November 10-16, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, November 11, 2002 Monday, November 11, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Monday, November 11, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 168, Title: "TBA" Professor Alexander Polyakov Princeton University Host: Professor David Lowe Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 12, 2002 Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``High Energy Scattering of Color glass Condensates" Jamal Jalilian-Marian Brookhaven National Lab. Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Building 26 room 414 (Kolker Room) (Note new room) ``Monte-Carlo reconstruction of the inflationary potential" William Kinney Columbia University Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM (same room) Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Case Closed: The Missing Solar Neutrinos are Found, but What's Next?" Alan Poon LBL Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University Dana 114 TITLE: Wiring a brain: Theoretical physics meets neurobiology By: Dmitri "Mitya" Chklovskii Assistant Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marlar Lounge, room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge Title to be announced Professor Avishai Dekel Racah Institute of Physics Hebrew University Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 "Quantum Atom Optics vs Photon Quantum Optics: analogies, and beyond" Alain Aspect (CNRS, Institut d'Optique) Wednesday, November 13, 2002 Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 1:30pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Stress propagation in frictional granular matter" Dr. Rava da Silveira Harvard University Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Ground state degeneracies of many-body systems and the geometry of quiver varieties" Frederik Denef Columbia University Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 12:00 noon Harvard University Special Biophysics Seminar (MCB/Physics Depts.) Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Avenue "Single-molecule observations of DNA denaturation fluctuations and RNA-polymerase-induced promoter melting" Terence Strick Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Wednesday, 13 November 2002, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Joint Particle & Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Direct Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Transformation from Neutral-Current Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory" Dr. Alan Poon (UC - Berkeley) Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Fall Colloquium Olney 218 "Single Molecule Study of DNA-Protein Interactions" Professor Mark Williams Northeastern University Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday November 13, 2002, 4:30pm Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "The Casimir Effect: From the Desktop to the Standard Model" Robert Jaffe MIT Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 4:00. Wednesday, November 13, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Theoretical Issues in Implementation of Quantum Computation" Professor Birgitta Whaley University of California, Berkeley Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, November 14, 2002 Thursday, November 14th, 12pm HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Thermodynamic Approach to Dense Granular Matter" Jorge Kurchan Harvard University Thursday, November 14, 2002, 1:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Kaon B parameter from an overlap action" Thomas Degrand University of Colorado, Boulder Thursday, November 14, 2002, 4:00 p.m Condensed Matter Seminar Barus and Holley 190. Dr. John Fjaerestad Brown University Title: "TBA" Host: Professor Brad Marston Thursday, November 14, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Creative Tension: Galactic Magnetic Fields and the Origins of Star-Forming Clouds" Eve Ostriker University of Maryland Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, November 14, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana 114 "The Quantum Chimera: Scrhoedinder's SQUID" Professor Jonathan R. Friedman Amherst College Host: Professor Sergey Kravchenko Refreshments available 3:45pm Thursday, November 14, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "What we (don't) know about higher dimensional black holes" Harvey Reall Queen Mary, London Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, November 14, 2002, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 The David and Edith Harris Distinguished Lecture "Solar Neutrinos: An Overview" JOHN N. BAHCALL Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Refreshments at 3:00 pm in 4-339 (Physics Common Room). Friday, November 15, 2002 Friday, 15 November 2002, 12:00pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar B&H 555 "Holographic Correlators in a Flow to a Fixed Point " Dr. Marcus Berg (U Rome) Friday, November 15th, 4pm HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Submonolayer He-3-He-4 Mixture Films" Moses Chan Penn State University Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Saturday, November, 16, 2002 Saturday, November 16, 2002, 9:00AM--4:00 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Symposium Building 10, Room 250 "Viki: Theme and Variations, A Symposium in Memory of Victor Weisskopf" Principle speakers include: Dr. Georges Charpak, Dr. Sidney Drell, Dr. Kurt Gottfried, Dr. Alan Guth, Dr. Robert Weinberg. Additional speakers include: Dr. Murray Gell-Mann, Dr. Gordon Kane, Father Bryan Hehir, Dr. Phil Morrison, Dr. Alex Rich, Dr. Laszo Tisza, Dr. Dave Jackson and Dr. Francis Low. 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