February 13 - February 19 , 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 14, 2000 Monday, February 14, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Energy-dependent description of gravitation supported by an electromagnetic test of local Lorentz invariance" Fabio Cardone Universita degli Studi dell'Aquila Monday, February 14, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``Cosmology from the MAP Satellite" Stephan Meyer University of Chicago Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, February 14, 2000 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26-Kolker Room 414 ``Chiral Structure of the Nucleon" Barry Holstein University of Massachusetts-Amherst Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, February 14, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Physics at the Breakfast Table" Sidney Nagel University of Chicago Tea served at 4:00p.m. Jefferson Lab. 450 ________________________________________________ Tuesday, February 15,2000 Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall Room 250 ``Highest Energy Cosmic Rays" Paul Frampton University of North Carolina Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Exciting Granular Materials" Sidney Nagel University of Chicago Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Instabilities in the Flow of Dry and Wet Granular Matter" Professor Arshad Kudrolli Clark University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bld 6 3rd fl seminar room ``QCD Ground State at Asymptotically Large Density" Myckola Schwetz Boston University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 4:30 PM Harvard University Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Ramond-Ramond Fields, K-Theory and D-Brane Anomalies" Dan Freed University of Texas-Austin _________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 16, 2000 Wednesday, February 16, 2000, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Conductance and Noise in Junctions Between Normal Metals and Hierarchical Fractional Quantum Hall States" Professor Claudio Chamon Boston University Wednesday, February 16, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Supernovae and the Accelerating Universe" Professor Robert Kirschner Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, February 16, 2000, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bdg 6 3rd fl seminar room ``(2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory: Vacuum wave-function, string tension, etc." V.P. Nair CCNY Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm Wednesday, February 16, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 ``Black Holes in Bose Einstein Condensates" Dr. James Anglin ITAMP-Harvard University Tea served at 4:00pm Wednesday, February 16, 2000, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium (organized jointly with the Dept. of Chemistry) Gasson Hall, Room305 ``Application of Transmission Electron Microscopy in Material Research" Dr. Jianguo Wen Boston College Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 _________________________________________________ Thursday, February 17, 2000 Thursday, February 17, 2000, 12noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Group Lyman 425 ``Computer simulations on interlayer Josephson-vortex systems in High-Tc Superconductors" Xiao Hu National Institute for Metals, Japan Thursday, February 17, 2000, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Jefferson Lab. 250 `Jamming: from Glasses to Granular Matter" Sidney Nagel University of Chicago Thursday, February 17, 2000, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Ctr., Room N-105 ``Configurational Entropy and Collective Modes in Normal and Supercooled Liquids" Dr. Ulrich Zurcher University of Rhode Island Thursday, February 17, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``The Molecular Universe" Dr. David Neufeld John Hopkins University Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, February 17, 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``The Standard Model and Phase Transitions in Heterotic M-Theory" Burt Ovrut University of Pennsylvania Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET Commons, 4th fl Jefferson _____________________________________________ Friday, February 18, 2000 Friday, February 18, 2000, 12 noon Boston University Center for Computational Science Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Energy, Errors, and Dynamics in Computation by DNA Self-Assembly" Erik Winfree California Institute of Technology Friday, February 18, 2000 4:00PM. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Relationship Between Growth Mechanisms, Extended Defects, and Physical Properties of Gallium Nitride and Its Alloys" Professor James Speck University of California-Santa Barbara Refreshments served following seminar. ____________________________