February 23-March 1, 2003 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, February 24, 2003 Monday, February 24, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Grand Unification in Higher Dimensions: Flat or Warped?" Yasunori Nomura Fermi Lab Refreshments will be served Monday, February 24, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Joint Math/Physics Everyperson Seminar Math Building, Goldsmith 317 "Geometric Ideas in Physics" Sergei Gukov Harvard University Monday, February 24, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 168 Title: "A Unified Model of Synaptic Plasticity" Professor Harel Shouval Host: Professor Leon Cooper Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, February 24, 2003, 4:15PM-5:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Last and Next to Last Measurements of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment" Rob Carey Boston University Refreshments at 4PM Monday, February 24, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lecture in Physics: Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Surprises in Two Dimensions: From the Quantized Hall Effect to Exciton Condensation" James P. Eisenstein California Institute of Technology Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m. Monday, February 24, 2003, 6-8pm Cafe Scientifique Discussion on the loss of Shuttle Columbia with New Scientist space Commentators at the Red Line Bar 59 JFK St. Cambridge MA MBTA Harvard Monday, 2/24, 12:45 Theoretical HEP seminar Boston University, PRB 595 Silas Beane, Institute for Nuclear Theory University of Washington, Seattle Title: The chiral multiplet structure of hadrons Abstract: Using unexplained regularity in the hadron spectrum as motivation, I will show that the full QCD chiral symmetry group has important algebraic consequences in the low-energy theory. In particular, there is a sense in which hadrons fall into representations of the chiral group, for each helicity. By comparing with data, I will argue that these representations are finite dimensional and have a universal character across the hadron spectrum. Tuesday, February 25, 2003 Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 1:30pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 229 "Brane gas cosmology in M-theory" Professor Daniel Kabat Columbia University Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Elliptic flow and rapid thermalization at RHIC" Peter Kolb SUNY, Stony Brook Refreshments will be served Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lecture in Physics: Lecture I Jefferson 250 "Liquid Crystals of Electrons?" James P. Eisenstein California Institute of Technology Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "Exploring QCD at RHIC: A Glimpse Into the Past and Future" Prof. Ken Barish University of California, Riverside Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Simulating Black Hole Spacetimes: Successes and Challenges" Matthew W. Choptuik CIAR Cosmology and Gravity Program University of British Columbia Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "Ultracold molecule formation, trapping and collisions" Prof. Daniel Heinzen (University of Texas, Austin Wednesday, February 26, 2003 Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``A Moduli Fixing Mechanism in M theory" Bobby Acharya Rutgers Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 2:30 p.m Brown University Theoretical Seminar: Barus & Holley 555 "Quantum Inequalities in Curved Spacetime" Prof. Eanna Flanagan Cornell University Wednesday, February 26,2003, 4pm Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins 310 "Poznan Recent Progress in NMR" Professor Stefan Jurga UAM Refreshments 3:45 in Higgins 230 Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 4pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Olney 218 Colloquia "Watching Single Bilmolecules" Professor Anne Gershenson Brandeis University Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Indistinguishable Single Photons from a Quantum Dot in a Microcavity" Dr. Charles Santori Stanford University Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, February 27, 2003 Thursday, February 27, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Materials Science Seminar "Topology and Boundary Motion in Polyhedral Space-Filling Networks" Martin E. Glicksman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street Thursday, February 27, 2003, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Jefferson 250 "Evidence for a New Kind of Superfluid" James P. Eisenstein California Institute of Technology Thursday, February 27, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Do We Have a Recipe for Star Formation?" Daniela Calzetti Space Telescope Science Institute Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday February 27, 2003, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 307 "Rotational Dynamics of Optically Trapped Microdisks" Thomas Mason ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Thursday, February 27, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Putnam House, 69 Brattle Street, Radcliffe Yard "Black hole creation in point particle collisions in (2+1)-dimensional Gravity" Kirill Krasnov Postdam Refreshments will be offered in Putnam House at 3:45 Thursday, February 27, 2003, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Results from the MAP Satellite" Lyman Page Princeton University Refreshments at 3:45pm in room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Friday, February 28, 2003 Friday, February 28, 2003, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 " Complex behavior of simple ions near biological polyelectrolytes" Gerard C. L. Wong University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Friday, February 28, 2003, 2PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW16-213 "Magnetic Reconnection in Resistive MHD and in Hall MHD" John Finn Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday, February 28, 2003, 1:30 PM* SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Maxwell Dworkin 119 Dr. Marija Drndic Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Nanocrystal Electronics and Manipulation"