September 19 - September 25, 1999 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. on the Monday of the week preceding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _________________________________________________ Monday, September 20, 1999 Monday, September 20, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26- Kolker Room-414 ``KTeV Results on CP- and T-Violation" Bruce Winstein University of Chicago Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. _________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 21, 1999 Tuesday, September 21, 1999, 11:00AM Boston University Joint Center for BioDynamics and Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``The Statistical Physics of Winning Strategies, with Applications to Population Genetics and Econophysics" Professor Derek Abbott University of Adelaide Tuesday, September 21, 1999, 3:45 PM. Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonwealth Ave. Rm 107 ``Thinking Clearly About Quantum Theory" Robert B. Griffiths Carnegie-Mellon University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, September 21, 1999, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Third Floor Seminar Room "The SU(3) linear sigma model and the chiral anomaly" Juergen Schaffner-Bielich Brookhaven National Laboratory Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. ________________________________________________ Wednesday, September 22, 1999 Wednesday, September 22 , 1999,4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics, Fall Colloquium, Olney 428 ``Planets Orbiting Other Stars" Professor Robert W. Noyes Harvard University-Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Wednesday, September 22 , 1999,4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room 305 ``Quantum Cascade Lasers" Dr. Frederico Capasso Lucent Technologies Coffee served at 3:45p.m. , Higgins Hall, Room 354 Wednesday, September 22 , 1999,4:30PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 356 ``Logarithmic gauge coupling unification at a millimeter" Nima Arkani-Hamed University of California, Berkeley Refreshments at 4:00p.m. in High Energy Commons, 4th floor Jefferson ________________________________________________ Thursday, September 23, 1999 Thursday, September 23, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St., Cambridge ``X-Ray Spectra of Photoionized Plasmas" Dr. Steven M. Kahn Columbia University Tea served at 3:30p.m. Friday, September 24, 1999 Friday, September 24, 1999, 3:30PM. Tufts University Physics Colloquium Nelson Auditorium-Anderson Hall ``Ultra-Slow Light and Quantum Optics in Coherent Media" Mikhail Lukin Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 3:00p.m.-Knipp Reading Room ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the September 26-October 2 calendar is Monday, September 20, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. ___________________________ Ms. Joyce Berggren email : berg@mitlns.mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology berg@pierre.mit.edu Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg. 6-314A 77 Massachusetts Avenue phone : -617-253-4827 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA fax : -617-253-8674 - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos5.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".