" Johanna Erdmenger Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, October 16, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``The Deconfinement Phase Transition and Thermal String Theory" Shyamoli Chaudhuri Pennsylvania State University Monday, October 16, 2000 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Department Colloquium Olin Hall-107 ``Liquid crystals with quenched disorder: what is left after the long range order is disrupted? Professor Tommaso Bellini Politecnico di Milano, Italy Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:40PM Monday, October 16, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Rm. 500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``The Sunyaev-Zel'dovitch Effect" Martin White CfA Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, October 16 , 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``First Results from PHOBOS" Bolek Wyslouch Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:15p.m. Monday, October 16, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``First results on CP Violation from the BaBar Experiment at S.L.A.C." Dr. Robert Cahn Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, October 16 , 2000 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Stretching the Vacuum: Precision Measurements of the Weak Interaction and the search for the Higgs Boson" Peter Fisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 ________________________________________________Tuesday, October 17, 2000 Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Quantum Control and Quantum Logic in Optical Lattices" Poul Jessen University of Arizona, Tucson Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 2:00PM Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana 114 ``Medicine, Physics and Falls" John Oas, MD The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Refreshments served Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 ``Opening the ultra high energy cosmic ray window" Pasquale Blasi Fermilab Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. in Knipp Library Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Bound States in Non-Relativistic QED/QCD and the Renormalization Group" Iain Stewart University of California, SD Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity" Professor Lisa Randall Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyRefreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana 114 ``Embryo Survival and the Genomics Revolution" Professor C. Warner Northeastern University Refreshments served ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 17, 2000 Boston University Physics Department Colloquium "Jamming: A Universal Description of the Fluid - Solid Transition in Disordered Materials" Professor David Weitz Harvard University Metcalf Science Center 590 Commonwealth Avenue Room 107, 3:45 pm Refreshments at 3:30 *Call 353-2600 at least 1 day in advance for parking* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Building 4-Room-231 Lectures on Operator Algebras, Noncommutative Geometry and K-Theory (primarily for physicists) Lecture III ``Pseudodifferential operators on a manifold; the C* algebra of Singular Integral Operators" I. M. Singer Massachusetts Institute of Technology _________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 18, 2000 Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Quantum Fluctuations and Dissipation in One Dimensional Superconductors: Josephson Junctions Arrays and Thin Superconducting Wires" Professor Eugene Demler Harvard University Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 ``Classical Scalar Fields and Violations of the Second Law" Professor Larry Ford Tufts University Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Cosmic Inflation and the Accelerating Universe" Professor Alan Guth Massachusettes Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``Nanocomposite Fiber Technology" Dr. Mike Sennett U.S. Army NSSC Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Phys. Research Bldg, Rm 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Recent Troubles with Dark Matter" Professor Paul Steinhardt Princeton University Refreshments at 4:00. Call 353-2600 in advance- for parking Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 ``Pulsed-field Recombination: e+p=H (slowly)" Dr. Francis Robicheaux University of Auburn Tea served at 4:00pm _________________________________________________ Thursday, October 19, 2000 Thursday, October 19, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Clusters of Galaxies: Forefront Observations and Simulations" Dr. August Evrard University of Michigan Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, October 19, 2000, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium SSC, Room N-105 ``Making Introductory Physics More Like Real Physics" Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood Carnegie Mellon University Thursday, October 19, 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``TBA" Hong Liu Rutgers University Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET commons area Jefferson 460 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences HARVARD UNIVERSITY Dr. Christian Sinn Institute of Physics University of Mainz "Dynamic light scattering with multiple scattering decorrelation: recent results from highly turbid colloidal suspensions" Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:00 P>M> Pierce Hall, Room 209 For further information, contact Prof. Weitz, 6-2942 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, October 19, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``Were Newton and Einstein Right? Blayne Heckel University of Washington Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, October 20, 2000 Friday, October 20, 2000 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf SC, Rm. 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave `Phase separation as a tool to fabricate photonic microdevices" Professor Satyen Kumar Kent State University Friday, October 20, 2000 4:00PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Fission of the Electron" Dr. Humphrey Maris Brown University Refreshment served following seminar in Brooks Room ___________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the October 22 - 28 calendar is Monday, October 16, 2000 at 11:00a.m. _________________________ - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos5.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".