September 30 - October 6, 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RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.
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Monday, October 1, 2001

Monday, October 1, 2001 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor seminar room
"Black Holes from Cosmic Rays"
Jonathan Feng
MIT

Monday, October 1, 2001 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"KOPIO"
Mike Zeller, Yale University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm

Monday, October 1, 2001 4:30pm
Harvard University, Physics Department
Barus & Holley 168
"New Insights into Hard Problems with Soft
Materials"
Professor David Weitz
Host: Prof. Ling
Refreshments served at 4:00pm

Monday, October 1, 2001, 4:30pm
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab 250
"The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem"
Art McDonald
Queen's University, Ontario
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, October 2, 2001

Tuesday, October 2, 2001 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Kolker Room 26-414-note different room for this week
"Kaon matrix elements and CP-violation from quenched Lattice QCD"
Robert Mawhinney
Columbia University

Tuesday, October 2, 2001 at 2:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
"Inflation is Not Past-Eternal"
Alan Guth
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology
Refreshments served at 2:00pm

Tuesday, October 2, 2001 2:45pm
Harvard University
Experimental High Energy Seminars
HEPL (42 Oxford St.) - 3rd Floor Conference Room
"The Mean CLEAN Neutrino-Detecting Machine"
Daniel McKinsey - Harvard

Tuesday, October 2, 2001
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Boston University, School of Management Building, Room 414
595 Commonwealth Avenue
"From Quantum Fields to Number Theory: The Secrets of Short Distances"
Dirk Kreimer
Boston University

Wednesday, October 3, 2001

Wednesday, October 3, 2001, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
"Modeling Molecular Shapes in Liquid Crystals"
Professor Robert Pelcovits
Brown University

Wednesday, October 3, 2001, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Third Floor Seminar Room
"Kinematic sum rules for trace anomalies"
Damiano Anselmi
University di Pisa/INFN

Wednesday, October 3, 2001 4:30pm
 Georgia Institute of Technology
Jefferson Laboratory, room 356
"Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Optical Trap"
 Professor Michael Chapman
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, October 3, 2001, 4:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
"Quantum corrections to black brane solutions"
Kostas Skenderis
Princeton University
Refreshments to be served at 4:00pm

Wednesday, October 3, 2001, 4:00pm
Northeastern University Physics Department
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
"Interaction corrections to transport coefficients in 2D electron gas at
intermediate temperatures"
Dr. Boris Narozhny
(SUNY Stony Brook)

Thursday, October 4, 2001

Thursday, October 4, 2001 4:00pm
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminars
Barus & Holley 190
"TBA"
Professor Senthil Todadri
MIT
Host: Brad Marston

Thursday, October 4, 2001 4:00 PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"TBA"
Nati Seiberg (IAS)
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory Coffee Area at 3:45
PM

Friday, October 5, 2001

Friday, October 5, 2001, 11:00am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series
NW17-218, 175 Albany St
"The Temperature Pedestal and ELMs: A Model Based on Coupled
Peeling-Ballooning Modes"
Philip Snyder
General Atomics

Friday, October 5, 2001, 3:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series
NW17-218, 175 Albany St
"BOUT simulations of the Quasi-Coherent Mode in the EDA Regime of
Alcator C-Mod"
Xueqiao Xu
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Friday, October 5, 2001 7:00pm
The Museum of Science
"Hooked on Photonics: How Light Will Change Your World"
Host: Dr. Clifford Robinson, Assistant Director, BU Photonics Center
for more details call (617) 589-0419.