October 22-28, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, October 23, 2000 Monday, October 23, 2000 8:45AM to 5:00PM Harvard University Chandra Fellows Symposium Phillips Auditorium, CfA, 60 Garden St Chandra Fellows Admission Free, Light refreshments Served For detailed program see http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/program2000.html Monday, October 23, 2000, 12:45PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Unstable Solitons in Non-commutative Gauge Theory(hep-th/009142)" Jan Troost Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, October 23, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Series Astronomy Conference Rm. 500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``Probes of the High-Redshift Universe" Priyamvada Natarajan Yale Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Monday, October 23, 2000 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Rm 209B ``The Meson Spectrum: Searching for Glue" Jim Napolitano Rensselaer Poyltechnic Institute Refreshments in Rm 109 at 3:30pm Monday, October 23, 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Jets at Tevatron" Andrey Koryton University of Florida Refreshments served at 4:15p.m. Monday, October 23, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Putting a New Spin on Amorphous Si and the Metal-Insulator Transition" Professor Frances Hellman University of California, San Diego Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, October 23 , 2000, 4:30 PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 " Decoherence, or Why the Macroworld Behaves Classically" Dr. Fritz Haake University of Essen Tea served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 450 ________________________________________________ Tuesday, October 24, 2000 Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 12:30PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Pratt Conference Room ``Greens Function Approach to CMB Anisotropy" Edmund Bertschinger Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``The Spectrum of the QCD Dirac Operator" Tilo Wettig Yale University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Making Introductory Physics More Like Real Physics" Professor Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood Carnegie Mellon University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University High Energy Seminar Dana 114 ``Real Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions of the Chiral Phase Transition" Dr. Fred Cooper LANL/Boston College Refreshments served Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Building 4-Room-231 ``Noncommutaive geometry and duality of gauge theories" Albert Schwarz University of California Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Building 6-Room 120 ``Squeezed States in a Bose-Einstein Condensate" Chad Orzel Yale University Refreshments served at 4:00pm Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 2:00PM Massachusetts Insitute of Technology String Lunch Club `TBA" Sergei Gukov California Institute of Technology _________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 25, 2000 Wednesday, October 25, 2000 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Understanding and Improving Josephson Junctions" Dr. Paul Miller Brandeis University Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Johnson-Sudarshan problem in photoproduction of the spin-3/2 Delta resonance" Vladimir Pascalutsa Flinders University Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology David H. Harris Lecture ``Next Generation Telescopes" Professor Shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of Technology Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Ultraslow Light" Dr Chien Liu Rowland Institute and Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 4:00 to 6:00PM Northeastern University SPS Special Seminar 440 Eagan ``Expansion of the Universe for the laymen" Professor Alan Guth Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wednesday, October 25 2000, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``Making Waves at 10^12 Hertz" Professor Arthur Gossard University of California, Santa Barbara Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Taming the Hagedorn transition" Steven Gubser Princeton University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Wednesday, October 25 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 ``Light Scattering in 3D Optical Lattices, Atomic Collisions in 2D and 1D Optical Lattices" Dr. David Weiss University of California, Berkeley Tea served at 4:00pm _________________________________________________ Thursday, October 26, 2000 Thursday, October 26, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Early Galactic Nucleosynthesis: Evidence from Halo Field Stars" Dr. Christopher Sneden University of Texas Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, October 26, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research ``Cosmological Constant in Brane World" Professor Zurab Kakushadze SUNY, Stony Brook Thursday, October 26, 2000, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium SSC, Room N-105 ``Critical Geometry: From Polymers to Turbulence" Jane Kondev Brandeis University Thursday, October 26, 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Simple Models for Tachyon Dynamics" Professor Joseph Minahan Upsalla University Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET commons area Jefferson 460 Thursday, October 26, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium-Harris Lecture Building 10 Room 250 ``Extrasolar Planets" Shri Kulkarni Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, October 27, 2000` Friday, October 27, 2000 4:00PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``How Sandcastles Fall" Dr. Thomas Halsey Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering Refreshment served following seminar in Brooks Room ___________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the October 29 - November 4 calendar is Monday, October 23, 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".