November 19 - November 25 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 20, 2000 Monday, November 20, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room `` Polarisation and the modular group in 2+1 dimensional gravity" Jeannette Nelson Universita` di Torino Monday, November 20, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Astronomy Conf. Rm 500 `` The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer: An Overview of FUSE Science" Scott Friedman John Hopkins Refreshments served at 3:45pm Monday, November 20, 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Physics and Accelerator of the NLC" Slawek Tkaczyk Fermilab Refreshments served at 4:15p.m. Monday, November 20, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``The Superconductor-Insulator Transition n 2-D and Quantum Phase Transitions with Dissipation" Professor Aharon Kapitulnik Stanford University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m Monday, November 20, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 `` Coherence and quantum information in modern optics" Dr. Mikhail Lukin ITAMP, Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tea served at 4:00PM in Jefferson 450 Monday, November 20, 2000, 8:00PM Harvard University Loeb Lecture Science Center, 1 Oxford St, Hall C ``Half a Century of Particle Physics at Harvard" Professor Sheldon Glashow, Emeritus Harvard and Boston University Refreshments served following the lecture Differential Geometry Seminar Monday - November 20, 2000 3:30pm, Room 2-146 Speaker: Steven Rosenberg (Boston University) "Formal equivariant cohomology and Seiberg-Witten theory." ________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 21, 2000 Tuesday, November 21, 2000, 2:00PM Brandeis University String Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 ``D-branes, noncommutative Riemann surfaces and twisted K-theory" Jose Isidro Universita Degli Studi di Padova Tuesday, November 21, 2000, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Saltatory Relaxation of the Cosmological Constant" Jonathan Feng MIT Refreshments served at 2:00pm Tuesday, November 21, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW 17-218 ``Recent Results on NSTX" Masayuki Ono Princeton Plasma Research Laboratory Tuesday, November 21, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Two-color QCD at non-zero chemical potential" Dominique Toublan University of Illinois Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, November 21, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Scenario for Lorentz and PTC Violation in Electrodynamics" Professor Roman Jackiw Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, November 21, 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Building 6-120 ``Parity and edm experiments with warm and cold atoms" Norval Fortson University of Washington Refreshments served at 4:00pm _________________________________________________ Wednesday, November22, 2000 No seminar notices received _________________________________________________ Thursday, November 23, 2000 HOLIDAY Friday, November 24, 2000 No seminar notices received Reminder: Deadline for the November 26 -December 2 calendar is Monday, November 20, 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".