February 11- February 17, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 12, 2001 Monday, February 12, 1:30PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 ``Non-standard Higgs signals and Physics at Shorter Distance" Bogdan Dobrescu Yale University Monday, February 12, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``D-Branes and Mirror Symmetry" Amer Iqbal University of Texas-Austin Monday, February 12, 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall 107 ``Reconstruction of the Fundamental Theory of Polymer Dynamics" Dr. George Phillies Worcester Polytechnic Institute Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:40pm Monday, February 12, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``The Shape of the Proton" Costas Papanicolas University of Athens Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, February 12, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Organic Molecular Crystals: Amazing New Opportunities for Science and Technology" Bertram Batlogg Bell Lab. - Lucent Technologies Tea served at 4:00PM in Jefferson 450 Monday, February 12, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``The Future of the Physical Sciences: A View from Washington" Dr. Robert Eisenstein National Science Foundation Refreshments served at 4:00pm Tuesday, February 13, 2001 Tuesday, February 13 3:40PM Boston University Physics Colloquium MSC, Rm 107, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``A new precision measurement of the positive muon anomalous magnetic moment at the 1.3ppm level" Professor Robert Carey Boston University Refrehsments served at 3:20pm, call 353-2600 for parking. Tuesday, February 13, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Quarkonia and Effective Field Theories" Adam Leibovich Fermi National Laboratory Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, February 13, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Cosmological gamma-ray burst from magnetized collapsars" Professor Maurice van Putten Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 ___________________________________________ Wednesday, February 14, 2001 Wednesday, February 14, 2:00PM (note change in time) Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Organic conductors and high magnetic fields: a playground for correlated electrons" Dr. Charles Agosta Clark Univesity Wednesday, February 14, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts-Lowell Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Making Waves: from Quantum Billiards to Concert Halls" Professor Eric Heller Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30pm Wednesday, February 14, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``Nanotechnology by Design: Properties and Device Applications of Nanotubes" Professor D. Tomanek Michigan State University Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, February 14, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Cosmology and radion dynamics in the Randall-Sundrum model" Csaba Csaki Los Alamos National Laboratory Refreshments served at 4:00pm. Wednesday, February 14, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 ``Quantum Cascade Lasers for the Mid-to the Far-Infrared: from Mesoscopic Physics to Chemical Sensing" Dr. Federico Capasso Lucent Technologies ________________________________________________ Thursday, February 15, 2001 Thursday, February 15, 1:00PM Harvard University Material Science Seminar McKay Lab 402, Turnbull Room ``Advances in Thermal Spray Processing of Coatings and Functional Multilayers" Sanjay Sampath SUNY-Stony Brook Thursday, February 15, 1:00PM(note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Traveling faster then the Speed of Light in Non-commutative Geometry" Aki Hashimoto IAS Thursday, February 15, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Building 26-414 ``TBA" Steven Chu Stanford University Thursday, February 15, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Asymmetrically warped spacetimes" Csaba Csaki Los Alamos National Laboratory Refreshments at 3:45pm, HE commons, Jefferson 460 _____________________________________________ Friday, February 16, 2001 Friday, February 16, 12:00Noon Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 ``Atomic Fragments: Conversations with Seven Manhattan Project Veterans Fifty Years After the Making of the Bomb" Mary Palevsky, PhD Independent Scholar and Writer Friday, February 16, 3:00PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 ``Cosmology and Radion Dynamics in the Randall-Sundrum" Model" Csaba Csaki LANL Friday, February 16, 4:00PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall ``Cosmological Studies with Gamma-Ray Bursts" Professor Abraham Loeb Harvard University Refreshments in Robinson Hall, Room 251, 3:30pm Friday, February 16, 4:00PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall 209 ``Application of Semiconductor Quantum-dot Nanostructures in Opto-electronic Devices" Professor Elias Towe University of Virginia Reminder: Deadline for the February 18 - 24 calendar is Monday, February 12, 2001 at 11:00a.m. _________________________ - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".