March 18 - March 24, 2001 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 19, 2001 Monday, March 19, 12:45PM(Note time change) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Universal Extra Dimensions" Bogdan Dobrescu Yale University Monday, March 19, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``The Structure of Monopoles and Dyons in N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory" Professor Alfred Shapere U of Kentucky/MIT Monday, March 19, 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Rm 209B ``Probing the Baryon Density of the Universe with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis" Gary Steigman Ohio State University Refreshments served at 3:30pm, Rm 105F Monday, March 19, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building26-Kolker Room 414 ``Magnetic Trapping of Ultracold Neutrons and CLEAN, a new p-p Neutrino Detector" John Doyle Harvard University Refreshments served at 4:00p.m. Monday, March 19, 4:30PM Harvard University Loeb Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``Control of Atoms and Molecules using Shaped Pulses" Margaret Murnane JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder Tea served at 4:00PM in Jefferson 450 Monday, March 19, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``TBA" Professor P. Steinhardt Princeton University Refreshments served at 4:00pm Tuesday, March 20, 2001 Tuesday, March 20, 12:45PM(note new time and day) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``de Sitter Space from M-theory" Andrew Chamblin MIT Tuesday, March 20, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Brane-worlds in static and non-static bulk and localization of gravity" Ali Nayeri Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, March 20, 2:30PM(Note different time and place) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Kolker Room 26-414 ``Field Theory on Noncommutative Spaces" Thomas Mehen Ohio State University Tuesday, March 20, 3:00PM Harvard University Loeb Lecture I Jefferson Lab 250 ``Direct Observation of Surface Chemistry using Ultrafast Soft-X-Ray Pulses" Margaret Murnane JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder Tuesday, March 20, 2001 at 4:30 p.m. Harvard-M. 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Mathematical Physics Seminar at Jefferson 256, Harvard University "Harmonic Analysis on the Infinite Symmetric Group" Alexei Borodin University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, March 20, 4:00 PM Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Bldg, Abelson 131 ``Origins of Quasicrystal Ordering" Professor Christopher Henley Cornell University Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333 Tuesday, March 20, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson Lab 356 ``Vortices in Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates" David Feder NIST Gaithersburg Tea served at 4:10pm ________________________________________________ Wednesday, March 21, 2001 Wednesday, March 21, 11:45AM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Beyond the analogy between structural glasses and disordered systems" Dr. Guilio Biroli Rutgers University Wednesday, March 21, 12:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Kolker Room 26-414 ``Chiral Dynamic at Bates" Aron Bernstein MIT Refreshments served at 12:00noon Wednesday, March 21, 4:30PM Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg, Room 593, 3 Cummington St. ``Beyond the Friedman Equation" Professor Sean Carroll University of Chicago Refreshments served at 4:00pm, call 353-2600 for parking ______________________________________________ Thursday, March 22, Thursday, March 22, 1:00PM Harvard University Materials Science Seminar McKay Lab 402, David Turnbull Room ``Triple Junctions in Polycrystals" Alexander King Purdue University Thursday, March 22, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Some results on AdS_3 and the D1-D5 system" Samir Mathur Ohio State University Thursday, March 22, 3:00PM Harvard University Loeb Lecture II Jefferson Lab 250 ``Nonlinear Optics at Short Wavelengths" Margaret Murnane JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder Thursday, March 22, 4:15PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 ``Matrix Model, Non-commutative Gauge Theory and Tachyon Potential" Spenta Wadia Tata Institute for Research Refreshments at 3:45pm, HET, Jefferson 460 Thursday, March 22, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``The Science Behind the Exhibit: Approaching Chaos in the Compton Gallery" Eric Heller Harvard University Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, March 23, 2001 Friday, March 23, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 ``Dedisciplinarization: some implications for the future of science and scholarship" Dr. Paul Forman NMAH, Smithsonian Institution Reminder: Deadline for the March 25 - 31 calendar is Monday, March 19, at 11:00a.m. _________________________ - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".