November 5 - November11, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, November 6, 2000 Monday, November 6, 2000, 12:45PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``How Bob Laughlin Tamed the Giant Graviton from Taub-NUT space"(Hep-th 0010105) Andreas Karch Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, November 6,, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Mirror Symmetry" Kentaro Hori Harvard University Monday, November 6, 2000 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall-107 ``From Production to Application of Carbon Nanotubes" Dr. Laszlo Forro Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:40PM Monday, November 6, 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Catching Rare Atoms with Light" Zheng-Tian Lu Argonne National Laboratory Refreshments served at 4:15p.m. Monday, November 6, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Hamiltonian Theory of the Hall Effect: What is it and what can it do for you?" Professor Ramamurti Shankar Yale University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m Monday, November 6, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Were Newton and Einstein Right?" Professor Blayne Heckel University of Washington Tea served at 4:00PM in Jefferson 450 ________________________________________________Tuesday, November 7, 2000 Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Random Walking across the Quantum-Classical Border" David Kokorowski Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 2:00PM Brandeis University String Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 ``Aspects of Integrability in N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories" Josi Edelstein Harvard University Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 ``Hidden sources of ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos" Veniamin Berezinsky Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy Refreshments at 2:00pm in Knipp Library Tuesday, November 7 2000, 3:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6-120 ``Inauguration of the Center for Ultracold Atoms" Bill Philips NIST, Gathersberg Reception to follow. Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW 17-218 ``Suppression of Runaway Electron Avalanches by Radial Diffusion" Per Helander Culham Science Center Refreshments served 15 minutes before talk Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Narrowing the gap in high density QCD" Silas Beane University of Washington Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``The Designability of Protein Structures" Dr. Chao Tang NEC Research Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana 114 ``Intrinsic Noise in Gene Regulatory Networks" Prof. A. Van Oudenaarden Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served Tuesday, November 7, 2000 4:00PM(note special day) Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Rm. 500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``Circumstellar Disks at Mid-Infrared Wavelengths" Charles Telesco University of Florida Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm _________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 8, 2000 Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 11:00AM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW 17-218 ``Design of Low Aspect Ratio Stellarators" Steven Hirshman Oak Ridge National Laboratory Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Lattice Independent Approach to Thermal Phase Mixing" Carmen Gagne Dartmouth College Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 ``Generation of Primordial Magnetical Fields from Inflation" Professor A. Davis University of Cambridge Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research ``Chaotic Jahn-Teller Effect on a Square Molecule: Could it happen in the Cuprates" Prof. Bob Markiewicz Northeastern University Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Small is Beautiful, Small is Different, Small is Elegant" Professor Nancy Burnham Worcester Polytechnic Institute Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``Impurity States in Unconventional Superconductors" Dr. Sasha Balatsky Los Alamos National Laboratory Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Rm 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Standard Model from Extra Dimensions" Dr. Bogday Dobrescu Yale University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Call 353-2600 for parking, 24 hours in advance. _________________________________________________ Thursday, November 9, 2000 Thursday, November 9, 2000, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Vertex Models on Fishnets: Compact Extra Dimensions from Graph Summation" Charles Thorn University of Florida Thursday, November 9, 2000, 2:00PM Boston University Biological Physics Seminar SCI 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Flip flops in bacterial flagella" Professor Greg Huber University of Massachusetts-Boston Thursday, November 9, 2000, 2:30PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 ``Renormalization Group Approach to Global Asymptotic Analysis" Nigel Goldenfield University of Illinois Thursday, November 9, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University History of Physics Colloquium -- Special General Seminar 114 Dana Research ``J. Robert Oppenheimer: Proteus Unbound" Professor Silvan S. Schwebar Brandeis University Thursday, November 9, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``The Big Bang: Fifty Years from Putdown to Standard to Open Issue" Professor Philip Morrison Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, November 9, 2000, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium SSC, Room N-105 ``Inflationary Cosmology:Progress and Problems" Robert Brandenberger Brown University Thursday, November 9 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Tachyon condensation in the 0-4 and 0-2 systems" Justin David UC-Santa Barbara Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET commons area Jefferson 460 Thursday, November 9, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``Single Molecule Biophysics: FemtoNewton Force Spectroscopy, Microfluidics and Nonophotonics" Stephan Quake California Institute of Technology Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, November 10, 2000 Holiday no seminar notices received Reminder: Deadline for the November 12-18 calendar is Monday, November 6, 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".