October 1- 7, 2000 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT. You may send your announcement by e-mail (bapc@lns.mit.edu) or FAX (617-253-8674). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. the Monday of the week preceding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. ________________________________ Monday, October 2, 2000 Monday, October 2 , 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``On pure lattice Chern-Simons gauge theories" Federico Berruto University of Perugia, Italy ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 2, 2000 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Department Colloquium Olin Hall-107 ``Issues in Molecular Sieve Zeolite Crystallization" Dr. Robert W. Thompson Worcester Polytechnic Institute Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:40PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 2 , 2000 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Rm 209B ``Ghosts in the Universe" Jordan Goodman University of Maryland Refreshments served in Rm 109 at 3:30PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 2 , 2000 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Supersymmetry through the Higgs Mirror" Nir Polonsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 2, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: A Unique Window on the Early Universe" Dr. Gary Hinshaw NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 2, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Loeb Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``String Duality and D-Branes" Professor Joseph Polchinski UCSB Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 _______________________________________________ Tuesday, October 3, 2000 Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Optical Pulses Shorter than Two Cycles" Erich P. Ippen Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 12:45PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar room ``Holographic High-energy Scattering in AdS" Sebastian deHaro Utrecht University Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 12:30PM Harvard University Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Pratt Conference Room ``Cosmology with Gamma-Ray Bursts" Avi Loeb Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 3:00PM Harvard University Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I Jefferson Lab 250 ``Gauge/Gravity Duality" Professor Joseph Polchinski UCSB Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``The Phases of QCD in Heavy Ion Collisions and Compact Stars" Professor Krishna Rajagopal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Supernova Neutrinos-A Probe of Matter at Extreme Density" Sanjay Reddy Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Building 4-Room-231 Lectures on Operator Algebras, Noncommutative Geometry and K-Theory (primarily for physicists) Lecture I ``The Zoo" I.M. Singer Massachusetts Institute of Technology ________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 4, 2000 Wednesday, October 4, 2000, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 ``Reconstructing the Bulk in the AdS/CFT Correspondence and High-Energy Scattering" Dr. Sebastian de Haro Utrecht Univesity Wednesday, October 4, 2000, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Perturbative and topological features of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and their implications for higher dimensions" Antonio Bassetto INFN-Padova Refreshments will be served at 4:00PM _________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 4, 2000, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 "SO(5) Theory of High Temperature Superconductivity" Professor Eugene Demler Harvard University Coffee served at 3:45 p.m., Room 579 (main floor) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, October 5, 2000 Thursday, October 5, 2000, 4PM Harvard University Loeb Lecture in Physics: Lecture II Jefferson Lab 250 ``N=1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part I" Professor Joseph Polchinski UCSB Thursday, October 5, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Gamma Ray Bursts and Their Host Galaxies" Dr. Andrew Fruchter Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, October 5, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Department Colloquium Building 10, Room 250 ``Wave-Particle Correlations of non-Classical Light" Luis Orozco SUNY Stony Brook Refreshments at 3:00PM in the Physics Common 4-339 _________________________________________________ October 5, 2000 Boston University Biological Physics seminar Speaker: Dr. Terence Strick, Cold Spring Harbor Title:Single-molecule analysis of DNA supercoiling and its = relaxation by topoisomerases. Date: Thursday, October 5, 2000. Time: 2 PM Place: Room SCI 352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue Host: S. Erramilli [shyam@bu.edu]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, October 6, 2000 Friday, October 6, 2000, 12 30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar MSC, Rm 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Quantum dot formation in sputter erosion" Professor Albert Laszlo Barabasi University of Notre Dame Reminder: Deadline for the October 8- October 14 calendar is Monday, October 2, 2000 at 11:00a.m. _________________________ - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos5.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".