April 20-26,2003
      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
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Monday, April 21, 2003

Monday, April 21, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Barus and Holley 168
"First Year Results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)"
Professor Greg Tucker
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.


Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
Jefferson 356
"Atom-Molecule Coherence in Quantum Degenerate Gases"
Prof. Murray Holland (JILA)


Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Massive IIA string theory and Matrix theory compactification"
Horatiu Nastase
Brown University
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, 23 April 2003, 2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
"N=2 Seiberg-Witten Theory and the Dijgraaf-Vafa Matrix-Model"
Prof. Howard Schnitzer
Brandeis University

Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Harvard University
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"Formation of Dipolar Molecules in Optical Lattices"
Dr. Svetlana Kotochigova
NIST
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.


Thursday, April 24, 2003

Thursday, April 24th, 2003, 12pm
Harvard University
The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman 424
"N Charges on a Sphere"
Prof. Alar Toomre
MIT

Thursday, April 24, 2003, 4:00 p.m.
Brown University
Barus and Holley 190
Title:  "TBA"
Professor Gerard Wong
University of Illinois
Host:  Professor Jay Tan


Thursday, April 24th, 4pm
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 307
"Characterization and Fabrication of the NanoGate for Nanoscale Fluidic 
Research"
James White
Alex Slocum
MIT

Thursday, April 24, 2003, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
Clay Fellow Symposium
"The EXPLORE Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planet"
Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas (CfA)
"Mapping interacting binaries"
Daniel Steeghs (CfA)
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 24, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Putnam House, Radcliffe
"Intersecting branes, dCFT's and tensionless strings"
Neil Constable
MIT
Refreshments will be offered in the Living Room, Putnam House, at 3:45.


Thursday, April 24, 2003, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"First Results from KamLAND"
Stuart Freedman
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in room 4-339 Physics Common Room


Friday, April 25, 2003


Friday, April 25, 2003, 4PM
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW16-213
"Recent Studies of Solar Coronal Structure and Dynamics from TRACE"
Leon Golub
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics


Friday, April 25th, 4pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 209
"Logic, Topology and Pattern Formation in Complex Fluids"
Stephen Quake
Caltech
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.