November 25 - December 01, 2001


Monday, November 26, 2001

Monday, November 26, 2001, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, 3rd floor Seminar Room
"Implications of Higgs Boson Searches on Different Soft SUSY-Breaking
Scenarios"
Shufang Su
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served

Monday, November 26, 2001, 2:30pm
Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
B&H 555
"Geometric Transitions and Large N Dualities"
Dr. Radu Tatar
Humbolt University


Monday, November 26, 2001, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Non-Commutative Geometry in String Theory"
Shiraz Minwalla, Harvard University

Monday, November 26, 2001, 4:30pm
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab 250
President Lawrence H. Summers to Speak at Harvard Physics Colloquium
Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450

Tuesday, November 27, 2001

Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 12:00noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grier Room (34-401)
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy
"A look Inside the Living Cell Using Light Scattering and Interferometry"
Adam Wax
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar

Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor seminar room
"Hydrodynamics scaling from the dynamics of relativistic quantum fields"
Luis Bettencourt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Can One Have De-Sitter Spacetime and Accelerating Universes in M-Theory?"
Gary Gibbons
Cambridge University
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251

Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 2:45pm
Harvard University
Experimental High Energy Seminars
HEPL - 3rd Floor Conference Room
42 Oxford St.
"A Radio Telescope Search for Dark Matter Axions"
Leslie Rosenberg
MIT

Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:40pm
Boston University
Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107
"The Futures of Particle Physics"
Chris Quigg
Fermilab
Refreshments will be served at 3:20pm
Please call (617) 353-2600 one day in advance for parking

Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 12 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Lunch Club
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third floor seminar room
``Localized Tachyons and RG Flows"
paper hep-th0111154
Bo Feng
MIT

Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 4:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
"The Magellan Telescopes"
Dr. Stephen Shectman
Carnegie Observatories
Refreshments are served at 3:45pm


Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"On Some Coating Flows:  (i) the Effect of Surfactants on Fiber Coating and
(ii) the formation of Corners in Thin Films"
Professor Howard Stone
Harvard University
Refreshments available in Room 333 at 3:30pm


November 27, 2001 4:00 pm
Harvard University
Jefferson 356
"Close to Cold Antihydrogen"
Jerry Gabrielse
Harvard University
There will be a 10 minute presentation before the talk by Alex Cronin

Wednesday, November 28, 2001

Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
``Geometrical Transitions and Strong Coupling Effects in Gauge Theories"
Radu Tatar
Institut fur Physik, Humboldt University

Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"The Effects of Dissipation on the Two-Dimensional Superconductor-Insulator
Transition"
Dr. Nadya Mason
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 3:55

Wed Nov. 28th, 3:00pm
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building 593
Physics with exotic probability theory
Saul Youssef
Boston University


Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 12 noon
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
"Extended structures and glassy dynamics in
3-edge color model"
Dr. Dibyendu Das
Brandeis University


Wednesday, November 28, 3:00pm
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley 190
"Nanomagnetism:  from Ultrathin
Films to Self-Assembled Wires and Dots"
Dr. Dongqi Li
Argonne National Labs
Host:  Gang Xiao

Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 4:30pm
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"Do the Fundamental Constants of Nature Vary with Time and Distance?"
Professor V.V. Flambam
University of New South Wales


Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Fefferson 256
"Conformal Field Theories and Supersymmetry Breaking"
Dr. Raman Sundrum


Thursday, November 29, 2001

Thursday, November 29, 2001, 12:00noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Lyman 425
"Nyquist Contribution to the Dephasing Rate in Open Quantum Dots"
Austen Lamacraft
Cambridge University, UK

Thursday, November 29, 2001, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"M-theory on Spin(7) Manifolds"
James Sparks
DAMPT, Cambridge

Thursday, November 29, 2001, 2:30pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, 3rd floor seminar room
"Orientifold Planes and the Moduli spaces of Periodic Monopeles"
Gary Gibbons
University of Cambridge, UK

Thursday, November 29, 2001, 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Colloquium Series
Room 10-250
"The Quantum Hall Effect Meets Bose Condensation"
Jim Eisenstein
Professor of Physics
California Institute of Technology
With Refreshments available in Room 4-339 from 3:00 - 4:00pm

Friday, November 30, 2001

Friday, November 30, 2001, 11:00am
Boston University
Special Seminar in Biomedical Optics
Center for Photonics, PHO 339
8 St. Mary's St.
"Nonlinear Microscopy Applied to Biological Imaging"
Jerome Mertz
Laboratorie de Neurophysiologie et Nouvelle Microscopies, INSERM, Paris

Friday, November 30, 2001, 12:30pm
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Phase Transitions in Bilayer Quantum Hall Ferromagnets:  A Self-charging
Capacitor"
Professor Leo Radzihovsky
University of Colorado

Friday, November 30, 2001, 4:00pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"An Electron Gets Heavier and More Susceptible Near the 2D MIT"
Professor Michael E. Gershenson
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served following the seminar