March 11 to March 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RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED
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Monday, March 12, 2001
Monday, March 12, 2:30PM
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Barus & Holley 190
``Masses of Light Quarks from Lattice QCD and Sum Rules"
Dr. Rajan Gupta
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Monday, March 12, 3:30PM
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building 593
``Localizing Gravity on Smooth Branes"
Yuri Shirman
Caltech


Monday, March 12, 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26, Room 414-Kolker Room
``Thermalization in Heavy-Ion Collisions from QCD First Principles"
Dam Son
Columbia University
Refreshments served at 4pm.

Monday, March 12, 4:30 PM
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab. 250
``A New Precision Measurement of the  Muon (g-2) Value at the level of 1.3 ppm"
Professor Robert Carey
Boston University
Tea served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 450
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Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Tuesday, March 13, 2:30PM
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
``Null energy Condition Violations in Eternal Inflation"
Serge Winitzki
Case Western Reserve University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

Special Seminar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tuesday, March 13, 2:00PM (note new day and time from previous notice)
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
``Speculative but testable nonperturbative techniques in some QCD like
gauge theories"
Matthew Strassler
University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, March 13, 4:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``Perturbative Hot QCD: A criterion for effects beyond Hard Thermal Loops"
Francois Gelis
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m.

Tuesday, March 13, 4:00 PM
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Bldg, Abelson 131
``Prospects for Observing the Collapse, Reheating and Reionization of the
Post-Recombination Neutral Hydrogen"
Professor Jacqueline Hewitt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333



Tuesday, March 13, 4:30 PM
Harvard University
Joint Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson Lab 256
``Algebras and varieties related to finite subgroups of $Sp(2n)$"
Pavel Etingof
Columbia University/MIT

Tuesday, March 13, 4:30 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
Building 26, Room 214
``Fermi Pressure in a Gas of Trapped Atoms"
Randy Hulet
Rice University
Tea served at 4:10pm--
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Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Wednesday, March14, 2:30PM
Brown University
Theoretical Physics Seminar
Barus & Holley Room 555
``The Non-Abelian Born-Infeld Action at Order F6"
Dr. Jan Troost
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday, March 14, 3:00PM
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building 593
``Estimates of Light Quark Masses"
Rajan Gupta
LANL
Call 353-2600 for parking.

Wednesday, March 14, 4:00PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
``Can Tensorial anisotrophy Detect IBM Disease? Non Invasive Impedance
Measurements on Healthy and Seriously Ill Human Subjects"
Professor Carl Shiffman
Northeastern University
Refreshments served at 3:30pm.

Wednesday, March 14, 1PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
``Speculative but testable nonperturbative techniques in some QCD-like
gauge theories"
Matthew Strassler
University of Pennsylvania


Wednesday, March 14, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
``TBA"
Dr Chris Monroe
University of Michigan
Tea will be served at 4:00pm


Wednesday, March 14, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
``Exploring the Weird World of Large N Gauge Theories"
Matt Strassler
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments served at 4:00pm, HET, Jefferson 460

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Thursday, March 15, 2001
Thursday, March 15, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room
``A Large N duality for N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories"
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University

Thursday, March 15, 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Building 10 Room 250
``Quantum gravity, strings and M-theory from matrix quantum mechanics"
Washington Taylor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3PM in room 4-339

Thursday, March 15, 4:15PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
``Aspects of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in supergravity and string
theory"
Jan Louis
Halle
Refreshments offered at 3:45pm, HET, Jefferson 460
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Friday, March 16, 2001
No notices received