April 22- April 28, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, April 23, 2001 Monday, April 23, 12:45PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Closed String Tachyons, AdS/CFT, and Large N QCD" will be discussed (hep-th/0103220) Nikolaos Prezas MIT Monday, April 23, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Noncommutative field theory and quantum Hall States" Alexios Polychronakos University of Uppsala Monday, April 23, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``Quintessence and the Accelerating Universe" Dr. Jerome Martin Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris Monday, April 23, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Vortex Matter in Superconductors" Professor Xinsheng Ling Brown University Refreshments served at 4:00pm Monday, April 23, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room 26-414 ``Gravitons, Tachyons and Non-commutative Spheres" Sanjaye Ramgoolan Brown University Refreshments served at 4:00pm. Monday, April 23, 4:30PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity" Lisa Randall Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 Monday, April 23, 7:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ford/MIT Nobel Laureate Lecture Series Huntington Hall -Room 10 -250 ``The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy" Dr. Charles Townes UC-Berkeley Tuesday, April 24, 2001 Tuesday, April 24, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I Jefferson Lab, 250 ``Localized Gravity" Lisa Randall Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, April 24, 4:00PM Brandeis University Martin Werner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 ``The puzzling physics of liquid water" Professor H. Eugene Stanley Boston University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, April 24, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Superconductivity with Fermion Cluster Algorithms" Shailesh Chandrasekharan Duke University Refreshments served at 3:30pm. Tuesday, April 24, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson Lab 356 ``TBA" Nick Bigelow University of Rochester Tea and cookies served at 4:10pm DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR Shing-Tung Yau Harvard University "Eigenvalues of Laplacian Index of Minimum Surfaces" TUESDAY , APRIL 24, 2001 1:30 P.M. SCIENCE CENTER ROOM 507 _______________________________________________ Wednesday, April 25, 2001 Wednesday, April 25, 11:45PM Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 ``Enumerating knots and coloured links" Dr. Jesper L. Jacobsen Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay Wednesday, April 25, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley Room 555 ``TBA" Professor Samson Shatashvili Yale University Wednesday, April 25, 4:00PM University of Massachusetts-Lowell Physics Colloquium Olney 428 ``Black Silicon" Dr. Catherine Crouch Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30pm Wednesday, April 25, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Ultralight scalars and spiral galaxies" Mikhail Shifman University of Minnesota Refreshments served at 4:00pm Wednesday, April 25, 4:30PM Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 ``BEC + Atom Optics = Quantum Atom Optics?" Dr. Steve Rolston NIST Tea served at 4:00pm ___________________________________________ Thursday, April 26 Thursday, April 26, 1:00PM Harvard University Materials Science Seminar McKay Lab 402, David Turnbull Room ``Materials Modeling and Simulation from the Atomic to the Mesoscopic Scales" Feng Liu University of Utah Thursday, April 26, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``D-branes, mirror symmetry and counting holomorphic dics" Mina Aganagic Harvard University Thursday, April 26, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Jefferson Lab, 250 ``Localized Gravity and the Weak Scale" Lisa Randall Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, April 26, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler SC, Room N-105 ``The Sun and Solar Eclipses" Jay Pasachoff Williams College Thursday, April 26, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium-2001 Pappalardo Distringuished Lecture In Physics Building 10 Room 250 ``The World's Numerical Recipe" Frank Wilczek Massashusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, April 27, 2001 Friday, April 27, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Building NW 17, Room218 ``Collionless Reconnection" Franco Porcelli MIT-PSFC Refreshments served at 3:45am Friday, April 27, 4:00PM Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Group Pierce Hall 209 ``Spontaneous Pattern Formation during Low Energy Ion Bombardment" Eric Chason Brown University -----________________________________ Friday April 27, 2001, 4:00 PM Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall, Room 110 "A New Measurement of the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon at the level of 1.3 ppm." Professor Robert Carey Boston University Refreshments at 3:030 PM in Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall.