Monday, May 1, 2000 Monday May 1, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``The practical superspace Bardeen-Jackiw-Gross anomaly" Jim Gates University of Maryland Monday, May 1, 2000 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``First results from HERA-B" Ulrich Uwer Humboldt University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, May 1, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``High angular resolution observations of Herbig Ae/Be stars with a long baseline optical interferometer" Peter Scholerb University of Massachusetts Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, May 1, 2000, 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Department Colloquium Olin Hall, Room 107 ``Small is Beautiful, Small is Different, Small is Elegant" Dr. Nancy Burnham WPI Coffee at 3:40pm in Olin 118 Monday, May 1, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Engineering Entropy: Building Order with Disorder" Professor Seth Fraden Brandeis University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m Monday, May 1, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``A Statistical Physicist's Look at Earthquakes" Daniel Fisher Harvard University Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 ________________________________________________ Tuesday, May 2, 2000 Tuesday, May 2, 2000, 11:00AM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218 ``Transmutation of Spent Fuel Actinides in Fusion Reactors" Dr. Edward T. Cheng TSI Research Tuesday, May 2, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy- Ninth Annual Richard C Lord Lecture McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``One Hundred Years of Quantum Physic" Daniel Kleppner MIT Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, May 2, 2000, 12:45PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room ``Tadpoles, anomalies and holographic RG flow" Massimo Bianchi University of Rome Tuesday, May 2, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Moving Phases of Vortex Matter in Type-II Superconductors" S. Bhattacharya NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, May 2, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Off-forward parton distributions and the dependence of parton distributions on the impace paramenter" Matthias Burkardt New Mexico State University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday May 2, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Mirror Symmetry" Kentaro Hori Harvard Univesity _________________________________________________ Wednesday, May 3, 2000 Wednesday, May 3, 2000, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Physics of Colloidal Glass" Dr. Eric Weeks Harvard University Wednesday, May 3, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 ``Wavepacket Sculpting and Learning Algorithms" Dr. Philip Bucksbaum University of Michigan Tea served at 4:00p.m. Wednesday, May 3, 2000, 4:30PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room305 ``Electronic Ferroelectrics and other strongly correlated Insulators in Theory" Professor Lu Sham University of California, San Diego Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 354 _________________________________________________ Thursday, May 4, 2000 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "On Type I extensions of the Standard Model" Gerardo Aldazabal Instituto Balseiro, Argentina Refreshments at 3:45 in the HET Commons, 4th fl. Jefferson Thursday, May 4, 2000 Thursday, May 4, 2000, 12 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 ``Stochastic Burgers and Stochastic Passive Scalar equations" Weinan E Princeton University Thursday, May 4, 2000, 1:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Quasi-localized gravity in brane worlds" Joshua Erlich LANL Thursday, May 4, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``The First Accelerations Measurements of Stars Around Agr A*: Pinpointing and Characterizing the Galaxy's Central Massive Black Hole" Dr. Adrea M. Ghez University of California, Los Angeles Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, May 4, 2000, 4:30PM Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center ``Modeling of the Visual Cortex" Michael Shelley Courant Institute ____________________________________________ Friday, May 5, 2000 Friday, May 5, 2000 4:00PM. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218 ``Dynamical Mechanisms for `Transport Events' in Drift Wave Turbulence" Professor Patrick Diamond University of California, San Diego Refreshments before talk. ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the May 7 - May 13 calendar is Monday, May 1, 2000 at 11:00a.m. ___________________________ Special Two Day Symposium Saturday, May 6&7th, 2000 Symposium in honor of Frank Drake's 70th birthday, and the 40th Anniversary of Project Ozma. Attendance at all sessions open to research and academic community, including students. (1st day at Harvard University, continuing at Boston University on the 2nd day. For info contact Chip Cohen at 353-0940) Saturday, May 6, 2000, 10:00AM to 5:00PM Harvard University Science Center, 1Oxford St., Hall A ``Drake's Voyages: A Scientific Retrospective" Sunday, May 7, 2000, 10:00AM to 5:30PM Boston University ``SETI Beyond Ozma" Scientific session-10:00AM to 1:00PM Photonics Center, Room 206 Public Session (general admission) - (2:30 to 5:30PM) Morse Auditorium ________________________