March 30-April 5, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 31, 2003 Monday, March 31, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``Coping with misplaced attractions" Frank Wilczek MIT Refreshments will be served. Monday, March 31, 2003 Barus and Holley 168, 4:30 p.m.* "Towards a Quantitative Unifying Theory of Biological Structure, Function and Organization" Dr. Geoffrey West Los Alamos National Laboratory Host: Professor Gerald Guralnik Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, March 31, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Joint Math/Physics Everyperson Seminar Math Building, Goldsmith 317 "Wine tears and other instabilities in climbing films" Professor Anette Hosoi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, April 1, 2003 Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``QCD thermodynamics at non-vanishing baryon number density" Frithjof Karsch University Bielefeld Refreshments will be served. Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 1:30pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 229 "BRST=EXT" Dr. Eric Sharpe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tuesday, April 1, 2003 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "GLAST: The Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope" Dr. Steve Ritz NASA Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Origin of Light: from spin wave to artificial photon" Professor Xiao-Gang Wen Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "Observations of Cold Antihydrogen" Prof. Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Wednesday, April 2, 2003 Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``Holography with flavor: Conformal and non-conformal examples" Johanna Erdmenger Humboldt University, Berlin Refreshments will be served. Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``N-2 Seiberg-Witten theory and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa Matrix Model" Howard Schnitzer Brandeis Refreshments will be served. Thursday, April 3, 2003 Thursday, April 3rd,2003,12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "Unbinding of strongly disordered polymers" Dr. Yariv Kafri Harvard University Thursday, April 3, 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Thermodynamics of Strongly Interacting Matter at High Temperature and Density" Frithjof Karsch Universitaet Bielefeld Time: 4:15 PM Refreshments @ 3:45 PM in Room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Thursday, April 3, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Materials Science Seminar "Distributions of Grain Boundaries in Polycrystals" Gregory S. Rohrer Carnegie-Mellon University McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street Thursday, April 3, 2003, 4:00pm Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115 (The Robert and Naida Lessin Forum) "Wavefunction Imaging in Cuprate High Temperature Superconductivity" Jennifer Hoffman Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley Thursday, April 3, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Relativistic Jets from X-ray Binaries (Microquasars)" Stephane Corbel CNRS - Saclay - France Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard "Mirror mirror on the wall" David Tong MIT Refreshments will be offered in Putnam House, at 3:45 Theoretical HEP seminar Monday, 3/31, 12:45 Boston University, PRB 595 Guy D. Moore McGill University "Why I Don't Believe we Live on a Spacetime Lattice" I will make the case that you should believe that Lorentz symmetry is an exact symmetry of nature. First I will review why, in Euclidean lattice gauge theory, we can break Euclidean invariance very badly at the fundamental scale and yet recover it in the infrared. Then I show why Lorentz symmetry is really different than Euclidean symmetry in this respect; it is extremely difficult to "deconstruct" theories with multiple species and interactions. I will also review what the best constraints on Lorentz violation are. Friday, April 4, 2003 Friday, April 4, 2003, 4pm MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW16-213 "Advances in High-Intensity Beams" Chiping Chen MIT PSFC Friday, April 4th, 4pm HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Dynamics of Complex Matter: from kilometers to nanometers" Eberhard Bodenschatz Cornell University