March 10 - 16, 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ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 11, 2002

Monday, March 11, 2002, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
"Strong-weak Coupling Duality in Low Dimensional Field Theory"
Ivan Andric
Rudjer Boskovic Institute
Croatia

Monday, March 11, 2002, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"SNO Results"
Josh Klein
University of Pennsylvania

Monday, March 11, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Arthur O. Williams Lecture
Barus & Holley Building, Room 168
182 Hope st., Providence Rhode Island
"Physics of Quantum Computers"
Prof. Steven Girvin
Physics and Applied Physics
Yale University
*There will be refreshments served at 4:00pm*

Monday, March 11, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Elastic Properties of Self-Assembling Biological Springs"
George B. Benedek
M.I.T.
*Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm*

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
``The Relativistic Advection Diffusion Equation and RHIC"
Derek Teaney
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"TBA"
Dr. Ren-Jie Zhang
Member, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton

Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
MIT Center for Space Research
70 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
"TBA"
Dr. Ian Glass
South African Astronomical Observatory

Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"A Physicist Looks at DNA"
Professor Philip Nelson
University of Pennsylvania
*Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm*

Tuesday March 12, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
Jefferson Labs 356
"New tests of special relativity using cryogenic optical resonators"
Achim Peters
University of Konstanz, Germany
See also http://cua.mit.edu/
*Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m.*

Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Boston University
BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington Street, Room 593
"Domain Walls in CFT and Holography"
Robbert Dijkgraaf
University of Amsterdam

*Free parking is available at the garage at 595 Commonwealth Avenue, but
requires an e-mail request to dmcote@bu.edu at least 4 hours in advance,
stating your full name in the "Subject" field.  Tell the parking attendant
that you have come for the Mathematical Physics Seminar*

Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Wednesday, March 13, 2002, 12:00 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
"Dynamical Manipulations of DNA Molecules Using a Nanopore"
Dr. Amit Meller
Rowland Institute for Science

Wednesday, March 13, 2002, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
``On the Power of Supersymmetry in Matrix Theory"
Yoichi Kazama
University of Tokyo

Wednesday, March 13, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
``Vacuum Tunneling and Inflation in String Theory"
Herman Verlinde
Princeton University
*Refreshments served at 4:00PM*

Thursday, March 14, 2002

Thursday, March 14th, 2002, 1:00 P.M.
Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
Gordon McKay Lab, Room 402
The Turnbull Room
"Controlling Intrinsic Stress in Ceramic Thin Films and Coatings"
Brian Sheldon
Brown University

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Thursday 
March 14, 2002

"Electron properties of carbon nanotubes near half-filling:
excitation gap, adiabatic transport, coulomb blockade, and field effect"
Lyman 425
12:00 noon

Thursday, March 14, 2002, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Recent Chandra X-ray Observations of Clusters of Galaxies-the Largest
Objects
 In the Universe"
Craig L. Sarazin
University of Virginia

Thursday, March 14, 2002, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Localized Tachyons and General D-brane Probes in NS-NS Flux Brane
Backgrounds"
Piljin Yi
Korean Institute for Advanced Study
*Refreshments offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor
Jefferson, at 3:45*

Thursday, March 14, 2002, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"TBA"
Dr. Eckhard von Toerne
Ohio State University

Thursday, March 14, 2002, 7:30 p.m.
New England Section, Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org)
Sheraton Lexington Hotel
Route 2A at 128/95
"Precision Optics Manufacturing Using Magnetorheological Finishing"
Don Golini
QED Technologies
*Social Hour at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30*

Friday, March 15, 2002

Friday, March 15, 2002, 3:00pm
Harvard University
Department of the History of Science
Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science
Science Center 226
"Objectivity and Invariance: Localization in Quantum Mechanics"
Dr Talal Atif Debs
Harvard University