November 17-23, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 18, 2002 Monday, November 18, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Graded Poisson-Sigma models and 2d dilaton supergravities" Wolfgang Kummer ITP-Technische Universitat-Wien Refreshments will be served Monday, November 18,2002,4:15pm MIT Nuclear and Particle Physics Collosquium Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location 26-414 "To Build and Operate a Linear Collider-The Challenge of NLC and TESLA" Marc Ross,SLAC Stanford University Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm in 26-414 Monday, November 18, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 168 "Connecting the scattering of light on light, scattering" Professor Martin Block Northwestern University Host: Professor Kyungsik Kang Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 18,2002 @4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Semiconductor Nanostructures by Molecular Beam Epitaxy" Arthur Gossard UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Monday, November 18, 2002,4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Semiconductor Nanostructures by Molecular Beam Epitaxy" Arthur Gossard UCSB Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Tuesday, November 19, 2002 Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 1:30PM note new time Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Third floor, seminar room ``Correlators and hadronic properties in finite temperature QCD" Peter Petreczhy Brookhaven National Laboratory Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "String theory - what is it good for?" Professor Amanda Peet University of Toronto (on leave at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study) Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy MIT Astrophysics Colloquium Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge "Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe" Professor Amy Barger University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "Synthesis, manipulation and measurement of highly nonclassical states of light" Alexander Lvovsky (University of Konstanz) Wednesday, November 20, 2002 Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 1:30pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Beyond the average: Watching single biomolecules" Professor Anne Gershenson Brandeis University, Department of Chemistry Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics third floor, seminar room ``D-branes in a pp-wave background" Matthias Gaberdiel Insitute for Advanced Studies Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:00pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Fall Colloquium Olncy 218 "The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays" Professor Steven Reucroft Northeastern University Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building Condensed Matter Physics Seminar "Bipolar Spintronics" Dr. Igor Zutic University of Maryland Host: Mark Williams Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "Light-sheets and Bekenstein's entropy bound" Raphael Bousso UC Berkeley Refreshments at 4:00 pm Call (617)353-2600 for parking at least 24 hours in advance Thursday, November 21, 2002 Thursday, November 21, 2002, 11:00 am Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "Turbulence in Wendelstein7-AS Plasmas" Nils Basse MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Refreshments will be served 12pm, Thursday, November 21, 2002 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "Evidence of Spin-Charge Separation in Momentum-Resolved Tunneling between Quantum Wires" Yaroslav Tserkovnyak Harvard University Thursday, November 21, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University Department of Physics Colloquium Room 114 Dana Research Building "The (g-2) Saga" Speaker: Yogendra Srivastava Northeastern University Refreshments at 3:45pm Thursday, November 21, 2002, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "The Enigmatic Gamma-ray Bursts" PAWAN KUMAR University of Texas at Austin Time Refreshments at 3:00 pm in 4-339 Physics Common Room Thursday, November 21, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Special geometry and N=1 open-closed string compactifications" Wolfgang Lerche CERN Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, November 21, 2002 New England Section Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org) Sheraton Lexington Hotel "Silicon Microphotonics: a potential solution to the electronic interconnection bottleneck" Lionel Kimerling, MIT Networking at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Meeting at 7:30 Dinner reservations by Noon, Monday November 18 to nesosa@lambdares.com Friday, November 22, 2002 Friday, November 22, 2002, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Gas Phase Precursors to Condensed Matter Physics" Joel H. Parks Rowland Institute at Harvard University Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Friday, November 22, 2002, 4pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "Accretion Flows in Black Hole Binaries" Michael Nowak MIT Chandra X-ray Science Center Refreshments will be served