October 17 - October 23, 1999 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The BAPC 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 18, 1999 Monday, October 18, 1999, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar MSC Room 352, 590Commonwealth Avenue ``Continuum theories of Brownian agents: vacancy mediated diffusion and binary data corruption" Professor Timothy Newman University of Virginia Monday, October 18, 1999, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 -3rd fl. Seminar Room ``Calogero Systems: Physics and Mathematics" Alexios Polychronakos Uppsala University/Ioannina University Monday, October 18, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26 - Kolker Room 414 ``The Shape of Gravity in Extra Dimensions" Lisa Randall MIT/Princeton University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, October 18, 1999, 4:15PM Northeastern University High Energy Seminar 114 Dana Research Center ``The Central Fiber Tracker for the D0 Upgrade" Professor Mitch Wayne University of Notre Dame Monday, October 18, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Crystal Surfaces: From Facets to Crystallization Waves" Sebastien Balibar ENS Tea served at 4:00p.m. Jefferson Lab. 450 Monday, October 18, 1999, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Imaging Unusual Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors" Dr. John Kirtley IMB Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. ________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 19, 1999 4:30 p.m. Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar "Classification of Simple Infinite Dimensional Groups of Supersymmetries and Quantum Field Theory" Victor Kac Mathematics Department, M. I. T. at M. I. T. 4-159 Tuesday, October 19 1999 Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club (informal- bring your lunch and join us) Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 -3rd fl. Seminar Room ``Di-electric Branes" Rob Myers McGill University Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Spectroscopy and Dynamics in Superfluid 4He Nanodroplets" Kevin Lehmann Princeton University Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall Room 250 ``Astrophysical limits on extra dimensions" Professor Larry Ford Tufts University Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. Robinson Hall, Room 251 Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Crystal Steps: Experimental Checks of a Renormalization Theory" Sebastien Balibar ENS Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``The CHANDRA X-ray Observatory: Revolution through Resolution" Dr. Martin Elvis Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 -3rd Fl. Seminar Room ``Identification and interpretation of low lying scalar mesons" Joseph Schechter Syracuse University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 4:00PM Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center ``Coping with Multiscale Physics in Interfacial Patern Formation: From Atoms to Dendrites" Professor Alain Karma Northeastern University Refreshments served at 3:45p.m. _________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 20, 1999 Wednesday, October 20,1999, 2:00PM Harvard University High Energy Seminar High Energy Physics Labs, 42 Oxford Street ``Experimental Aspects of D0-0bar Mixing" Dr David Asner University of California, Santa Barbara Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Computational Complexity and Quantum Computing" Professor Fred Green Clark University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center ``Ground State Entropy in Potts Antiferromagnets and Connections with Chromatic Polynomials and their Asymptotic Limits" Professor Bob Shrock Yang Inst. for Theoretical Physics, SUNY Refreshments served at 3:45p.m. Wednesday,October 20, 1999, 4:30 PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 593 (3 Cummington St.) Professor Dan Kabat Columbia University Title: "Gaussian matrices and black holes". Refreshments at 4 PM Call 353-9600 for parking at least 48 hours in advance Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room305 ``d-Wave Pairing Symmetry and its Implications for High-Temperature Superconductivity" Dr. C.C. Tsuei IBM Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 _________________________________________________ Thursday, October 21, 1999 Thursday, October 21, 1999, 12 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Lyman 424/425 ``Building a Dictionary for Genomes: statistical analysis of transcription regulation Eric Siggia Cornell University/Rockefeller University Thursday, October 21, 1999, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Nucleation: Bubbles, Crystals and Superfliuds" Sebastien Balibar ENS Thursday, October 21, 1999, 4:00PM Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 ``Semiconductor Theory Research at WPI" Professor Lok Lew Yan Voon Worcester Polytechnic Institute Thursday, October 21, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Censorship of Repulson Singularities" Joseph Polchinski ITP/UCSB Refreshments at 3:30 in HET Commons, 4th fl, Jefferson Thursday, October 21, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Herbig-Haro Jets and their Energy Sources" Dr. Bo Reipurth University of Colorado, CASA Tea served at 3:30p.m Thursday, October 21, 1999, 4:00PM Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center ``The Shape of Gravity in Extra Dimensions" Professor Lisa Randall MIT / Princeton Refreshments served at 3:45p.m. MIT Physics Colloquium Thursday, October, 21, 1999 Building 10 Room 250 4:15pm Prof. Vicky Kaspi MIT Department of Physics The Evidence for Diversity in Young Neutron Stars Since the discovery of pulsars in the late 1960s, it has been assumed that the pulsar at the center ofthe Crab Nebula is an excellent representation of young neutron stras. However, growing evidence from a variety of observations suggests that the standard picture is fundamentally flawed: the Crab pulsar and others like it may in fact be just one manifestation of a far more diverse young neutron star population than has been appreciated. In this talk, I will describe both the traditional point of view, as well as present the latest evidence, from radio and X-ray observations, for this unexpected diverstiy in young neutron stars. Refreshments will be in Room 4-339 at 3:45pm for attendees of the lecture. Please do not bring food or drink into the lecture hall. Thank you. Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 3:45pm Boston University Colloquium Center for Space Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 500 "How the Sun Controls Nitric Oxide in the Thermosphere" Professor Charles Barth University of Colorado _____________________________________________ Friday, October 22, 1999 Friday, October 22, 1999, 12:30 PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar MSC Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Surface Dynamics of Extremely Small Structures on Si (001)" Dr. Jonah Erlebacher Harvard University Friday, October 22,1999, 3:30PM. Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium-Anderson Hall ``Microlensing Searches for Dark Matter: Have we found MACHOs? Will we find planets?" Rosanne Di Stefano Tufts Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served in Knipp Reading Rm prior to talk Friday, October 22,1999, 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Design of Low Aspect Ratio Stellarator Experiments" Hutch Neilson Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Refreshments before talk. Friday, October 22,1999, 4:00PM. Harvard University PPG Lecture and Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Tailoring Chemical Adsorption to Modulate Adhesion, Spreading and Interfacial Contact" Professor Paul Laibinis Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following seminar ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the October 24-October 30 calendar is Monday, October 18, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. Special Announcement Monday, October 25, 9:00am to 5:15pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics First Chandra Fellows Symposium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Talks by 11 Chandra x-ray Observatory Fellows Detailed program at http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/program.html 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".