February 25- March 3, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 26, 2001 Monday, February 26, 12:45 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``BPS Solitons and String Webs from N=2 Gauge Theories'' Prof. Alfred Shapere MIT/University of Kentucky Monday, February 26, 1:30PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 ``Supersymmetry and the Nature of Dark Matter" Jonathan Feng Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, February 26, 2:00PM (Time changed to 4:00 p.m.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Warped Supersymmetry-Breaking" Raman Sundrum John Hopkins University Monday, February 26, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26, Room 414-Kolker Room ``Looking for WIMPS in Galactic Halo: CDMS and other Dark Matter Searches" Dan Akerib Case Western Reserve University Refreshments served at 4pm. Monday, February 26, 4:30 PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab. 250 " The Complexity of Materials" Susan Coppersmith University of Chicago Tea served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 450 Monday, February 26, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 238 ``Molecules to Mental States: A Physicists View of the Brain" Professor Leon Cooper Brown University _________________________________ Tuesday, February 27, 2001 Tuesday, February 27, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Dark Energy: Theoretical Expectations Confront Experimental Data" Ram Brustein Ben-Gurion University-Israel Refreshments served at 2:00 PM Tuesday, February 27, 3:45PM Boston University Physics Colloquium MSC, Rm 107, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Collective Enhancement and Suppression in Bose-Einstein Condensates" Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refrehsments served at 3:30, call 353-2600 for parking. Tuesday, February 27, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Bosonization of QCD at high density" Deog Ki Hong Pusan National University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, February 27, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Electronic Liquid Crystal phases and the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors" Professor Eduardo Fredkin University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, February 27, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Building 26 Room 214 ``Storing and processing quantum information in atomic ensembles" Mikhail Lukin ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tea served at 4:10pm-- -----______________________________________________ Wednesday, February 28, 2001 Wednesday, February 28, 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Vortex-core states in a dirty superconductor: Griffiths effects and quantum critical points" Dr. Kedar Damle Harvard University Wednesday, February 28, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``Dissipative Dynamics of Scalar Fields: Chaos, Inflation and Other Applications" Dr. Rudnei Ramos Dartmouth College Wednesday, February 28, 3:00PM Harvard University Special Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Photonic Mems" Connie J. Chang-Hasnain UC-Berkeley Wednesday, February 28, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts-Lowell Special Lecture-sponsored by the Dept. of Physics, the Peace and Conflict Studies Institute, and Sigma Xi Olney 428 ``National Missile Defense: Scientific Fraud, International Implications" Professors Theodore Postal and Steven Van Evera Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30pm Wednesday, February 28, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``On the road from single nanosized metallic, magnetic and semiconductor clusters to multi-dimensional nanostructures" Professor M. Giersig Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, February 28, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Room 356 ``Cold Atoms in Anisotropic Traps and in Colored Vacua" Dr. Vladan Vuletic Stanford University Refreshments at 4:00pm. Wed, Fed 28th, 3:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 Selected Topics in W Physics at LEP II Yoshi Uchida MIT ________________________________________________ Thursday, March 1, 2001 Thursday, March 1, 1:00PM(note new time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Tachyon instability and Kondo type models" Anatoly Konechny Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Thursday, March 1, 2:00PM Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 ``Feynman diagrams: from numbers to motives" Dirk Kreimer Thursday, March 1, 4:00PM Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler SC, Room N-105 ``Keep It Together! Keep It Together! Keep It together!" A Serendipitous Solution to the Problem of Dark Matter Dr. Mark Silverman Trinity College Thursday, March 1, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``Sonoluminescence: Applying Familiar Physics to an Extraordinary Phenomenon" Sascha Hilgenfeldt University of Twente, Holland Refreshments served at 3PM in room 4-339 Thursday, March 1, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Mirror Symmetry and Mirror Symmetry and how They're Related" David Tong Columbia University Refreshments at 3:45pm, HE commons, Jefferson 460 _____________________________________________ Friday, March 2, 2001 Friday, March 2, 2001, 4:00 PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall "Charm Particles - What We Have Learned About Their Production and Decay". Professor Austin Napier Tufts University Refreshments served in Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall at 3:30 PM.