October 10 - October16, 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. the Monday of the week preceding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. E-mail late notices to bapc@cosmos5.phy.tufts.edu this will forward them to everyone on the electronic list directly. _________________________________________________ Monday, October 11, 1999 Holiday_________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 12 1999 Thursday, October 14, 1999, 4:00 pm Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Triplet Pairing in Quasi-1D Molecular Conductors" Professor Michael J. Naughton Boston College Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Measuring Casimir and Gravitational Forces Using Micromechanical Resonators" Roberto Onofrio University of Padova Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, October 12,1999, 2:00PM Brandeis, University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Yalem 229 ``Anomalies and RR couplings for D-branes and O-planes" Marco Serone Universiteit van Amsterdam Tuesday, October 12,1999, 3:45PM Boston University Physics Colloquium SCI, Room 107 ``Parity Violation and the Nucleon's Strange Sea" Professor Elizabeth Beise University of Maryland Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Higher-twist contributions to the structure functions: a lattice study" Stefano Capitani MIT Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 12 1999, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center NW17-218 ``Dynamic Ergodic Divertor" Dr. Karl Heinz Finken Textor Refreshments served before talk. Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 4:00PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Complexity in Economics" Professor Blake Le Baron Brandeis University Refreshment served at 3:30p.m., Room 333 Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Math/Physics Seminar MIT-Building 4, Room 159 ``On the use of Hopf algebras in quantum field theory" Dr. Dirk Kreimer University of Mainz Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Special Theory Seminar Jefferson 356 ``New variants and new calculations of Casimir effects" Shmuel Nussinov Tel Aviv University _________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 13, 1999 Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 12 noon Boston University Center for Computational Science Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Better Materials and Process Design through Connecting Length Scales" Mark J. Biggs University of Surrey Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``New Variants and New Derivations of Casimir Effects" Shmuel Nussinov Tel Aviv University Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Magnetic Resonance Imagery; Thermal and Hyperpolarized" Professor Robert Mulkern Harvard Medical School Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Wednesday, October 13, 1999 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center ``Statistics of Coupled Hole Pairs in HTSC Ceramics and the Possibility of the Bose-Einstein Condensation" Professor Ilya Kaplan Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Inst. de Fisic Refreshments served at 3:45p.m. Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room305 ``Space Physics and NASA: Programs, Accomplishments and Aspirations" Professor Robert L. Carovillano Boston College Coffee served at 3:45p.m., Higgins Hall, Room 354 Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 356 ``Dynamics Built on Noncommutative Spaces" Julian Wess Universitat Muenchen Refreshment served at 4:00p.m. in Jefferson 4th floor _________________________________________________ Thursday, October 14, 1999 Thursday, October 14, 1999, 12 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 ``Phase Slips and Current Conversion in Sliding Charge Density Wave" Serguei Brazovski University of Paris-Sud Thursday, October 14,1999, 12:30PM Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Some Tidbits in Neutrino Physics" Shmuel Nussinov Tel Aviv University Thursday, October 14, 1999, 3:45PM Boston University Colloquium CAS 500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``Active Auroras and Plasma Sheet Dynamics" Professor George Parks University of Washington Thursday, October 14, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``The Cosmic Triangle" Dr. Neta A. Bahcall Princeton University Tea served at 3:30p.m Thursday, October 14, 1999,4:00PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Radius stabilization and anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking" Markus Luty University of Maryland Refreshments at 3:30p.m. Thursday, October 14, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Bldg 10-Room 250 ``Supernovae and their remnants" Professor Hans Bethe Cornell University Friday, October 15, 1999 Friday, October 15, 1999, 12 noon Boston University Center for Computational Science Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593 ``Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence on PC/Linux Clusters: Fact or Fiction?" George Em Karniadakis Brown University Friday, October 15, 1999, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar MSC Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Polymer Research Opportunities by Synchrotron X-ray technologies" Professor Benjamin Hsiao SUNY-Stonybrook Friday, October 15,1999, 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Role of the Polarization Current in Neoclassical Tearing Modes" Frank Waelbroeck Inst. for Fusion Studies, University of Texas, Austin Refreshments before talk. Friday, October 15,1999, 4:00PM. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Disorder, Interactions and Spin in `Magnetic' 2DEG's: New Puzzles in Flatland?" Professor Nitin Samarth Pennsylvanis State University Refreshments following talk. Special announcement October 16, 1999, 9:30 am to 3:30pm Brandeis University Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics: In Memory of Eugene P. Gross Physics Building, Room 131 Please register by Monday, October 11 at http://physics.clarku.edu/gbasm/ (so lunch can be provided) 9:30-10:00 - Refreshments 10:00-10:30 - Michael Brenner, MIT ``Toward an effective theory of sedimentation" 10:35-11:05 - Seth Fraden, Brandeis University ``Engineering Entropy: Building order with disorder" 11:10-11:40 - Brad Marston, Brown University ``Using supersymmetry to understand disorder and quantum criticality: successes and failures" 11:45-12:15 -John Straub, Boston University ``Timescales and pathways for kinetic energy relaxation in proteins" 12:30-1:20 - Lunch 1:30-2:00 - Short talks on the life and work of Eugene Gross 2:00-3:30 - 3-5 minute contributed talks ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the October 17-October23 calendar is Tuesday, October 12, 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".