October 27 ? November 2, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, October 28, 2002 Monday, October 28, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Research Seminar Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor seminar room ``Renormalization Group Limit Cycles in Quantum Hamiltonians" Ken Wilson Ohio State University Refreshments will be served Monday, October 28, 2002, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium 26-414 "Mind Over Matter: The Intellectual Content of Experimental Physics" Val Telegdi CERN and Caltech Monday, October 28, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Background-free Observation of Cold Antihydrogen with a First Glimpse of Its Atomic State" Professor Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Monday, October 28, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 168 "String Theory and Inflation: The Start of a Beautiful Relationship?" Professor Cliff Burgess McGill University Host: Professor Robert Brandenberger Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 29, 2002 Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 1:30PM Note new time Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor seminar room ``Relativistic Massive Vector Condensation" Francesco Sannino CERN Theory Division Refreshments will be served Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "Beyond Cosmological Parameters" Prof. Max Tegmark University of Pennsylvania Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Dark Energy in the Universe" Professor Scott Dodelson University of Chicago and Fermilab Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge "The FUSE Survey of Oxygen VI in the Galactic Halo and High Velocity Clouds" Dr. Ken Sembach Space Telescope Science Institute Tuesday October 29, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 "Single atom wants to meet single photon" Dieter Meschede Universität Bonn (Germany) Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 1:30pm Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Double Trace Operators and One-Loop Vacuum Energy in AdS/CFT" Steven Gubser Princeton University Tuesday October 29, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 "Single atom wants to meet single photon" Dieter Meschede Universität Bonn (Germany) Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, October 30, 2002 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2002, 1:30pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Microfluidic Logic - Addressing Complexity at the Microscale" Dr. Todd Thorsen, MIT Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor seminar room ``Superstring Interactions in a pp-wave Background" Marcus Spradlin Princeton University Wednesday Oct 30, 2002, 2:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 595 Atmospheric Neutrinos: results from the Soudan 2 experiment Mayly Sanchez Tufts Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Fall Colloquium Olney 218 "Femtosecond Laser Micromachining: Applications in Technology and Biology" Professor Eric Mazur Havard University Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Olney 218 Femtosecond Laser Micromachining: Applications in Technology and Biology Professor Eric Mazur Harvard University COLLOQUIUM Department of Physics Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Professor Dung-Hai Lee University of California Berkeley Inhomogeneity in doped Mott insulators and its relevance to high Tc superconductivity Wednesday, October 30, 2002 Higgins Hall, Room 310 4:05p.m. Refreshments Higgins Hall, Room 230L 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "Strings in almost flat space from 4d Yang Mills theory" Professor Juan Maldacena Princeton (IAS) Refreshments at 4:00 pm Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM CLAY MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE ANNUAL MEETING "A Celebration of the Universality of Mathematical Thought" American Academy of Arts & Sciences 200 Beacon Street, Cambridge, MA Open to the public Thursday, October 31, 2002 Thursday, October 31, 2002, 12pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Interactions and Disorder in Quantum Dots: Phase Transitions and Crossovers in Large-$g$" Dr. Ganpathy Murthy University of Kentucky Thursday, October 31, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Preliminary remarks on formulating M-theory on manifolds with boundary" Gregory Moore Rutgers University Thursday, October 31, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University Dana 114 Physics Colloquium "Manipulating Cell Division Geometry with Magnetic Field" Professor Jim Valles Brown University Host: Sergey Kravchenko Thursday, October 31, 2002, 4:00 pm Clark University, Department of Physics, Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 "Glassy physics" Leticia Cugliandolo Harvard University Thursday, October 31, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Tracking the Missing Baryons in the Local Group" Fabrizio Nicastro Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, October 31, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: TBA Gregory Moore Rutgers University Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, October 31, 2002, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "The Casimir Effect: Theory and Practice" Robert Jaffe The Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT Refreshments @ 3:00 pm in 4-339 (Physics Common Room). Friday, November 1, 2002 Friday, November 1, 2002, 4:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Phase separation in low density electron liquid in MOSFET's" Boris Spivak University of Washington Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Friday, November 1, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "Laboratory Observations of Fast Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection" Jan Egedal MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Refreshments will be served