November 7 - November 13, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _________________________________________________ Monday, November 8, 1999 Monday, November 8, 1999, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6, 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Dissipative dynamics from D-brane statistics" Roberto Floreanini INFN Monday, November 8, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26-Kolker Room 414 ``QCD, Strings and Black Holes: The Large -N Limit of Field Theories and Gravity" Jaun Maldacena Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, November 8, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Macroscopic Quantum Interference Experiments with Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms" Professor Mark Kasevich Yale University Tea served at 4:00p.m. Jefferson Lab. 450 Monday, November 8, 1999, 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall Room 107 ``Combinatorial Rigidity and Some Applications" Brigitte Servatius WPI Coffee served at 3:40 in Olin 118 _____________________________ Tuesday, November 91999 Tuesday, November 9, 1999, 10:30AM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Thermal Instabilities in the Plasma Edge" Professor Bill Stacey Georgia Institute of Technology Tuesday, November 9, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Modern Optical Microscopy: Catching Biology in Action" Peter So Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 9 1999, 3:45 PM Boston University Physics Colloquium SCI, Room 107 ``Will relativistic heavy-ion colliders destroy our planet?" Alvaro DeRujula CERN and Boston University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Call 353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance. Tuesday, November 9 1999, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Science education for the Clergy of Eastern Europe; a step toward joining the forces of science and religion for the environment" Professor Robert V. Lange --Brandeis University & Ecumenical Patriachate, Istanbul, Turkey Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, November 9, 1999, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6, 3rd fl. Seminar Room ``Parity Violation in Hot QCD and its Signature in Heavy Ion Collisons" Dima Kharzeev Brookhaven National Laboratory Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, November 9, 1999, 4:00 PM Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 DA ``Dynamics of Calcium Release Waves in Cells" Professor Igor Mitkov Northeastern University Refreshments served at 3:45p.m. Tuesday, November 9, 1999, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-M.I.T. Math/Physics Seminar Building 4 -Room 159 ``Gravity on the brane" Dr. Andrew Chamblin Massachusetts Institute of Technology _________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 10, 1999 Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 DA ``Electronic Structure of Doped Antiferromagnetic Insulators and High Temperature Superconductivity" Dr. Victor Emory Brookhaven National Laboratory Refreshments served at 3:45p.m. Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Rm 593, 3 Cummington St ``Focus points and naturalness in supersymmetry" Dr. Takeo Moroi Institute for Advanced Study Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Call 353-9600 for parking at least 48 hrs. in advance Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room305 ``Mesoscale Machines" Dr. William Warren DARPA Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 _________________________________________________ Thursday, November 11, 1999 4:00 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Fun With Wrapped Branes" Shamit Kachru Stanford University Refreshments at 3:30 pm in the HET Commons, 4th fl Jefferson Thursday, Novermber 11, 1999, 3:45PM Boston University Space Physics Colloquium Center for Space Physics, Rm 500, 725 Commonwealth Ave ``What Have We Learned from Comets Hyakutake and Hale Bopp?" Professor Michael Combi University of Michigan Thursday, November 11, 1999, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Ctr., Room N-105 ``Quantum Magic in Molecular Magnets:Tunneling, Berry's Phase and Schrodinger's Kittens" Professor Jonathan Friedman SUNY-Stony Brook _____________________________________________ Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Friday, Nov. 12, 1999 Nelson Auditorium - Anderson Hall at 3:30 p.m. Peter Fisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology "New Physics from the Largest Accelerator in the World" * Refreshments will be served in Robinson 251 at 3:00 p.m. Friday, November 12, 1999 Friday, November 12, 1999, 12 noon Boston University Center for Computational Science Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593 ``How is a Bose-Condensed System like a Polymer Melt?" David Ceperley NCSA, Un. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Friday, November 12, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Functional Nanostructured Particle Arrays for Future Electronic and Photonic Applications" Professor Harry Atwater California Institute of Technology Refreshments served following seminar. ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the November 14-November 20 calendar is Monday, November 8, 1999 at 11:00a.m. ________________________