November 28 - December 4, 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 event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _________________________________________________ Monday, November 29, 1999 Monday, November 29, 1999, 11:00AM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar-Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Building 12, Room 132 ``Some Dynamical Aspects of the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics" Professor Constantino Tsallis University of North Texas and Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Monday, November 29, 1999, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rd fl. Seminar Room ``Fun with wrapped Branes" Shamit Kachru Stanford University Monday, November 29, 1999, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Recent Results from LEP2" Arnulf Quadt, CERN Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, November 29, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Computational Speedup from Quantum Mechanics" Edward Farhi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea served at 4:00p.m. Jefferson Lab. 450 ________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 30, 1999 1:00 PM Harvard University Special Seminar Jefferson 453 "TeV Strings and Collider Probes of New Space Dimensions" Maxim Perelstein SLAC Tuesday, November 30 1999 Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Intertwined Bose Einstein Condensates" David Hall JILA/ University of Colorado; Amherst College Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 12:30PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Joint Tufts/Cfa/MIT Cosmology Seminar Pratt Conference Room ``What can Galaxy Cluster Evolution tell us about the Universe?" James Robinson University of California-Berkeley Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall Room 250 ``Stabilization of Embedded Defects and the Generation of Primordial Magnetic Fields" Robert Brandenberger Brown University Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. Robinson Hall, Room 251 Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 3:45PM Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf SC, 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107 ``When is Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistical Mechanics Valid?" Professor ConstantinoTsallis University of North Texas Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. For Parking call 353-2600 - at least 24 hours in advance. Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``The Universe: old, expanding and accelerating?" Professor Robert Kirshner Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rd fl. Seminar Room ``QCD at high energies: A nonlinear perturbative domain?" Heribert Weigert Nordita and BNL Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Math/Physics Seminar Bldg. 4, Room 159 ``Supersymetric Deformations of the Hermitian Yang-Mills Equations" Professor Andrew Strominger Harvard University _________________________________________________ Wednesday, December 1, 1999 4:30 pm Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Radical Conservatism and Nucleon Decay" Frank Wilczek IAS Refreshments in the HET Commons, 4th fl Jefferson Wednesday, December 1, 1999 Wednesday, December 1, 1999, 12 noon Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg, 3 Cummington St., room 593 ``Physics Prospects at the Frascati phi-factory DAPHNE" Dr. Giulia Pancheri INFN, Frascati Wednesday, December 1, 1999, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 ``Experimentally Determined Dynamics of the Coulomb-Interacting Three-Body System H+ + H+ + H-" Dr. Lisa Wiese University of Wisconsin Tea served at 4:00p.m. Wednesday, December 1, 1999, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room 305 ``Surfaces: A playground for Physics in reduced dimensionality with broken symmetry" Dr. Ward Plummer University of Tennessee Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 _________________________________________________ Thursday, December 2, 1999 Thursday, December 2, 1999 12 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 424/425 ``Ballistic and diffusive transport through a ferromagnetic domain wall" Arne Brataas Harvard University Thursday, December 2, 1999 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Planets Orbiting Other Stars" Dr. Robert Noyes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, December 2, 1999 @3:45pm Boston University Colloquium Center for Space Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 500 "Thermospheric Limb Imaging with WINDII: and Wind Imaging Interferometer" Professor Gordon Shepherd York University Toronto, CANADA _____________________________________________ Friday, December 3, 1999 Friday, December 3, 1999, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue ``Microscopic Approach to Piezoelectricity" Professor Juilo Gonzalo Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Friday, December 3, 1999, 3:30PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium-Anderson Hall ``Operational Effectiveness of the Planned US National Missile Defense" Lisbeth Gronlund Union of Concerned Scientists Refreshments served at 3:00p.m. Robinson 251 Friday, December 3, 1999, 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Initial Results and Prospects of NSTX Physics Research" Martin Peng Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Refreshments before talk. Friday, December 3, 1999, 4:00PM. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Surface Freezing in Liquids of Chain Molecules: surprises near bulk freezing" Dr. Oleg Gang Harvard University Friday, December 3, 12:00 pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington St., room 593 "From Quarks and Gluons to Jets: Probing Internal Jet Structure with the D0 Detector" Dr. Rob Snihur Northwestern University ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the December 5 - December 11 calendar is Monday, November 29, 1999 at 11:00a.m. ____________________________ -