December 8-14, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 9, 2002 Monday, December 9, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, ``Neutrino Oscillations: Experimental Status and Prospects" Kate Scholberg MIT Refreshments will be served Monday, December 9, 2002 @4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Big World of Small Neutrinos" Hitoshi Murayama University of California, Berkeley Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Tuesday, December 10, 2002 Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 1:30PM note new time Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Third floor, seminar room ``K->II II decays at next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion on finite volumes" David Lin Southampton University, UK Refreshments will be served Experimental HEP Seminar Boston University Tuesday, December 10th, 11:00am Physics Research Building 595 Bob Svoboda LSU "First Results from the KamLAND Neutrino Experiment" abstract: The Kamioka Large Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND) is the first terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiment with the small dm**2 sensitivity of solar neutrino measurements. Distant nuclear reactors are used as a well-understood neutrino source to look for the event rate supression and energy spectrum deformation that would be evidence for anti-neutrino mixing. In the first 145 days of operation a significant event rate deficit is measured, consistent with the LMA solution to the Solar Neutrino Problem. Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 2:30 p.m. The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Super Cluster Lecture Series Gillman Room, Agassiz Building, Radcliffe Yard "Does the fine-structure constant vary with cosmic time?" John Bahcall Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "One-dimensional metals in theory and experiment" Prof. Bert Halperin Harvard University Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge "The Demography of Nuclear Black Holes" Professor Scott Tremaine Princeton University Wednesday, December 11, 2002 Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 2:30 PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "Non-trivial Backgrounds of 2D String Theory from Matrix Models" Dr. Serguei Alexandrov (Saclay - France) Wednesday, December 11, 2002 Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar efferson 256 4:30 "Almost No-scale Supergravity" Markus Luty University of Maryland Refreshments in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 4:00. Wednesday, December 11, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Physics with photons, from quantum to bio" Professor Hideo Mabuchi California Institute of Technology Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 11, 2002,4:00pm Harvard University, Physics Department Jefferson 250 17A Oxford Street, Cambridge Mass. "How Does the Sun Shine? John Bahcall Institute for Advanced Study Thursday, December 12, 2002 Thursday, December 12th, 2002,12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "Spin textures, screening and excitations in dirty quantum Hall ferromagnets" John Chalker Oxford/MIT Thursday, December 12, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The Requirements for Scientific Cosmology Illustrated by the First Scientific Cosmology, Ptolemy's" Noel M. Swerdlow University of Chicago Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, December 12, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Black silicon: Microstructuring silicon with femtosecond laser pulses" Dr. Catherine H. Crouch Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Thursday, December 12, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Boundary correlators in 2D gravity; matrix models versus Liouville theory" Ivan Kostov Saclay, Paris Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, December 12, 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Magical Metamorphoses: Duality in Quantum Theory" Matt Strassler University of Washington Time: 4:15 pm Refreshments @ 3:00 pm in 4-339 (Physics Common Room). Friday, December 13, 2002 Friday, December 13th, 2002, 4:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Quasiparticle Scattering and Interference in the Cuprates: A simultaneous view from both real-space and momentum-space" James C. Seamus Davis UC Berkeley/Cornell Refreshments will be served following the seminar.