December 10 - December 16, 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RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, December 11, 2000

Monday, December 11, 2000 12:45PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Lunch Club
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``Holography in Randall-Sundrum scenarios"
Manolo Perez-Victoria
MIT

Monday, December 11, 2000 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``Multiple Riemann waves described by partial differential equations"
Michel Grundland
CRM-Universe of Montreal

Monday, December 11, 2000 4:00PM
Boston University
Astrophysics Seminar
Astronomy Conf. Rm 500
``The Chandra Multi-Wavelength Project: A Serendipitous X-ray Sruvery with
Chandra Archival Data"
Belinda Wilkes
CfA
Refreshments served at 3:45pm

Monday, December 11, 2000 4:00PM
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Physics Colloquium
Olin Hall 107
``X-ray Crystallography of Hemoglobins from Three Organisms reveal diverse
mechanisms for regulation of Oxygen delivery"
Dr. William Royer
U Mass Medical Center
Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:40pm

Monday, December 11, 2000 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building26-Kolker Room 414
``B Physics Results from BaBar"
Gerhard Raven
UC- San Diego
Refreshments served at 4:15p.m.

Monday, December 11, 2000, 4:30PM
Harvard University
 Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab 250
``Sub-millimeter dimensions and Quantum gravity at a TeV"
Professor Savas Dimopoulos
Stanford University
Tea served at 4:00PM in Jefferson 450

Monday, December 11, 2000, 4:30PM
Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley Room 168
``Cosmological Structure Formation and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect"
Dr. Martin White
Harvard-Smithsonian
Refreshments served at 4:00pm


Tuesday, December 12, 2000

Tuesday, December 12, 2000, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``The Quantum Mousetrap-Quantum Encryptographic detection f gravitational
waves?"
Bruce Bassett
University of Portsmouth, UK
Refreshments served at 2:00PM

Tuesday, December 12, 2000, 3:40PM
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
MSC, Rm 107, 590 Commonwealth Ave.
``Exotic Quantum Effects in Low Dimensional Magnets"
Professor Ian Affleck
University of British Columbia
Refrehsments served at 3:20pm, call 353-2600 for parking.

Tuesday, December 12, 2000, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``Yang-Mills Theory in Abelian Gauges"
Markus Quandt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m.


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Wednesday, December 13, 2000

Wednesday, December 13, 2000, 11:00AM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
NW 17-218
``Pulse Compression of High Intensity Laser Power"
Nathanial Fisch
Princeton University

Wednesday, December 13, 2000, 2:30PM
Brown University
Theoretical Physics Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 555
``Skyrmions and Harmonic Maps"
Professor Wojtek Zakrzewski
University of Durham/MIT

Wednesday, December 13, 2000, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``Quantum corrections to the radion potential"
Walter Goldberger
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 4:00pm.

Wednesday, December 13, 2000, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Lab Room 356
``New Measurement of Gravitational Constant G"
Dr. Jens Gundlach
University of Washington
Tea served at 4:00pm
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Thursday, December 14, 2000
Thursday, December 14, 2000, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``Non-abelian brane intersections and fuzzy geometry"
Neil Constable
McGill University

Thursday, December 14, 2000, 4:00PM
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street
``Surprises and Puzzles on our Sun"
Dr Eric Priest
St Andrew's University
Tea served at 3:30p.m.

Thursday, December 14, 2000, 4:15PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
``Near Hagedorn Dynamics of NS Fivebranes"
Moshe Rozali
Rutgers University
Refreshments at 3:45 HEPcommons-Jefferson 460
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Friday, December 15, 2000
Friday, December 15, 2000, 12:30PM
Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 25 0
``The Dual Standard Model"
Tanmay Vachaspati
Case Western Reserve University

Friday, December 15, 2000, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
NW 17-218
``C-Mod sized ignition devices"
Michael Kotschenreuther
University of Texas, Austin

Friday, December 15, 2000, 4:00PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
``Spontaneous Pattern Formation Induced by Ion Beams"
Dr. Eric Chason
Brown University



Reminder:
Deadline for the December 17-23 calendar is Monday, December 11, 2000 at
11:00a.m.

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