December 02 - December 08, 2001 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Northeastern University. You may send your announcement by e-mail (bapc@neu.edu) or FAX (617-373-2943). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. the Monday of the week proceeding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Monday, December 3, 2001 Monday, December 3, 2001 , 2 P.M. Boston University Biophysics Semina Metcalfe Science Center 590 Commonwealth Avenue, room 352 " Kinetics and thermodynamics of DNA interactions at interfaces" Rosina Georgiadis Boston University Department of Chemistry Monday, December 3, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "What Can We Learn From Supernova Neutrinos?" Hisakazu Minakata Metropolitan University, Tokyo Refreshments will be served Monday, December 3, 2001, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Massive Thoughts" Young-Kee Kim University of California, Berkeley Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 Monday, December 3, 2001, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "QCD in the RHIC Era:Year One" D. Kharzeev, BNL Tuesday, December 4, 2001 Tuesday, December 4, 2001 Harvard University Lyman 425 12:00 Noon "Topological Constraints in Polymers: Models of Random Walks on Braid (and Braid-Like) Groups" Dr. Raphael Voituriez Laboratoire de PhysiqueTheorique et Modeles Statistiques Universite' Paris, Sud TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2001, 1:30pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Supergravity Duals of Gauge Field Theories from 6D Gauged Supergravity" Dr. Martin Schvellinger Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 12:00noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Grier Room (34-401) "Capturing Transient Molecular Structure in Solution" Andrei Tokmakoff Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 12:00noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd floor seminar room ``Localized Closed String Tachyon Condensation and RG Flows Based on hep-th0111154" Nicolas Moeller MIT Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 2:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 (note different room) "Classical Aspects of Nonequilibrium Quantum Fields" Gert Aarts Ohio State University Refreshments will be served Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 2:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``TBA" Mark Trodden Syracuse University Refreshments served at 2pm Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 3:45pm Boston University Physics Colloquium SCI 107, Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonwealth Avenue "Spin Orientation Tunneling in Magnetic Molecules and Other Systems" Prof. Anupam Garg, Northwestern University Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Computing with Neural Synchrony" Dr. Paul Tiesinga Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology The Salk Institute Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Generalized Crumpling: How Smooth Forces Make Sharp Structures" Professor Thomas Witten University of Chicago Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm December 4, 2001, 4:00 pm Harvard University Jefferson 356 "The Superfluidity of a Bose-Condensed Gas: Experiments on Irrotational Flow, Vortices and the Scissors Mode" Chris Foot, University of Oxford 10 min. talk: Zoran Hadzibabic , "Degenerate Lithium Fermi Gas in the Presence of a Sodium Bose-Einstein Condensate" Wednesday, December 5, 2001 Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 12noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Phase Transitions in Bilayer Quantum Hall Ferromagnets: A Self-Charging Capacitor" Professor Leo Radzihovsky University of Colorado Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Giant Gravitons in CFT" Asad Naqvi University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, December 5th, 3:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Gauge Theories with Extra Dimensions" Michio Hashimoto Tohoku University Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 4:00pm Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Electron-ion Interaction in Nearly Ferromagnetic Metal" Professor Meir Weger Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Israel Refreshments served at 3:55 Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 4:15pm Boston College Colloquium Higgins 310 "Spectroscopy on One Carbon Nanotube" Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus MIT Coffee 3:45pm Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 593 3 Cummington St. "Global Aspects of Inflation" Professor Alexander Vilenkin Tufts University Refreshments at 4:00pm Call (617) 353-2600 for parking, at least 24 hours in advance Thursday, December 6, 2001 Thursday, December 6, 2001, 12noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 424 Dr. Denis Gorokhov Harvard University "Collective Quantum Creep through Disordered Media" Thursday, December 6, 2001, 4:00 pm Clark University, Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Bulding, Room BP-359 "Granular Kinetic Theory" Professor Mark Shattuck City College of The City University of New York Thursday, December 6, 2001, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem" Arthur McDonald Professor of Physics Queen's University With Refreshments available in Room 4-339 from 3:00 - 4:00pm Thursday, December 6, 2001, 4:15 pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "The Conifold and Beyond" Chris Herzog Princeton Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 p.m. Friday, December 7, 2001 Friday, December 7, 2001, 11am Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "A Simply Elegant Fusion Concept" Sam Cohen Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Friday, December 7, 2001, 12:30pm Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. Entropic Elasticity Prof. Yacov Kantor Tel Aviv University 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".