April 29- May 5, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 30, 2001 Monday, April 30, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Dynamics of Fluctuating Bose-Einstein Condensates" H.T.C. Stoof University of Utrecht Monday, April 30, 4:00PM University of New Hampshire Physics Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Rm 209B ``Progress of a Magnetic Reconnection Experiment for Solar/Terrestrial Studies" Masaki Yamada Princeton University Monday, April 30, 4:30PM Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley Room 168 ``Higgs on the Horizon" C. Tully Princeton University Refreshments served at 4:00pm Monday, April 30, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Building 26, Room 414 ``Theoretical and Experimental Implications of a Possible Observation of the Higgs Boson at LEP" Sven Heinemeyer DESY Refreshments served at 4:00pm Monday, April 30, 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 ``TBA" David Grier University of Chicago Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 Tuesday, May 1, 2001 Tuesday, May 1, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture III Jefferson Lab, 250 ``Localy Localized Gravity, Holography, and String Theory" Professor Lisa Randall Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, May 1, 3:40PM Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 ``What about information theory in Molecular Biology?" Professor Albert Libchaber Rockefeller University Refreshments served at 3:20pm Tuesday, May 1, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``Chiral Symmetry, Quark Masses, and Scaling in Lattice QCD with Overlap Fermions" Keh-Fei Liu University of Kentucky Refreshments served at 3:30pm. Tuesday, May 1, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Building 26, Room 214 ``Ultra long-range molecules in ultracold traps" Hossein Sadeghpour ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center Tea and cookies served at 4:10pm Tuesday, May 1, 2001 3:40 P.M. RM 107, METCALF SCIENCE CENTER The 2001 Dean S. Edmonds Sr. Memorial Lecture " What About Information Theory in Molecular Biology ? " Professor Albert Libchaber Rockefeller University Refreshments served at 3:20 P.M. _______________________________________________ Wednesday, May 2, 2001 Wednesday, May 2, 4:15PM Boston College Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 310 ``Colossal magnetoresistive materials: the role of phase separation" Professor E. Dagotto Florida State University Coffee served at 3:45pm, Higgins Hall, Rm 230L Wednesday, May 2, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Symposium E15- Bartos Theater-Lower Level ``Scientific Research and the History of RF" Robert Buderi Prof. Norman Ramsey, Harvard University Prof. Robert Pound, Harvard University Jim Mikulski, Motorola Corp. ___________________________________________ Thursday, May 3 Thursday, May 3, 12:00Noon (note change in time) Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room ``TBA" Eric Gimon Princeton University Thursday, May 3, 1:00PM Harvard University Materials Science Seminar McKay Lab 402, David Turnbull Room ``Interface/Diffusion-Controlled Nucleation in Condensed Phases ( A Tale of Two Fluxes)" Kenneth Kelton Washington University, St.Louis Thursday, May 3, 3:00PM Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture IV Jefferson Lab, 250 ``Holography, Phenomenology and Model Building" Professor Lisa Randall Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, May 3, 4:00PM Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler SC, Room N-105 ``Colloidal Suspensions: Model Systems for Complex Materials" Anthony Dinsmore Harvard University Thursday, May 3, 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Building 10 Room 250 ``Cosmic Accelerators" Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin Refreshments at 3:00PM in Physics Common Rm 4-339 _____________________________________________ Friday, May 4, 2001 Friday, May 4, 12:00noon Harvard University Special Biophysics Seminar Jefferson 356 ``Watching Enzymes Fold and Function One Molecule at a Time" Xiaowei Zhuang Stanford University Friday, May 4th, 3:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 Recent Results of Leptonic Kaon Decays from KTeV Eva Halkiadakis Rutgers Friday, May 4, 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 -----________________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the May 6- May 12 calendar is Tuesday, April 30, at 11:00a.m. _________________________ Ms. Joyce Berggren email : berg@mitlns.mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology berg@pierre.mit.edu Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg. 6-314A 77 Massachusetts Avenue phone : -617-253-4827 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA fax : -617-253-8674 - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".