March 4 to March 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RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE
PUBLISHED.______________________________________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, March 5, 2001

Monday, March 5, 12:45 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Lunch Club
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
Will talk about: Bergman, Gimon, Kol: Strings on orbifold
lines-(hep-th/0102095)
Amihay Hanany
MIT

Monday, March 5, 4:00PM
University of New Hampshire
Physics Colloquium
DeMeritt Hall, Rm 209B
``Developing and Assessing Quantitative Problem Solving Skills"
Karen Cummings
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Refreshments served at 3:30PM, Rm 105F

Monday, March 5, 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 5, Room 414-Kolker Room
``New Physics in Noncommutative Field Theories"
Shiraz Minwalla
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 4pm.

Monday, March 5, 4:30 PM
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab. 250
``Science and Public Policy"
Congressmen Vernon J. Ehlers
Member of United States Congress
Tea served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 450
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Tuesday, March 6, 2001


Tuesday, March 6, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``Vortex solutions in SU(N) Yangs Mills theory"
Alvaro Montero
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m.

Tuesday, March 6, 4:00 PM
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Bldg, Abelson 131
``Laser polarized He-3: a window into pulmonary disease and the spin of the
nucleon"
Professor Gordon Cates
University of Virginia
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333

Tuesday, March 6, 4:30 PM
Harvard University
Joint Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson Lab 256
``Large N-Duality as a Geometric Flop"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University

Tuesday, March 6, 4:30 PM
Harvard University
Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
Jefferson Lab 356
``Towards a CW atom laser"
Jean Dalibard
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Tea served at 4:10pm--
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Wednesday, March 7, 2001

Wednesday, March 7, 11:45AM
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
``Superconductivity in ultrasmall grains"
Professor Jan von Delft
University of Bonn

Wednesday, March 7, 2:30PM
Brown University
Theoretical Physics Seminar
Barus & Holley Room 555
TBA
Prof. Don Marolf
Syracuse University

Wednesday, March 7, 3:00PM
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building 593
``Results from BaBar at PEPII"
Dr. Riccardo Faccini
Rome U. & UC San Diego
Call 353-2600 for parking.

Wednesday, March 7, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``de Sitter space and the \Lambda-N correspondence"
Raphael Bousso
ITP-UC Santa Barbara
Refreshments served at 4:00pm

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Thursday, March 8, 2001


Thursday, March 8, 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Building 10 Room 250
`TBA"
Jean Dalibard
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Refreshments served at 3PM in room 4-339

Thursday, March 8, 2001  4:15 PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Chiral four dimensional theories from compactification 
of six dimensional theories"
Morten Krogh
CERN


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Friday, March 9, 2001

Friday, March 9, 4:00PM
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall, Rm 112
``The Casimir Effect"
Professor Lawrence Ford
Tufts University
Refreshments at 3:30pm, Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall


FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2001, 11:45am (note change of day)
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
"Comparing the Low Energy States of a Quantum and a 
Classical Spin Glass"
Professor Susan Coppersmith
University of Chicago



Reminder:
Deadline for the March 11- March 17 calendar is
Monday, March 5, 2001 at 11:00am. _________________________