February 27 -March 4, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 28, 2000 Monday, February 28, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Aspects of 6d, N=(2,0) Effective Field Theory" Ken Intriligator University of California, San Diego Monday, February 28, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``Dust around Main Sequence Stars" Michael Jura University of California, Los Angeles Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, February 28, 2000 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26-Kolker Room 414 ``Illuminating the Deuteron at Jefferson Lab" Roy Holt University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, February 28, 2000 4:15PM Boston College Physics Seminar Higgins Hall, Room 354 ``Survival of Superconductivity at Anomalously High Magnetic Fields and Possible Triplet Pairing in Organic Superconductors: Theory versus Experiment" Professor Andrei Lebed Okayama University/Landau ITP, Moscow Monday, February 28, 2000 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 ``Crystal Surfaces: From Facets Crystallization Waves" Professor Sebestien Balibar Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00pm Monday, February 28, 2000 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Observation of a Quantum Cyclotron with One Electron" Professor Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 ------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, February 29,2000 Tuesday, February 29, 2000, 12:45pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bdg 6 3rd fl seminar room ``Constraints of S and U-duality on the IIB S-Matrix" Gordon Chalmers Argonne National Lab Tuesday, February 29, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Spring Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Light-bound Matter in a New Light: From Monochromatic to Bichromatic Optical Lattices" Axel Gvrlitz Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, February 29, 2000, 4:00 PM Northeastern University CIRCS 114 Dana ``Interface dynamics for the Allen-Cahequation with memory" Dr. Horacio Rotstein Brandeis University Tuesday, February 29, 2000, 4:30 PM Harvard University Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Mirror Symmetry of D-Branes and Superpotentials" Sheldon Katz Oklahoma State University _________________________________________________ Wednesday, March 1, 2000 Wednesday, March,1 2000, 4:00PM Harvard University Astronomy Department Phillips Auditorium ``What Have We Learned About Solar Neutrinos?" John N. Bahcall Princeton University Refreshments served at 3:30pm Wednesday, March,1 2000, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Rm 593, 3 Cummington St. ``The Death of Baryonic Dark Matter" Professor Katherine Freese University of Michigan Refreshments served at 4:00pm Call 353-9600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Wednesday, March 1, 2000, 4:30PM Boston College Dept. of Physics Colloquium (jointly with Chemistry Dept.) Gasson Hall, Room305 ``Can One Hear the Shape of a Pore?" Dr. Pobitra Sen Schlumberger Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 Wednesday, March 1, 2000, 8:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Historical Lecture Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Hall D ``The Sociology of Science Illustrated by Laser History" Charles H. Townes University of California, Berkeley Refreshments after lecture in front of Collection of Historical Scientific Inst. in basement of Science Ctr. _________________________________________________ Thursday, March 2, 2000 Thursday, March 2, 2000, 3:00PM Boston College Dept. of Physics Colloquium (jointly with Chemistry Dept.) Merkert Center, Room 127 ``Chemistry in Changing Enviroments: The Role of Nonstationary Friction in Polymers and Protein" Professor Rigoberto Hernandez Georgia Institute of Technology Thursday, March 2, 2000, 3:45pm Boston University Colloquium Center for Space Physics, College of ARts and Sciences Room 500 725 Commonwealth Avenue "From the Local Interstellar Medium to the Interplanetary Lyman alpha Background" Drs. Eric Quemerais & Rosine Lallement Service d'Aeronomie, France Thursday, March 2, 1000, 4:00PM Harvard University Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St ``The First Galaxies: Clues from Element Abundances" Dr. Max Pettini Cambridge University Tea served at 3:30pm Thursday, March 2, 2000, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Ctr., Room N-105 ``Can one hear the shape of a pore?" Dr. Pabitra Sen Shlumberger Thursday, March 2, 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Maximally Supersymmetric RG Flows and AdS Duality" Ken Intriligator University of California, San Diego Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET Commons, 4th fl Jefferson _____________________________________________ Friday, March 3, 2000 Friday, March 3, 2000, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Ctr., Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Localization in artificial disorder-two coupled quantum dots" Dr. Misha Brodsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday, March 3, 2000, 3:00PM Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 ``Encapsulating Knowledge" Dr. Davis Baird Dibner Institute, MIT Friday, March 3, 2000, 3:30PM Tufts University Joint Physics-Astronomy/EOTC Colloquium Nelson Auditorium-Anderson Hall ``Fundamental Physical Limits to Computation" Professor Seth Lloyd Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshment served in Robinson 251 at 3:00pm Friday, March 3, 2000, 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``First measurements of damping rates of low-frequency MHD modes on JET" Dr. Duccio Testa JET Joint Undertaking and MIT Refreshments at 3:45pm