October 6-12, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED Monday, October 7, 2002 Monday, October 7, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Warped supersymmetric grand unification" David R. Smith MIT Refreshments will be served Monday, October 7, "The Chandra Fellows Symposium." (CXC) Data from the first three years of the Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided stunning images, surprises and new insights. Chandra Fellows will present highlights of their recent work, on X-ray related topics such as black holes, X-ray binaries, emission processes, supernovae, galaxies, and galaxy clusters. Keynote speaker is Leon van Speybroeck (Chandra X-Ray Center). The Fellows are (in order of presentation) Jeremy Heyl (Harvard), Eric Agol (Cal Tech), Ming Feng Gu (MIT), Masao Sako (Cal Tech), Anatoly Spitkovsky (Berkeley), Eric Pfahl (Harvard), Li-Xin Li (Harvard), Julia Lee (MIT), Jacco Vink (Columbia), David Strickland (Johns Hopkins), Ann Hornschemeier (Johns Hopkins), Elizabeth Blanton (Virginia), Licia Verde (Princeton), Andisheh Mahdavi (Hawaii), and Erik Reese (Berkeley). The detailed program can be found at http://asc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2002.html. Phillips Auditorium, CfA, 60 Garden St., 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served. Monday, October 7, 2002, 4:15 PM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Room 26-414 "Towards Radio Detection of Cosmic Neutrinos" David Saltzberg, UCLA Refreshments will be served at 4:00, 26-414 Monday, October 7, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Barus and Holley 168 Title: "Imaging Coherent Electron Flow" Professor Robert Westervelt Host: Professor Charles Elbaum Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, October 7, 2002 @4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "What is Really Measured in the Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer?" Amnon Aharony Tel Aviv University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Tuesday, October 8, 2002 Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 1:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6 Third Floor Seminar Room "Lifetimes of heavy hadrons beyond leading logarithms" Ulrich Nierste Fermilab Tuesday October 8, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "Atomic Clocks" Kurt Gibble Pennsylvania State University Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Physics at the Breakfast Table" Professor Sidney Nagel University of Chicago Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge "Eta Carinae: The Great Astrophysical Anti-Paradigm" Professor Kris Davidson University of Minnesota Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 4:00pm Harvard University Special CIMS Seminar Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures Maxwell Dworkin, Room 119 (Grace Murray Hopper Room) "Scattering Theory of Mesoscopic Detectors" Professor Markus Buttiker Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva TUESDAY, October 8, 2002, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Physics at the Breakfast Table" Professor Sidney Nagel University of Chicago Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Wednesday, October 9, 2002 Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``String interactions in the BMN correspondence" Matthew Headrick Harvard University Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 1:30pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Nematic liquid crystal drops under flow: topology in motion" Darren Link HarvardUniversity Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "Gravity in Theory Space" Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard Refreshments at 4:00pm Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Olney 218 "Chandra Observations of Neutron Stars" Professor Steven Murray Center for Astrophysics Harvard University Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``A Perturbative window into Non-perturbativve Physics" Cumrun Vafa Harvard University Wednesday, 9 October 2002 - 2:30 p.m. Brown University B&H 555 Theoretical Seminar "Tachyon Cosmology, Causality and D-Branes" Dr. Shinji Mukoyama Harvard University Thursday, October 10, 2002 Thursday, October 10, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University Room Dana 114 "Metallic Behavior in Two Dimensions: A Brief Review and Some Recent Developments" Professor Myriam Sarachik City College of New York Vice President of the APS Host: Sergey Kravchenko Northeastern University Thursday, October 10, 2002, 4:00pm Dana 114 Physics Colloquium "Metallic Behavior in Two Dimensions: A Brief Review and Some Recent Developments" Professor Myriam Sarachik, President-Elect of the APS City College of New York Thursday, October 10, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge Bok Prize Colloquium "Galaxy Clusters, Dark Energy and Structure Formation" Joe Mohr Astronomy Department, Univ of Illinois Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, October 10, 2002, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Fall Colloquium Olney 218 "Chandra Observations of Neutron Stars" Professor Steven Murray Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:00pm Thursday, October 10, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University Dana 114 Prof. Jonathan R. Friedman Amherst College "The Quantum Chimera: Schroedinder's SQUID" Host: Sergey Kravchenko Thursday, October 10, 2002: 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium The Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture in Physics Room 10-250 "The Digital 3-D Universe in the National Virtual Observatory" NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History Refreshments @ 3:00 pm in 4-339 (Physics Common Room). ` Thursday, October 10, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Closed string diagrams from open string field theory" Nadav Drukker Weizmann Institute Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, October 10th, 2002 Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Lyman 425 "New states of matter in cold atoms: I. Spin-disordered topological superfluid for spin-1 bosons II. Interior gap superfluidity" Dr. W. Vincent Liu MIT Friday, October 11, 2002 Friday, October 11, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "Resistive Wall Modes and Error Field Amplification" Allen Boozer Columbia University Refreshments will be served Friday, October 11, 2002,4:00pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Microscopic Imaging of Localization in the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect" Dr. Amir Yacoby Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Refreshments will be served following the ceremony Saturday and Sunday October 12-13,2002 Worcester Polytechnic Institute will host the Society of Physics Students' New England Fall Zone Meeting on October 11-12. Those interested in presenting research or outreach should contact pcw@wpi.edu asap. All are welcome to attend, just let us know for scheduling purposes. Two scheduled speakers are Professor Steve Girvin of Yale with "The Physics of Quantum Computing" and Bill Berner of Upenn with demonstrations. For more information check out http://www.wpi.edu/~sps/meeting.htm