February 24 - March 02, 2002
      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  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, February 25, 2002

Monday, February 25, 2002, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"A Departure from Prediction: Measurement of Precision Electroweak Parameters at NuTeV"
Bob Bernstein
Fermilab
*Refreshments are served at 4:00pm*

Monday, February 25, 2002, 4:30pm
Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley Building, Room 168
182 Hope Street
Providence, RI
"Cosmological Constant Problems and Their Solutions"
Alexander Vilenkin
Tufts University

Tuesday, February 26, 2002

Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Andreev Reflection in Superconducting QCD"
Mariusz Sadzikowski
MIT

Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
"Constraining Cosmic Geometry with the Lyman-alpha Forest"
Scott Burles
MIT
*Refreshments will be served at 2:00*

Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 3:30pm
Boston University
Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center
590 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 107
"Where Does Friction Come From?"
Mark Robbins
Johns Hopkins University
*Refreshments will be served at 3:15pm*
*Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking*

Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 4:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
MIT Center for Space Research
70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
"FUSE Observations of Ionized Helium in the Intergalactic Medium"
Jerry Kriss
Space Telescope Science Institute
*Refreshments are served at 3:45pm*

Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Physics Colloquium
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Very Short Distance in String Theory and Experiment"
Dr. Albion Lawrence
SLAC, Stanford
*Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30pm*

Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 4:30pm
Harvard University
Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
Jefferson Lab 356
Speaker and Title: TBA
For the latest information, please check http://cua.mit.edu/CUA_web/Seminar.html
*Tea and cookies served at 4:10pm* 

Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Wednesday, February 27, 2002, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
"Towards Vacuum Superstring Field Theory"
Marcos Marino
Harvard University

Thursday, February 28, 2002

Thursday, February 28, 2002, 1:00pm
Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
Gordon McKay Lab 402
The Turnbull Room
"Deformation Mechanisms in UHV-Sputtered Cu and Cu-Al Alloy Films"
Dirk N. Weiss
MIT

Thursday, February 28, 2002, 4:00pm
Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105
"Spiral Wave Breakup Mechanisms and Their Relevance to Cardiac Arrhythmias"
Flavio H. Fento
Beth Israel Medical Center, New York
Hofstra University

Thursday, February 28, 2002, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"New Physics and Cosmology from Extra Dimensions"
Dr. Namanja Kaloper
Stanford University
*Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm*

Thursday, February 28, 2002, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"How to Get the Press Your Science Deserves"
Neil Calder
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Thursday, February 28, 2002, 4:15pm
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Signatures of Short Distance Physics in the Cosmic Microwave Background"
Stephen Shenker
Stanford University

Friday, March 01, 2002

Friday, March 1, 2002, 3:00pm
Harvard University
Department of the History of Science
Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science
Science Center 226
"Objectivity, Localization and Invariance in Quantum Mechanics"
Dr. Tatal Atif Debs
Harvard University


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