February 4- February 10, 2001 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, February 5, 2001 Monday, February 5, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``Periodic Monopoles in String Theory" Dr. Sergey Cherkis UCLA Monday, February 5, 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B ``A Review on GRB Afterglow Observations" Chryssa Kouveliotou Marshall Space Flight Center Refreshments at 3:30pm, Room 105F Monday, February 5, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``The Neural Code of the Retina" Professor Markus Meister Harvard University Tea served at 4:00PM in Jefferson 450 Monday, February 5, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Large New Dimensions and Quantum Gravity Around the Corner" Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed UC-Berkeley Refreshments served at 4:00pm Tuesday, February 6, 2001 Tuesday, February 6, 12:00noon Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall Room 209 ``Bees Do It" Dr. Randall Kamien University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, February 6, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Brane Cosmology" Philip Mannheim University of Connecticut Refreshments served at 2:00pm . Tuesday, February 6, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Gaugino mediated supersymmetry breaking" Martin Schmaltz Fermi National Laboratory Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, February 6, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Baryonic Dark Matter in the Intergalactic Medium" Professor Supriya Chakravarty Boston University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, February 6, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson Lab 356 ``Storage of Light in Atomic Vapor" David Phillips Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 4:00pm Tuesday, February 6, 2001 3:30 p.m. Harvard University Experimental High Energy Seminars HEPL (42 Oxford St.) - 3rd Floor Conference Room The SLAC B-Factory: accelerator physics for experimentalists, or everything BaBarians always wanted to know about PEP-II, but were afraid to ask! Dr. Witold Kozanecki - Saclay (formerly at SLAC) ________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 7, 2001 Wednesday, February 7, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 ``Brane Induced Gravity" Professor Gia Dvali New York University Wednesday, February 7, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``Manipulating Semiconductor Quantum Bits with Terahertz" Professor M. Sherwin UC-Santa Barbara Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, February 7, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Solving the Strong CP Problem with Supersymmetry" Dr Martin Schmaltz Fermi National Laboratory Refreshments served at 4:00pm, call 353-2600 for parking ________________________________________________ Thursday, February 8, 2001 Thursday, February 8, 1:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``D-type Gravitational Instantons from String Theory" Sergey Cherkis UCLA Thursday, February 8, 1:00PM Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Lab 402, Turnbull Room ``Diffusion of B and P in Si and SiGe: Influence of Strain and Ge-Content" Jacob Fage-Pederson University of Aarhus, Germany Thursday, February 8, 1:30PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Lyman 425 ``Dimensional Crossover in Quasi One-Dimensional and High Temperature Superconductors" Dr. Erica Carlson Boston University Thursday, February 8, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 TBA Sergey Cherkis UCLA Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET commons, Jefferson 460 Thursday, February 8, 3:00PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research bldg, Rm 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Quintessence Versus Lambda for the CMB Anisotropy" Prof. Paul Frampton University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Call 24 hrs in advance for parking-353-2600 _____________________________________________ Friday, February 9, 2001 No seminar notices received