September 22 28, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Sunday, September 22, 2002 A Symposium in Honor of Dudley R. Herschbach Sunday, September 22, 2002 Science Center 9:00 am Panel on the Social Role of Science Eve Menger (chair) Bob Lichter, Steve Hyman, Stella Sung, Cynthia Friend, Eric Chaisson 11:30 am: Closing Remarks Monday, September 23, 2002 Monday, September 23, 2002, 4:30 pm Brown University Barus and Holley, rm. 168 Professor Nigel Smith Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Title: "Dark Matter Detection" Host: Professor Richard Gaitskell *Refreshments served at 4:00 pm Monday, September 23, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "The World as a Hologram: A Principle for Quantum Gravity" Raphael Bousso Harvard University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Monday, September 23, 2002 4:15 PM, 26-414 Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University "Strong Coupling Physics from Perturbation Theory" Refreshments will be served at 4:00, 26-414 Tuesday, September 24, 2002 Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Hadronic physics on the lattice and from the lattice" Wolfram Schroers MIT Refreshments to be served Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Superconducting strings and vortons" Paul Shellard University of Cambridge Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday September 24, 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 2MASS Redshift Survey Professor John Huchra Harvard University Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Tales of a motor enzyme: How kinesin keeps its grip" Prof. Jeff Gelles Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Brandeis University Department of Physics Theoretical Seminar "TBA" Professor Shiraz Minwalla Harvard University Tuesday, September 24, 2002 1:30pm Physics Building, Room 229 Tuesday September 24, 2002, 4:30 p.m. MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26-214 "Processes in cold Rydberg atom gases and cold plasmas" Georg Raithel (University of Michigan) Wednesday, September 25, 2002 Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``A String Theory of Hadrons via a Penrose Light" Eric Gimon IAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002, 1:30pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Viscous Electrons: Electron Glass Behavior in Amorphous Indium Oxide" Professor Stephen Arnason University of Massachusetts-Boston WednesdaySeptember, 25, 2002, 2:30pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "Strings and AdS(3) Black Holes " Dr. Jan Troost (MIT) Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Fall Colloquium Olney 218 "Clustering and Segregation in Dry and Wet Granular Materials" Professor Arshad Akudrolli Clark University Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 4:00pm Boston College Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 Alexander V. Balatsky, LANL Refreshments Higgins Hall, Room 230L 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 4:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Short Distance Effects in the CMBR" Albion Lawrence Brandeis Refreshments served at 4:00pm Wednesday, September, 25, 4:30 pm Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar ITAMP/Harvard Physics Jefferson 356 "Innovation of optical switches: from Maxwell to Schroedinger" Prof. Nimrod Moiseyev Technion Tea at 4:00 pm Thursday, September 26, 2002 Thursday, September 26, 2002, 4:00pm Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus and Holly, room 190 Title TBA Professor Micheal Naughton Boston College Host: Professor James Valles Thursday, September 26, 2002, 12:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Maxwell Dworkin 119 (Grace Murray Hopper Room) "The 0.7 Anomaly in Quantum Point Contacts: The Puzzle and Its Resolution" Professor Yigal Meir, Department of Physics Ben-Gurion University, Israel Thursday, September 26, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Adding flavor to Ads/CFT" Andreas Karch Washington University Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th Floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, September 26, 2002, 4:00 pm Clark University, Department of Physics Colloquium, Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Direct Numerical Simulations of Multiphase Flow" Gretar Tryggvason WPI Thursday, September 26, 2002, 4:00 pm Clark University, Department of Physics Colloquium, Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Direct Numerical Simulations of Multiphase Flow" Gretar Tryggvason WPI Thursday, September 26, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University Colloquium "Why Knot" Localisation properties of knots Ralf Metzler, Assistant Professor NORDITA Friday, September 27, 2002 Friday, September 27, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "Test Results from the World's Most Powerful Pulsed Superconducting Magnet" Joseph Minervini MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Refreshments will be served >Friday, September 27, 2002 >Harvard University >Condensed Matter Seminar >Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences >Pierce Hall, Room 209 >"Nuclear spin based quantum information processing in quantum Hall systems" >Dr. Ramesh G. 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