October 29 - November 4, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 30, 2000 Monday, October 30, 2000, 12:45PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``K-theory and Type I String Theory" Gaetano Bertoldi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, October 30, 2000 3:00PM Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar Photonics Center, Rm 339, 8 Saint Mary's Street ``Nitrogen containing III-V Compound Semiconductors:Novel Materials for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications" Dr. Charels Tu UCSD Monday, October 30, 2000 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium De Meritt Hall, Rm 209B ``Dark Matter and WIMPS" Kathryn Freese University of Michigan Refreshments in Rm 109 at 3:30pm Monday, October 30, 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``New Phases of Supersymmetric QCD" Al Shapere University of Kentucky/MIT Refreshments served at 4:15p.m. Monday, October 30, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Generalized Crumpling" Professor Thomas Witten University of Chicago Refreshments served at 4:00p.m Monday, October 30, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Quantum Computing Using Electrons Floating on Liquid Helium" Dr. Phillip Platzman Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 ________________________________________________Tuesday, October 31, 2000 Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Photo-Switching Between Conformations of Red and Green Fluorescent Proteins" Silvia Volker University of Leiden Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Against Doomsday" Ken Olum Tufts University Refreshments served at 2:00PM Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 1:30 PM* (special time & place) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Kolker Room 26-414 ``Perfect Actions, Imperfect Actions and Overlap Actions" Tom De Grand University of Colorado Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 3:40PM Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf SC, Rm 107, 590 Commonweatlth Ave ``Photonic Crystals: Working at the Speed of Light" Professor John Joannopoulos Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:20p.m. Call (353-2600) for parking 24 hours in advance. Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW 17-218 ``The Resistive Wall Instability and Critical Flow Velocity" Chris Lashmore-Davies Culham Science Center Refreshments served 15 minutes before talk Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Physical results from unphysical simulation"" Noam Shoresh University of Washington Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Prospects for a Solid State Quantum Computer" Dr. David DiVincenzo IBM-Watson Research Center Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Building 4-Room-231 ``B-fields and twisted K-theory" Mathai Varghese Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 4:30 PM Harvard University Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 ``TBA" Wonho Jhe Korea Refreshments served at 4:00pm _________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 1, 2000 Wednesday, November 1, 2000 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pinned Polymers (and found an unexpected force-displacement relation)" David Lubensky Harvard Unversity Wednesday, November 1, 2000, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 ``Dark Energy Cosmology and the Observational Signatures of Quintessence" Professor Robert Caldwell Dartmouth College Wednesday, November 1, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research ``Striped and vibrations in high temperature superconductors" Professor Antonio Castro Neto Boston University Wednesday, November 1, 2000, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``Specific DNA transcription without TATA-binding protein" Dr Amy Usheva Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Medical Center Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, November 1, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 356 ``Crystalline Color Superconductivity" Professor Krishna Rajagopal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments at 4:00, HET commons area Wednesday, November 1, 2000, 6:30PM Harvard University Special Public Lecture-presented by Clay Math. Inst. Emerson Hall 105 ``Minesweeper Math" Professor Ian Stewart University of Warwick, UK _________________________________________________ Thursday, November 2, 2000 Thursday, November 2, 2000, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium SSC, Room N-105 ``Granular Wave Patterns in a Horizontal Rotating Cylinder" Amy Shen Harvard University Thursday, November 2, 2000 4:00PM(note special day) Boston University Joint Space Physics/Astrophysics Seminar Astronomy Conference Rm. 500, 725 Commonwealth Ave. ``Adaptive Optics Applied to High Resolution Studies of the Sun" Steven Keil Director, NSO Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm Thursday, November 2, 2000, 4:00PM Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research ``Quantum Chaos" Professor R. Blumel Weleyan Thursday, November 2, 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Supersymmetric actions and quantum corrections to superspace torsion constraints" Pierre Vanhove Saclay Institute Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET commons area Jefferson 460 Thursday, November 2, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``Quantum Spins and Quantum Links: From Antiferromagnets to QCD" Uwe-Jens Wiese Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, November 3, 2000 Friday, November 3, 2000 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf SC, Rm. 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Charge-density-wave mechanisms in the 2H-NbSe2 family:Angle resolved photoemission studies" Professor Rong Liu Michigan State University Friday, November 3, 2000, 4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW 17-218 ``Fusion energy with KrF lasers" John Sethian Naval Research Laboratory Refreshments served 15 minutes before talk Friday, November 3, 2000 4:00PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``Probing Dynamics with X-rays" Dr. Eric Isaacs Bell Laboratories Refreshment served following seminar in Brooks Room Friday, November 3, 2000, 4:00 P.M. Tufts University Physics & Astronomy Department Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 253 "Extrasolar Planets" Dr. David Latham Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Julian K. Knipp Library Robinson Hall, Room 251 -