November 14- November 20, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 15, 1999 Monday, November 15, 1999, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rd fl. Seminar room ``Modal Expansions for QFT" Professor Dean Lee University of Massachusetts-Amherst Monday, November 15, 1999, 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall, Room 107 ``The Invisible Physicist" Dr. Lindsay Steele, Sr. AMLCD Engineer Planar, Lake Mills, WI Coffee served 3:40p.m., Olin 118 Monday, November 15, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26-Kolker Room 414 ``Neutrino Physics from Super-K and K2K" Ed Kearns Boston University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, November 15, 1999, 4:15PM Northeastern University HEP Seminar 114DA ``More surprises from top in Run II" Professor Regina Demina Kansas State University Monday, November 15, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Where do we standard with solar neutrinos?" Professor John Bahcall Princeton University Tea served at 4:00p.m. Jefferson Lab. 450 ________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 16 1999 Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Chemistry, Radiation and Climate: Laser development for a new approach" James Anderson Harvard University Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Club Lunch (informal-bring your lunch and join us) Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rd fl. Seminar room ``Non-Supersymmetric Brane Constructions" John Brodie SLAC-Stanford University Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 2:00PM Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Yalem 229 ``ADM approach to 2+1 dimensional gravit coupled to particles" Dr. Domenico Seminara Ecole Normale Superieur Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall Room 250 ``Perturbation amplitude in isocurvature inflation scenarios" Anupam Mazumdar Imperial College Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. Robinson Hall, Room 251 Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 3:45PM Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf S.C. (SCI) 590 Commonwealth Ave, Room 107 ``Exploring the High Energy Universe" Professor Rene Ong University of Chicago Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. For parking call 353-2600 24 hours in advance Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6, 3rd fl. Seminar Room ``Sonoluminescence: Light Emission and more" Sascha Hilgenfeldt Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Math/Physics Seminar Building 4, Room 159 ``Quantum Hall Effect on the Hyperbolic Plane and Fractional Quantum Numbers" Dr. Matilde Marcolli Massachusetts Institute of Technology ________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 17, 1999 Wednesday, November 17, 1999, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Particle Physics: The Next Generation" Professor Steven Reucroft Northeastern University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, November 17, 1999, 2:00PM Harvard University High Energy Seminar HEP Lab, 42 Oxford St. ``Roadmap to New Physics with Missing energy at CDF" Maria Spiropulu Harvard University Wednesday, November 17, 1999 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114DA ``Molecular-Based Magnets: New Physics from New Materials" Prof. Christopher Landee Clark University Wednesday, November 17, 1999, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room305 ``Coherent THz Sources" Dr Erich Gornik TU Vienna Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 Wednesday, November 17, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 ``Raman Dark Resonances for Optical Memory, Aberration Collection, and Quantum Computing" Dr. Philip Hemmer Hanscom Air Force Base Tea served at 4:00p.m. Wednesday, November 17, 1999, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6, 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Flavor and Supersymmetry" Yosef Nir Weizmann Institute and Institute of Advanced Studies Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. ________________________________________________ Thursday, November 18, 1999 Thursday, November 18, 1999, 12:00noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 424/425 ``Z_2 gauge theory of electron fractionalization in strongly correlated systems" Senthil Todadri University of California, Santa Barbara Thursday, November 18, 1999, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``The First Detections of the Extragalactic Background Light at 3000, 5500, and 8000\AA" Dr. Rebecca Bernstein Carnegie Observatory, Pasadena, CA Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, November 18, 1999, 3:45PM Boston University Space Physics Colloquium 725 Commonwealth Ave, Room 500 ``Turbulent Boundary Layer and Outer Cusp: Particle Acceleration and Diffusion" Professor Sergey Savin Space Research Inst. (IKI) Moscow, Russia Thursday, November 18, 1999, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 ``Chaos in Mesoscopic Systems: From Nuclei to Quantum Dots" Professor Yoram Alhassid Yale University Thursday, November 18, 1999 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10, Room 250 "Precision study of charge-parity violation in kaon decay" Prof. Tony Barker University of Colorado Thursday, November 18, 1999 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "On the Hierarchy Between Non-Commutative and Ordinary Supersymmetric Yang-Mills" Nissan Itzhaki University of California, Santa Barbara Refreshments at 3:30 in the HET Commons, 4th fl Jefferson _____________________________________________ Friday, November 19, 1999 Friday, November 19, 1999, 12 noon Boston University Center for Computational Science Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593 ``Simulated Spectroscopy of Guests Absorbed in Zeolitic Solids" Amy Bug Swarthmore College Friday, November 19, 1999, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalfe SC, SCI Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Electron Spoectroscopic Studies of GaN(0001)" Professor Brian Thoms Georgia State University Friday, November 19,1999, 3:30PM. Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium-Anderson Hall ``B Meson Decays as a Probe of Weak Quark Mixing: SLD Results and BaBar Status" Stephane Willocq University of Massachusetts, Amherst Refreshments served at 3:00 p.m., Robinson 251 Friday, November 19,1999, 4:00PM. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Liquid Theory Approaches to the Structure and Dynamics of Colloidal-Polymer Mixtures" Dr. Matthias Fuchs Technische Universitaet-Muenchen Refreshments served following seminar. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1999, 10:00 am Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Bass 333 "Field Induced Spatial-Temporal Patterns in Magnetic Fields" Professor Weili Luo University of Florida, Tallahassee