December 09 - December 15, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, December 10, 2001 Monday, December 10, 2001 @ 4:30PM Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Self Assembly" George Whitesides Harvard University Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 Monday, December 10, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "The Pattern of Neutrino Masses and Mixings" Vernon Barger University of Wisconsin Refreshments will be served Monday, December 10, 2001, 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Attractor Model of Working Memory in the Neocortex: Theory Meets Experiment" Professor Xiao-Jing Wang Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Monday, December 10, 2001, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science Colloquium Kolker Room 26-414 "Brane Worlds and Ekpyrotic Cosmology" Burt Ovrut University of Pennysylvania Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm Monday, December 10, 2001, 4:30pm Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "To Be Announced" George Whitesides Harvard University Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450 Tuesday, December 11, 2001 Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 12:00noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 24-121 Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy "Many Atom Dynamics and Multiple Thresholds in the Cavity QED Microlaser" Christofer Fang-Yen Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 12noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Lunch Club Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "Closed String Tachyons in ALE Spacetimes" based on the paper by Adams, Polchinki, Silverstein, hep-th/0108075 Bo Feng MIT Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 2:00pm Northeastern University High Energy Theory Seminar Room 218 Dana "Searching for dark matter. Theoretical rates for direct detection of SUSY dark matter." John Vergados University of Ioannina, Greece Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor seminar room "Solving the QCD Hamiltonian for bound states" Elena Goubankova North Carolina State University Refreshments will be served Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 3:00pm Tufts University Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Two studies concerning the multiverse: Part 1 -- Cosmological Anthropic Arguments and Counter-Arguments. Part 2 - Steady-state Eternal Inflation". Anthony Aguirre Institute for Advanced Study Refreshments served at 2:30pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 3:40pm Boston University Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107 "Frontiers in Nano-Optics" Professor Lukas Novotny U. Rochester Refreshments will be served at 3:20pm Please call (617) 353-2600 one day in advance for parking Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Doppler Resonance Effect on Rotational Drive by Ion Cylcotron Minority Heating" Vincent Chan General Atomics Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT 26-214 "Theory of Vortex Formation in Bose-Einstein Condensates" James Anglin MIT 10 minute talk: Richard Conroy, "Persistent Spectral Holes - Cold Ions in a Lattice" Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 4:30pm Boston University BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Boston University, School of Management Building, Room 412 595 Commonwealth Ave. "Representation Theory of Exceptional Infinite-Dimensional Lie Superalgebras and the Standard Model" Victor Kac MIT Free parking available in the garage (lower level) at 595 Commonwealth Ave. Tell the parking attendant that you are there for the Mathematical Physics Seminar. Use the East elevators only. Wednesday, December 12, 2001 Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Phsics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "Observables of String Field Theory" Nissan (Sunny) Itzhaki IAS Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 4:30pm Harvard University Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Ultra-Slow and Stopped Light in Solids" Dr. Phil Hemmer Hanscom Air Force Base Tea will be served at 4:00pm Thursday, December 13, 2001 Thursday, December 13, 2001, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "Big World of Small Neutrinos" Hitoshi Murayama University of California, Berkeley Refreshments available in Room 4-339 from 3:00 - 4:00pm Thursday, December 13, 2001, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Holographic Cosmology" Tom Banks Rutgers Friday, December 14, 2001 Friday, December 14, 2001, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Droppler Resonance Effect on Rotational Drive by Ion Cyclotron Minority Heating" Vincent Chan General Atomics Friday, December 14, 2001, 4:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Piece Hall, Room 209 "Carbon Nanoelectronics" Dr. Marc Bockrath Physics Department, Harvard University Refreshments will be served following the seminar Friday,December 14, 2001, 12PM Harvard University CIMS Seminar Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures Lyman Lab, Room 330 "Coulomb Blackade of Nuclear Spin Relaxation" Dr. Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Naval Research Laboratory/UIUC