April 23- April 29, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 24, 2000 Monday, April 24, 2000 12:00noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Spectral Twinkling" Michael Berry University of Bristol, UK Monday, April 24, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Supergravity Duals of N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories" Igor Klebanov Princeton University Monday, April 24, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``A Day in the Life of Sky & Telescope" Joshua Roth Sky & Telescope Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, April 24, 2000 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall-OH 107 ``What we know about what Pynchon knows about Physics" Professor Lance Schachterle WPI Refreshments served at 3:40pm in OH 118 Monday, April 24, 2000 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26-Kolker Room 414 ``Through the Looking Glass: Curiouser and Curiouser" Bob McKeown CalTech Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, April 24, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``The Glorious Days of Gauge Theory" Gerard 't Hooft Utrecht University Tea served at 4:00p.m. in Jefferson 450 ________________________________________________ Tuesday, April 25, 2000 Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Weak First Order Phase Transitions and Electroweak Baryogenesis" Marcelo Gleiser Dartmouth College Refreshments served at 2:00p.m. Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture III Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Non-Supersymmetric Configurations in Supersymmetric String Theories" Professor Ashoke Sen Mehta Research Institute Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 3:45PM Boston University Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Lecture Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Ctr., SCI-107 ``A Confrontation with Infinity" Professor Gerard 't Hooft Utrecht University Coffee served at 3:30pm For parking call 353-2600, 24 hrs in advance Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 453 ``A Cubic Dirac Operator and a Generalization of the Bott-Borel-Weil Theorem" Bertram Kostant Massachusetts Institute of Technology _________________________________________________ Wednesday, April 26, 2000 Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 12:00noon Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Bldg, 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Production of the Charm Baryon Lambdac in SELEX" Fernanda Garcia University of Sao Paolo Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Looking into the Works of the Rotary Motor of a Bacterium" Professor David Derosier Brandeis University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room305 ``Mechanical Detection of Magnetic Resonance: A route to solid state quantum computation" Dr. Chris Hammel Los Alamos National Laboraroty Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bld, Room 593, 3 Cummington St ``Is there quantum mechanics at the Planck scale?" Professor Gerard 't Hooft Utrecht University Refreshments served at 4:00pm For parking call 353-2600 , 24 hrs in advance Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 ``Prospects for All-Optical Control of Molecular Alignment and Radiative Processes" Dr. Marjatta Lyyra Temple University Tea served at 4:00pm _________________________________________________ Thursday, April 27, 2000 Thursday, April 27, 2000, 12noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 ``Selectivity, diversity, and their mechanisms in a network model of visual cortex" Michael Shelley New York University Thursday, April 27, 2000, 1:30PM Harvard University Special Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics Seminar Maxwell Dworkin 119, 33 Oxford St ``Scroll waves in the heart" Professor Arkady Pertsov SUNY, Syracuse, NY Thursday, April 27, 2000, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture IV Jefferson Lab. 250 ``Non-Supersymmetric Configurations in Supersymmetric String Theories" Professor Ashoke Sen Mehta Research Institute Thursday, April 27, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Low Surface Brightness Galaxies: 15 years of Discovery" Dr. Gregory Bothun University of Oregon, Eugene Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, April 27, 2000, 4:00PM Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 ``Lattice Models for Fluids and Soft Condensed Matter Physics" Bruce Boghosian Boston University Thursday, April 27, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University Colloquium/CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center ``Oscillatory cluster pattern in a homogeneous chemical system with global feedback" Professor Irving Epstein Brandeis University Refreshments served at 3:45pm MIT Physics Colloquium Thursday, April 27, 2000 MIT Room 10-250 4:15pm Dr. Bruce A. Remington Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "Laboratory plasma astrophysics experiments using intense lasers" _____________________________________________ Friday, April 28, 2000 Friday, April 28, 2000, 12 noon Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Ctr, Rm 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Contacting a wire on the edge" Dr Rafi DePicciotto Lucent Tech Bell Labs Tufts University Physics - Astronomy Colloquium Friday, April 28, 2000 Robinson 253 at 3:30 R. Shrock(a,b) (a) C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics State University of New York Stony Brook, NY 11794-3840 (b) Physics Department Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 "Neutrino Massses and Lepton Mixing: Theoretical and Experimental Status" * Refreshments will be served in Robinson 251 at 3:00 p.m. Reminder: Deadline for the April 30- May 6 2000 calendar is Monday, April 24 at 11:00a.m. _________________________