bapc September 15 ? 21, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, September 16, 2002 Monday, September 16, 2002, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium 26-414 "Using Heavy Ion Collisions to Explore the QCD Phase Diagram" Krishna Rajagopal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm, 26-414 Monday 16 September 2002 Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM " Cosmological Perturbations Through a General Relativistic Bounce" Dr. Christopher Gordon (Cambridge U) Wednesday 18 September 2002 Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM "CNS5-Branes, T-Duality and Worldsheet Instantons" Dr. David Tong (MIT) Tuesday, September 17, 2002 Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Astrophysics Colloquium Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge "The Formation of the First Luminous Objects in the University" Dr. Volker Bromm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tuesday, September 17, 2002 Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics,Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``The crystallography of color superconductivity" Jeffrey Bowers MIT Refreshments to be served Wednesday, September 18, 2002 Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 1:30pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Experimental Measurements of Flow Topology in 2D Fluid Mixing" Professor Greg Voth Wesleyan University Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Colloquium Olney 218 "J. Robert Oppenheimer: Proteus Unbound" Professor Sylvan Schweber Brandeis University Refreshments served at 3:30pm Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, *brand new* Room 595 3 Cummington Street "The Crystallography of Color Superconductivity" Professor Krishna Rajagopal MIT Refreshments at 4:00pm Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Perturbative String Field Theory and it's Applications" Washington Taylor MIT Wednesday, September 18, 2002 Higgins Hall, Room 310 4:15 p.m. COLLOQUIUM Department of Physics Boston College Dirk K. Morr University of Illinois, Chicago More than Just Schmutz: Impurities and Disorder in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Abstract: The effect of impurities, defects and disorder on strongly correlated electron systems has been a topic of intense scientific controversy in recent years. In this talk, I review some of the important milestones in the ongoing debate to illustrate the fundamental interest in this field. In particular, I discuss the effects of impurities in phases with an unconventional broken symmetry such as superconductors or current-carrying states. I will argue that in these systems, Quantum Interference Effects of electronic waves, that are scattered by multiple impurities provide an abundance of novel and exciting phenomena. Finally, I discuss the importance of locally ordered droplets, that nucleate around defects in nearly critical systems. This is a topic of wide relevance in condensed matter physics, since it pertains to the observed small magnetic moments in heavy fermion compounds, in colossal magnetoresistance material, as well as in the high temperature superconductors. This issue is also of applied interest since the recording of information involves the polarization of small domains, whose long time dynamics and stability are of great importance. Refreshments Higgins Hall, Room 230L 3:45 p.m. Wednesday 18 September 2002 Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM "CNS5-Branes, T-Duality and Worldsheet Instantons" Dr. David Tong (MIT) Thursday, September 19, 2002 Thursday, September 19, 2002, 4:00pm Brown University Barus and Holley, Rm. 190 "Defects, Disorder and Quantum Griffiths Effects in Metallic Quantum Critical Systems" Professor D. Morr University of Illinois, Chicago Host: Professor Brad Marston Thursday, September 19, 2002 New England Section Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org) Sheraton Lexington Hotel Volumetric 3D display Gregg Favalora, Chief Technology Officer Actuality Systems Social Hour at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Meeting at 7:30 Thursday, September 19, 2002, 4:15pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Topology change in General Relativity and the black-hole black-string transition" Barak Kol IAS Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR Physics Department, Harvard University Date: September 19, 2002 Speaker: Dr. Ramesh Mani (Harvard Univ, Gordan McKay Laboratory) Title: "Novel Zero-Resistance-States in a High Mobility 2-Dimensional Electron System" Location: Lyman 330 Time: 12:00 PM Friday, September 20, 2002 Friday, September 20, 2002, 12:00pm Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonweath Avenue. "Impurities and Quantum Interference in Superconductors: Creating Novel Many-Body States" Professor Dirk K. Morr University of Illinois at Chicago Friday, September 20, 2002, 7:00pm Harvard University A Symposium in Honor of Dudley R. Herschbach Welcome Reception (by registration) Faculty Club Terrace Saturday, September 21, 2002 Saturday, September 21, 2002 Harvard University A Symposium in Honor of Dudley R. Herschbach Science Center 8:30am- "The Stanford Years" Hal Johnston 9:00am- "What Dudley Taught Me and What He Didn't" Richard Zare 10:00am-"Contributing to Chemistry by Lucky Accidents" Norman Ramsey 10:30am-Dudley, George Pisiello and Hope" Yuan Lee 11:00am-Welcoming Remarks President Lawrence H. Summers 11:15- "Chemical Physics, Molecular Dynamics and All That" Bill Klemperer 2:00pm- Panel on Emerging Frontiers of Chemical Physics George Kwei (chair), William Miller, Jan Michel Rost, Hongkun Park, Bretislav Friedrich, Deborah Watson 4:15pm- Scientific Soundbites Evening Banquet at Boston Science Museum (by registration) To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". 1 - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".