January 27 - February 02, 2002 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, January 28, 2002 Monday, January 28, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Electroweak Precision Physics and the Search for the Higgs Boson" Doreen Wackeroth University of Rochester Monday, January 28, 2002, 3:00pm Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Building, Room 168 "Black Holes at Future Colliders" Greg Landsberg Brown University Monday, January 28, 2002, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar (note special day) Physics Building, Room 333 "Disclinated states in nematic elastomers" Professor Eliot Fried Department of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tuesday, January 29, 2002 Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment: Theoretical Update" Kirill Melnikov SLAC Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 3:40pm Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 107 "X-Rays and Gamma Rays from Relativistic Jets in Quasars" Alan Marscher Boston University *Refreshments will be served at 3:20pm* Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Gating of the Nicotinic Acetylecholine Receptor" Dr. Michael Ziebell Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 4:30pm Boston University BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Photonics Center Building, Room 202, 8 Saint Mary's Street (rear entrance off Cummington Street) "Geometric Transitions and String Dualities" Cumrun Vafa" Harvard University *Free Parking by email request: dmcote@bu.edu at least four hours in advance, stating your name in the "Subject" field* Wednesday, January 30, 2002 Wednesday, January 30, 2002, 2:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 593 "Physics with Exotic Probability Theory" Saul Youssef Boston University Wednesday, January 30, 2002, 2:30pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley Building, Room 555 "Non-Abelian DO-Branes in Curved Space" Dr. Koenraad Schalm Columbia University Wednesday, January 30, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Seeing In the Dark: Controlling Light Propagation in Opaque Media" Dr. Susanne Yelin Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Thursday, January 31, 2002 Thursday, January 31, 2002, 4:00pm Clark University Physics Department Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 "The Charge Distribution on a Conductor" David Griffiths Reed College Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Lyman Laboratory Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:00 PM in Lyman 424 Jiangping Hu Stanford University Title: 4D generalization of quantum hall effect Thursday, January 31, 2002, 1:00pm Harvard University Materials Science Seminar The Turnbull Room, McKay Lab 402 "Stress and Cracking from Crystallization in Porous Materials" George W. Scherer Princeton University Thursday, January 31, 2002, 4:15pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson Building, Room 453 "Covariant Quantization of the Supermembrane" Nathan Berkovits Sao Paulo *Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM Friday, January 25 - Saturday, January 26 Harvard University Symposium to honor Professor Bertrand I. Halperin Science Center Schedule of speakers: FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 T. Maurice Rice (ETH) 10:00AM The Mysterious Spin Gap Phase of the Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors Frank Wilczek (MIT) 11:30AM Varieties of Quantum Statistics Guenter Ahlers (UC Santa Barbara) 2:00PM Selected Topics from Three Decades of Critical Phenomena Thomas Lubensky (Penn) 3:00PM On the Soft Side: Bert Halperin and Soft Condensed Matter Physics Lawrence Schwartz (Schlumberger) 4:30PM Classical Bert: The Physics of Oil Field Exploration SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 Horst Stormer (Columbia and Lucent) 9:00AM Fractions: Here and There and Everywhere James Eisenstein (Caltech) 10:00AM Broken Symmetries in the Quantum Hall Regime: An Experimentalist's Perspective Robert Laughlin (Stanford) 11:30AM Enzymes as Nanomachines: The Physics of Promotion, Elongation, and Terminations in Gene Transcription Stanislas Leibler (Rockefeller) 2:00PM The Making of a Precise and Proportionate Fly Partha Mitra (Lucent) 3:00PM How the Zebra Finch Learns its Song John Hopfield (Princeton) 4:30PM New Collective Dynamics of Brain Cell Activity 1 - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".