October 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 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, October 21, 2002 Monday, October 21, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Gravitational Condensate Stars: a Quantum Alternative to Classical Black Holes" Emil Mottola Los Alamos National Laboratory Refreshments will be served Monday, October 21, 2002, 4pm Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Quissett Campus, Clark Laboratory 507 "Pioneering the Endless Frontier: Science, Technology, and National Security During the Next 50 Years" Dr. Jay C. Davis Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Reception to follow Monday, October 21, 2002, 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Room 26-414 "RHIC: Hopes, Status and Prospects" Ken Barish UC Riverside Refreshments will be served at 4:00, 26-414 Monday, October 21, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "The Rise of Complexity in Nature" Eric Chaisson Tufts University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Monday, October 21, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 168 Professor Tom Lubensky University of Pennsylvania "Liquid Crystals, What They Are and Why You Should Know About Them" Host: Professor Bob Pelcovits Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Kolker Room 26-414 ``Toward the semi-classical theory of high energy hadronic and heavy ion collisions" Edward Shuryak SUNY- Stony Brook Refreshments will be served Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Mathematical Physics Seminar Jefferson 453 "Branched Polymers and Dimensional Reduction" John Z. Imbrie, University of Virginia Tuesday October 22, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "BECs in periodic potentials" Steven Rolston NIST Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Building 26 room 414 (Kolker Room) (Note new room) ``Adiabatic and Entrophy Fluctuations in Ekpyrotic Universe Scenarios" Robert Brandenberger Brown University Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM (same ro Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge "The search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holes" Dr. Alessandra Buonanno Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (CNRS) and California Institute of Technology Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "My Editor is a Boson: How the News Media Cover Science" Dr. David Kestenbaum National Public Radio Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Wednesday Oct. 23, 4:00pm Harvard University Particle Astro Physics Seminar Physics Department Jefferson 250 "Measuring polarization of the CMB with DASI" Dr. John Kovac Enrico Fermi Institute Thursday, October 24, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Quantum gravity with a positive cosmological constant" Lee Smolin Perimeter Institute Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 TUESDAY, October 22, 2002, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Hard Spheres and Other Hard Problems: Colloidal Physics Toward Colloidal Architecture" Professor Paul Chaikin Princeton University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Kolker Room 26-414 "Toward the semi-classical theory of high energy hadronic and heavy ion collisions" Edward Shuryak SUNY- Stony Brook Refreshments will be served Wednesday, October 23, 2002 Wednesday, October 23, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``D-branes, Boundary Linear Sigma Models and the Derived Category" Jacques Distler University of Texas, Austin Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 4 p.m Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 "Extra Dimensions: A Reality Check" John Terning LANL Wednesday, October 23, 2002, 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Media Lab 20 Ames Street, Bartos E15-070 "Quintessential Space-Time; Synthesizing More of Physics with a Simple Cellular Automata Model" Professor Ed Fredkin Carnegie Mellon University (Visitor at MIT) Refreshments will be served in the Lower Atrium 3:45 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Fall Colloquium Olney 218 " Colloidal Liquid Crystals" Professor Seth Fraden Brandeis University Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, October 23, 2:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 595 Extra Dimensions: A Reality Check John Terning LANL Wednesday, October 23, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Propagation of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Magnetic Waveguide" Professor David Kielpinski Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, October 24, 2002 Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 2 p.m Boston University Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 "Expansion-Localization Cycles of the Schrodinger Wavefunction via Cooperation Between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity" Andrew Frenkel Hungarian Academy of Sciences Thursday, October 24, 2002, 4:00 pm Clark University Department of Physics, Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 "Computational physics of earthquakes" Dr. Nadia Lapusta Postdoctoral Fellow Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Thursday, October 24, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Quantum gravity with a positive cosmological constant" Lee Smolin Perimeter Institute Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 12pm, Thursday, October 24th Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Physics Department Lyman 425 "Continuous Polymer Melting in Two Dimensions" Jane Kondev Brandeis University Thursday, October 24, 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "The RHIC Puzzles" EDWARD SHURYAK, SUNY - Stony Brook Time: 4:15 pm Refreshments 3:00 pm in 4-339 (Physics Common Room). Thursday, October 24, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Discovery of a Population of HI Clouds in the Galactic Halo" Jay Lockman National radio Astronomy Observatory Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Friday, October 25, 2002 Friday, October 25, 2002, 4pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 Eli Glezer IGEN "Electrochemiluminescent microarrays: A new tool for drug discovery and life science research" Refreshments will be served following the ceremony Friday, October 25, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Condensed Matter Seminar Barus and Holley 751, Professor Michel Gingras University of Waterloo Title: "TBA" Host: Professor Brad Marston Friday, October 25, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "The Physics of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection" Barrett Rogers Dartmouth College Refreshments will be served