Monday, March 20, 2000 Monday, March 20, 2000 12:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Joint Condensed Matter & Biophysics Seminar SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Phase Transitions in Charged Colloids" Prof. Marcia Barbosa University of Rio Grande Du Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Monday, March 20, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical, Bldg 6 3rd fl, Seminar Room ``Holography of charges in gauge theories (+ the true nature of invariants of perfect fluids)" Bernard Julia ENS-Paris Monday, March 20, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``What the Solar Wind can teach Galactic Astronomers" Steven Spangler Iowa Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, March 20, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Tomographic Imaging of Dark Matter: New Tests of Cosmology" Tony Tyson Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Tea served at 4:00p.m in Jefferson 450 _______________________________________________ Tuesday, March 21, 2000 Tuesday, March 21, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Localization Transitions in Biological Media" Professor David Nelson Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, March 21, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab 453 ``Beyond U-duality" Bernard Julia ENS, Paris _________________________________________________ Wednesday, March 22, 2000 Wednesday, March 22, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts-Lowell Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``QCD, Strings and Blackhole: The Large N Limit of field Theories and Gravity" Professor Juan Maldacena Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30pm. Wednesday, March 22, 2000, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Rm 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Supersymmetric Electroweak Symmetry Breaking" Dr. John Terning Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00pm Call 353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance _________________________________________________ Thursday, March 23, 2000 Thursday, March 23, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Probing the Transient Universe from the Outside In" Dr. Brian Schmidt Australian National University Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, March 23, 2000 4;15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: "D-Instantons and Supergravity duals of Noncommutative Yang-Mills theory" Sumit Das Tata Institute, Mumbai Refreshments at 3:45 in the HET Commons, 4th fl. Jefferson _____________________________________________ Friday, March 24, 2000 No seminar announcements received ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the March 26- April 1 calendar is Monday, March 20, 2000 at 11:00a.m. _________________________ Ms. Joyce Berggren email : berg@mitlns.mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology berg@pierre.mit.edu Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg. 6-314A 77 Massachusetts Avenue phone : -617-253-4827 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA fax : -617-253-8674