November 18 - November 24, 2001
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Monday, November 19, 2001

Monday, November 19, 2001, 11:00am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series
Building NW17-218
"Zonal and Streamer Structures in Magnetic Curvature Driven Rayleugh Taylor Instability"
Abhijit Sen
Institute for Plasma Research
Gandhinagar, India

Monday, November 19, 2001, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
``Puzzles in the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays, Possible Solutions, and maybe
Neutrinos"
Tom Weiler
Vanderbilt University
Refreshments to be served

Monday, November 19, 2001, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"EXO"
Giorgio Grata
Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm





Monday, November 19, 2001, 4:30pm
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab 250
"DC Transformer and DC Josephson (-like) Effect in Quantum Hall Bilayers:
Steven M. Girvin
Yale University
Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450
						
Tuesday, November 20, 2001 

Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 12:00noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grier Room (34-401)
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy
"Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates - a Nanokelvin Laboratory for AMO Physics"
Wolfgang Ketterle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar

Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 12 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technolgoy
String Lunch Club
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, 3rd floor seminar room
``Mysteries from Mr. del Pezzo ``A Mysterous Duality"
based on paper by Iqbal, Neitzke, Vafa-hep/th-0111068
Yang-Hui He
MIT

Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 1:00pm
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building 593
"Detection of very small Neutrino Masses in double-beta decay"
Giorgio Gratta
Stanford

Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room
"Twisted Mass QCD"
Stefan Sint
CERN
Refreshments to be served

Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 2:45pm
Harvard University
Experimental High Energy Seminars
HEPL (42 Oxford St.) - 3rd Floor Conference Room
"About the Anomalous W+jet events observed by CDF"
Paolo Giromini
INFN-Frascati


Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Viruses, Vesicles, and Multi-Electron Bubbles: The Thomson Problem Revisited"
Professor David Nelson
Harvard University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm

Tuesday, November 20, 2001, 4:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge Room 37-252
Inside Neutron Stars: "Theoretical Speculations and Observational Constraints"
Dr. Sanjay Reddy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments are served at 3:45pm

November 20, 2001 4:00 pm
Harvard University
Jefferson 356
"Collective and single-particle excitations of Bose-Einstein condensates"
Charles Clark
NIST Gaithersburgh
10 minute talk: Dominik Schneble
"Optical Manipulation of Atoms in a Surface Waveguide"
						
Wednesday, November 21, 2001

Wednesday November 21, 2001, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
``On heterotic orbifolds, M-theory and Type I' Brane Engineering"
Jacob Sonnenschein
Tel Aviv U/IAS




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