November 26 - December 2, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 27, 2000 Monday, November 27, 2000, 12:45PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``The Hurwitz Eumeration Problem and Hodge Integrals" Jun Song Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, November 27, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Nonperturbative Corrections to N=2 Hypermultiplets" Michael Gutperle Harvard University Monday, November 27, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Astronomy Conf. Rm 500 ``From Molecules to Stars: Is our understanding of molecular cloud composition and cooling resting on bedrock or quicksand? Gary Melnick SWAS P.I. (CFA) Refreshments served at 3:45pm Monday, November 27, 2000 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium DeMerritt Hall, Rm 209B ``Quantum Mirages: Manipulating electrons with Atoms" Dr. Hari Manoharan Stanford University 3:30pm in Rm 109 Monday, November 27, 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Newest from Last Year at LEP" Alexander Schmidt-Kaerst RWTH Aachen Refreshments served at 4:15p.m. Monday, November 27, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Turbulent Convection" Prof. Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan Yale University Tea served at 4:00PM in Jefferson 450 ________________________________________________Tuesday, November 28, 2000 Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Ultrafast Quantum Control of Atomic and Moleculat Systems" Philip Bucksbaum University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, room 250 ``Brane-Induced 4D Gravity" Gia Dvali New York University Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 2:00PM Brandeis University String Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 ``Schwarzschild Black Holes in Matrix Theory" Dr. Jian-Ge Zhou ITP-Technical University, Vienna Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 3:40PM Boston University Physics Colloquium MSC, Rm 107, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Quasicrystals: where are the electrons and how do they move?" Dr. Karsten Horn Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin Refrehsments served at 3:20pm, call 353-2600 for parking. Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``QCD Supersonductivity at High Baryon Density" Hai-Cang Ren Rockefeller University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Weighing Photons" Professor Robert Pound Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 Time: 4:30 pm Harvard - M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar "Pseudo differential operators and the C*-algebra of singular integral operators." Speaker: Mikhail Shubin (Northeastern University) Location: MIT, Room 4-231 ________________________________________________ Wednesday, November29, 2000 Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar ``Imaging Coherent Electron-Wave Flow Through Nonostructures" Mark Topinka Harvard University Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 ``Dielectric Branes, Giant Gravitons and Beyond" Professor Rob Myers McGill University Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Localized Bioimpedance Measurements" Professor Carl Shiffman Northeastern University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``The Electrodeposition Provessing of Tl-oxide Superconductors and CuIn1-xGaxSe2 Semiconductors" Dr. Raghu Bhattacharya National Renewable Energy Laboratory Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 ``Skyrmions and Harmonic Maps" Professor Wojtek Zakrzewski University of Durham-UK/MIT Tea served at 4:00p.m, HETcommons area, Jefferson 460 Wednesday, November 29 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 ``Quantum Computing with Trapped Atoms and Photons" Dr. Li You Georgia Institute of Technology Tea served at 4:00pm ________________________________________________ Thursday, November 30, 2000 Thursday, November 30, 2000, 12:30PM -Special Time Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar DA, Room 114 ``Theory of Sliding Friction" Bo Persson Juelich, Germany Thursday, November 30, 2000, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Open strings, algebras and topology" David Berenstein University of Illinois, Urbana Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:00PM Boston University Biological Physics Seminar MSC, Room SCI 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Visualizing synaptic function using fluorescence microscopy" Prof. Venkatesh Murthy Harvard University Thursday, November 30, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Composition of Extrasolar Giant Planets" Dr. Tristan Guillot CBRS/Laboratoire Cassini, France Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:15 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "BPS and non-BPS branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds" Ilke Brunner Rutgers Refreshments at 3:45, High Energy Theory commons area, Jefferson 460 Thursday, November 30, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``From the QCD Phase Diagram to Heavy Ion Collisions and Back" Professor Krishna Rajagopal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, December 1, 2000 Friday, December 1, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW 17-218 ``An RF Driven Plasma Rocket Experiment" Jared Squire NASA Johnson Space Center, APSL Reminder: Deadline for the December 3-9 calendar is Monday, November 27, 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".