Monday, December 4, 2000 Monday, December 4, 2000, 1:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``D-Branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds" Ilka Brunner Rutgers University Monday, December 4, 2000 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Worldsheet approaches to D-branes: Boundary conformal field theories and gauged linear sigma models" Tapobrata Sarhar TATA, India Monday, December 4, 2000 4:00PM Boston University Astrophysics Seminar Astronomy Conf. Rm 500 ``Applications of Airborne Optial Photometry" Ted Dunham Lowell Observatory Refreshments served at 3:45pm Monday, December 4, 2000 4:00PM Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Colloquium Olin Hall 107 ``New Teaching Techniques: Our Experiences" Dr. Lok C. Lew Yan Voon & Dr. Stephen Pierson Worcester Polytechnic Institute Refreshments in Olin Hall 118 at 3:40pm Monday, December 4, 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``What to expect in B Physics in the Next Years" Ulrich Nierste Fermilab Refreshments served at 4:15p.m. Monday, December 4, 2000, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen" Professor Thomas Greytak Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea served at 4:00PM in Jefferson 450 Monday, December 4, 2000, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Scenario for PTC and Lorentz-Invariance Violation in Electrodynamics" Professor Roman Jackiw Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00pm Tuesday, December 5, 2000 Tuesday, December 5, 2000, 12 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252) ``Intrinsic noise in Gene Regulatory Networks: Using fluorescence microscopy" Alexander van Oudenaarden Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, December 5, 2000, 3:40PM Boston University Physics Colloquium MSC, Rm 107, 590 Commonwealth Ave. ``Challenges Facing an International Project in Particle Physics" Professor Stephen Reucroft Northeastern University Refrehsments served at 3:20pm, call 353-2600 for parking. Tuesday, December 5,, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Characteristic feature of the three Leutwyler-Smilga regimes: Lessons for (full) QCD simulations" Stephan Durr Paul Scherrer Institute Refreshments served at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, December 5,, 2000, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Statistical Physicists Look at Earthquake" Professor Daniel Fisher Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, December 5, 2000, 4:30 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Building 4-Room-231 ``Lectures of Operator Algebras, Noncommutative Geometry, and K-Theory (primarily for physicists) continued I. M. Singer MIT Tuesday, December 5, 2000 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Building 6-120 ``Atom Optics and Atom Interferometry" Paul Berman University of Michigan Refreshments served at 4:00pm ________________________________________________ Wednesday, December 6, 2000 Wednesday, December 6, 2000, 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Smectic Blue Phases" Eric Grelet Universite de Orsay, Paris Wednesday, December 6, 2000, 1:30PM note special day Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``QCD at Finite Baryon and Isospin Density" Kim Splittorff Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen Wednesday, December 6, 2000, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Physics Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 ``Marginal deformation and creation of Codimension greater than or equal 2 Solitons on Brane-antibrane pair" Dr. Jaydeep Majumber Mehta Research Institute Wednesday, December 6, 2000, 4:15PM Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 300 ``Electronic Structure of Matter: Wave Functions and Density Functionals" Professor Walter Kohn University of California, Santa Barbara Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room 579 Wednesday, December 6, 2000, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Gravity Dual of a Cascading Confining Gauge Theory" Profesor Igor Klebanov Princeton University Refreshments served at 4:00pm, call 353-2600 for parking ________________________________________________ Thursday, December 7, 2000 Thursday, December 7, 2000, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Exact superpotential and condensates in N=1* theory-from gauge theory and from string theory" Prem Kumar University of Swansea, UK Thursday, December 7, 2000, 4:00PM Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street ``Status of Extrasolar Planets: Multiple Systems and Metallicities" Dr. Debra Fischer University of California, Berkeley Tea served at 3:30p.m. Thursday, December 7, 2000 4:15 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "1+1 Dimensional Non-Commutative Open Strings" Igor Klebanov Princeton Refreshments at 3:45, High Energy Theory commons area, Jefferson 460 Thursday, December 7, 2000, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``First results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider(RHIC)" Professor Wit Busza Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, December 8, 2000 Friday, December 8, 2000, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW 17-218 ``Hyperfine-scale turbulence and electron heat transport" Frank Jenko Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching&U. of Maryland Reminder: Deadline for the December 10-16 calendar is Monday, December 4, 2000 at 11:00a.m. _________________________