May 05 - May 11, 2002
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Monday, May 6, 2002

Monday, May 6, 2002, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Seminar
Center of Theoretical Physics
Building 6, 3rd Floor seminar room
"Decoupling the Gravitino and Gravitational Moduli"
Markus Luty
University of Maryland
Refreshments will be served

BOSTON UNIVERSITY SPECIAL BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Monday, May 6 2 PM.
Place: PRB 593 (aka BRB 593) 5 Cummington StreetSpeaker:
Dr. Suzanne Giasson
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Laval University, Quebec Canada
"Static and Dynamic Interactions between Polyelectrolyte-coated
Surfaces in Aqueous Medium"

Monday, May 6, 2002, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Tracking the Orbital Motion of Quarks in the Proton"
Xiandong Ji
University of Maryland
Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm

Monday, May 6, 2002, 4:30pm
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Generation of Transform-Limited Single Photons from a Quantum Dot"
Yoshihisa Yamamoto
E.L. Ginzton Laboratory
Stanford University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00pm

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

Tuesday, May 7, 2002, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Kolker Room, 26-414
"On Spontaneous Parity Breaking in QCD"
Xiandong Ji
University of Maryland
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, May 7, 2002, 2:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room
"Entropy-Area Laws from Field Theory"
Lisa Randall
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm

Tuesday, May 7, 2002, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series,
Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"From Roman Vases to Novel Memories and Beyond:  Thoughts on the Glass
Transition"
Dr. Premala Chandra
NEC Research Institute
Refreshments will be available in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Tuesday, May 7, 2002, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"Identifying Importance of Amino Acids for Protein Folding"
Professor Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Harvard University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Refreshments will be available at 3:45pm

Tuesday, May 7, 2002, 4:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research
70 Vassar St., Cambridge
"TBA"
The 2002 Bruno Rossi Lecture in Astrophysics
Professor Rashid Sunyaev
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik

Tuesday, May 7, 2002, 4:30pm
Harvard University
Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
Jefferson Lab 356
"TBA"
Jun Ye
JILA-NIST Boulder and University of Colorado
See also http://cua.mit.edu/
*Tea and cookies served at 4:10pm*

Wednesday, May 8, 2002

Wednesday, May 8, 2002, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, 3rd Floor seminar room
"Open String States and D-brane Tension from Vacuum String Field Theory"
Yuji Okawa
California Institute of Technlogy

Wednesday, May 8, 2002, 
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar,  B&H 555, 2:30
"Deriving String Theory from N=4 SYM Theory"
 Dr.  David Berenstein
 IAS, Princeton

Wednesday, May 8, 2002, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
"Vortex Liquid Crystals in Anisotropic Type II Superconductors"
Dr. Erica Carlson
Boston University

Wednesday, May 8, 2002, 4:30pm
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Deconstruction and Locality"
Witold Skiba
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
Floor Jefferson at 4:00pm

Thursday, May 9, 2002

Thursday, May 9, 2002, 4:15pm
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Plane Waves and Holography"
Sumit Das
Kentucky / Tata Institute
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
Floor Jefferson, at 3:45pm

Thursday, May 9, 2002, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"NMR and MRI with Laser Polarized Xenon"
Timothy Chupp
University of Michigan

Friday, May 10, 2002

Friday, May 10, 2002, 4:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17, Room 218
"Edge Turbulence Imaging in Alcator C-Mod and NSTX"
Stewart Zweben
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Friday, May 10, 2002
Harvard University
Physics Department
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Giuglio Biroli
Title: "Structural glass transition and mean field glass models."
Lyman 424
May 10-11, 2002, 8:30am-6:00pm

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON H. C. OERSTED
AND THE  ROMANTIC  LEGACY

Harvard Science Center, Lecture Hall C, May 10-11, 2002
"International Symposium on H. C. Oersted and the Romantic Legacy"
Frederick Beiser, Christine Blondel, Robert Brain, Olaf Breidbach, Kenneth
Caneva, Dan Ch. Christensen, Olivier Darrigol, Lorraine Daston, Michael
Dettelbach, Michael Friedman, Frederick Gregory, Paul Guyer, Ernst Hamm,
Erwin Hiebert, Gerald Holton, Anja Skaar Jacobsen, Karen Jelved, David
Knight, Ole Knudsen, Trevor Levere, Roberto Martins, Gordon McOuat, John
Murdoch, Keld Nielsen, Robert Richards, Stuart Strickland, Maria Trumpler,
Andrew Wilson


Oersted was an important and fascinating figure in 19th-century science
and philosophy.  Yet, until recently his place in history, that of his
circle, and their intellectual origins, have been studied by only a few
scholars.  The wide-ranging Symposium includes presentations on the
effect of and influence on the Romantic tradition.  All sessions are
open and free to scholars, students and other interested persons.

