March 12- March 18 , 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 13, 2000 @ 4:30 PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem on the Ground" Stuart J. Freedman University of California at Berkeley Tea served at 4:00 PM in Jefferson 450 Monday, March 13, 2000 Monday, March 13, 2000 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Extra Z' Gauge Bosons in theory an Experiment" Paul Langacker University of Pennsylvania Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, March 13, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``The Role of Giant Herbig-Haro Flows in the ISM" Alyssa Goodman Harvard University Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, March 13, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Surface Instabilities Induced by Elastic Stress" Dr. Martin Grant Mc Gill University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m Monday, March 13, 2000, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem on the Ground" Stuart J. Freedman Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley & LBNL Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 _______________________________________________ Tuesday, March 14, 2000 Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Modern Laser Spectroscopy: Ultrasensitive, Ultrastable and Ultrafast" Jun Ye , JILA Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical, Bldg 6 3rd fl, Seminar Room ``Search for a Realistic M-theory Cosmology" Andrew Chamblin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``QCD, strings and black holes, The Large N Limit of field theories and gravity" Professor Juan Maldacena Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 3:45PM Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 ``NMR attack on the major issues in high temperature superconductivity" Professor Charles Pennington Ohio State University Refreshments served at 3:30pm For parking information phone 353-2600, 24 hours in advance Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Gluon-Meson Duality" Christof Wetterich University of Heidelberg Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. _________________________________________________ Wednesday, March 15, 2000 Wednesday, March 15, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 ``Hiding the Hierarchy in Higher Dimensions" Andrew Cohen Boston University Refreshments at 4:00pm in the HET commons area _________________________________________________ Thursday, March 16, 2000, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Taubman Building, 5th Floor "Coupling Science and the National Interest" Gerald Holton Harvard University Reception to follow. Thursday, March 16, 2000 Thursday, March 16, 2000, 12 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Group Lyman 425 ``Influence of disorder on quantum critical phenomena of some low-dimensional bosonic systems" Kihong Kim Harvard Universtiy Thursday, March 16, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Theory of the Atmosphere and Spectra of Substellar Mass Objects" Dr. Adam Burrows University of Arizona Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, March 16, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 ``Quintessence: Is Einstein's gravity incomplete?" Professor Christof Wetterich University of Heidelberg Refreshments served in 4-339 at 3:00pm Thursday, March 16, 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``TBA" Erik Verlinde Princeton University Refreshments at 3:45 in the HET Commons, 4th fl. Jefferson Thursday, March 16, 2000, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program Lewis M. Branscomb Lecture Series 5th Floor, Taubman Building, JFK School of Gov't. "Coupling Science and the National Interest" Gerald Holton Harvard University - _____________________________________________ Friday, March 17, 2000 FRIDAY, March 17, 2000, 3:00 pm Harvard University Department of the History of Science Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "Identity and Ideaology in Meghnat Saha's Science" Dr. Abha Sur STS, MIT Friday, March 17, 2000 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``The Origin of Magnetic Fields in the Universe" Professor Steven Cowley University of California, LA Refreshments before talk.