September 24 - 30, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, September 25, 2000 Monday, September 25, 2000 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Student Holiday - Special Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Single Spin Asymmetries in Semi-inclusive Leptroproducation" Karo Oganessyan INFN & DESY Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, September 25, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate" Professor Juha Jivanainen University of Connecticut Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, September 25, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Femtosecond Frequency Combs for Precise Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Physics" Professor Theodor Haensch Max Planck Institut Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 _______________________________________________ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2000, 2:00 pm Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Derivative Corrections to D-Brane Actions" Dr. Niclas Wyllard Brandeis University ------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, September 26 at 4:30 p.m. Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar at M.I.T., Room 4-231 Title: "Brane Charges in Background Fluxes" Speaker: Volker Schomerus, AEI, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam. Tuesday, September 26, 2000 Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Biomedical Functional Imaging with Light Scattering Spectroscopy" Vadim Backman MIT Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 12:45PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar room Will talk about: Elitzur, Pioline, Rabinovici ``On the Short-distance Structure of Irrational non-commutative Gauge Theories" HEP-th/0009009 Zack Guralnik MIT ------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 2:30PM Tufts University Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 ``Explanations for the accelarating Universe" Joao Magueijo Imperial College, London Refreshments served at 2:00PM in the Knipp Library --------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Quantum Criticality in the High Temperature Superconductors" Professor Subir Sachdev Yale University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Supernovae, Neutrinos and the r-Process" Gail McLaughlin SUNY-Stony Brook Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Ultracold Atoms Seminar Kolker Room 26-414 ``New tricks for manipulating cold trapped atoms" Professor Theodor Haensch University of Munich Refreshments will be served at 4:00PM Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Building 4-Room 159 ``Brane Charges in Background Fluxes" Volker Schomerus AEI, Max Planck Institut -Potsdam _________________________________________________ Wednesday, September 27, 2000 Wednesday, September 27, 2000, 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Rippling Instability of a Collapsing Bubble" Rava da Silveira Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wednesday, September 27, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Is Maxwell's Displacement Current a Current?" Professor Anthony French Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, September 27, 2000, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room305 ``Science for the New Millennium: From High Tc to Complex Adaptive Matter" Professor David Pines Los Alamos National Laboratory Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579, main fl. Wednesday, September 27, 2000, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593, 3 Cummington St. ``First steps of the experimental exploration of quantum properties of space-time" Dr. Giovanni Amelino-Camelia University of Rome Refreshments at 4pm, call 353-2600 for parking in advance. _________________________________________________ Thursday, September 28, 2000 Thursday, September 28, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Dynamics of BPS Domain Walls" David Tong Kings College/Columbia Thursday, September 28, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Historical Supernovae" Dr. F. Richard Stephenson University of Durham, England Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, September 28, 2000, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 ``Neutron-Proton Scattering: Billiard Balls, Bremsstrahlung, and the Big Bang" June Matthews Massachusetts Institute of Technology _____________________________________________ Thursday, September 28, 2000, 4:15 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jeffson 453 "The Recent Excitement in High-Density QCD" Frank Wilczek M.I.T. Refreshments offered in the high energy theory commons area at 3:45. --------------------------------------------------- Friday, September 29, 2000 Friday, September 29, 2000, 12 30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar MSC, Rm 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Optics of charge-tunable quantum dot and quantum rings" Professor Khaled Karrai Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Germany Reminder: Deadline for the October 1- October 7 calendar is Monday, September 25, 2000 at 11:00a.m. _________________________ - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos5.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".