April 6-12, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, April 7, 2003 Monday, April 7, 2003, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Two Birds with One Stone: finding the SUSY HIggs in Rare Processes" Christopher Kolda Refreshments will be served Monday April 7, 2003, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium 26-414 Kolker Room "Supersymmetry and Its Experimental Tests" K.S. Babu Oklahoma State Contact Sheela with any further question at 617-253-2361 SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM ARTHUR O. WILLIAMS LECTURE Monday, April 7, 2003, 4:30 pm Brown University Barus and Holley 168. Professor Bernard Sadoulet University of California at Berkeley "Windows on the Dark Side of the Universe" Host: Professor Richard Gaitskell Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 7, 2003, 4:30pm Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson Laboratory, Rm 250 Colloquium "The New Science of Quantum Information" H. Jeff Kimble California Institute of Technology Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m. Theoretical HEP seminar Monday, 4/7, 12:45 Boston University, PRB 595 Ian Low Harvard University "Deconstruction, anomalies, and Lorentz symmetry" Tuesday, April 8, 2003 Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Enhanced Nonperturbative Effects in Jet Physics" Mark Wise California Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 4:30 p.m. - CANCELLED 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 8, 2003, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology JointTufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Kolker Room Building 26-414 ``Brane Gas Cosmology: Asymptotics and Thermodynamics" Richard Easther Columbia University Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson Laboratory, Rm 250 LECTURE I An Overview of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics ? from Purcell and Casimir to The Era of Strong Coupling H. Jeff Kimble California Institute of Technology Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 3:00 p.m. (note different time and place) Harvard University Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 250 "An Overview of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics - from Purcell and Casimir to the Era of Strong Coupling" Prof. H. Jeff Kimble (Cal Tech) Tuesday, April 8, 2003 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "Silicon Micromachines for Science and Technology" Dr. David Bishop Bell Labs, Lucent Tchnology Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "New fiber- and micro-optic approaches to in vivo mammalian brain imaging." Dr. Mark Schnitzer Lucent Technologies Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``A quasinormal test of quantum gravity" Lubos Motl Harvard University Refreshments will be served Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "Existence of S-matrix for Strings in Plane-wave Backgrounds" Dr. Mohammad Sheikh-Jabbari Stanford University Wednesday April 9, 2003, 4pm Physics Colloquia University of Massachusetts at Lowell Olney 218 "How Computers Are Changing Physics" Professor Harvey Gould Clark University Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Nonlinear Optical Physics" Dr. Robert Boyd University of Rochester Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 2003 Thursday, April 10th, 2003, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "Spin Transport in Magnetic Multilayers" Prof. Andrew Zangwill School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Thursday, April 10, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Frontiers in Materials and Nanoscience: Novel Phenomena and New Structures Industrial Outreach Program Workshop Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA For registration and program information: http://www.deas.harvard.edu/industry/ Thursday, April 10, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Materials Science Seminar "Reconstruction of Multiphase Morphologies from Two-Point Correlation Functions" Professor Marcel Utz University of Connecticut McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street Thursday, April 10, 2003, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson Laboratory, Rm 250 LECTURE II "Quantum Teleportation ? Fact and Fantasy" H. Jeff Kimble California Institute of Technology Thursday, April 10, 2003, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Optical SETI: Interstellar Communication with Lasers" Paul Horowitz Harvard University Refreshments @ 3:45 PM in room 4-339 (Physics common Room) Thursday, April 10, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard "Transverse fivebranes in Matrix Theory" Mohammad Sheikh-Jabbari Stanford Refreshments will be offered in Putnam House, at 3:45 CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR Thursday, April 10, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 190 Dr. Zvonimir Dogic University of Pennsylvania "Imaging Kinetic Pathways of Phase Transitions in Colloidal Liquid Crystals" Host: Professor Jay Tang Thursday, April 10, 2003, 4:00pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building Physics Colloquium "Metal-Insulator Transition and Glassy Behavior in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems" Professor D. Popovic National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Florida State University Host: Sergey Kravchenko Refreshments available 3:45pm Thursday, April 10, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "HI Structure in the Milky Way: The Big and the Small" Naomi McClure-Griffiths Australia Teleescope National Facility Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 11, 2003 Friday, April 11, 2003, 8:20 a.m.-12:00 noon Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Frontiers in Materials and Nanoscience: Novel Phenomena and New Structures Industrial Outreach Program Workshop Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA For registration and program information: http://www.deas.harvard.edu/industry/