May 11-17, 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, May 12, 2003


Monday, May 12, 2003, 12:45pm
Boston University, PRB 595
Theoretical HEP Seminar
"Probing supersymmetry with rare B decays"
Ulrich Nierste
Fermilab


Monday, May 12, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Seminar
Center  for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor  Seminar Room
``Black Hole Production by Cosmic Rays"
Al Shapere
University of Kentucky
Refreshments will be served


Monday, May 12, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Seeing the Particles Beneath the Waves ? Beyond Mean Field Physics with
Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices"
Immanuel Bloch
UCSB
tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm


Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 1:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
``The Unexpected Role of Final-State Interactions in QCD"
Stan Brodsky
SLAC/Stanford University/Jefferson Lab
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
MIT 26-214
"Controlled collisions with neutral atoms in lattices"
Dr. Immanuel Bloch
LMU, Munich

Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Wednesday, May 14, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
``An Orientifold with Fluxes and Branes via T-duality"
Boris Kors
MIT
Refreshments will be served

Wednesday, May 14, 2003, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
``Where are we on the road to the quark-gluon plasma?
Taking stock after three years of RHIC experiments."
Berndt Mueller
Duke University
Refreshments will be served

Thursday, May 15, 2003

Thursday, May 15, 2003, 2:30 P.M.
Materials Science Seminar
"Electrodeposited Metal Nanowires and Nanowire Arrays for Chemical
Sensing"
Reginald M. Penner
University of California-Irvine
McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room
Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street

Thursday, May 15, 2003, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Primordial Nucleosynthesis in Light of WMAP"
Brian Fields
U. Illinois
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 15, 2003, 4pm
Northeastern University
Joint CIRCS/Physics Colloquium
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"The Forces Behind Self-Assembly at the Nanoscale"
Professor Karsten Pohl
University of New Hampshire
Refreshments at 3:35

>12pm, Thursday, May 15, 2003
>Harvard University
>The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
>Department of Physics
>Lyman 424
>"Shot noise of spin polarized electrons"
>Dr. Austen Lamacraft
>Princeton University

Thursday, May 15, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard
"String theory and holography in Godel universes"
Petr Horava
UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be offered in the Living Room, Putnam House, at 3:45.

Thursday, May 15, 2003
New England Section
Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org)
Sheraton Lexington Hotel
"Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers"
Gérard Mourou, Director, Center for Ultra Fast Optical Science,
University of Michigan
Networking at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Meeting at 7:30
Dinner reservations by Noon, Monday May 12 to nesosa@lambdares.com


Friday, May 16, 2003