May 18-24, 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, May 19, 2003

Monday, May 19, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
``Speed-up through entanglement - many-body effects in neutrino processes"
Ray Sawyer
University of California, Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be served


Monday, May 19, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"TBA"
Chris Stubbs (CANCELLED)
University of Washington
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm

Monday 19 May 2003, 12:00p.m.
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Was There an Energy-Gap Problem? A New View of Density-Functional
Theory"
Prof. Morrel H. Cohen
Rutgers University


Tuesday, May 20, 2003


Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Numerical study of particle creation in tunneling universe."
Dmitri Levkov
Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251


Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 4pm
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
Room 114 Dana Research Building
Title TBA
Professor Daniel Fisher
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:45


Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
``Recombination of Intersecting Branes by Local Tachyon Condensation"
Koji Hashimoto
University of Tokyo
Refreshments will be served


Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 4:00PM note new day and time for this week
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
"The pressure of QCD at finite quark chemical potentials"
Aleksi Vuorinen
University of Helsinki
Refreshments will be served


Thursday, May 22, 2003


Thursday, May 22, 2003, 2:30pm
Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
McKay Lab 402, the David Turnbull Room
9 Oxford Street
"Dislocations in Higher Dimensions: The Plasticity of Quasicrystals"
Peter Schall
Harvard University


Thursday, May 22, 2003, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Chromatin Fibers One-By-One"
Professor Jordanka Zlatanova
Polytechnic University
Refreshments at 3:45


Thursday, May 22, 2003, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"Two-Year Observations of the Cosmic Microwave
Background with the Cosmic Background Imager"
Tony Readhead
Caltech
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 22, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard
Title TBA
Eric Gimon
IAS
Refreshments will be offered in Putnam House at 3:45


Friday, May 23, 2003