December 1-7, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, December 2, 2002 Monday, December 2, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, ``From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics" Dam T. Son INT, U Washington, Seattle Refreshments will be served Monday, December 2, 2002 @4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Tunable Spin Effects in Quantum Dot Structures" Seigo Tarucha University of Tokyo tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 12pm, Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Jefferson 250 "Dynamics of interacting bosons in an optical lattice" Anatoli Polkovnikov Tuesday, December 3, 2002 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "Quantum Transport, Stability, and Surface Dynamics in Metal Nanowires" Prof. Charles Stafford University of Arizona Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 1:30PM note new time Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics third floor, seminar room ``Deconfinement in 2+1 dimensions" Dam T. Son INT,University of Washington Refreshments will be served Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "FQHE for Dummies" Professor R. Shankar Yale University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge "Magnetars in the Metagalaxy: An Origin Story for Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays" Professor Jonathan Arons University of California, Berkeley Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Room 114 Egan Research Building "Theoretical Micromechanics of DNA and DNA protein complexes" Dr. Abhijit Sarker Department of Physics,Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Wednesday, December 4, 2002 Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 1:30pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Jamming and Glass Transitions" Professor Corey O'Hearn Yale University Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics third floor, seminar room ``Holography Stabilizes the Cosmological Constant" Scott Thomas IAS/Stanford University Wednesday, December 4, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Quantum Feedback in Cavity QED; Intensity Correlations and the Capture and Release of the "Quantum Butterfly"" Professor Luis Orozco SUNY - Stony Brook Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 4, 2002 Brown University Theoretical Semina: B&H 555 - 2:30 p.m. "To be announced " Prof. Laurent Freidel (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon) Thursday, December 5, 2002 Thursday, December 5th, 2002,12pm, Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "Quasicrystals: new answers to old questions" Michael Widom Carnegie-Mellon Thursday, December 5, 2002, 4:00 pm Clark University, Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 "Vortex Liquid Crystals" Erica Carlson Boston University Thursday, December 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m. Biophysics Seminar Pierce Hall, Rm. 209 "Electrotaxis in C.elegans" Aravi Samuel Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Thursday, December 5, 2002, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Using Simulations to Bridge Astrophysics and the Lab: Learning about Novae" Bob Rosner University of Chicago Refreshments at 3:00 pm in 4-339 (Physics Common Room). Thursday, December 5, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Galaxy Formation at High Redshift" Len Cowie University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, December 5, 2002, 4:15 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Algebraic curves of matrix models" Vladimir Kazakov ENS, Paris Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th Floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, December 6, 2002 Friday, December 6th, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Multiscale Simulations of Polymers" Kurt Kremer Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Friday, December 6th, 4pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "High Beta, Long Pulse, and Bootstrap Sustained Scenarios of NSTX" David Gates Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Refreshments will be served