April 9, 2000 to April 15, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, April 10, 2000 Monday, April 10, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Remarks on D-Brane Bound States" Savdeep Sethi IAS Monday, April 10, 2000, 4:30 pm Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 " TITLE-TO BE ANNOUNCED" Lisa Randall M.I.T. Tea served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 450 Monday, April 10, 2000 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Electromagnetic Pion Production and Decay Experiments Probing Chiral Symmetry" Aron Bernstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, April 10, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``Science results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory" Harvey Tananbaum CfA Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, April 10, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter Physics Professor Jeff Lynn University of Maryland and NIST Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. ________________________________________________ Tuesday, April 11, 2000 Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 11:00AM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Smith-Purcell Radiation in the Relativistic Regime" John Walsh Dartmouth College Refreshments before talk. Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Single-molecule Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Dynamics of Biological Systems" Sunney Xie Harvard University Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 3:30 PM Boston University Biological Physics Seminar SCI 352 Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonealth Ave ``Kinesin motors studied with a single-molecule force clamp" Koen Visscher University of Arizona Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 4:00 PM Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana, Room 114 ``Noise-Based Control of Gene Expression" Dr. J. Hasty Boston University Refreshments served at 3:45pm Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``The Energy Balance of the Earth: How well do we know the absorption of radiation by the atmosphere in clear skies?" Dr. Eli Mlawer Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Eisenstein Series, String Thresholds and Triality" Boris Pioline Harvard University _________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 12, 2000 Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 12noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Twirling Elastica: twist, writhe, kinks, and drag" Dr. Tom Powers Harvard University Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Interactions of Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Transparent Material" Professor Eric Mazur and Chris Schaeffer Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 ``Vacuum alignment and CP Nonconservation in Technicolor Theories" Kenneth Lane Boston University Refreshments at 4:00 in the HET commons area Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 4:40PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 ``Shaking and Stirring a Quantum Gas: Light Forces and Bose-Einstein Condensates" Dr. Chandra Raman Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea served at 4:00pm _________________________________________________ Thursday, April 13, 2000 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: "D-sphalerons and D-lumps" Per Kraus University of Chicago Refreshments at Thursday, April 13, 2000 @ 3:45pm Boston University Colloquium Center for Space Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 725 Commonwealth Ave. Room 506 "Optical Remote Sensing of Thermospherically Disturbed Regions" Dr. Douglas J. Strickland Computational Physics Inc. Thursday, April 13, 2000 Thursday, April 13 2000, 12noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Group Lyman 425 ``Models of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Filrillation" Alain Karma Northeastern University Thursday, April 13, 2000 at 1:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, 3rd fl. seminar room ``D-instantons on the brane" Michael Gutperle Harvard University Thursday, April 13, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``The Age of the Oldest Stars" Dr. Michael Bolte UC, Santa Cruz Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, April 13, 2000 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: "D-sphalerons and D-lumps" Per Kraus University of Chicago Refreshments at 3:45 in the HET Commons, 4th fl. Jefferson Thursday, April 13, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar Dana Room 114 ``Self-excited oscillations and interface stick-slip in the slinding of two elastic bodies" Professor George Adams Northeastern University Thursday, April 13, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10, Room 250 ``A Physicist in Space: Repairing the Hubble Space Telescope" Dr. John Grunsfeld, Astronaut NASA Johnson Space Center Thursday, April 13, 2000, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room305 ``A Chemical and Theoretical Approach to Bonding at Surfaces" Professor Roald Hoffman Cornell University Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 _____________________________________________ Friday, April 14, 2000 Friday, April 14, 2000, 12 :30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Inelastic X-ray scattering from transition metal oxides" Dr. Eric Isaacs Bell Laboratories Friday, April 14, 2000 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Magnetic field generation, convection and amplification in laser-plasmas" Professor Malcolm Haines Imperial College, London Refreshments before talk. ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the April 16 - April 22 calendar is Monday, April 10, 2000 at 11:00a.m.