February 18- February 24, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 19, 2001 Monday, February 19, 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall 107 ``Designing Magnetic Sensors with Enhanced Geometric Magnetoresistance" Dr. L.R. Ram-Mohan Worcester Polytechnic Institute Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:40pm Monday, February 19, 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Rm 209B ``Sun Earth Connections- More Than Sunlight" Nicola Fox John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Refreshments served at 3:30pm, Rm 105F _________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 20, 2001 Differential Geometry Seminar 3:30pm, Room 4-159 at M.I.T. Xiaobo Liu, M.I.T. "Quantum products, Topological recursion relations, and the Virasoro conjecture for Gromov-Witten invariants." Tuesday, February 20, 12:45PM Harvard University Special Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Supergravity Duals for Wrapped Fivebranes" Jerome Gauntlett Queen Mary Westfield Tuesday, February 20, 2:00PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg 593 ``The Higgs and the Nature of Supersymmetry" Nir Polonsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, February 20, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 ``Back-Reaction Is For Real" Richard Woodard University of Florida Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library Tuesday, February 20, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Effective Field Theory at Finite Density" James Steele MIT Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, February 20, 4:30 PM Harvard University Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson Lab 356 ``Cold Molecules" Gerard Meijer FOM Institute Rijnhuizen, The Netherlands Tea served at 4:10pm Tuesday, February 20, 8:00 PM Harvard University Lee Historical Lecture in Physics Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Hall C ``The Landau School and the Landau Institute" Isaak Khalatnikov Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics Reception following, Science Center B-06 ___________________________________________ Wednesday, February 21, 2001 Wednesday, February 21, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``Orthogonal Matrix Theory and DLCQ OM-theory" Dr. Anastasia Volovich Harvard University Wednesday, February 21, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``TBA" Professor A. Zee University of California, Santa Barbara Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, February 21, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson Room 356 ``A Warped and Braneless Approach to the Cosmological Constant Problem" Bob Holdom University of Toronto Refreshments at 4:00pm in HET commons, Jefferson 460 ________________________________________________ Thursday, February 22, 2001 Thursday, February 22, 1:00PM(note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Localizing gravity on smooth branes" Yuri Shirman California Institute of Technology Thursday, Feb 22, 2001 Boston University Biophysics Seminar Nicholas Geisse Cambridge University "Investigating Cellular Processes With the Atomic Force Microscope" Thursday, February 22, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``B-Field Dynamics" Keshav Dasgupta Institute for Advanced Study Refreshments at 3:45pm, HE commons, Jefferson 460 Thursday, February 22, 2001 Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Speaker: Professor Timothy Roach Department of Physics College of the Holy Cross Title: Manipulating Atomic Waves with Micro-Patterned Magnets Talk will be held at 4:00 pm in Room N-105, Sackler Science Center, Clark University. - _____________________________________________ Friday, February 23, 2001 Friday, February 23, 12 Noon Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``Back-Reaction in Lightcone QED" Prof. Richard Woodard Florida University Friday, February 23, 3:00PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 ``Testing the CKM Ansatz: Unitarity Triangle Analysis, e'/e, and the Delta I=1/2 Rule" Leonardo Giusti Boston University Friday, February 23, 4:00PM Tufts University Department of Physics and Astronomy Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall ``Brookhaven's Flux Beam Reactor: Glorious past? Ignoble End" Dr. Steven Shapiro Brookhaven National Laboratory ----------________________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the February 25- March 3 calendar is Monday, February 26, 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".