April 8- April 14, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, April 9, 2001 Monday, April 9, 12:45PM(note new time and day) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``P-adic String Field Theory" Joseph Minahan Uppsala University Monday, April 9, 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Rm 209B ``The Source of Storms from the Sun: does ``S" Mark the Spot?" Alphonse Sterling Marshall Space Flight Center Refreshments served at 3:30PM, Rm 105F Monday, April 9, 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Higgins Lab 116 ``Protein-based three-dimensional memories and associative processors" Dr. Robert Birge U Conn, Syracuse U. &NY State Ctr for Adv. Tech. Refreshments in Higgins Lab 102, 3:40pm Monday, April 9, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26-Kolker Room 414 ``Electron-Ion Collider" Richard Milner MIT Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, April 9, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Cosmology with the Lyma-alpha Forest" Professor David Weinberg Ohio State University Refreshments served at 4:00pm Monday, April 9, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium- Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe" Shri Kulkarni California Institute of Technology Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 Tuesday, April 10, 2001 Tuesday, April 10, 2:00PM Harvard University Special Seminar Phillips Auditorium, CfA, 60 Garden St ``A Review of Microquasars" Felix Mirabel Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, France Tuesday, April 10, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Three Applications of Lensing" Lam Hui Columbia University Refreshments at 2:00PM Tuesday, April 10, 3:00PM Harvard University Special Physics Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Survey and Status of the Baum-Connes Conjecture" Vincent Lafforgue ENS, Paris Tuesday, April 10, 3:45 PM Boston University Physics Colloquium SCI 107, Metcalf SC, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Bicontinuous Mesophase Materials: Lessons from Biology" Sol Gruner Cornell University Tuesday, April 10, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Renormalons as dilatation modes in the functional space" Ian Balitsky Jefferson Laboratory Refreshments served at 3:30pm. Tuesday, April 10, 4:30PM Harvard University Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 256 ``Global Regularity of Wave Maps" Terence Tao UCLA and Flinders University Tuesday, April 10, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 ``Recent progress on cold atom clocks" Christophe Salomon Ecole Normale Superieure, France Refreshments served at 4:10pm ________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 11, 2001 Wednesday, April 11, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``Chern-Simons Theory is a String Theory" Dr. Marcos Marino Rutgers University Wednesday, April 11, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts-Lowell Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Coherent Antistokes Raman Scattering Microscopy; Vibrational Imaging of Biological Systems" Professor Sunney Xie Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30pm Wednesday, April 11, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 ``Laser Manipulation of Group III Atoms" Dr. Siu Au Lee Colorado State University Tea served at 4:00pm ______________________________________________ Thursday, April 12, Thursday, April 12, 1:00PM Harvard University Materials Science Seminar McKay Lab 402, David Turnbull Room ``Solid Solution Strengthening in Thin Film Pt-Ru Alloys" Richard Vinci Lehigh University Thursday, April 12 , 2001. "Quantum Computation by Adiabatic Evolution" EDWARD FARHI Place: Lyman 425 Time: 12:00 MIT (Condensed Matter Seminar) Thursday, April 12, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``D-branes on Orbifolds" Ben Craps University of Chicago Thursday, April 12, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler SC, Room N-105 ``Dendritic Solidification and Materials Physics in Orbit" Professor Matthew Koss College of the Holy Cross Thursday, April 12, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``Unravelling the Mystery of Flavor" Adam Falk John Hopkins University Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 Thursday, April 12, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Some aspects of D-branes in WZW models Juan Maldacena Harvard University Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET, Jefferson 460 _____________________________________________ Friday, April 13, 2001 Friday, April 13, 11:00AM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Building NW 17, Room218 ``Transport barriers in a firehose: drag reduction by polymer additives in turbulent pipe flow" Patrick Diamond University of California, San Diego Refreshments served at 10:45am Friday, April 13, 4:00PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Group Pierce Hall 307 ``Solid-state Transmitters from HF to Millimeter Waves" David Rutledge California Institute of Technology ------________________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the April 15- 21 calendar is Monday, April 9, 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".