November 12 - November18, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, November 13, 2000 Monday, November 13, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``The Low Energy Dynamics of Non-BPS Branes" Neil Lambert King's College, UK Monday, November 13, 2000 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``Modeling the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in String Theory" John Brodie SLAC Monday, November 13, 2000 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall-107 ``Gamma Ray Bursts, Cosmic Rays and the Birth of Black Holes" Dr. Charles Dermer Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:40PM Monday, November 13, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Astronomy Conf. Rm 500 ``The Evolution of Star Forming Cores During Their Protostar's Main Accretion Phase" Ned Ladd Bucknell Refreshments served at 3:45pm Monday, November 13, 2000 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium DeMerritt Hall, Rm 209B ``Effective Field Theory in Nuclear Many-Body Physics" Brian Serot Indiana University Refreshments at 3:30pm in Rm 109 Monday, November 13, 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``On the Road to Nuclei from QCD" Martin Savage University of Washington Refreshments served at 4:15p.m. Monday, November 13, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Out-of-this-World Physics: Probing Quantum Gravity in the Lab" Professor Greg Landsberg Brown University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m Monday, November 13, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Mesomagnetic Tests of Mechanisms of Superconductivity" Professor Kathryn Moler Stanford University Tea served at 4:00PM in Jefferson 450 ________________________________________________Tuesday, November 14, 2000 Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Molecules in a Bose-Einstein Condensate" Daniel Heinzen University of Texas-Austin Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 12:30PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Pratt Conference Room TBA Ben Wandelt Princeton University Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 2:00PM Brandeis University String Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 ``Coherent State Transforms and Theta Functions" Dr. Joco Nunes Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``The vortex picture of confinement" Hugo Reinhardt University of Tuebinger Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Collective enhancement and suppression in Bose-Einstein condensates" Professor Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institiute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, November 14, 2000 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 TBA Hal Metcalf SUNY-Stony Brook Refreshments served at 4:00pm Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Building 4, Room 231 ``Bott periodicity for C*-algebra K-theory, continued" I.M. Singer, MIT Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 10:30AM Tufts University Department of Physics & Astronomy Lecture Anderson Hall, Room 206 Women in Science - Two Career Family Survey Results Dr. Laurie McNeil University of North Carolina Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 4:00 PM Tufts University Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Anderson Hall, Room 208 "Painting the Town Red: Light Scattering in Concentrated Particulate Dispersions" Kathryn A. McCarthy Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Laurie McNeil University of North Carolina Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. Julian K. Knipp Library, Robinson Hall, Room 251 _________________________________________________ Wednesday, November15, 2000 Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 11:00AM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW 17-218 ``Advanced Tokamak Physics in DIII-D" Craig Petty General Atomics Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 ``D-Particles with Multipole Moments of Higher-Dimensional Branes" Mark van Raamsdonk ITP, Stanford Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``100 Years of Quantum Physics" Professor Daniel Kleppner Massachusetts Institute of Physics Refreshments served at 3:30p.m Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``Time-domain THz Spectorscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Structures" Professor Karl Unterrainer TU Vienna Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Signatures of Localized Gravity: Glimpses of a Warped Universe" Hooman Davoudiasl Stanford University/SLAC Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 ``Ion and Electron Momentum Imaging Applied to Charges-Particle and Photon Interactions with Atoms and Molecules" Dr. Lew Cocke Kansas State University Tea served at 4:00pm WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2000, 11:45am Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Transition Temperature of Double Perovskites" Dr. Amit Chattopadhyay University of Maryland _________________________________________________ Thursday, November 16, 2000 Thursday, November 16, 2000, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Modeling the Quantum Hall Effect in String Theory" John Brodie SLAC/Stanford Thursday, November 16, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Dynamical Models of Turbulent, Magnetized Molecular Clouds" Dr. Eve Ostriker University of Maryland Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, November 16, 2000, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium SSC, Room N-105 ``Adsorption on Carbon Nanotubes: Quantum Spin Tubes, Magnetization, Plateaus and Conformal Symmetry" Claudio Chamon Boston Universtiy Thursday, November 16, 2000, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Magnetic Branes and Giant Gravitons" Sandip Trivedi TATA Institute, India Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET commons area Jefferson 460 Thursday, November 16, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``Telling Teller from Anti-Teller: First Results on CP Violation from BABAR" David Hiltin California Institute of Technology Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, November 17, 2000 Friday, November 17, 2000, 12:30PM Boston University Joint Condensed Matter/Biophysics Seminar MSC, Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave ``Screening of a charged particle by multivalent counterions in salty water: Giant charge inversion" Professor Boris Shklovskii University of Minnesota Friday, November 17, 2000, 3:00PM Harvard University Joint Seminar-History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 ``Helmholtz's hydrodynamics: From organ pipes to atmospheric motion" Dr. Olivier Darrigol CNRS/ Dibner Institute Friday, November 17, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 ``True-to-Mechanism Model of Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media using Decomposition into Prototype Flows" Dr. A.C. Payatakes University of Patras, Greece Friday, November 17, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW 17-218 ``The Status of NIF, and its Purpose" Alan Wootton Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Reminder: Deadline for the November 19-25 calendar is Monday, November 13, 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".