May 13- May 31, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, May 14, 2001 Monday, May 14, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Casimir energy in the presence of a magnetic string" Marco Scandurra University of Pisa Monday, May 14, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room 26-414 ``Physics with the CMS Detector, a Hint from LEP?" James Branson University of California, San Diego Refreshments served at 4:00pm Tuesday, May 15, 2001 Tuesday, May 15, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Long Distance Physics in a Color Superconductor" Cristina Manuel CERN Refreshments served at 3:30pm. Tuesday, May 15, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Building 26-Room 214 ``TBA" Fujio Shimizu University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo Tea and cookies served at 4:10pm _______________________________________________ Wednesday, May 16, 2001 Wednesday, May 16, 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Stresses and force chains in granular materials" Jan-Philippe Bouchaud CEA-Saclay Wednesday, May 16, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Electroweak symmetry breaking from dimensional deconstruction" Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00pm __________________________________________ Thursday, May 17, 2001 Thursday, May 17, 2:00PM(note time change) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Intersecting Branes and N=2 AdS/CFT" Douglas Smith University of Durham Thursday, May 17, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with the Cosmic Background Imager" Anthony Readhead California Institute of Technology Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 Thursday, May 17, 2001 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Localized Gravity in String Theory" Andreas Karch MIT Refreshments offered at 3:45, High Energy Theory coffee area, Jefferson 460 - _____________________________________________ Monday, May 21, 2001 Monday, May 21, 2:00PM(note change in time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``D-branes probes, RR tadpole cancellation and K-theory charge" Angel Uranga CERN ------Wednesday, May 23, 2001 Wednesday, May 23, 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center ``Superconductivity in nanowires" Dr. Nina Markovic Harvard University ------Thursday, May 24, 2001 Thursday, May 24, 2:00PM(note time change) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Low energy description of the decay of supersymmetric states" Philip Argyres Cornell University -----_______________________________________________ ------Wednesday, May 30, 2001 Wednesday, May 30, 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center ``Impurity and Inhomogeneity in High-Tc Superconductor" Prof. Shuheng Pan Boston University ------Thursday, May 31, 2001 Thursday, May 31, 4:00PM Harvard University Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy Phillips Auditorium ``Molecules on a Space Odyssey Prof. Edwin van Dishoeck University of Leiden Refreshments served at 3:30pm _______________________________________________ Reminder: This is the last issue for this academic year, have a nice summer. 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