September 9 - September 15, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, September 10, 2001 Monday, September 10, 2001, 4:15pm MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics of the New Neutrino Physics" (Tentative) George Fuller, UCSD Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM Monday, September 10, 2001, 4:30pm Barus & Holley 168. "Recent News from the Vacuum? The Muon g-2 Experiment at Brookhaven" Professor Lee Roberts Physics Department Boston University Host: Prof.Landsberg Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Tuesday, September 11, 2001, 12:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club CTP, Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Rm. "TBA" Massimo Bianchi University of Rome Tuesday, September 11, 2001, 2:00PM MIT Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physcis Builing 6, Third Floor Seminar room "Confinement of color: results and perspectives" Adriano Di Giacomo University of di Pisa refreshments served at 1:45pm Tuesday, September 11, 2001, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Prof. Jerry P. Gollub, Haverford College "How Fluids Mix: Attracting Lines and Nonlinear Dynamics" Physics Building, Abelson 131 Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Wednesday, September 12, 2001 Wednesday, September 12, 12:00pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Foam Drainage and Coarsening: Experiments and Theory" Dr. Stephan Koehler Harvard University Thursday, September 13, 2001 Thursday, September 13, 2001, 12:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 424 "Observing the Kondo screening cloud around a quantum dot" Professor Ian Affleck Boston University Thursday, September 13, 2001, 4:15pm MIT Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Recent News from the Vacuum? The Muon g-2 Experiment at Brookhaven" Professor Lee Roberts Physics Department Boston University Friday, September 14, 2001 Friday, September 14, 2001, 12:30pm Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Symmetry breaking and scale generation in a zigzag spin chain model" Prof. Chigak Itoi Nihon University of Tokyo Friday, September 14, 4:00pm MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Room NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Advanced Magnets and Implications for the Burning Plasma Experiment" Joel Schultz MIT, PSFC Refreshments served at 3:45 PM