October 14 - October 20, 2001 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Northeastern University. You may send your announcement by e-mail (bapc@neu.edu) or FAX (617-373-2943). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. the Monday of the week proceeding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _______________________________________Monday, October 15, 2001 Monday, October 15, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd floor seminar room "Orbifold GUT's" David Smith MIT Refreshments to be served at 1:45pm Monday, October 15, 2001, 2:00pm Boston University, Physics Department Biophysics Seminar 590 Commonwealth Avenue, SCI 352 "Nucleocapsid Protein and the Helix-Coil Transition of Single DNA Molecules" Professor Mark Williams Northeastern University, Physics Department Host: Professor Bernard Chasan Monday, October 15th, 2001, 3:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "B Mixing at SLD" Jodi Wittlin U. Mass, Amherst Monday, October 15, 2001, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 Gabriella Sciolla "Recent CP Violation Results from BaBar" Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm Monday, October 15, 2001, 8:45am to 4:20pm Harvard University The Chandra Fellows Symposium Auditorium, CFA, 60 Garden Street "Highlights of Chandra Fellows recent work on X-rays related topics such as black holes, x-ray binaries, accretion processes, galaxies, active galactic nuclei, and galaxy clusters" Admission is free Light refreshments will be served Monday, October 15, 2001, 4:30 Brown University Colloquium, Barus & Holley 168 "Quantum Mechanics in the Complex Plane" Professor Carl Bender Washington University, Physics Department St. Louis Monday, October 15, 2001, 4:30pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Competing Orders and Quantum Phase Transitions in the Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors" Professor Subir Sachdev Harvard University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00pm Tuesday, October 16, 2001 Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 12noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Searching for the fate of the 0B tachyon" Matthew Headrick Harvard University Tuesday, October 16, 2001 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26-214 "Chaos Assisted Tunneling of Ultra-Cold Atoms" Mark Raizen University of Texas at Austin 10 minute talk: Julia Steinberger Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 1:30pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "The Companion Lagrangian and the Hamilton Jacobi Theory for Strings and Branes" Professor David Fairlie University of Durham, UK Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Dense Quark Matter in Neutron Stars" Sanjay Reddy Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Probing Extra Dimensions with Trans-Planckian Cosmic Rays" Jonathan Feng MIT and UC Irvine Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 2:45pm Harvard University Experimental High Energy Seminars HEPL (42 Oxford Street) 3rd Floor Conference Room "Science, Public Policy and Weapons of Mass Destruction" Allen Sessoms Harvard Kennedy School of Government Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 3:45pm Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 107 "Optical SETI: Interstellar Communication with Lasers" Professor Paul Horowitz Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30 Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Self-organization in Non-equilibrium Flow Systems" Professor Penger Tong Oklahoma State University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS seminar, 114 Dana "How HIV nucleocapsid protein aids the folding of nucleic acids" Professor M. Williams, Physics Department Northeastern University Cookies 3:45pm. Tuesday, October 16, 2001 at 4:30pm Boston University School of Management Building, Mathematical Physics Seminar, Room 412 595 Commonwealth Avenue "A Three-Term Functional Equation and the Spectral Theory of H/SL_2(Z)" Don Zagier Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik, Bonn Wednesday, October, 17, 2001 Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor seminar room "Branes and Metrics of Special Holonomy" Chris Pope Texas A&M University Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 2:30pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "Black Holes at Future Colliders" Greg Landsberg (Brown U) Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 593 3 Cummington Street "Adventures in Theory Space" Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard University Refreshments at 4:00pm Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 4:30pm Harvard University Physics Department Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Evaporative Cooling of atomic Chromium" Dr. Jonathan Weinstein Harvard University Tea will be served at 4:00pm Thursday, October 18, 2001 Thursday, October 18, 2001, 12:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 424 "Dynamic Phase Transitions in Diffusion-Limited Reactions" Professor Uwe Claus Tauber Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Thursday, October 18, 2001, 4:00pm Clark University, Physics Department, Colloquium Room BP-359, Sackler Science Center "What can RHIC tell us about QCD?" Professor John Dawson University of New Hampshire Thursday, October 18, 2001, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "CMB Polarization: The New Frontier" Matias Zaldarriaga Professor of Physics New York University Refreshments available in Room 4-339 from 3:00 - 4:00pm Thursday, October 18, 2001, 4:15pm Harvard University Duality Seminar "Is inflation realized in M-theory?" Andrew Chamblin (LANL) Jefferson 453 Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area at 3:34pm Friday, October 19, 2001 Harvard University Friday, October 19, 2001, 4:00pm Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Exciton Condensation in Semicondutor Structures" Dr. Leonid Butov Materials Science Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Refreshments will be served following the seminar Friday, October 19, 2001, 12:30PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Exploring the multi-dimensional phase diagram of a high-Tc superconductor possessing magnetic order" Prof. Young Lee MIT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2001, 9:00am to 4:00pm Brandeis University Third Annual Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting Abelson 131 So that we may provide lunch, please register by Monday, October 15 at http://physics.clarku.edu/gbasm/ 9:00-9:30 Refreshments 9:30-10:05 Jané Kondev, Brandeis University "Polymer melting in two dimensions" 10:05-11:00 Contributed talks 11:00-11:30 Coffee and informal discussions 11:30-12:05 Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University "Experiments on cohesive granular matter" 12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:15 Contributed talks 2:15-2:50 Claudio Chamon, Boston University "Aging in quantum and classical short-range spin glasses" 2:50-3:05 Coffee and informal discussions 3:05-3:40 Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth College "Phase transitions in the early universe" To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". 3 - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".