January 20 - 26, 2002
      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
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_______________________________________Monday, January 21, 2002


Tuesday, January 22, 2002

Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 12:00pm
Harvard University
Physics Department
Lyman 425
"Competing Fluctuations in Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems: A Microscopic
View"
Yogesh Joglekar
University of Texas at Austin


Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 3:40pm
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
SCI 107, Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Lipid-Protein Interactions at Interfaces:  From Lung Surfactants to
Poloxamers"
Professor Ka Yee Lee
University of Chicago
*Please note:  Refreshments will be served at 3:20pm*


Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
CIRCS
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"Fast brain computations based on neuron spike rates"
Dr. Mark van Rossum
Dept. of Biology and Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University

Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 4:00pm
Harvard University
Center for Ultracold Atoms(CUA) of Harvard and MIT
Jefferson 356
"As the Molecules Turn: Collisions in an Ultracold Molecular Gas"
John Bohn
JILA
*10 min. talk: Richard Conroy, "Persistent Spectral Holes - Cold Ions in a
Lattice"*

Wednesday, January 23, 2002


Thursday, January 24, 2002

Thursday, January 24, 2002, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
"Factorization from Effective Field Theory"
Ian Stewart
University of California, San Diego

Thursday, January 24, 2002, 4:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Ultracold Atoms(CUA) of Harvard and MIT
Building 26-214
"A Two-Component Fermi Gas of Atoms"
Deborah Jin
JILA

Thursday, January 24, 2002, 4:15pm
Harvard University
Jefferson 453
"Calculation of Open String Gromov-Witten Invariants"
Jaemo Park
Postech, Korea
*Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory Coffee Area at
3:45pm*

Friday, January 25, 2002

Friday, January 25, 2002, 11:00am
Boston University
Joint Electrical Engineering and Physics Seminar
Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary's St., Room 339
"Infrared Transmitting Fibers and their Applications in Science, Industry &
Medicine"
Professor Abraham Katzir
Applied Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University

Friday, January 25, 2002, 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
"Grand Unification in Higher Dimension"
Yasunori Noura
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory