May 14 , to May 20,  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RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.
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Monday, May 15, 2000
Monday, May 15, 2000 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar room
``Nonlinear sigma model approach to two-dimensional gravity"
Marco Cavaglia
Universidade da Beira Interior
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Tuesday, May 16, 2000
Tuesday, May 16, 2000, 12 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar
McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252)
``2D FT Spectroscopy: Single Molecule Dynamics on a Femtosecond  Timescale?"
David M. Jonas
University of Colorado, Boulder
Refreshments served following the seminar

Tuesday, May 16, 2000, 12:00noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Group
Jefferson Lab. 453
``A one-dimensional metal coupled to a supercondutor: Fermi-Liquid versus
non-Fermi-liquid behavior in the chains of YBa2  Cu3 O6+x''
Dirk K. Morr
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tuesday, May 16, 2000, 4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl  Seminar Room
``Algebraic multigrid for disordered systems and lattice gauge theories"
Christoph Best
Neumann Institute/DESY
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m.
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Wednesday, May17, 2000
Wednesday, May 17, 2000, 12 noon
Boston University
Particle and Fields  Seminar
Physics Research Bldg, Room 593 , 3 Cummington St
``Cosmic acceleration as the solution to the cosmological constant problem"
Philip Mannheim
University of Connecticut

Wednesday, May 17, 2000, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Lab, room 356
``Coherent Control of Symmetry Breaking and Chiral Molecules Purification"
Professor Moshe Shapiro
The Weizmann Institute
Tea will be served at 4:00pm


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Thursday, May 18, 2000
Thursday, May 18, 2000, 1:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar room
``D-branes on toric singularities and toric duality"
Yang-Hui He
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, May 18, 2000, 4:15PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
``Statics and dynamics of localized branes"
Donald Marolf
University of Syracuse
Refreshments at 3:45 in Jefferson 450
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Friday, May 19, 2000
No notices received.
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Reminder:
Deadline for the May 21 - May 27 calendar is Monday, May 15, 2000 at 11:00a.m.

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