Monday, October 9, 2000
Monday, October 9, 2000 4:00PM
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Physics Department Colloquium
Olin Hall-107
``Elimination of Stiction in Products that integrate Mems with support
Electronics"
Dr. Jack Martin
Analog Devices, Inc.
Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:40PM
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Tuesday, October 10, 2000
Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 12 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar
McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252)
``Optical Measures of the Viscoelastic Properties of Soft Materials"
David Weitz
Harvard University
Refreshments served following the seminar

Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room
``The Last False Vacuum-Proposal for a Cosmological Constant"
Haim Goldberg
Northeastern University
Refreshments served at 2:00p.m.

Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 3:00PM
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture III
Jefferson Lab. 250
``N=1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part II"
Professor Joseph Polchinski
UCSB

Tuesday, October 10, 2000 4:00PM(Special Day)
Boston University
Astrophysics Seminar Series
Astronomy Conference Room-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave.
``Supermassive Black Holes: Recent Observational and Theoretical Results"
David Merritt
Rutgers
Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm

Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room
``Hard Thermal Loop Perturbation Theory"
Michael Strickland
University of Washington
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m.
 

Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 4:00PM
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
Dana 114
``Pattern formation in non-linear optical systems"
Dr. J. Bragard
Northeastern University
Refreshments served
 

Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 4:30 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Ultracold Atoms Seminar
Building 6, Room 120
``Diffraction of Molecular Beams by a Nanoscale Transmission Grating"
Wieland Schoellkopf
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 4:00pm.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2000

Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:45AM
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
``Some Aspects of Vacancy Mediated Dynamics"
Professor Beate Schmittmann
Virginia Tech
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Tuesday, October 10,
MIT, Room 4-231
Harvard-M.I.T. Mathemactial Physics Seminar:
4:30 PM
Lectures on Operator Algebras, Noncommutative

Geometry, and K-Theory (primarily for physicists)

Lecture 2: "Examples continued; then, The

definition of K-theory for C*algebras."
Speaker: I.M. Singer (M.I.T.)
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Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 2:30PM
Brown University
Theoretical Physics Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 555
``On the Global Structure of the Gauge Group in F-Theory Compactifications"
Dr. Zack Guralnik
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
 

Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 4:00PM
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Dana 114
``The Liquid to Solid Ransition: New Insights into Hard Problems with Soft
Materials"
Professor David Weitz
Harvard University
Refreshments served.

Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 4:15PM
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 300
TBA
Professor Pradeep Kumar
University of Florida
Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579

Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 356
``New Light on Supersymmetric Dark Matter"
Jonathan Feng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments at 4:00, HET commons area, Jefferson 460
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Thursday, October 12, 2000
Thursday, October 12, 2000, 3:00PM
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture IV
Jefferson Lab. 250
``N=1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part III"
Professor Joseph Polchinski
UCSB
 
 

Thursday, October 12, 2000, 4:00PM
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street
``Into the Dark: The long-term fate and evolution of astrophysical objects
in a dying universe"
Dr. Fred Adams
University of Michigan
Tea served at 3:30p.m.

Thursday, October 12, 2000, 4:00PM
Clark University
Physics Colloquium
SSC, Room N-105
``American Football, Barber Poles and Clouds:Phyiscs far from Thermal
Equilibrium"
Professor Beate Schmittmann
Virginia Tech

Thursday, October 12, 2000, 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Building 10 Room 250
``Superconductivity Meets Magnetism---NMR Investigation of High Tc
Superconductors"
Takashi Imai
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339
 

Thursday, October 12, 1:30PM
String Seminar
OM Theory
Rajesh Gopakumar
Harvard

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Friday, October 13, 2000

Friday, October 13, 2000 3:00PM
Harvard University
Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science
Science Center 226
``J. Robert Oppenheimer: Proteus Unbound"
S.S. Schweber
Brandeis University
 

Saturday, October 14, 2000

Saturday, October 14, 2000 9:00AM
Brandeis University
Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting
Gerstenzang 123, adjacent to the Science Library
9-9:30-Refreshments
9:30-10:05 David Weitz-Harvard University
11:30-12:05 Alain Karma -Northeastern University
2:15-2:50-Nikolai Prokofev-University of Mass.-Amherst
3:05-3:40-Sid Yip-MIT
In addition, approximately 20 contributed talks will be given.
Check web page below for more information.
Please register by Monday, October 9 at http://physics.clarku.edu/gbasm/
(so lunch can be provided)
 

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Reminder:
Deadline for the October 15 - 21 calendar is Tuesday, October 10, 2000 at
11:00a.m.

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