December 5 - December 11, 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AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.
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Monday, December 6, 1999
Monday, December 6, 1999, 2:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rd fl. Seminar Room
``The Cosmological Constant Problems"
Jack Ng
MIT & University of North Carolina

Monday, December 6, 1999, 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building 26-Kolker Room 414
``Tests of fundamental Symmetries in Nuclei"
Stuart Freedman
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Refreshments served at 4:00p.m

Monday, December 6, 1999, 4:30 PM
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab. 250
``Engineering Entrophy:
Phase behavior of virus suspensions"
Professor Seth Fraden
Brandeis University
Tea served at 4:00p.m. Jefferson Lab. 450

Monday, December 6, 1999, 4:00PM
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
 Physics Colloquium
Olin Hall, (Physics), Room 107
``Optical Demultiplexing Using Semiconductor Amplifiers"
Dr. Niloy Dutta
University of Connecticut
Coffee served 3:40p.m.,Olin 118
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Tuesday, December 7, 1999
Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 12 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar
McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252)
``A Quantum Degenerate Gas of Fermionic Atoms"
Deborah Jin
JILA/University of Colorado
Refreshments served following the seminar

Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 12 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Jefferson 453
``The shape of the stop of Ballistic Conductance"
Dr. Vikram Tripathi
Cambridge Univesity

Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 4:00 PM
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Bldg, Abelson 131
``Wax Tectonics: Molding the Earth with Wax"
Professor Eberhard Bodenshatz
Cornell University
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333

Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6, 3rd fl. Seminar Room
``Isgur-Wise form factors for heavy baryons and large Nc QCD"
Tom Cohen
University of Maryland
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m.
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Wednesday, December 8, 1999
Wednesday, December 8, 1999, 4:00 PM
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Department of Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
``Site Selective Reactions on Surfaces"
Professor Cynthia Friend
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m

Wednesday, December 8, 1999, 4:30 PM
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Gasson Hall, Room 305
``Addressing the Nuclear Past, Shaping the Nuclear Future"
Dr. Ernest Moniz
Undersecretary, United States Department of Energy
Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354

Wednesday, December 8, 1999, 4:30 PM
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Bldg, Room 593, 3 Cummington St.
``The Search for Extra Dimensions"
Dr. Joseph Lykken
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Refreshments served at 4:00p.m.
Call 353-9600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance
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Thursday, December 9, 1999
Thursday, December 9, 1999, 4:00 PM
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street
``Gas Giant Planet Formation: Core Accretion or Disk Instability?"
Dr. Alan Boss
Carnegie Institution -Washington, DC
Tea served at 3:30p.m.

Thursday, December 9, 1999    4:00 PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
Title:  Perturbative Noncommutative Dynamics
Nathan Seiberg
IAS
Refreshments at 3:30 in the HET Commons

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Friday, December 10, 1999
Friday, December 10, 1999, 12:30 PM
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf SB, 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 352
``Single-electron topography of the Quantum Hall liquid performed by a
mobile Quantum Dot"
Dr. Gleb Finkelstein
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friday, December 10, 1999, 12:30 PM
Tufts University
Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
``Dynamics of Non-Abelian Bubble Collisions"
Dr. Ola Tornkvist
Cambridge University

Friday, December 10, 1999, 3:30 PM
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Nelson Auditorium-Anderson Hall
``Searches for matter-antimatter surprises with charm quarks"
Jeff Appel
Fermilab
Refreshments served at 3:00pm, Robinson 251

Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series
Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218
``Liquid Lithium Experiments in the
 CDX-U Spherical Torus"
Robert Kaita
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Refreshments before talk

Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:00 PM
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
``Defect-Tolerant Molecular Nanoelectronics"
Dr. R. Stanley Williams
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto
Refreshments served following seminar.

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