Co-sponsorship:  History of Science Department, Harvard University;
Program in Science,  Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; and the Royal Danish Consulate.


DAY ONE  (FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2002)

Session 1: The Influence of Immanuel Kant  (8:30am-10:45am)
   Chair & comments: John Murdoch  (Harvard University)
   Paul Guyer  (University of Pennsylvania): "Natural Ends and the End
of Nature: Naturalizing
      Kant's Teleology"
   Michael Friedman  (Indiana University): "Kant and  Naturphilosophie"
   Keld Nielsen  (Danish Museum of Electricity, Denmark): "The Influence
of Kant's
       Philosophy on the Young H. C. Oersted"

Session 2: The Danish Context  (10:45am-1:00pm)
   Chair & comments: Ole Knudsen  (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
   Karen Jelved  (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): "The Other Side of
Oersted: Civil
      Disobedience"
   Anja Skaar Jacobsen  (University of Aarhus, Denmark): "Phrenology and
Danish
      Romanticism"
   Roundtable:
      Dan Ch. Christensen  (Kvanløse Havremark, Denmark)
      Keld Nielsen  (Danish Museum of Electricity, Denmark)
      Andrew Wilson  (Keene State College)

Session 3: Links to German Science/Philosophy  (2:00-5:30pm)
   Chair & comments: Gerald Holton (Harvard University)
   Lorraine Daston  (Max-Planck-Institut für Wisenschaftsgeschichte,
Berlin): "Oersted and the
       Rational Unconscious"
   Robert Brain  (Harvard University): "Romantic Experimental Life:
Fragments, Ruins, Lost
      Causes"
   Ernst Hamm  (York University, Canada): "Oersted, Steffens and  the
Chemical Construction
      of the Earth"
   Frederick Beiser  (Syracuse University): "The Secret of Hegel"
   Robert J. Richards  (University of Chicago): "The Caul of Memory and
the Vertebral
      Skull: The Dispute between Goethe and Oken"

Viewing Equipment at Historical Instrument Collection: Sara Schechner
(Harvard Univ.)


DAY TWO (SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2002)

Session 4: Spirituality/Religion  (8:30am-11am)
   Chair and comments: Stuart Strickland  (Munich, Germany)
   Frederick Gregory  (University of Florida): "Hans Christian Oersted's
Spiritual
       Interpretation of Natural Science"
   Dan Ch. Christensen (Kvanløse Havremark, Denmark): "Oersted's Concept
of Force and
       his Synthesis of Science, Aesthetics and Religion"
   Andrew Wilson  (Keene State College): "'The Way from Nature to God':
The
      Theological Foundations of Oersted's Philosophy of Nature"
   David Knight  (University of Durham, UK): "The Spiritual in the
Material"

Session 5:  Links to France  (11:00am-12:20pm)
   Chair and comments: Olivier Darrigol  (Center for History of Science,
Paris)
   Christine Blondel  (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris):
"Ampére: A Life and an
       Intellectual Production Torn between Enlightenment and
Romanticism"
   Michael Dettelbach  (Boston University): "Romanticism and
Resistance:  German Natural
       Philosophy in Post-Revolutionary France"

Session 6:  Links to England  (1:20pm-3:00pm)
   Chair and comments: Robert Brain  (Harvard University)
   Presentations by:
   Trevor Levere  (University of Toronto, Canada)
   Gordon McOuat  (Dibner Institute, MIT)
   David Knight  (University of Durham, UK)

Session 7: Instruments and Experiments  (3:00pm-6:00pm)
   Chair and comments: Erwin Hiebert  (Harvard University)
   Olaf Breidbach  (Friedrich-Schiller-Universtät Jena, Germany): "The
Culture of Science and
       Experiments in Jena around 1800"
   Kenneth L. Caneva  (University of North Carolina): "Oersted's
Presentation of
      Others'