April 13-19,2003
      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.
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Monday, April 14, 2003

Monday, April 14, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
``Whither WIMPS-The Search for the Missing Mass of the Universe"
Richard Gaitskell
Brown University
Refreshments will be served


Monday, April 14, 2003  @4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures"
Ellen D. Williams
University of Maryland
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm

Monday, April 14, 2003, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Joint Math/Physics Everyperson Seminar
Math Building, Goldsmith 317
"TBA"
Professor Anna Lachowska
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Monday, April 14, 2003, 4:15-5:15PM
MIT
Lab for Nuclear Science
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
"Hadron Tomography"
Matthias Burkardt
Place: Kolker Room, 26-414
Refreshments at 4PM


Monday, April 14, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures"
Ellen D. Williams
University of Maryland
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm


Tuesday, April 15, 2003


Tuesday, April 15, 2003, 1:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
``TBA"
Martin Savage
University of Washington
Refreshments will be served


Tuesday, April 15, 2003, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"From gravity to quantum mechanics---developments in
Cosmological entropy bounds"
Raphael Bousso
Harvard
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251


Tuesday, April 15, 2003, 3:00PM
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Laboratory, Rm 250
LECTURE III
"Cavity QED ? The Plumbing"
H. Jeff Kimble
California Institute of Technology


Tuesday, April 15, 2003 3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107
"The Full Mottness"
Prof. Philip Phillips
U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.


Tuesday, April 15, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
MIT 26-214
"Spin exchange interactions of ultracold bosonic atoms in optical lattices"
Prof. Eugene Demler (Harvard University)


Tuesday, April 15, 2003
New England Section
Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org)
Sheraton Lexington Hotel
"Amateur Telescope Making at Stellafane: Past & Present",
Ken Slater
Springfield Telescope Makers, Stellafane Observatory National Historic
Landmark
Networking at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Meeting at 7:30
Dinner reservations by Noon, Saturday, April 12 at www.nesosa.org or
by e-mail to nesosa@lambdares.com


Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Wednesday, April 16, 2003, 1:30pm (Note change of time and room)
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Glass transition in classical liquids in a quenched random potential"
Professor Chandan Dasgupta
University of Maryland, College Park, and
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


Wednesday, April 16, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
``The Thermodynamics of Spacelike Branes"
Alex Maloney
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served


Wednesday, April 16, 2003, 4:30pm
Boston University  - Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Building, Room 595
3 Cummington Street
"RS, S and T, the Z and the b"
Raman Sundrum (JHU)
Refreshments at 4:00 pm
Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance


Thursday, April 17, 2003


12pm, Thursday, April 17th, 2003
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 424
"Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas"
Dr. Adam Durst
Yale University


Thursday, April 17, 2003, 1:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
``Electromagnetism at Low Energies: Pion Versus Magnons"
Uwe-Jens Wiese
University of Bern and MIT


Thursday, April 17, 2003, 2:30 P.M.
Materials Science Seminar
"Polymer Derived Ceramics: New
Nanoscale Materials with Multifunctional
Properties at High Temperatures"
Rishi Raj
University of Colorado
McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room
Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street


Thursday, April 17, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Putnam House, Radcliffe
"Classical and quantum aspects of string field theory"
Washington Taylor
MIT
Refreshments will be offered in the Putnam House living room at 3:45


Thursday, April 17, 2003, 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Measuring the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron?A Very Small
Measurement with Very Big Consequences"
DAVID WARK
University of Oxford
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in room 4-339
(Physics Common Room)


Friday, April 18, 2003

11:30am, Friday, April 18th, 2003
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Pierce 307
"Quasiperiodic functions theory and the superlattice potentials for a 
two-dimensional electron gas"
A Maltsev
University of Maryland
Landau Institute, Moscow