February 6, 2000 - February 12, 2000 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, February 7, 2000 Monday February 7, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Massless open strings on background of NS branes" Shmuel Elitzur Hebrew University of Jerusalem Monday, February 7, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``Observations of Stellar Mass Black Holes" Charles Bailyn Yale University Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, February 7, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Minimum metallic conductivity of fluid hydrogen and other small molecules at Mbar pressures" Professor Bill Nellis Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tea served at 4:00 in Jefferson 450 Monday, February 7, 2000 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall Physics Room 107 ``How Neuronal Growth Cones Move: A Quantitative Understanding" Canwen Liu Tufts University, School of Medicine Coffee served at 3:40 in Olin 118 _______________________________________________ Tuesday, February 8,2000 Tuesday, February 8, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Spring Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``An Ultracold Neutral Plasma" Thomas C. Killian National Institute of Standards and Technology Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, February 8, 2000, 12:30 PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Pratt Conference Room ``The Intergalactic Medium: From Gas and Dust to Cosmology" Rupert Croft Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tuesday, February 8, 2000, 1:00PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 ``Dynamics and Transport in random antiferromagnetic spin chains" Kedar Damle Princeton University Tuesday, February 8, 2000, 3:45PM Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 ``Observing the Quantum Limit of an Electron Cyclotron: QND Measurements of Quantum Jumps between Fock States" Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Tuesday, February 8, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Transforming the Shell Model into an Effective Theory" Wick Haxton University of Washington Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Tuesday, February 8, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``The Quantam Mechanics of Global Warmings" Brad Marston Brown University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, February 8, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 453 ``D-Branes on a Noncompact Calabi-Yau" Michael Douglas Rutgers University _________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 9, 2000 Wednesday, February 9, 2000, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg. Rm 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Physics in Large Extra Dimensions" Professor Gia Dvali New York University Refreshments at 4:00pm Call 353-9600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Wednesday, February 9, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Survey of Optical Communications" Dr. Richard Sahara Lasertron Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, February 9, 2000, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room305 ``A Smith-Purcell Micro Free Electron Laser" Dr. John Walsh Dartmouth College Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 Wednesday, February 9, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Condensed Matter Physics ``Chez Pierre" seminar Building 12, Room 132 ``Quantum Mirages: Coherent Projection of Electronic Structure" Dr. Hari Manoharan IBM, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA Refreshments served at 4:00pm -------------------------- SPEAKER: Dr. Warren Moos Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD TITLE: Early Results from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Mission DATE: Thursday, February 10, 2000 TIME: 3:30 pm, Tea 4:00 pm, Lecture PLACE: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) Thursday, February 10, 2000 Thursday, February 10, 2000, 12 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 ``Barriers in the long-range spin-glass models. The dynamical approach" Andrei Lopatin Rutgers University Thursday, February 10, 2000 4:00PM Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana Research Center, Room 114 ``The Glass Transition" Herman Cummins CCNY Thursday, February 10, 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``D-Branes in Nongeometric Phases" Emanuel Diaconescu IAS Refreshments at 3:45 in the HET Commons, 4th fl. Jefferson _____________________________________________ Friday, February 11, 2000 Friday, February 11, 2000, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Ctr. Rm 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Investigations of electromigration in aluminum alloy interconnects" Professor Dave Heskett University of Rhode Island Friday, February 11, 2000, 12:30PM Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 ``Gravity of Supermassive U (1) Gauge Cosmic Strings" Dr. Boris Meierovich Kapitza Institute of Physics, Moscow Friday, February 11, 2000, 3:30PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall ``Observing the Quantum Limit of an Electron Cyclotron: QND Measurementss of Quantum Jumps between Fock States" Professor Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:00pm in Robinson 251 ________________________