March 26- April 1, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 27, 2000 Monday, March 27, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Glueball Spectra for QCD from AdS Supergravity Duality" Richard Brower Boston University/MIT Monday, March 27, 2000 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Exotica and the QCD String" Julius Kuti UC, San Diego Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, March 27, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``The Secret Lives of Diffuse Clouds" Harvey Liszt NRAO Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm ________________________________________________ Tuesday, March 28, 2000 Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Single Molecule Raman Spectroscopy: From Fiction to Fact" Katrin Kneipp Technical University, Berlin Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 2:30PM Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Yalem 229 ``Cosmic Acceleration as the Solution to the cosmological Constant Problem" Professor Philip Mannheim University of Connecticut Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall Room 250 ``Gamma-ray Bursts from Superconducting Cosmic Strings" Professor Alexander Vilenkin Tufts University Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. Robinson Hall, Room 251 Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 3:45PM Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, SCI 107 ``Solving Neutrino Puzzles One Piece at a Time" Professor Ed Kearns Boston University Coffee served at 3:30pm Parking phone 353-2600 24 hrs in advance Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Phase Transitions in the Early Universe" Professor Marcelo Gleiser Darmouth College Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Residual Gauge Symmetries" Frieder Lenz Institute of Physics, Erlangen Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. _________________________________________________ Wednesday, March 29, 2000 Wednesday, March 29,, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``10 12 Degrees in the Shade" Professor Craig Ogilvie Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, March 29, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 ``Cold Atom Traps: Old and New Aspects of Superfluidity" Dr. Eddy Timmermans Los Alamos National Laboratory Tea served at 4:00pm Wednesday, March 29, 2000, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Warped Susy" Jonathan Bagger John Hopkins University Refreshments served at 4:00pm Brandeis University Department of Physics Condensed Matter Seminar Wednesday, March 29, 2000 12 noon, Physics Building, Room 333 >From Tethered Membrane Buckling to Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth Professor Leonardo Golubovic Harvard University _________________________________________________ MIT Physics Colloquium Thursday, March 30, 2000 MIT Room 10-250 4:15pm Claude R. Canizares MIT, Department of Physics First Results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory Thursday, March 30, 2000 Thursday, March 30, 2000, 1:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Consistency Conditions of Holography" Eric Gimon California Institute of Technology Thursday, March 30, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Local and Large Scale Flows from Surface Brightness Fluctuations'' Dr. John Tonry University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, March 30, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 ``First Results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory" Claude Canizares Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served in 4-339 at 3:00pm Thursday, March 30, 2000 at 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Black Hole formation in AdS and holography" Esko Keski-Vakkuri University of Helsinki Refreshments 3:45 in the HET Commons, 4th fl. Jefferson Thursday, March 29, 2000 @ 3:45pm Boston University Colloquium Center for Space Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 725 Commonwealth Ave. Room 500 "Dynamics of MHD wave propagation in the magnetosphere" Dr. Dong-Hun Lee Dartmouth College _____________________________________________