November 04 - November 10, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, November 5, 2001 Monday, November 5, 2001, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Deuterium and Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis" Scott Burles MIT Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm Monday, November 5, 2001, 4:30pm Brown University Barus & Holley 168 "The Solar Neutrino Mystery - Solved" Professor John Wilkerson Center for Experimental Physics and Astrophysics, Physics Department University of Washington, Seattle Refreshments served at 4:00 Monday, November 5, 2001, 4:30pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Quantum Computing and Quantum Communication With Quantum Optics" Peter Zoller University of Innsbruck Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 - Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 12noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "From Big Crunch to Big Bang" Reference: hep-th/0108187 by J. Khoury, B. Ovrut, N. Seiberg, P. Steinhardt, and N. Turok Mario Caicedo MIT Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Hadron production in RHC collisions from a condensate for the Polyakiv loops" Adrian Dumitru Brookhaven National Laboratory Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 6, 2001 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Aspects of cosmology of brane-induced gravity models" Cedric Deffayet" New York University Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 3:45pm Boston University Boston University Physics Department Colloquium SCI 107, Metcalf Science Center 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Toward a Predictive Cell Biology" Professor Charles DeLisi Boston University Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli Boston University Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 4:00pm Northeastern University Circs Seminar, Physics Department Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Is The Micro-rheology Of Living Cells Governed By A Glass Transition?" Dr. B. Fabry Physiology Program Harvard School of Public Health Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Sliding Phases: From DNA Lipid Complexes to Smectic Metals" Professor Thomas C. Lubensky University of Pennsylvania Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Partical Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "Turning the Cosmological Constant into Back Holes" Claudio Teitelboim CECS, Valdivia, Chile Refreshments served at 3:45pm Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 4:30pm Boston University BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Boston University, School of Management Building, Room 412 595 Commonwealth Ave. "Recent Results on the Irreducible Characters of the Symmetric Group" Richard Stanley MIT Free parking available in the garage (lower level) at 595 Comm. Ave. Tell the parking attendant that you are there for the Mathematical Physics Seminar. Use the East elevators only. Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 4:30pm Harvard University CUA Seminar Jefferson 250 "Weird Spin Dynamics in an Ultracold Rubidium Gas Just Above Tc" Eric Cornell JILA There will be no CUA 10 min. talk Wednesday, November 7, 2001 Wednesday, November 7,2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``AdS/CFT duality for the rotating D1-D5 system" Oleg Lunin Ohio State University Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 4:15pm Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins 310 "Fermi Liquid Instabilities and Superconductivity Near Quantum Critical Points in F-electron Material" Prof. Brian Maple USCD Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 593 3 Cummington St. "DeConstruction and Topological Solitons" Dr. Chris Hill Fermi National Laboratory Refreshments at 4:00pm Call (617) 353-2600 at least 24 hours in advance for parking Thursday, November 8, 2001 Thursday, November 8, 2001, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "Artifice Equilibrium Experiments With Synthetic And Natural Vortices In A Superfluid Gas" Eric Cornell University of Colorado, Boulder Refreshments available in Room 4-339 from 3:00-4:00pm Thursday, November 8, 2001, 4:15pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Hot Little Strings: A Supergravity Perspective" Mukund Rangamani Princeton Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory Coffee Area at 3:45pm CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR Physics Department Harvard University November 8, 2001 Dr. Alex Punnoose Weizmann Institute Israel "Dilute electron gas near the metal-insulator transition: Role of valleys in silicon inversion layers" Lyman 425 12:00 Noon Friday Nov. 9th, 4:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Alvaro De Rujula CERN/BU Friday, November 9, 2001 Friday, November 9, 2001, 1:00pm Tufts University Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "A Cyclic Model of the Universe" Neil Turok DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK Friday, November 9, 2001, 4:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 "TBA" Professor Alexander von Odeenarden MIT Refreshments will be served following the seminar