November 11, - November 17, 2001 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR Monday, November 12, 2001, 4:30pm Brown University Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Brane World(s) and M-Theory" Professor Mirjam Cvetic Physics Department University of Pennsylvania Refreshments served at 4:00pm Tuesday, November 13, 2001 Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 12:00noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Grier Room (34-401) Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy "Secrets of Bacterial Behavior Revealed by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer" Howard Berg Harvard University and Rowland Institute for Science Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 12:00noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "K-theory, Brane Chages, Instantons etc" Neil Constable MIT Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:00PM (changed from 2PM) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd floor seminar room (changed from Kolker rm.) ``Long-distance contributions to the QCD pressure" York Schroder MIT Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 2:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "About Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays" Frank Wilczek MIT Refreshments served at 2:00pm Astrophysics Colloquium Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:00 PM Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 Astrophysics Colloquium Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:00 PM Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM. Astrophysics Colloquium Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:00 PM Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM. Professor Kris Stanek Harvard University Fixing the Lower Rungs of the Cosmological Distance Scale Professor Kris Stanek Harvard University Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 2:30pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "M Theory on Special Holonomy Spaces" Professor Mirjam Cvetic University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 2:45pm Harvard University Experimental High Energy Seminars HEPL (42 Oxford St.), 3rd Floor Conference Room "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Theory Space" Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard/U.C. Berkeley Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS, Physics Department Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Application of Statistical Physics to Physiology: Scaling Features in Human Heartbeat Dynamics" Dr. Plamen Ch. Ivanov Center for Polymer Studies, Physics Dept., Boston University and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Refreshments served at 3:45 Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Do Cortical Neurons Act Like Transitors?" Professor Larry Abbott Volen Center, Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 4:30pm Boston University BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Boston University, School of Management Building, Room 412 595 Commonwealth Ave. "A Physicist's Approach to Quantum Computing" Edward Farhi MIT Free parking available in the garage (lower level) at 595 Commonwealth Ave. Let the parking attendant know that you are there for the Mathematical Physics Seminar. Use the East elevators only. Wednesday, November 14, 2001 Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 12noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Supercondictivity in Moth Balls: Surprises In Organic FETs" Dr. Jairo Sinova University of Texas - Austin Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "de Sitter Space in Supergravity" Neil Lambert Rutgers University Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 2:30pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "The Large M Limit of NCOS at Strong Coupling" Dr. Vatche Sahakian Cornell University Prof. David K. Campbell Boston University Colloquium Nonlinear Science: From Paradigms to Practicalities 11/14 4:15 Higgins 310 Boston College Coffee served 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 3:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "The Inflationary Brane Anti-brane Universe" Ren-Jie Zhang Institute for Advanced Studies Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 4:00pm Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "On Decoherent Electrons and Disordered Conductors" Prof. Pritirag Mohanty Boston University Host: Professor Sergey Kravchenko Refreshments available at 3:55pm Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 4:30pm Harvard University, Physics Department Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "To be announced" Dr. Wojciech Zurek Los Alamos National Laboratory Tea will be served at 4:00pm Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 4:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Special Holonomy Manifolds and Minimally Supersymmetric Field Theories" Sergei Gukov Harvard University Thursday, November 15, 2001 Thursday, November 15, 2001, 4:00pm Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room BP-359 "Percolation in Extended Geometries" Gerald Paul Boston University CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR Physics Department Harvard University November 15, 2001 Michael Folger,MIT Thursday, November 15, 2001, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "Understanding mass, matter and (bio)-molecules - Research plans with the TESLA electron-positron collider and its X-FEL" Albrecht Wagner Chairman of the Directorate DESY With Refreshments available in Room 4-339 from 3:00 - 4:00pm Thursday, November 15, 2001, 1:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd floor seminar room ``Lattice gauge fixing and the quark and gluon propagators" Silvano Petrarca University of Rome ``La Sapienza" and INFN Thursday, November 15, 2001, 4:15pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Tachyon Condensation and Black Hole Entropy" Atish Dabholkar (TIFR) Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory Coffee Area at 3:45pm Friday, November 16, 2001 Friday, November 16, 2001, 12:30pm Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Stability of Nanostructures at Metal Surfaces" Dr. Karsten Pohl University of New Hampshire Friday, November 16, 2001, 2:00pm Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley 751 "Electron-Phonon Interactions and Superconductivity in Polyacene Plastic Transistors" Dr. Jairo Sinova University of Texas at Austin Host: Prof. Brad Marston (Note Special Date & Time & Location) Friday, November 16, 2001, 3:00pm Harvard University Department of the History of Science Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "Knowledge in the Making: Collaboration on the Recent History of Science and Technology on the World Wide Web" Drs. Babak Ashrafi and Arne Hessenbruch Dibner/Sloan Project, MIT Friday, November 16, 2001, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Quest for Paths to High-Performance Laser Fusion by NRL Experiments and Simulations" Stephen Obenschain Naval Research Laboratory Friday, November 16, 2001, 4:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Superconductivity in 4 Angstrom Carbon Nanotubes" Professor Ping Sheng Director, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Refreshments will be served following seminar To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".