March 03 - 09, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 04, 2002 Monday, March 4, 2002, 12:00 noon Northeastern University Robert D. Klein University Lecture Raytheon Amphitheater "The Brave New World of Scientific Simulations: Mr. Data in the Holodeck Wonderland" Professor Arun Bansil Northeastern University *Reception in honor of Professor Bansil to follow* Monday, March 4, 2002, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``The Cosmological Constant, False Vacua and Axions" Stephen Barr Bartol Research Institute University of Delaware *Refreshments will be served* Monday, March 4, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "HEPAP Sub-Panel Report" Jonathan Bagger Johns Hopkins University Monday, March 4, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Quantum Fields and Numbers - An Irrational Relationship" Dirk Kreimer Boston University *Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m.* Tuesday, March 05, 2002 Tuesday, March 5, 2002,11:00 a.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana Research Center, Room 114 "TBA" Dr. Michael Gutperle Department of Physics Harvard University Tuesday, March 5, 2002, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Effective Theories of Superdense Matter" Thomas Schaefer SUNY, Stony Brook Tuesday, March 5, 2002, 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107 "Superfluid Density, Heterogeneity and Condensation of High-Tc Superconductors" Prof. Y.J. Uemura Columbia University *Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.* *Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking* Tuesday, March 5, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana Research Center, Room 114 "TBA" Dr. Michael Gutperle Department of Physics Harvard University *Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm* Tuesday, March 5, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Enzymes and Signaling Proteins in Action: Protein Dynamics Measured by Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Techniques" Professor Dorothee Kern Biochemistry Department Brandeis University *Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.* Tuesday, March 5, 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 "Star Formation Then and Now" Professor Alyssa Goodman Harvard University Tuesday, March 5, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar of the Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT Building 26 Room 214 "Perspectives of magnetic microtraps: an interferometer with three-dimensionally trapped atoms" Wolfgang Haensel Harvard/Max-Planck-Institut Mnchen, Germany See also http://cua.mit.edu/ *Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m.* Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at 4:30 p.m. Boston University BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Physics Research Building 3 Cummington Street, Room 593 "Gerbes, Genus-1 Fibrations, Dualities, Integrable Systems, and Mirror Symmetry" Ron Donagi University of Pennsylvania *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 06, 2002 Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Superconductor-Metal-Insulator Transitions in Two Dimensions" Dr. Nadya Mason Harvard University Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Special Electrical Engineering Seminar Physics Department and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Jefferson Hall, Room 250 "Vibrating Micromechanical Resonators for Low Power Wireless Communications" Professor Clark T.-C. Nguyen Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Coherent Collisions, Decoherence Control, and the Zeno Effect" Professor Paul Berman University of Michigan *Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.* Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 4:30pm Brown University Barus & Holley Building, Room 166 182 Hope St Providence "Observing the Interacting Binary W Cephei with the Hubble Space Telescope" Dr. Wendy H. Bauer Physics Department Wellesley College Host: Prof. Dell'Antonio *Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.* Thursday, March 07, 2002 Thursday, March 7, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana Research Center, Room 114 "TBA" Dr. Abner Soffer BaBar Experiment Colorado State University Thursday, March 7, 2002, 12 noon Harvard University Joint Condensed Matter Theory and Material Science Seminar Lyman 425 "Crystal surface relaxation below the roughening transition: shape evolution and scaling" Howard Stone Harvard University Thursday, March 7, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer of M.I.T. on the International Space Station" Samuel C. C. Ting Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, March 7, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Strings on flat space and plane waves from N=4 Yang Mills theory" Juan Maldacena IAS *Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory Cafe, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, March 7, 2002, 10:30AM - Noon Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory/Quantum Computing Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "Spin-orbit coupling in exchange-based quantum computation and the emission of entangled photons from coupled quantum dots" Dr. Guido Burkard Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Switzerland Friday, March 08, 2002 Friday, March 8, 2002, 11:00 a.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17, Room 218 "Plasma-based Products at MKS" Jack Schuss MKS Instruments Friday, March 8, 2002, 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Department of Physics Pappalardo Fellows in Physics Symposium Building 6, Room 120, MIT "A symposium featuring the Pappalardo Fellows in Physics at MIT, presenting highlights from their research-in-progress." Friday, March 8, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Gap Inhomogeneities and Stripes in Superconducting BSCCO Crystals" Professor Aharon Kapitulnik Laboratory for Advanced Materials Stanford University *Refreshments will be served following the seminar*