October 28 - November 03, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 29, 2001 Monday, October 29, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd floor seminar room "Atomic Parity Violation and Precision Electroweak Tests" Jonathan Rosner University of Chicago Refreshments served Monday, October 29, 2001, 4:00pm Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Department Colloquium Olin Hall 107 "Introductory Physics Problem Solving at Brown University: Pathways to Teaching and Learning Physics" Dr. Carolann Koleci Worcester Polytechnic Institute Refreshments at 3:40pm in Room 118 Monday, October 29, 2001, 4:30pm Brown University Barus & Holley, 168 "Ringing in the New Cosmology. CMB Anisotropies and their Cosmological Implications" Professor Wayne Hu Physics Department University of Chicago Host: Professor Ian Dell'Antonio Monday, October 29, 2001, 4:30pm Brown University Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Ringing in the New Cosmology. CMB Anisotropies and their Cosmological Implications" Professor Wayne Hu Physics Department University of Chicago Host: Prof. Ian Dell'Antonio Refreshments served at 4:00pm Monday, October 29, 2001 Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "The Bose Einstein Condensate?A Superfluid Gas Of Coherent Atoms" Wolfgang Ketterle MIT Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 Tuesday, October 30, 2001 Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 12noon Roland Institute for Science Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 100 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge (adjacent to Longfellow Bridge) "Activity of a Single Helicase on a Single DNA Molecule" David Bensimon Hyperion Catalysis International Refreshments served at 11:20 Seating is limited; please contact Marianne Saro at (617) 497-4640 to reserve a space Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 12noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center of Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd floor Seminar Room "M-Theory Dynamics on Maniforlds of G 2-Holonomy -- based on Atiyah and Witten hep-th/0107177" David Tong, MIT Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 3:45pm Boston University Boston University Special Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "Large-Nc QCD and Low Energy Interactions" Professor Eduardo de Rafael Center for Theoretical Physics University of Marseilles Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 4:00pm Northeastern University Circs Seminar, Physics Department Dana Research Center, Room 114 Dr. A. Lobkovsky Northeastern University Refreshments at 3:45pm Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquim Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Eternal Inflation" Professor Alexander Vilenkin Tufts University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, October 30, 2001 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology CUA seminar "Degenerate Fermion Gas Heating By Hole Creation" Eddy Timmermans Los Alamos National Laboratory 10min. talk: Axel Andre, "Spin Squeezing via Slow Light" Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 4:30pm Boston University BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar School of Management Building, Room 406 "New Manifolds of Special Holonomy and Their Relation to Classical and Quantum Physics" Sergei Gukov Clay Mathematics Institute and Harvard University Free parking available in the garage (lower level) at 595 Commonwealth Ave. Let the parking attendant know that you are here for the Mathematical Physics Seminar. Use East elevators only; all other elevators will not stop on the 4th floor. Wednesday, October 31, 2001 Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 2:30pm Brown University Barus & Holley, 190 "Measuring Gravity at Sub-Millimeter Length Scales" Sylvia Smullin Stanford University "Wise Seminar" Host: Prof. Sean Ling Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 4:30pm Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Atomic Ions" Dr. David Wineland NIST, Boulder, Colorado Tea will be served at 4:00pm Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 4:30pm Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "The Muon g-2 Revisited" E. de Rafael Marseilles, CPT Refreshments will be served in the High Energy Theory Coffee Area at 4:00pm Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``AdS/CFT from a D3/D5-brane System" Dan Freedman MIT Thursday, November 01, 2001 Thursday, November 1, 2001, 12noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 425 "Single Molecule Comparative Study of Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Type II Topoisomerases"" Dr. David Bensimon Ecole Normale Superierure Thursday, November 1, 2001, 4:00pm Clark University Department of Physics Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "The Apparent Failure of Effective Medium Theory in Granular Media" David L. Johnson Scientific Advisor and Program Manager, FE Acoustics Schlumberger-Doll Research Thursday, November 1, 2001, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "Prospects for a US Deep Underground Science Laboratory" Wick Haxton Professor of Physics INT, University of Washington With Refreshments available in Room 4-339 from 3:00 - 4:00pm Thursday, November 1, 2001, 4:00pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Muon g-2: An Update" Professor Yogi Srivastava Northeastern University Friday, November 02, 2001 Friday, November 02, 2001, 12:30pm Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. TBA Professor Charles Marcus Harvard University Friday, November 02, 2001, 3:00pm Harvard University Department of the History of Science Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "The History of Scientific Biography--A Genre Study" Professor Thomas Soderqvist University of Copenhagen Friday, November 02, 2001, 4:00pm Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall "Ferromagnetic Metals: Why Are They Superconductors" Kevin S. Bedell Rourke Professor of Physics Boston College Refreshments served in Burden Lounge, Anderson Hall 3:30 Friday, November 02, 2001, 4:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Where Quantum Electrodynamics and Micromechanics Meet: Physics and Applications of Casimir-Lifschitz Forces Using MEMS" Dr. Federico Capasso Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Refreshments will be served following the seminar - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".